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and Los Angeles for its Alaska
service.
He said Pan American wants di
rect service from Seattle to An
chorage, a route now operated by
Northwest Airlines.
If permission for such service
is given, he said, another route
will operate from Seattle to
Ketchikan, Juneau and Fairbanks.
Friendly recounted that Pan
American has been operating in
the Territory for 18 years and
said his line is equipped to give
the best of service.
He said Northwest has not tried
to provide necessary service over
the route.
Edward Leasure, counsel for
Northwest, objected to giving Pan
American authority to operate di
rest to Anchorage. He said he be
lieves there was little basis for
an examiner’s report that North
west had inadequately served
Anchorage, contending the line
not only has given adequate serv
ice but has recently improved it.
Theodore I. Seamon, appeared
as counsel for four Alaskan feed
er lines — Cordova Air Service,
Northern Consolidated Airlines,
Alaska Coastal Airlines and Wien
Alaska Airlines.
He urged that the board insist
that any airlines granted permis
sion to operate between the United
States and Alaska be required to
give up all service within Alaska.
The feeder lines within Alaska can
furnish all service needed within
the Territory h said.
Seamon agreed with commis
sioner Harold Jones that if too
many airlines are given permis
sion to operate to the Territory
from the United States the “gov
ernment will pay through the
nose.”
Earlier in the day Alaska Air
lines contended it is the only air
line equipped and experienced to
furnish through service from the
Territory to the Unitec^States and
within the Territory.
The Mt. McKinley Airways ask
ed permission to furnish service
from Anchorage to Seattle.
Pacific Northern Airlines asked
permission to operate from Kodiak
to Seattle.
The hearing continued yester
day with two more airlines and
officials of Alaska, the Alaska De
velopment Board, interior depart
ment, and representatives of Port
land, Ore., Seattle, Wash., and
j Chicago to be heard.
Shipping Tie-Ups
Musi Be Halted
WASHINGTON, 1/P) — Progress
is Hawaii during the 1949 fiscal
year was overshadowed by delay
in the enactment of statehood leg
islation and a costly dock strike,
the Territories division reported
yesterday.
In his annual report to the sec
retary of interior, division direc
tor James P. Davis recommended
that the federal government give
“immediate attention” to means of
preventing recurrences of ship
ping tie-ups.
During the 12 months ended last
July 1, Davis said the number of
man-days lost due to labor-man
agement disputes in Hawaii rose
to 192,816, against 81,535 in the
preceding year.
He cited the five-month dock
strike as evidence that “the most
crucial problem facing the Terri
tory is the deterioration of labor
manayement relations.”
Navy Not Making
Flying Saucers
WASHINGTON, (&)—The navy
says, in comment on the latest
flying saucer report: (l) It has not;
developed any pancake-shaped jet
planes and <2) It is not experi-;
menting with any saucer-shaped
missile.
In fact, the department reported
through a spokesman, the nearest
thing to a flying saucer it ever
developed has not flown since
1947.
The spokesman was comment
ing Monday night on an article
in U. S. News and World Report
which said engineers have con
cluded that the oft-reported sau
cers are jet-powered planes of new
design developed by the navy. The
magazine said the saucers may
have sprung from experiments by
I Charles H. Zimmerman for the
National Advistory Committee for
Aeronautics.
At Langley Air Force Base in
Virginia, Zimmerman said he
worked on an experimental pan
cake-shaped model plane during
the war—this was the one the
i navy said flew last in 1947 — but
he didn't regard it as a forerun
| ner to the flying saucer,
j To conclude that it was, he said,
! was “obviously the wrong con
| elusion.”
Lack Of Loyalty
Files Stalemates
Investigations
WASHINGTON, f/P)—‘The Sen
j ate communist investigation head
; ed for a possible stalemate yester
; day. Senator Connally tD-Tex.)
predicted the Senate won’t vote
! contempt citations for officials re
fusing access to secret loyalty
files.
