Air Force May
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Globe Girdler
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Pacific flight from Chitose airbase,
Hokkaido, to Shemya.
The spokesman said that when
utd if Mrs. Morrow-Tait objects to
the escort, the airforce will con
sider it but he did not know what
action might be taken. The Eng
lishwoman’s plane has a maximum
‘ range of 2,000 miles.
One airforce official explained
that the United States probably
would have to spend thousands of
dollars and tie up needed planes j
and ships in search missions
should anything happen to Mrs.
Morrow-Tait’s plane if unescorted. !
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CHITOSE BASE, Hokkaido, </P)
Mrs. Richard Morrow-Tait, Bri
tish housewife, landed her single
engine plane here today and ex
jiects to takeoff tomorrow for
Shemya Island in the Aleutians on
her projected around-the-world
flight.
American air forces officials in
Takyo said she would be given an
GEODETIC SURVEY ISSUES
NEW ALEUTIAN CHART
SEATTLE, (/P)—Capt. Jack Sen
ior, northwest district supervisor
of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic
survey, passed along the word yes
terday that a chart of the western
Aleutian Islands has been issued
by the service.
This chart, No. 9130, covers Ilaid
and Nizki Islands, and completes
coverage of the Semichi island
group near Attu, Senior said.
Marie Quirk, regional director
for the Veterans’ Bureau, replac
ing Harry Palmer, is scheduled to
arrive soon in connection with
business for the department.
escort of a B-17 air-sea rescue
plane on the 1,778 mile flight. She
had said she would make the flight
without escort? But American offi
cials said she would be escorted
under the routine procedure for all
small planes making the same
flight.
She plans to fly to Shemya over
the Aleutian chain to Anchorage,
thence to Whitehorse, and, wea
ther permitting, on across the At
lantic Ocean.
Barge Service To
Kodiak Off; No
Insurance Open
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ening, flour or canned milk in Ko
diak,” he declared. “We have to
draw emergency supplies from the
naval base.”
The mayor said the chartered
barge was scheduled to sail this
week from Seattle with 300 tons of
supplies, adding: “Kodiak mer
chants had orders ready for deliv
ery to the docks when it was learn
ed all insurance had been can
celled as a result of*the $200,000
loss on the Skarstone.
“Besides needed staples, mer
chants are trying to get Christ
mas merchandise and other sup
plies to the island. It will be a
bleak Christmas if all we can have
is salt drawn from the navy.”
JAMES KIRKHAM. 79. OLD
TIMER. PASSES ON
JUNEAU, (/P) — The death of
James Kirkham. 79, a resident of
Gastineau Channel area since
i
1905, was reported yesterday.
( He had a valuable location of
gold quartz in the Taku section
.Halt Inflation Or
i Commissary Will
.Be Opened To
Civilian Personnel
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colonel said. "The army intends to
do that if necessary.”
"At present we don’t have fa
cilities for such an increase. It
means engaging additional person
nel and expanding what we have.
We’ll keep the commissary open to 1
them (war department personnel)
from then on.”
Generous said employees report
prices at some stores, especially
during the last few weeks, have
risen as muc has 30 per cent.
He said a similar situation ex
isted during the 1946 shipping
strike. At that time, pressure from
Anchorage merchants forestalled a
i similar move to open the commis
I saries to more people.
near Juneau.
Surviving are a son, Glen of!
! Douglas; two daughtres, Mrs. Rob
ert Rice of Juneau and Mrs.
George I. Johnson, Waldport, Ore.
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W itnesses Air
Grievances At CAB
Alaska Hearings
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lOVfc-cent a pound rate were in ef
fect, there is no reason why busi
ness should not double, or possibly
treble.
Some of the Mt. McKinley Air
ways witnesses spoke critically of
the policies of rival Pacific North
ern. Theo Clendenen of the Cor
dova hospital contended the insti
tution was handicapped by what
she said was the P.N.A. refusal to
carry stretcher patients from Cor
dova. She said P.N.A. would ac
cept only ambulatory patients. She
lauded Mt. McKinley Airways for
recently flying out two men with
broken backs.
Betty Helm, U. S. commissioner
at Cordova, testified that P.N.A.
refused to carry the bodies of de
ceased.
Under questioning of the P.N.A.
attorney, Gerald Grady, Commis
sioner Helm acknowledged that
the line once carried the body of a
deceased airline agent.
Corporal Gold, who was called
recently to fill the pulpit of the
Federated Church, and who left
last week for Fairbanks for medi
cal attention, has wired that he is
enroute to Illinois due to the sud
den death of his father and cannot
return ot Nome for about three
weeks.
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