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NEWS IN BRIEF
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LANGLEY FIELD, Vn., Feb. 13;
—(/Pi—Mailplanes shuttling short1
distances may reach a speed of a
thousand miles per hour within
the next three years, according to j
officials of the national advisory!
committee on aeronautics. Sea
planes of transport class expected
to attain speeds in excess of three |
hundred miles, an NACA spokes
man told members of the Aviation
Writers Association during an in
spection of NACA laboratories.
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NEW YORK, Feb. 13—f/P>—One
of the greatest overseas journeys
of women and children in history ,
ended as the gian liner Queen
Mary docked at pier ninety with
1,666 wives of American service
men and their 668 children. Many
girls were met by their husbands, |
the remainder will leave tomor-1
row in assorted units, headed for
every state in the Union.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—(/P)—
President Truman heard a plea
% for greater government aid for
war veterans desiring to settle in j
Alaska. Governor Gruening and
Delegate Bartlett said they told
the President that Alaska needs
many more roads and agricultur
al research facilities. GIs wanting
to settle in Alaska should be given
more favorable maritime trans
portation rates. Gov. Gruening
presented President Truman with
a picture of Resurrection Bay,
Seward.
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ADRMORE Okla., Feb. 13—UP) j
—Fifteen persons were hurt, five
^ seriously, when a tornado roared,
without warning, through the east
half of this southern Oklahoma
city of twenty thousand early to
day. At least twenty-five frame
houses were ripped apart and the
wreckage scattered over a wide!
area. Fifty more were damaged.
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SEATTLE Feb. 13 — (fP) — The!
Navy disclosed that student pilot:
RMl/c W. N. Todd, has been miss
ing since Saturday on a flight to
North Bend, Ore. Navy and pri
^ vate planes are searching the area
around Centralia and Portland.
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WINDSOR, Ont., Feb. 13—(iT»)—
The Ford Motor Co. of Canada
plant here will close at midnight
Friday because of a shortage of
steel, W. H. Clark, personnel man
ager said.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—f/P)—
President Truman signed legisla
tion providing for expansion of
weather observation facilities in
the Arctic region of North Amer
ica. The measure provides for es- j
HELICOPTER DELIVERS PIP E—This helicopter delivering 20-foot lengths of pipe
In Louisiana swamp country shows how Army laid pipelines in secret wartime tests.
List Of Missing
Yukon Passengers
The Ketchikan Coast Guard
h e a d q u a rters announced the
names of the military personnel
still missing from the Yukon:
Lester March, Tom Mildfelt,
George McDonald, Charles Trice,
Benjamin Fandrey, Sgt. Phillips.
The Alaska Steamship Company
announced the civilians missing: |
Ralph A. Fitzsimmons, manager
of the Anchorage Division of the
Standard Oil Co., James Dona van.
Arlington, Wash.; John R. Lintner,
Rensselaer, Ind. Two crew mem
bers were identified as Warren
Hines of Juneau, Alaska, and Ray
Smith of Kennydale, Wash.
One body has been recovered.
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Sir Francis Drake claimed Cali-,
fornia for England in 1579.
tablishment of an unstated num
ber of observation stations, which
will cost about two hundred thou- i
sand dollars each. In 1941 U. S.
had only three stations in the Arc-1
tic, while Russia had 127, and
other foreign nations had a total
of 96.
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FRANKFURT, Germany, Feb. j
13— (/P) —Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt
arrived by plane today, and was
greeted by Maj. Gen. Harold R.
Bull, chief of staff of the U. S.
Army in the European theater.
Mrs. Roosevelt is a delegate to
the United Nations, now sitting in
London.
Degrading Parade
“To Arouse Public
Opinion” In Japan
SHANGHAI, Feb. 13 — (/P) —
Maj. Gen. Masataka Kaburagi
said in a signed statement today
that the humiliating parade of
three American fliers in Hankow
Dec. 16, 1944, was designed to
force Chiang Kai-Shek to ask the
United States to halt bombings
near that city.
