Six Abandon Tug,
Leaking, Sinking.
In Gulf Storm
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have been by one of the search
planes.
The earlier message from the
Afognak, the third of its distress
calls, reported all six aboard took
to a 14-foot lifeboat at 2:2H a.m.,
<PST>. The message said no land
was in sight.
The vessel gave her position as
six to eight miles off Cape St. Eli
as on Kayak Island. About 300
miles northeast of Kodiak Island.
The scene is obout 75 miles south
east of Cordova, near the center of
the northern rim of the Gulf of
Alaska. The message said the craft
was shipping water in heavy seas
and winds of 45 to 50 miles per
hour, but gave no other details.
The coast guard identified the
six persons as < no hometowns
available):
Fred Brandes. the master. Lee
Christy, chief engineer. Jim Jones,
assistant engineer. Bucky Sadler;
Arthur Johnson. Curtis Bach., 21, ,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. George
Edward Bach of Douglas, Alaska.
He attended Western Washington
College of Education at Belling
ham last term.
The vessel is owned by James |
V. Cole of Juneau. The coast guard
said the Afognak was bound for
Juneau from an unknown port.
Earlier the 90-foot craft radioed
it was proceeding toward Control
ler Bay near Kayak Island.
The distress calls were picked
up by commander, search and res
cue area two at Kodiak and re
layed to coast guard headquarters
here.
Headquarters said one P2V
search plane already was in the
area. A B-17 with a life boat was
en route from Elmendorf air force
base near Anchorage and a navy
tug and a PBY plane from Kodiak.
Another vessel, the Mary M, was
dispatched from Cordova.
Three pre-dawn radio messages
in a space of 75 minutes told the
grim story of the Afognak’s losing
fight against the stormy seas.
The first, at 1:11 a.m., said the
■tug was leaking badly in heavy
seas and would have to be aban
doned within an hour. The tug
asked for immediate aid.
The second, at 2 a.m., said the
water in the hold was rising stead
ily.
Twenty-eight minutes later the
tug radioed:
"Abandoning ship.”
Truman Names
Judge Minton For
Supreme Court
WASHINGTON, </P) —Sherman
Minton of Indiana, who battled in
vain for the 1937 Roosevelt plan to
put younger blood on the Supreme
Court, yesterday was chosen by
President Truman to serve on that
bench.
Minton, in 1937, a Democratic,
pro-new deal Senator, now is a
judge of the seventh 'll. S. circuit
court of appeals. That court has
headquarters at Chicago and em
braces the states of Indiana, Illin
ois and Wisconsin.
Mr. Truman announced his de
cision at a news conference yester
day, He said judge Walter C. Lind
ley of the U. S. court for the east
ern district of Illinois will succeed
Minton on the appellate court.
Casper Platte, now a circuit
judge of Illinois, will succeed
Lindley.
Minton, 58, will fill the Supreme
Court vacancy created by the
death of Justice Wiley Rutledge.
A Democrat and a Protestant,
Minton served in the Senate from
1925 to 1941. He had the desk next
to Mr. Truman’s when both were
in the Senate.
Minton is a Protestant but his
wife is a Catholic.
There has been no Catholic on
the Supreme Court since Justice
Frank Murphy died in July. There
had been speculation that the Pres
ident might choose another Catho
lic until he named former attorney
general Tom Clark, a Protestant,
to succeed Justice Murphy.
Minton's rise in Indiana politics
was coincident with the governor
ship of Paul V. McNutt, who later
became federal security commis
sioner, war manpower commis
sioner, high commissioner and
then ambassador to the Philip
pines.
Minton was public counselor of
the Indian Public Service com
mission when he was elected to
tl^e Senate. He was defeated for
re-election by Republican Raymond
E. Willis.
As a Senator, Minton was an
embattled “New Dealer” and a
vigorous fighter for the Roosevelt
administration’s measures. He
fought hard for President Roose
velt’s plan to add new justices to
the Supreme Court to the number
of those over age 70 who did not
retire.
The court at that time had de
clared unconstitutional major leg
islation which the President back
ed as essential to the country.
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“Congress Must
Solve Alaska
Military Housing’*
LOS ANGELES, (/P)—Secretary,
of defense Johnson said yesterday
Congress must solve Alaska’s mili
tary housing problem—“the most
serious problem we face in that
area’’—even if that means taking
it up in a separate bill.
A bill now pending would pro
vide S13H,000,000 for such con- i
struction, Johnson said, adding: !
“We must get action on this bill
even if it becomes necessary to
treat the construction needs for :
Alaska as a separate item by the
Congress.”
If funds are not secured soon, he ,
said in a statement prepared for a
news conference, part of the con- j
struction forces that have gone to
Alaska to do the job will be dissi- j
pated.
Johnson said family housing in
Alaska is so inadequate and sub
standard that men often are com
pelled to leave their families be
hind while they serve there.
“While such sacrifices are nor
mal in war, it is unfair in time of
peace to ask our servicemen and i
their families to suffer hardship
out of proportion to the standards
of living enjoyed by our service
men in other parts of the world,”
Johnson declared.
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Coast Guard
Aeeepts Juneau's
New Headquarters
JUNEAU, (/Pi—The U. S. coast
guard Wednesday formally ac
cepted the new $375,000 commun
ity-financed building as the head
quarters for the newly activated
17th District.
The new three-story reinforced
concrete structure was financed by
public subscription. The coast
guard will lease it, under an ad
vance agreement. Furniture is be
ing moved in.
Many officers and personnel,
with their families, are already
here.
The 17th coast guard listrict op
erated in Alaska during the war.
It was inactivated in 1947. It was
reactivated July 1, with Juneau
chosen for the first time as the
headquarters. Rear Adm. Joseph
Greenspun is the commandant.
Ketchikan has been the main
base of Alaska coast guard opera
tions. Officers said it will continue
as an operating base, with only the
marine inspection division being
shifted to the district headquarters
here.
(ial> Driver <>uIwits
Hold-Up Men
CAMBRIDGE. Mass. i/Pi—Cab
driver Roscoe Spooner, 26, had ’.he
last laugh today on two alleged
holdup men.
Spooner told police the pair rob
bed him of $8 and made him drive
to a lonely spot where they forced
him from the car.
But while the two were starting
the cab’s motor, he climbed into
the trunk.
Ten minutes later they aban
doned the cab. Spooner clambered
out, called a policeman and point
ed out the pair. They were held on
suspicion of armed robbery.
BRIDEGROOM TAKES BRIDE
WITH RESERVATIONS
ENID. Okla. (/PI—“Will you take
this woman?” Justice of the Peace
A. C. Moyer asked at a wedding
ceremony here.
Joseph N. Grove. 72, Shamrock,
Tex., spoke right up.
“I will—if she treats me all
right.”
His bride, Mrs. Sally B. Chit
wood. 65. Garber, Okla., smiled.
She made no provisions in her
vow, but later demanded the
groom's assurance she could be
carried over the threshold.
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