S. S. Pennsylvania
Committed To
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PEARL HARBOR, (/P) — The
battleship Pennsylvania, survivor
of the Pearl Harbor debacle and
two atomic blasts, was scuttled
near Kwajalein Feb. 10, the navy
announced yesterday.
“Damage received at Okinawa
was mainly responsible for the
Pen nsylvania’s unseaworthiness
and not damage inflicted during
the atomic bomb tests” at Bikini
in July, 1946, the navy said.
Two other warships, termed vic
tims of “progressive deteriora
tion,” also were scuttled last
month. They were the destroyer
Trippe, sunk Feb. 3, and the at
tack transport Banner, sunk Feb.
16.
The navy said the Pennsylvania
could not have remained afloat
much longer in the Kwajalein la
goon. She was towed there after
the Bikini atom tests. She was
considered a possible menace to
shipping if she sank in the lagoon,
as did the Prinz Eugen. Both were
guinea pigs of the Bikini tests.
The “Mighty P,” as the navy
calls her, recovered from the
Pearl Harbor attack to strike at
the Japanese 13 times with eleven
million pounds of steel—more than
was fired by any other battleship
in history.
Many Die When
River Boat Sinks
GREENVILLE, Miss. <£>)—14 to
20 crewmen were dead or missing
today from the 180-foot towboat
Natchez, which rolled over and
sank last night after a treacherous
Mississippi river current swept it
against a bridge piling below here.
Capt. William A. Howell of the
towboat Sohio-Latonia, which
brought eleven survivors here,
said “there could hardly have
been any others” saved.
A twelfth crewman escaped,
however, as he was with the
barges and not aboard the Natchez
at the time.
Howell witnessed the end of the
Natchez from his pilot house.
“The current caught her and
rolled her over,” he said. “She
went down in about a minute. The
men below—firemen, engineers
and so on—had no chance. The
men picked up were mostly deck
crew.”
The Sohio-Latonia picked up
nine survivors, of whom two died
on board. Four other men, rescued
by other boats, were transferred to
the Sohio-Latonia to be brought
k here. Howell, of Cairo, 111., said
the disaster was “by far the
worst” in the 12 years he has been
on the river. The two boats were
taking tows of crude oil from May
ersville, Miss., to St. Louis.
“Christmas Ship”
In Fog Off Bremen
BREMEN, Germany, (/P)—The
U. S. ship Gretna Victory, carry
ing American food to Germany
and Austria, was reported fog
bound today. American military
government officials said she was
scheduled to dock yesterday.
Waiting in Bremen to welcome
the ship are five representatives
of areas which donated the gifts
last December and January.
The representatives will make a
tour of relief agencies, charitable
group and displaced persons
camps in western Germany and
Austria, after distribution of the
food.
LATEST QUEEN
CONTEST NEWS
By Neva Whaley
The annual Queen Contest is
really under way. The latest en
trant is Vera Nelson. This makes
the lineup include Margaret
Bjornsted, Jenny Sayers, Vera
Lonergan and Vera Nelson. There
will be prizes for the contestants
for first, second and third places.
Bill Munz has liberally offered
a trip to anywhere on the Seward
peninsula, and that really takes in
a lot ol' territory. Beautiful trophy
cups are to be awarded, plus Wien
Alaska Airlines’ offer of a round
trip to Fairbanks. Bud Richter has
again offered this year a large
beautifully framed colored por
trait of the winner, which would
really be comething to cherish and
to show to one’s grandchildren.
A big announcement will soon
NEW YORK, (iP)—John Robert
Gregg, 80-year-old inventor of the
i shorthand system that bears his
! name, died Monday. He was a for
! mer president of the national arts
! club.
A native of Rockcorry, North
ern Ireland, Gregg began experi
menting with “speed writing” sys
tems at the age of 10. In time he
composed a shorthand alphabet of
his -own which subsequently was
adapted to 13 languages.
be made regarding a Junior Queen
six years old or less. Does she still
have her teeth and no bony knees?
Is she a little beast in her own
home but looks like an angel?
Then she may be Junior Queen of
Nome. Watch for the announce
ment soon.
All new queen entrants call
Black 3.
Costs Fortune To
Remove N. Y. Snow
NEW YORK, UP) — Any New
Yorker would vow the snowstorms
that buffeted the city this winter
were white, except local budget of
ficials who see red—${5,654,349.95
worth.
That was the cost of removing
57.4 inches of snow between last
Dec. 26 and Feb. 21, sanitation of
ficials said today.
(The total snow fall to date in
Nome this winter has only been
46.7 inches.'
Nostalgically budget officials
leafed back through the records to
the winter of 1931-32 when it cost
only $13,992.02 to remove 1.39
inches of snow.
Britain Calls
European Meeting
BRUSSELS, Belgium, (^—Af
ter the formal opening by Spaak,
the conference was presided over
by Fernand van Langenhove, per
manent Belgian delegate to the
United Nations.
Britain called the conference in
line with foreign secretary Ernest
Bevin's proposal for “consolida
tion of western Europe,” made in
the House of Commons Jan. 22.
U. S. undersecretary of state,
Robert A. Lovett, meanwhile, t<fld
i Washington news conference the.
United States wants any Western
Europe Union to be strictly Euro
pean. He said the U. S. would not
take part in the Brussels meeting*
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