SPORTS
ROUNDUP
(By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.)
NEW YORK. i/P) — A lot of
fighters have found there’s no
money in being light heavyweight
champion as long as there are
beatable heavyweights around and
in the case of Gus Lesnvich the
most surprising thing is that it
took him so long to make the dis
covery. ... A colorless, methodi
cal ring workman for several
years, Gus suddenly busted out as
a knocker-outer after his discharge
from the Coast Guard. . . . Here’s
the way manager Joe Vella ex
plains it: ‘‘The biggest purse Gus
ever got before the war was about I
$8,000 for fighting Tami Mauriel-!
lo. When he got $12,000 for flat- i
tening Joe Kahut, he thought it!
was all the money in the world.,
He said. ‘If the fans want to see;
action, I’ll gamble with anybody!
for that.’ . . . And then he went j
over to England and got $50,000—,
that’s when he really turned kill
er.
COLUMBUS, Ga. — Baseball
fans plan to stage a “Kemp Wicker
Appreciation Day” August 8 in
honor of the manager of their ball
club. . . . Wicker piloted the Co
lumbus Cardinals to the Sally
league pennant last season al
though his club was seventh in
team batting, sixth in team field
ing, its best pitcher won only 7
games and the leading hitter bat
ted only .298. . . . The fans figure
the original Columbus had a cinch
discovering America compared to
Columbus Wicker’s discovery of
first place.
Robber Wants To
Become Bankrupt
SAN FRANCISCO, </P>—Bank
robber Richard A. Numer, now
serving the 12th year of his 25
year sentence at Alcatraz prison,
wants federal court to declare him
bankrupt and make warden James
A. Johnston pay him 54 cents.
The warden, Numer’s complaint
says, is holding his only assets,
the 54 cents, 80 paint brushes and
30 tubes of colors, for a fracas
causing $75 damage to isolation
Kish And Wildlife
Service Will
Reduce Operations
(By Vem Haugland)
>i/P) Special Washington Service) ,
WASHINGTON. f/P>—The fish
and wildlife service said yester
day it will reopen its Beaugort. N.
C.. and Pensacola. Fla., marine bi
ology laboratories but must re
duce other operations to meet;
budget restrictions.
Elmer Higgins, chief of the di
vision of fishery biology, and An
drew W. Anderson, chief of the
division of commercial fisheries
told a reporter after a study of fi
nal budget appropriations that the
agency also will reduce the com
mercial fishery laboratories at
College Park, Md., Seattle, Bos
ton. and Ketchikan, 30 to 35 per-!
cent.
It will also eliminate statistical
surveys of fisheries except in New
England, New York and the Ches
apeake Bay area, and except for
a limited amount of work in
Washington, Oregon, California,
and the Great Lakes area.
It will virtually immobilize its
, four mobile laboratories, two of
j which have been operating out of
Seattle an dthe other two out of
[ College Park. Md., and the Boston
fish pier.
i Anderson said the division will
retain six or seven technical men
at the College Park and Seattle
laboratories, two at Boston and
two at Ketchikan. The laborator
ies are engaged chiefly in research
and services leading to improved
quality and greater efficiency in
the fishing industry.
Anderson added that the reduc
tion of fishery statistical studies
on the Pacific Coast will largely
reduce to the northeastern area
what once was a service covering
the coastal areas.
cell block D.
He asked the court to wipe out
the damage claim against him in
the bankruptcy action and said
his assets were not subject to
bankruptcy seizure.
He was sentenced to 45 years
for a bank robbery in Tennessee,
and his sentence was reduced to
25 years.
NORTHERN CROSS, Inc.
Flying Nome and Northward
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ANNOUNCEMENT
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I am now working with Northern Cross and will
cover the same area as before, also will arrange
for trips using wheels or floats in the Kotzebue
and Kobuk districts.
WILLIE FOSTER
For information call Nome Cab Co.
Navy Contracts
For New Airborne
Radar Sets
The navy bureau of aeronautics |
has contracted for the purchase of ;
100 sets of a new type airborne!
radar for installation on transport
planes of the Naval Air Trans- j
port Service. The contract, valued
at approximately $1,000,000, is i
with the Houston Corporation, Los i
Angeles, Calif.
The new airborne radar set, i
which will provide pilots with
positive safety and navigational,
checks when flying blind over:
hazardous terrain, was developed
by the navy in cooperation with j
the American Airlines. It is for
exclusive use on transport air
craft.
Under present plans, all four-1
engine navy transport planes will
receive the new equipment, with
deliveries expected to begin in
early 1948. When the installation
is completed, NATS planes will
be equipped with the latest elec-;
tronic aid yet developed for safe
flying apd navigation.
