AIRLINES
WIEN ALASKA AIRLINES
Arriving yesterday from Fair
banks on the regular flight were
C. C. Marcy, R. B. Clifton and R.
G. Maynard.
Departing on the same plane
was Everett Batchelder with an
infant for the Valley Christian
Home at Wasilla. Richard Webb,
local manager also left on a busi
ness trip.
Yesterday a freighting trip was
made to Lee's camp and the mail
run to Koyuk, Golovin, Moses
Point. Unalakleet.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Passengers arriving on the
Alaska Airlines plane today were:
Russ Apple and Marie Pootkaylok.
Passengers leaving on today’s
plane were Enok Myhittener, Em
ma Boyer, C. E. Boyer, Dale Pe
terson, L. H. Buckland.
AT THE WALLACE HOTEL
H. S. Kendall, Anchorage. John
Argyle, Conway, Mo. Don Travis,
Nome. R. G. Maynard, R. B. Clif
ton, Juneau.
Tax Reduction To
Wait Until 1948
WASHINGTON, (JP) — The Re
publican high command apparent
ly abandoned today all plans for
tax reduction legislation at the
special session of Congress con
■ vening Nov. 17.
Chairman Knutson (R.-Minn.)
of the House ways and means com
mittee said after a conference with
Speaker Martin, ‘‘I rather expect
the $4,000,000,000 tax reduction i
measure to go over until Janu- j
ary.”
Knutson’s committee handles
tax legislation and the Minnesotan
has been the leading advocate of
tax legislation at the special ses
sion.
However, he emphasized to re
porters that taxes will be the first
matter of business when Congress
meets in January for the regular
session.
B-29’s Can’t Use
New Gas; Waste
100,000 Gallons
I _
(By Douglas Lovelace)
HONOLULU, (#>)—Nine mighty
planes and 100 chagrined crew
men are returning today to Fort
Worth. Texas, unable to reach
their Tokyo goal because the army
aircraft aren’t equipped for the
j type of gasoline available in for
! ward areas.
Who committed the error which
cost roughly 100,000 gallons of
gasoline—the old kind—in the
frustrated flight, is hard to pin
point.
Some half-dozen flights of su
perfortresses preceded this one on
training missions to Japan and
everything went fine. However,
several months ago the airborne
navy hereabouts began weaning
planes from wartime “aromatic”
fuel (boosted with benzol) to
straight 145-octain gasoline.
The Seventh Airforce, head
quartered in Hawaii, did likewise;
; it draws fuel supplies from navy
1 tankers.
The conyersion was virtually
completed several weeks ago, and
the staff of Brig. Gen. Ralph H.
Wooten, commanding the airforce
here, insisted word was passed
through the usual channels that
Pacific way stations were practic
ally out of the old-type, aromatic
gas.
Lt. Col. William S. Savoie, who
commanded the flight, insisted
contrarily that Eighth airforce
planning officers at Fort Worth
knew aromatic fuel was critically
short here several weeks ago, but
had information that gasoline was
available this week for the flight.
Savoie explained why his eight
B-29’s and lone C-54 supply plane
couldn’t continue on to Tokyo on
145-octane gasoline:
Wartime gas caused rubber and
plastic connections on the B-29
fuel system to expand, while the
new-type gasoline caused contrac
U. S. Seizes Planes
Intended For
Use In Revolution
PONCA CITY, Okla, <>P)—'The
United States has seized two pri
vately-owned heavy bombers on
Oklahoma airfields to stop their
use in a revolution believed pend
ing in South America, a govern
ment official announced here to
day.
Customs inspector O. C. Millican
of Kansas City made the state
ment after impounding both planes
under a wartime law governing
arms exports.
“We have been working on this
thing for months,” he said. ‘‘It in
volves a lot more than just two
bombers.”
One of the aircraft is a surplus
B-24 Liberator held at the Tulsa
municipal airport. The other is a
somewhat similar navy type, a
PB4Y-1 Privateer, seized yester
day at Ponca City. Both are four
engined planes stripped of their
armament.
Millican said both were destined
for the abortive exped i t i o n
against the Dominican Republic
organized earlier this fall in Cuba.
“When that revolution blew up,
the planes were immobilized in the
United States,” Millican said.
“Then we got word they might be
used in another revolution brew
ing in South America, and we de
cided to seize them.”
The customs official said he
could not name the Country thyt
may be facing a revolt.
Shelton named as legal owner
of the planes Luis Bordas. alias
Jose Diaz.
MRS. M. J. WALSH
GREATLY IMPROVED
Friends of Mrs. M. J. Walsh
will be glad to learn that she is
much improved from her recent
illness and expects to be about
soon.
tion. This difference possibly
would cause leaks leading to fuel
exhaustion or fire.
Forecast And
Weather Report
Nome and Vicinity
Compiled by the U. S. Dept, of
Commerce, Weather Bureau.
Friday, November 7, 1947
Forecast Nome: Clear arid con
tinued cold tonight and Saturday.
Lowest temperature tonight —8,
highest temperature Saturday 12.
Nome data as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Precipitation last 24 hours, none.
Total precipitation this month 0.29
inch.
Temperatures last 24 hours:
highest 19, lowest —6.
Maximum wind last 24 hours 25
miles per hour from the N. E.
Sunrise at 8:07 a.m., sunset at
3:24 p.m.
Comparative data: Tempera
tures one year ago today: highest
24, lowest T 2.
Lowest —6 in 1947, highest 40
in 1926.
Data for other selected stations
as of 7:30 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 4 Snow
Point Hope 10 Clear
Kotzebue —8 Clear
Shishmaref 28 Partly Cloudy
Wales 20 Snow
Gambel! 22 Snow
Nome 4 Clear
U. S. Equips Greek
Army To End
Rebellion
ATHENS, <£>)—Dwight P. Gris
wold, head of the American mis
sion to aid Greece, . said today
enough guns, ammunition and
combat materiel had been -supplied
the Greek army to end the rebel
lion.
He declined at his news confer
ence to disclose the amount. A
source close to the Greek general
staff, however, said in an inter
view that little actual combat ma
teriel had yet arrived and that,
during fighting near Ioannina re
cently, a guerrilla battalion had
more fire power than an army bat
talion.
Griswold said surplus U. S.
stocks were being purchased for
the Greek army at 10 per cent of
their original cost.
Unalakleet —4 Clear
Bethel 15 Snow
McGrath 15 Cloudy
Anchorage 29 Rain
Fairbanks 6 Partly Cloudy
Juneau 41 Rain
Whitehorse 19 Fog
Ketchikan 43 Rain
Edmonton 29 Partly Cloudy
Seattle 51 Rain
San Francisco 58 Clear
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