AIRLINES |
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
A trip was made to White Moun
tain yesterday taking Sam Trout
man of the ANS.
Dorothy Henry was a passenger
to Igloo from Te’ler.
Teddy Amarok was taken to Sol-,
omon Tuesday.
Father Anable was a passenger'
to White Mountain on Monday. ]
Bob Lee and Art Flat were pas-1
sengers from Kotzebue to Nomej
on Monday.
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PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving with P.A.A. Monday
evening were Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Shulters and Elsa Gibbs.
The only departing passenger
was Sgt. Leiter.
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ALASKA AIRLINES
John Read and E. B. Skells were
incoming passengers today. Out
going passengers were Bailey
Covey, Clark Andreson, Dominic
Thomas, Mrs. Hugo Eckhart of
Kotzebue, and E. B. Skells, all for
Anchorage.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
.'l . . nu'Mv.i. Frank Shutler.
Fairbanks. Fred O. Frohbose and
Lee Teague, Anchorage.
Navy Bombs
Culebra Island
Aboard U. S. S. Tacon c in Car
ibbean, (Delayed) (£*)—The mock
battle of Culebra Island opened to
day as carrier-based aircraft tak
ing part in Atlantic fleet mane,
vers dive-bombed a peninsula o
the hilly coral island, 18 miles ea^.
of Puerto Rico.
The little planes up among t-'
fleecy clouds peeled off again anc
again into dives. Little flashes of
light and puffs of smoke on the
palm fringed island marked their
bomb hits.
Officers here say the native foP*
on the island are not concerned
about this bombardment. It is an
annual affair with them. It brings
business and nobody ever get?
hurt. The bombing area itself i*
cleared of people.
Man Falls Four
Miles From Plane
NEW YORK. i/P)—A navigator
•v* on the stars from his plas
tic bubble atop Trans-World Air
•b.u ot Hollywood” was
j .! .hrough the dome and
* op^c t four miles into the Atlan
tic ocean 500 miles out of Gander,
New foundfand, last night, TWA
>:f c als here announced.
Victim of the freak accident was
d.*orge Hart of Snag Harbor, Long
'land, N. Y., TWA officials said.
T ;e pilot was D. E. Hamilton of
Alexandria, Va.
The plane, which was flying at
n air speed of about 250 miles an
hour at an altitude of 19,000 feet,
lade a safe return to the Gander
ai port at 10:34 p.m. <EST>. The
accident occurred at 7:29 p.m.
The coast guard sent a message
to all ships in the area to be on the
lookout for the lost navigator. The
-uard said there was scant possi
bility he could have survived the
long fall.
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Jewish Immigrants
Illegally Land
In Palestine
(By Carter L. Davidson)
JERUSALEM, (^)-Two hun
dred illegal Jewish immigrants
i disappeared into southern Pales
j tine near the barren Negev (south
ern desert* early today after escap
ing from a refugee ship which ran
the British blockade and drove
aground near Gaza.
I The British army announced
that 400 of the estimated 800 refu
gees aboard the vessel were round
ed up on the beach and placed in t,
hastily erected compound near I
dud, a few miles from Gaza, whil
another 200 was said to be still
aboard the craft, identified as the
400-ton Susanna, out of Italy.
There were reports that the
British navy had overtaken the
vessel at sea during the ni^ht and
put a boarding party on her only
to have it thrown off by the pas
sengers, but this was denied offi
cially.
Earlier, a party of five or six
Jewish undergrounders, striking
in a commando-like raid under
cover of heavy machine gun and
revolver fire an hour before dawn,
blasted the headquarters of Jeru
salem martial law area killing a
British soldier and wounding
eight, three of them seriously.
BEN MOZEE HIGH AT BERING
SEA CLUB GAME
Ben Mozee held the high score
last evening at the Bering Sea
Club bridge game with Lois Travis
getting second honors.
—
The island of Martinique is al-,
most all mountainous.
Labor Govt. Takes
Wartime Powers
LONDON, </P)—A source close
to the British cabinet said today
the government intends to reas
:ume special wartime powers to
wage its battle for industr 'nl re
covery during the next two or
three years.
The informant said the powers
would enable the nation’s new pro
duction chief to take measures
deemed necessary to realize pro
duction goals set in the govern
ment’s recent white paper. The
product on chief would be given
power to allocate contracts for es
sential equipment to any firm in
side or outside Great Britain which
could do the job.
The source said the government
W’ould not hesitate to contract for
both its own needs and the needs
of private enterprise, wherever
goods could be produced.
Puget Sound
Strike Looms
SEATTLE, [IP)—With the strike
deadline less than 48 hours away,
federal conciliator Harry H. Lewis
today reported negotiations be
tween Puget Sound Navigation
company and the marine engin
eers’ beneficial association are “in
a state of almost complete dead
lock.”
H. L. Daggett, business agent
for the CIO-MEBA, said its mem
bers were “still determined” to
walk out at 12:01 a.m. Friday un
less agreement is reached.
The dispute hinges over a union
demand for wage increases based
on size of eachi vessel’s power
plant.
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