Kaburagi, one of 18 Japanese
on trial here for the cremation
alive of the three Yanks, admitted
in the statement that he as chief
of staff, and Lt. Gen. Tadayoshi
Sano, commander of the 34th
army, approved hte degrading pa
rade “to arouse public opinion.”
He contended that Sano, who
died of ulcers in Japan last sum
mer, stated that American bomb
ing close to Hankow had reached
such intensity that a parade of
three Yank fliers would incite the
populace to such a degree that
Chiang would ask the United
States to halt the bombing.
Some of the crowd of tens of
thousands attracted to the parade
beat the fliers with sticks. The
three Americans, survivors of a
damaged bomber, were cremated
that night—alive and twitching—
after a beating with small fire
logs, previous witnesses said.
The population of Los Angeles
in 1800 was 315.
Canada Prepares
To Take Over
Alaska Highway
EDMONTON, Feb. 13—I/P)—'The
Alaska Highway, which extends
fifteen hundred miles from Daw-1
son Creek to Fairbanks is in ex
cellent condition, but travelling is
r.o job for a tenderfoot, an official
in connection with the undertak
ing, said. The road is in process
of transfer from American to Ca- ,
nadian control, scheduled for,
April first. Canadian personnel i
are being readied to take over the
maintenance from U. S. Army en
gineers. The official said “So far j
as civilian travel is concerned, the
highway is dificult of access be-1
tween Edmonton and Dawson
Creek.”
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Urges Alaska
Road Program
WASHINGTON. Feb. 13—f/P>—
The Interior Department asked
Congress for three million, seven i
hundred ninety thousand dollars
to begin a road improvmeent pro
gram in Alaska; two million, three
hundred thousand to be spent on
new roads to open agricultural
areas. The project was disclosed
by Delegate Bartlett, who said the
new routes cover four hundred
seven miles, and the cost over a
three-year period will total nine
million, five hundred forty thou
sand dollars.
Says Truman
Does Not Show
Confidence In Him
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—(^P)—
Secretary of the Interior Harold
Ickes bluntly challenging Presi
dent Truman’s right to pass judg
ment on his “veracity,” “I cannot
stay on when you in effect ex
pressed lack of confidence in me,”
Ickes said in a lengthy letter to
the President, he made public af
ter the White House announced
the resignation.
The resignation of “Old Cur
mudgeon,” who took office under
Roosevelt in 1933, grew out of
Ickes’ opposition to the nomina
tion of Edward Pauley as under
secretary of the Navy, and the
President's support of the Cali
fornia oil man.
Ickes asked to be relieved
March 31, but Truman made the
resignation effective February 15.
The President’s letter of accep
tance was not made public.
The President designated Oscar
Chapman, Coloradoan, who served
thirteen years as assistant secre
tary, to take over Ickes’ duties,
pending the appointment of a per
manent Secretary.
Ickes in a two thousand word
letter of resignation, said of hisr
testimony in opposition to the
nomination of Pauley, “I cannot
accept the theory I should have
told the Senate naval affairs com
mittee anything less than the
truth. I make no apologies for
having done so, although I did re
gret the unhappy personal posi
tion in which I involuntarily
found myself.
Ickes told the committee that
Pauley advanced the “rawest
proposition that ever has been
made to me,” by suggesting that
three hundred thousand dollars
could be raised in campaign con
tributions by California oil men if
the government would drop its
suit to establish federal title to
oil bearing tidewater lands.
Pauley denied this, saying that
Ickes was mistaken. The Presi
dent too told a press conference
that Ickes could be wrong. This
provided the springboard for
Ickes’ resignation. He is seventy
one.
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13—(/P)
Governor Mon Wallgren, of Wash
ington, said there is no truth in
reports he was in the national
capital to disscuss with President
Truman his appointment to a cab
inet pc^t, possibly Secretary of the
Interior. “The report is unfair to
the Secretary of the Interior, to
the President and to me,” said
Wallgren.