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Army Tug On Reef
Near Ketchikan
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SEATTLE, (/P) — An army tug
with a dry dock in tow was report
ed on a reef about 100 miles south
of Ketchikan, yesterday.
An army port of embarkation
spokesman said the information
reached the Foss Tug and Barge
Company here in a radio message
between one of its tugs and an
other ship in the vicinity. The sea
was reported calm in the area.
The army tug LT 156 was tow
ing the 200-foot steel floating dry
dock from Juneau to Seattle for
repairs. The tug normally carries
17 men. There was no report of
any immediate danger to crew
members as other vessels stood by.
A second army tug also was es
corting t,he drydock tow.
The army reported the coast
guard had volunteered to send a
craft to the scene to check on the
situation.
The tug was reported on Herbert
Reef.
SEATTLE, (A5)—Salvage vessels
are en route today to a large army i
tug on a reef 110 miles south of
Ketchikan. Its 21 crew members
are reported safe. It was en route
here from Juneau with another
army tug when it went aground
yesterday.
Find Peary Records
Near North Pole
WASHINGTON, <JP)—A United
States expedition to the Arctic
last summer found records left
there about 43 years ago by Cmdr.
Robert E. Peary, discoverer of the
North Pole.
This was disclosed yesterday by
government officials who said the
papers were in a bottle. They de
clined to say exactly where the
records were found but indicated
it was on Cape Sheridan about 450
miles from the North Pole.
Peary made several trips to the
Arctic, finally reaching the pole in
1909. Presumably, the papers
found by the navy-coast guard ex
pedition were left by Peary on a
trip in 1905 and 1906.
The content of the Peary records
was not disclosed. Evidently, he
had left them to show he had been
in the area.
The expeditionary ships—a navy
icebreaker ,a coast guard icebreak
er and a navy cargo ship—have
returned to Boston.
The main purpose of the task
force was to supply four weather
stations in the area and to scout
sites for additional stations to be
established next year.
The expedition was led by navy
Capt. George J. Dufek. He com
manded the navy icebreaker, Edis
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YAMATO VILLAGE, Japan, (IP)
For centuries, with the regularity
of the swallows of Capistrano,
Cal., Ibaragi prefecture drunks
have returned here annually on
Sept. 28 -for a glorious free spree.
Villagers kept a 47-gallon bar
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to. The other vessels were the
coast guard icebreaker East Wind,
i and the navy cargo ship Wyandot. |
Canadian naval officers went i
along since the weather stations;
were jointly set up by Canada and '
the United States.
Heilcopters carried aboard the:
three ships are reported to have}
helped spot the Peary papers and
to have helped in navigating
through the ice-choked waters of
the Arctic.
1 Soviets Promise To
' Aid Czechs
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PRAGUE, Czechoslovakia, </P)—
President Klement Gottwald re
i turned yesterday from a visit to
Soviet Russia.
The government announced in
i creased food and cotton supplies
were promised Czechoslovakia by
i Russia in 1949 as a result of talks
by Gottwald and “leading Soviet
personalities.”
The announcement said the Sov
iet Union has agreed to deliver
during 1949 the following increas
es above the 1948 figures: 25,000
tons of meat, 25,000 tons of animal
fat, 300,000 tons of wheat and 10,
000 tons of cotton.
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Hedy La
marr has dropped a $200,000 dam
age suit against Look Magazine.
Her attorney, Jerry Giesler,
filed a dismissal of the action in
superior court yesterday. He de
clined to give the reason. The act
ress had charged Look with indi
cating she had undergone plastic
surgery on her nose.
Hiss Sues Cham
bers In Spy Trial
BALTIAMORE, (/P) — Federal
court here has been asked to rule
whether Whittaker Chambers’
statements that Alger Hiss, former
government employee, had been a
communist party member were
true or false.
Hiss’ lawyers filed a suit Mon
day asking the U. S. district court
of Maryland for $50,000 damages
for defamation of character. The
suit claimed Chambers’ statements
were “untrue, false and defama
tory.”
Basis for the suit is conflicting
testimony by the two men before
the House committee on un-Amer
ican activities and a radio broad
cast by Chambers in August.
MILLER, S. D. — Harlan
Bushfield, junior U. S. Senator
from South Dakota, and that
State’s governor for two terms,
died in Community hospital here
Monday after a long illness.
Bushfield, a Republican, 66, died
of a cerebral hemorrhage.
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