I
Indonesians
► Battle With
Light Tanks
f
BATAVIA, Indonesia, Oct. 29
— (/P) —Indonesian Nationalists,
using armorea cars and light
tanks have killed an estimated
twenty-five members of the Brit
ish-Indian force at Seerabaja be
fore President Soekarno of the
►Indonesian Republic” reportedly
arranged a truce at the big naval
base.
A British officer made a casual
ty estimate, but didn’t include
pockets surrounded by natives.
An officer said many women and
children in internment camps in
the area had been killed by na
tives fighting in Soerabaja.
• Military equipment which the
natives have taken from the Japs
included at least twenty armored I
vehicles, machine guns, and mor-!
tars, one officer said, adding that
the hard-pressed British had used
even their “cooks and cobblers’’ in
the fighting before the truce.
A couple of companies of the
Rajpunta Rifles fought desperate
ly from the Darno hospital and
the British Consulate. A company
of British engineers from the
Darno barracks at Darno station,
7 I
where the bitterest fighting oc
curred, radioed “running out of
ammunition, unless you send help
we will be overrun.’’
Catapult Seat For
Bailing Out Of Planes
Col. W. Randolph Lovelace,
who recently returned from Ger
many. where he accepted the sur
render of precious results of pains
taking and valuable scientific in
vestigations, told the press that
he expects some of the German
developments to be of great value
to us. Col. Lovelace is Chief of
Aero Medical Laboratory at
Wright Field, Ohio.
Perhaps the most important of
those that can be made public is
a catapult seat for airplane pilots
which will make it possible for
the pilot to bale out of a plane fly
ing at a speed of over 500 miles
an hour and out of control. At the
will of the pilot, this seat will au
tomatically toss him, seat and all,
15 or 20 feet into the air above the
plane and clear of it.
It is the only safe way, Col.
Lovelace said, to get out of a
plane going at that speed, and
there are circumstances in combat
when it is not possible for the pi
lot to reduce the speed of his
plane before jumping. The seat
will work at an altitude of 30,000
feet, and it is good at low alit
tudes, too.
If Mt. Everest were placed in
Mindanao Deep off the Philip
pines, more than 6,000 feet of wa
ter would roll across its peak.
MINERS & MERCHANTS
BANK OF ALASKA
NOME :: ALASKA
NOME
DRUG
STORE
ARCTIC AIR SERVICE
CANDLE, ALASKA
Nome Headquarters — Wallace Hotel
— Contact —
JOE WALLACE. MAURICE KING or GENE JACK
Frequent trips with passengers and freight between
Nome and Fairbanks Tia Deering, Candle. Kotsebue.
Kiana, Shungnak, Kobuk and Hughes.
CONTACT US FOR CHARTER SERVICE
SMALL AND LARGE SHIPS TO SUIT YOUR NEEDS
FROZEN GROUND
PRESERVES 200-YEAR
OLD CORPSE
By SCIENCE DIGEST
A wooden coffin containing a
well-preserved corpse, buried 180
to 200 years ago in the frozen re
gions near Yakutsk, in Northern
Siberia, has been found under a
layer of leafy birch logs. The
wood, covered with hoar frost and
ice crystals, had not weathered.
At the foot of the grave, discov
ered by the V. Z. Obruchev Insti
tute of the Academy of Science of
the USSR during August of the
war-year 1942, lay a wooden sad
dle with copper relief ornament
showing jumping horses, a leather
sack containing horse meat, a flat
copper kettle, a wooden spoon,
and three birch containers. These
held butter, porridge and sour
cream.
Although the horse meat had
split and darkened, the leather
sack was in perfect condition. All
the utensile had been punched
full of holes. Pagan Yakuts, like
many other primitive peoples,
“killed” utensils in burial gifts by
breaking or puncturing them.
The corpse was covered with a
wolf fur blanket, and dressed in
a fur coat, fur trousers, a silk
shirt, fur mittens, fur leggings and
fur hat. An ornamental loin-cloth
was embroidered with blue and
black beads. The face was cov
ered with sable skins.
The fur coat was securely bound
over the body with leather straps.
All the furs were well-preserved,
the fur itself holding up better
than the skin. There was mold in
some places on the leather, and
all the copper objects were tar
nished.
The grave was found at a depth
of five feet five inches, the divid
ing line bewteen thawing and
permanently frozen soli. The lack
of a cross on the tomb dates it
from the beginning or middle of
the eighteenth century, before the
Christianization of the Yakuts.
From that time, when the Yakuts
still buried their dead according
to pagan custom, the ground must
have retained its low temperature,
1 keeping the dead man and his be
longings in a good state of preser
vation.
*
I
Alilee May Confer
With Truman In
United States
LONDON, Oct. 29—(fP)—Prime
Minister Attlee told Commons
that the Labor Government would
establish a research and experi
mental office to handle “all as
pects on the use of atomic ener
gy.” Capt Blackburn, Labor, ob
served “for a real effective re
search” it would involve costs of
one hundred twenty to one hun
dred sixty million dollars. Attlee
replied “I’m fully advised on these
matters.”
The British Press Association
Exchange Telegraph said Prime
Minister Attlee had discussed with
his cabinet the advisability of his
visiting the United States soon to,
confer with President Truman.
The area of the continental
United States is 3,026,789 square
miles, of which 53,013 square
miles are water.
•DR.* YOUNG CALLS —Calling on his fellow Thespian,
Cornelia Otis Skinner, at her Long Island home where she is
convalescing, Roland Young takes her pulse before discussing
theatrical matters.
BALTIMORE — (/P) — When a
Baltimore Ration Boara received
notice to close up, the emplyoees
decorated the window of the office
with a small satin-lined casket
filled with gas and fuel oil ra
tioning stamps.
Beside the casket were sympa
thy cards, sent by merchants.
But nobody wept — everybody
just laughed.
Left, Kii'ht, And Wrong
ARMENIA, Colombia — </P)
Doctors here are trying to Y
Alfredo Correa, 46, whose he
spleen and stomach are on
right side, while his liver and
pendix are on the left. When
patient had acute pains in his
domen radiographs showed \\
was wrong.
LADIES’ AFTERNOON
and
EVENING DRESSES
50% Reduction
Attention
Deliveries are now leaving store
at 11:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.
♦