A Senate foreign relations sub
committee investigating charges
by Senator McCarthy <R.-Wis.>
that the State Department is har
boring communists and is being
influenced by Soviet spies, seemed
balked at every turn.
It faced the necessityty of ob
taining a contempt citation—which
Connally told reporters it stands
little chance of getting—to reserve
President Truman’s decision
against opening the confidential
files.
Without much hope of success,
; it sought means of forcing McCar
thy to make available six docu
| ments he turned over to the FBI
in connection with his charges
that Lattimore, writer on Far
Eastern affairs, is a Soviet agent
in the State Department.
The subcommittee will give
Lattimore, who already has called
McCarthy’s charges an “unmiti
gated lie,” a chance to answer
them formally in a hearing Thurs
day.
Allot Anchorage
150 Housing Units
WASHINGTON, (&)—'The gov
ernment yesterday allotted An
chorage, Alaska, 150 low rent
units under its public housing
program.
Anchorage authorities, the pub-1
lie housing administration said,
asked for a loan of $55,000 to pay
for preliminary planning of their
project.
All planning loans must be ap
proved by the President.
Farmers have sprays to discour
age all pests, the one for picnick
ers is composed of bird shot.
Vinson Calls For
More \\ ar Planes
WASHINGTON OP)—The chair
man of the House armed services
committee called on Congress yes
terday to vote $583,289,211 for
more warplanes to help meet the
threat of an “atomic blitz."
Protesting that the administra
tion’s $13,911,127,000 military pro
gram “will wither American air
power on the vine," Rep. Vinson
(D.-Ga.) urged instead that air
strength be boosted promptly.
Vinson said in a speech pre
pared for House delivery that the
President’s budget for the fiscal
year beginning in July does not
assure adequate defense aP a time
when “the atomic blitz of tomor
row is a real, a genuine possibil
ity." He added:
(‘It is universally known today
that Russia is building the largest
air force in the world. What are
they building it for? They are
building it for use whenever their
carefully-timed Pearl Harbor Day
comes around?"
Previously Vinson has said he
expects to sponsor several amend
ments to the bill authorizing mili
tary spending for the year begin
ning next July 1. In his speech
however, he brought up only the
proposal for increasing armed
power.
The pending budget allots
$1,350,000,000, for air force pro
curement and $650,000,000 for
new planes for the navy and ma
rines.
Vinson would give the air force
an additional $200,000,000 or a to
tal of $1,550,000,000 for new
planes, and the navy an increase
| of $383,289,211 or $1,033,289,211
for the same purpose.
These increases, Vinson said,
are needed to maintain an up-to
date 48-group air force and a mod
ern naval air arm.
A House military appropriations
! Engine Trouble
Defeats Bixbys’
Record Attempt
CALCUTTA, India, (/P) — The
globe-girdling Bixbys—stopped by
engine trouble in their attempt to
beat the round-the-world flight
record held by the late Bill Odom
—are going to fly on to San Fran
cisco anyhow.
The aerial husband-and-wife
team, Bob and Dianna, hid their
disappointment behind philosop
hic smiles yesterday as they were
told it would be several days be
fore spare parts could be flown
here for the needed repairs on
their twin-engine Mosquito, the
Huntress II.
They were well over half their
journey—11,836 miles—when they
were forced to turn back to Cal
cutta’s Dumdum Air field Monday
morning. They were right on the
schedule they had set for topping
Odom’s 1947 speed record of 73
hours.
The engine trouble began, Bob
said, when their converted British
bomber was up 4,000 feet. Gaskets
in the cooling system of the left
engine burst and the plane was
showered with anti-freeze fluid.
“We knew we had to turn
; back,” Bob said.
Dianna was near tears when the
plane landed.
The couple, operators of char
ter cargo planes at Santa Paula,
l Calif., plan to hop next to Tokyo,
across Red China, then to Midway
Island, and on to San Francisco.
It is estimated that the loss to
industry because of the common
cold in the United States is more
than 60 million man-days each
year.
sub-committee reported recently
that this country now has only
from 44 to 46 modern groups.
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