Specifications for the new ra- j
dar, designated APS-42, were de-!
termined by the army, navy and j
American Airlines after more than j
i a year of collaboration. The pur
pose of the program was to de
termine the exact type of radar1
most desirable for transport and I
| commercial use by eliminating j
military features and concentrat- j
I ing on developing the possibilities j
of airborne radar as a safety and
navigational aid. Starting with an
airborne search radar of the type
used during the war, enough data
was accumulated through experi
ence to establish specifications for
the new set. The navy contract for
100 of the new airborne radar sets
is the first to be let.
| Especially important in the de- j
sign program was the need for j
weight saving. The resultant de-;
' sign calls for a set weighing ap-1
proximately 150 pounds—suffi- *
i ciently light so that it will not in
terfere seriously with the trans
port’s pay-load.
In the Navy transport installa-:
tions, the radar scanner will be,
mounted either in the nose of the
plane, which will give the pilot a
radar “map” of the 220 degrees of
terrain ahead of the plane, or un
der the fuselage, which will give
i the pilot a complete 360 degree
! radar “map.” A five-inch PPI
I (Plan Position Indicator) scope
i will be mounted in both the pilot’s
[ and co-pilot’s positions, and in
certain installations a provision is|
made for a twelve-inch scope in
the radioman’s compartment for
use in navigation on long over
water flights.
By use of the radar, the pilot
will be able to “see” land masses
up to 100 miles ahead of him. For
terrain clearance a pencil-beam is
used. This beam swings around
the aircraft like a searchlight and,
in effect, presents a safety circle
in which the receipt of any echo
indicates danger. When used with
radar beacons, bearing and dis
tances may be determined up to
225 miles.
In announcing the contract for
the latest safety equipment for
naval transports, the bureau of
aeronautics stressed the fact that;
reliability and ease of mainten
ance were prime factors of consid
eration, and that all experience
gained in radar search during the
I
war and postwar periods was be
ing incorporated. The model is
available for commercial produc
tion.
U. S. ENGINEERS INSPECT
VICINITY OF NOME
Col. L. H. Hewitt, *f the office
of the U. S. Engineers at Seattle,
accompanied by Col. Hall, chair
man of the Beach Erosion Bo^rd
in Washington, D. C., were taken
around the countryhide in the vi
cinity of Nome, Monday 'and Tues
day, on an inspection trip, by Carl
Lomen.
On Monday the party checked
up on sites where rock might be
obtainable for the fill of the pro
posed breakwater. Sites on Anvil
and Osborne Creeks and aho at
Cape Nome were observed.
The party also went by boat to
the east end of town to view the
erosion situation.
Col. Hall stated that one thing
was sure, individual effort is of
no value and in fact the efforts of
one might be injurious to the
property of another.
During the visit, Col. Hewitt and
Col. Hall contacted A. M. Hart
ford, manager of the U.S.S.R. &
Mining Co., Frank Love, mining
engineer, G. R. Jackson, O. S.
Weaver, Bud Harper, and Christ
Roust, for information regarding
storms, damage to property and
erosion.
LT. MARY PETRY WILL SOON
RETURN TO FAIRBANKS
Lt. Mary Petry. sister of Mrs.
James Walsh, who has been visit
ing for a few days will return soon
to Ladd Field where she is an
Army nurse.
I FATHER LA FORTUNE TO
REST IN FAIRBANKS
Father B. F. LaFortune, Jesuit
■ priest, a real pioneer beloved by
natives and whites, both old and
young, has left for Fairbanks for
a rest. The best wfshes of the en
tire community go with him and
the hope that he will be complete
ly rested and able to return in the
fall.
He has given his entire life to
the people of Seward Peninsula,
working and living with them and
teaching them as well. For many
years he was the only white per
son on King Island where the en •
tire group is like a big family.
There he served as teacher, doc
tor, nurse, and whatever was
necessary. He even translated a
portion of the Bible into the Eski
mo language, heretofore unwrit
ten, to help these primitive people
to become good Christians.
His secrifices have been many
and deserving of recognition. He
was made an honorary member of
the Pioneers of Alaska a few years
ago, for he is truly a pioneer.
LOOSE TALK COMES BACK
YONKERS. N. Y. (^(—Patrol
man Frank Miller was back on
duty today, $250 the loser for hav
ing failed to convince his super
iors he was joking when he told a
man complaining of money trou
! ble in a bar to “Stick up a bank.”
1 A bystander reported Miller
and he was docked 29 days’ pay
yesterday.
PIONEER WATER DELIVERY
Phone Main 94
ERIC NELSON
A. & A. GARAGE
Phone MAIN 85
(Formerly Larry Galvins)
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