Record Winds Batter
North Coast of Scotland
KIRKWALL, Orkney Islands,
(JP)—A hurricane, with gusts rag
ing up to a record 130 miles an
hour, battered these islands off
the northern coast of Scotland
Tuesday.
No deaths had been reported in
the Orkneys by late morning but
on the Scottish coast south of
here, in the Dundee area, a gale
sank a sandboat with six men
aboard and one man was missing
4 and presumed dead.
First reports from the Rural
Islands areas said hardly a farm
had escaped serious damage and
that losses might run into hun
dreds of pounds.
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Army To Train All 25
Reserves Divisions
As Infantry
WASHINGTON, (/P) — The
army has decided to train all its
L'5 reserve corps divisions as in
*- fantrv because of a lack of train
ing facilities and equipment for
airborne and armored troops. ,
This will mean converting four
divisions that now are airborne
and three that are armored.
The switchover is expected to
be completed in time to permit
the reserve units to prepare for
their annual 15-day field summer
* training.
Heir Born To Farouk
CAIRO, Egypt, (/P) — Queen
Narriman, teen-age second wife
of Egypt’s King Farouk, gave
birth today to a son-heir to the
Nile kingdom throne.
The boy was named Prince Ah
med Fouad after his grandfather,
King Fouad I.
The king was married last May
6 to Narriman Sadek, commoner
daughter of an Egyptian civil
servant. Farouk will be 32 on
Feb. 11.
A swelling crowd massed in the
huge square before Abdin royal
palace and cheered as a 101-gun
salute boomed to herald the birth.
“Little David,’ perhaps the larg
est gun ever built, was a 36-inch
siege mortar designed by the U.S.
Army to help break through Ger- j
many’s Siegfried Line in World
War II.
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ING SINN, EVICTED BY
LANDLORD, NOW OPERATES
LAUNDRY AT AMER. LEGION
NEW YORK, (JP)—Part of an
American Legion clubhouse in
Brooklyn is now serving as a Chi
nese laundry.
Ing Sinn, 56, the laundry pro
prietor, is greeting customers in
the reception room of the three
storv building. His equipment is
in the clubhouse basement.
The laundryman, a veteran of
the World War I Battle of the Ar
gonne, had to move when his
landlord said he wanted to use
his quarters.
The veteran, a member of the
Post, moved in Monday at the
bidding of fellow members of the
Legion.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by U.S. Dept, of Commerce
Weather Bureau
Clear tonight becoming partly
cloudy Thursday. Northwesterly
winds 15 to 20 mph tonight be
coming northeasterly 20 to 25
mph Thursday. Lowest tempera
ture expected tonight -18, high
Thursday -10.
In last 24 hours: high tempera
ture 32, low -3. Maximum wind
45 mph from the west. Sunrise
at 9:30 a.m., sunset at 2:53 p.m.
A year ago: high temperature
-16, low -28.
Extreme temperatures this date:
high 33 in 1922; low -33 in 1934.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 1 Blowing Sno
Pt. Hope -10 Blowing Sno
Kotzebue -5 Snow
Shishmaref -5 Blowing Sno
Wales -4 Clear
Gambell 5 Part cloudy
Nome -3 Blowing Sno
Unalakleet 8 Cloudy
Bethel 18 Snow
McGrath 19 Cloudy
Anchorage 21 Snow
Fairbanks 12 Snow
Whitehorse 4 Snow
Edmonton -23 Part cloudy
Juneau 21 Snow
Ketchikan 18 Part cloudy
Seattle 32 Part cloudy
San Francisco 43 Cloudy
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$300,000 Fire At
Kodiak Naval Sta.
NAVAL STATION, Kodiak, Al
aska, Jan. 11—A $300,000 fire de
stroyed the Navy’s movie theatre
and chief petty officer’s club early
Friday morning on Kodiak’s Na
val Station. Men from three mili
tary fire departments fought the
blaze for \Vi hours after an un
identified person turned in the
alarm at 3 a.m.
Fire Marshall T. MacArthur de
scribed the building that also
houses a Navy Exchange beauty
parlor and barber shop as “irrep
arably damaged”. He said the
charred frame of the building
must be torn down and a new
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Several hundred people turned
out to help the 52 regular firemen
fight the blaze. Nobody was seri
ously injured, though two men
were examined at the dispensary
for possible overdoses of smoke.
Fire Chief i MacArthur said the
cause of the fire was undeter
mined. All he could say for sure
was it started on the ground floor
of the CPO club.
IT'S MEAT THEY WERE AFTER
QUINCY, Mass., (/P) _ Thieves
who broke into a meat market
during the night were after some
thing more precious than money.
Owner Harry Dreyful listed to
police as stolen:
50 lbs. top-of-the-round steak.
10 lbs. of bacon.
Six lbs. of baloney.
A cold cut loaf, and a string
of pork.
Dreyfus said an undetermined
amount of money was left intact
in the cash register.
Alaska Crash Victims
Had Homes In Portland
PORTLAND, (JP)— Burton L.
McGuire, 30, pilot of the General
Airways plane that crashed in
southeast Alaska mountains, had
been with the company since its
start in 1947.
A Marine pilot in World War II,
he lived here with his wife and
daughter, Sherry.
Allen Simpson, 27, ccf-pilot, be
gan flying for the company about
a year ago. He was a glider pilot
in World War II. At home here
are his wife and two children,
Terry, 5, and Tommy, 2 months.
12 Crewmen Killed In
Crash of 4-Engine Bomber
YOKOHAMA, (/P)—The U. S.
Navy said Tuesday 12 crewmen
were killed in the crash of a four
engine Navy patrol bomber near
Atsugi Air Base Monday night.
Three bodies were taken from
the wreckage after the PB4-Y2
Privateer, with two engines dead,
crashed and burned in a dry rice
paddy. Nine others were recov
ered Tuesday. Names were with
held.
The plane was returning from
a 1,400-mile patrol over the Sea
of Japan.
ARC Budget be Presented
By Ghiglione and Miller
JUNEAU — A. F. Ghiglione,
Alaska Road Commissioner, and
Don Miller of the commission are
to appear in Washington, D.C.
about Jan. 17 in support of ARC’S
budget appropriation for the fis
cal year beginning July 1, 1952,
Miller disclosed recently.
The two ARC men are to ap
pear before the Interior subcom
mittee of the House Appropria
tions Committee on January 21.
Details of the budget will be
released to the public as soon as
the President releases his budget
message to congress.
In 1950 there were 468 car
thefts every day. ’
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