Arrest Five For
Stripping Cabins
SITKA, Alaska, (>P)— Federal
authorities moved today to halt
the stripping of public cabins used
as emergency shelters in isolated
areas.
Five men were arrested on a
charge of cabin pilfering and
bound over to a grand jury. U. S.
marshal Max Rogers said more
arrests may follow.
U. S. commissioner Frank Rich
ards commented, as the five were
brought before him, that cabin
stripping could cost the lives of
hunters or trappers since they are
stocked with food and other arti
cles for emergency use. He set
bond for each of the men at $3500.
The accused are Samuel H.
Hagtley, a longshoreman, and four
fishermen, Howard L. McPain,
Walter R .Johnson, Willard R.
Johnson and Roland J. Bingham.
All are from Sitka.
They were charged with taking
cots, blankets and other articles
from the cabins, which are main
tained by the Alaska Native Serv
ice.
WASHINGTON, (A5)—The mari
time commission has extended all
existing ship charters until Decem
ber 31, postponing changes in its
chartering policy which were to
have become effective at the end
of November.
The postponement was ordered,
a spoksman siad, to give both
shipping lines and the agency it- j
self time to prepare for the switch.
The new rules, announced a I
month ago, will ban the chartering j
of any ships to lines which do not
own vessels, and to lines which
Rockets Assist
take Off Of
Huge Plane
BURBANK, Calif. (>P)—Power
ful Jato rockets have been used
successfully to speed up the take
off of the navy’s giant 180-passen
ger Lockheed Constitution, Lock
heed Aircraft Corp. announced.
Lockheed engineers said the
tests demonstrated that extra
power, approximately equal to the
3,500 horsepower obtained from
one of the plane’s engines, can be
obtained by using six Jato (jet as
sisted take-off) rockets.
The engineers said tests were
made at gross weights up to the j
maximum weight of 184,000i
pounds with no effect on control:
of the huge craft. Use of the six [
1,000-pound rockets shortened the1
Constitution’s normal takeoff run
by approximately 24 per cent,
Lockheed said. In the tests the
rockets were fired by the pilot as
soon as the plane broke ground
and retraction of landing gear be
gan.
Lokheed engineers v predicted
that installation of Jato rockets on
large transport planes as standard
equipment would provide an ex
tra measure of safety in case of
sudden power failure during take
offs.
have close foreign affiliations.
It also sets up a system under
which the number of chartered
vessels held by any line will be
governed by the number of ships
it owns. The agency permitted
lines to fie exceptions, on ground
of unusual hardship, up to Novem- j
ber 1.
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Alaska Airlines
NOW
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NOME to
EVERETT WASH.
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STARLINER
DC-4
Scheduled Daily
FROM ANCHORAGE
FREIGHT RATE
NOME to EVERETT
22 Cents per pound
McKinley Airways
And Pan American
Spar At Hearing
ANCHORAGE, (VP) — Sparring
between the president of Mt. Mc
Kinley Airways and the attorney
for Pan American featured yester
day afternoon’s session of the civil
aeronautics board hearing on Alas
ka air service.
Mt. McKinley is seeking a cer
tificate for a regularly scheduled
air route between the States and
Alaska. Pan American is one of
the lines now flying the route.
Jack Scavenius, Mt. McKinley
president, was granted permission
to enter a supplemental exhibit af
ter cross-examination by J. How
ard Hamstra, Pan American coun
sel. The development came after
Hamstra challenged the consist
ency of the McKinley exhibit.
Scavenius testified his line’s
fares were $100 to Anchorage from
Seattle and $70 southbound. Sca
venius said he had no explanation
for rate discrepancies, comment
ing: ‘‘I paid good money to have
this compiled.”
Mamstra cited that the MeKin
ley report showed 45 persons
aboard one DC-3 on a flight from
Annette Island to Seattle although
the firm’s two ships are listed to
carry 25 and 21 persons, respec
tively.
Sea venius acknowledged in
stances of overloading planes, add
ing: “I dismissed a freight handler
at Seattle for overloading.”
Although the line reported car- |
rying $500,000 property damage j
and public liability insurance, the
insurance premium payment did
not show in the profit and loss
statement submitted by Mt. Mc
Kinley. The company official said
the report was compiled by a cer
tified public accountant, and it
probably would be necessary to
confer with him on the subject.
Mayor Ira Rothwell of Cordova
testified non-scheduled lines made
possible a higher standard of liv
ing during and since the last previ
ous maritime strike.
“The people of Cordova have
been most grateful for the service
of the non-scheduled lines as the
rates of moving cargo on sched
uled lines weer prohibitive,” the
mayor declared.
PEARL HARBOR,(JP), The navy
said yesterday 15 Marine four-en
gine transport planes will be sa
signed to the Pacific to replace 24
navy planes being trnasferred to
the Berlin air lift.
The navy planes will begin leav
ing here Friday night for the
1 mainland. There they will be
“winterized” and begin the Berlin
runs Nov. 15, a military air trans
port service spokesman said.
It will be the first time that
navy planes have taken part di
rectly in the operation of flying
food and supplies to Russian-block
aded Berlin.
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NWA Cargo Plane
Crashes; Two Dead
ST. PAUL, Minn. (iP) — Three
survivors of a Northwest Airlines
cargo plane that crashed and burn
ed Wednesday night, killing two
other crew members, were hospit
alized yesterday at Edmonton, Al
berta.
NWA identified the injured, all
of Minneapolis, as co-pilot Harry
W. Upham, 32, radio operator
Nicholas Tangredi, 23, and naviga
tor Terold N. Learned, 32.
Killed in th crash were captain
Ben Christian, 34, Minneapolis,
and flight mechanic Henry Kry
zak, 23, of St. Paul.
Officials said they had no in
formation as to the cause of the
crash. The plane, a DC-4, cleared
Wold-Chamberlain field here
Wednesd£\y morning. It left the Ed
monton airfield shortly before 6
p.m. and the control tower there
lost radio contact a few minutes
later. Residents of the area said
they saw the ship crash and burn,
about 35 miles north of Edmonton.
The plane was bound for Anchor
age.
Seek $4,000,000
To Build Terminal
At Anchorage
ANCHORAGE, </Pj—Col. J. P.
Johnson, general manager of the
Alaska Railroad said the company
will ask the next session of Con
gress for $4,000,000 to finnace con
struction of a terminal yard here.
He said the yard would be able
to handle 800 cars. It would be
three and a half miles long and
have 30 miles of track.
The appropriation would not in
clude the proposed construction of
some 22 new railroad buildings.
The company also announced it
plans to cut its payroll from a re
cent peak of 2,800 to about 2,000
in line with a program to trim
$540,500 from the monthly oper
ating costs. Reduced traffic be
cause of the maritime strike neces
sitates the cut, officials said.
It is expected about $240,500
will be shaved from the monthly
payroll as seasonal work is term
inated on outdoors construction on
the railroad operating jobs.
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