Five Crewmen
Still Missing From
B-36 Crash
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podi, 23-year-old radio operator
from Brooklyn, joined 10 other
survivors at the McChord base
hospital. A 12th man, Lieut. Chas.
C. Pooler, 36, engineer from Be
loit, Kas., was to be flown here
today. Pooler, suffering from a
broken ankle, was found yester
day some distance inland by
searchers from the Canadian de
stroyer.
Trippodi was returned in a lit
.ter aboard an air force flying
boat. He could not be interviewed
but his condition was described
as “satisfactory.”
Col. Hervey Porter, air force
doctor, said earlier reports that
the Brooklyn sergeant had suf
fered a broken ankle and two
broken wrists were erroneous,
but that he had “a moderately se
vere case of frost-bitten feet.”
The young radio operator had
no gloves and wore only oxfords
on his feet when he jumped.
Other crew members were clad in
Arctic boots and clothing.
Lt. Comcir. A. D. Wier of the
Royal Canadian navy, who treat
ed Trippodi aboard the Cayuga,
said his left foot became en
tangled in a cliff-side tree when
he landed from the jump.
"Trippodi spent the night hang-'
ing by his foot. He was found by
other survivors and brought to
the ground at the top of a hill and
left by them in a tent rigged by
a parachute. He was found by a
Royal Canadian navy rescue party
and arrived aboard the Cayuga
at 9:20 p.m. Wednesday.”
Last night, attending physicians
at McChord hospital said Trippodi
had been in a highly emotional
state and said he thought he had
"been abandoned” by others in
the group which landed on the is
land.
Mr. and Mrs. Ralf Real, of
Nome, are making a brief stay at
Hotel El Rancho Vegas, Las Vegas,
Nevada. They plan to visit the
Mardi Gras in New Orleans be
fore returning home.
Striking Miners
(jetting Donations
PITTSBURGH, (#») —CIO and
AFL labor groups came to the aid
of striking soft coal miners yester- i
dy with donations of food and
money in some sections of the I
country.
Idle diggers also obtained sacks
of free government surplus pota-1
toes, distributed by local govern
ment officials.
The miners’ walkout, in defi
ance of stop strike orders of both
John L. Lewis and a federal court,
appeared sure to continue at least
to the end of the week. The 372,
000 idle miners vow they won’t
work without a contract. They
say current contract talks in
Washington do not change things
at all.
The number of workers idled
in coal using industries—mainly
steel mills and railroads—climbed
slowly past the 38,400 mark. Much
greater layoffs due to coal short
ages are in sight.
The state of Pennsylvania es
timates that families of more than
half the Commonwealth’s 100,000
strikers are lining up for free
government potatoes. More than
53,000 families in 10 counties have
been certified by county officials
as eligible to receive free potatoes.
Striking miners in Monongalia
County, W. Va., met to draft
plans for obtaining more food
and other aid.
Meanwhile, coal shor t a g e s
plagued many a city across the
nation.
In Pittsburg, activities at the
big Oakland civic and medical
center had to be curtailed because
the joint boiler plant supplying
the area is low on fuel.
Graham R. Miller, assistant su
perintendent of the Dover schools,
said pupils may get a holiday,
starting next week, if the miners
don’t return to work.
By adding hydrogen to oil dur
ing the “cracking” process it is
possible to obtain more gasoline
and other “light” products from
a given quantity of oil, but the
process is expensive and not yet
widely used.
fy //itUiy Director. CAINES DOG RESEARCH CENTER
IN ANCIENT CHINA » {Tt ' ' % V (i ▼ '
STRIPS OF YELLOW PAPER STAMPED
WITH THE HEAD OF A DOC WERE SOLD AS CHARMS
THE AVERAGE PUPPV
ATTAINS HALF OF ITS
GROWTH DURING THE
FIRST THREE MONTHS
SINCE 1929 MRS. RICHARD QUIGLEY,
LOCK HAVEN. PA., HAS BRED OR
owned 65 P£K/AfG£S£who
HADE THEIR CHAMPIONSHIPS
® 1949, Guinea Dog Reaearch Center, N- Y. C.
May Discontinue
Suspension Of
Assessment Work
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mining industry. Director Claw- j
son’s opposition was expressed in
response to an inquiry Delegate
Bartlett made of him. A number
of persons holding mining claims
in the Territory have expressed
themselves for and against further
extension of the waiver.
“I know of no special circum
stances this year which would
justify further suspensions of the
mining assessment work require
ment,” Director Clawson inform
ed Delegate Bartlett. “The mining
assessment work requirement is
the chief means under the mining
law for assuring mineral develop
ment on public land mining
claims. The requirement ... is so
small, especially under present
prices, that the assessment work1
requirement cannot be considered !
a hardship. Failure to perform.
even this much labor or improve
ment of mining claims strongly
indicates a lack of an honest in
I
tention to develop the minerals on |
the claim.
I
“Continued suspension of the
assessment work requirement on
mining claims, long after the ces
sation of hostilities,” the Interior j
Department official c o ntinued,
“can only block the efforts of bona
fide miners at developing the min
eral resources of the public lands
contrary to both the public needs
and the best interests of the min
ing industry itself. Suspension
onl permits others to hold the
lands for speculation, to prevent
competition, or to use the lands in
ventures unrelated to mining. In
order to promote mineral develop
ment on the public domain and
prevent further abuse of the pub
lic land laws, therefore, I believe
that any move to provide further
suspensions should be strongly
opposed.”
Delegate Bartlett in transmitt
ing Director Clawsons views to
interested persons states, “It is, of
course, possible that I might be
successful in inducing Congress to
pass a moratorium bill even in the
light of the Interior Department’s
stand, but when Mr. Clawson ^
writes that ‘any move to provide
further suspension would be
strongly opposed,’ I take it that
can be defined as meaning the de
partment would recommend a
veto to the President. ...”
NEWS IN BRIEF
(Continued from Page One)
manager of Alaska Island Air
lines, Inc., was announced yester
day by James Nolan of Wrangell,
the line’s president
Nolan said Quentin L. Deboer
and Karl J. Omdahl, both of Pe
tersburg, will serve of co-man
agers of the airline’s main office
here.
Deboer and Omdahl are both
former pilot’s, of the line. They
have been operating a student
training service.
PETERSBURG (/P)—Announce
ment was made here today that
Ralph E. Smith of Petersburg will
become U. S. deputy marshal here 1
March 4. He is an oil company
employee here. He will fill the
vacancy left by the resignation in 1
December of former Marshal
Chris Christenson.
Why don’t some of those often
married Hollywood gals raise
their own rice?
Report Of
Pioneers’ Home
Xmas Fund: 1949
'Continued from Page One>
Alaska Weekly . 984.00
Estate of John Lichenberg 2,051.00
Estate of Annie Hall Strong 20.00
Nome Igloo No. 1. 250.00
Fairbanks Igloo No. 4. 75.00
Anchorage Igloo No. 15.... 50.00
Ketchikan Igloo No. 16.... 20.00
Nenana Igloo No. 17. 10.00
Cordova Igloo No. 19. 25.00
Wrangell Igloo No. 21. 10.00
Anchorage Auxiliary No. 4 75.00
Fairbanks Auxiliary No. 8 50.00
Fairbanks Pioneer Women
of Alaska . 25.00
Mr. Martin A. Pinska .... 100.00
Mr. Jack Molyneux . 5.00
Mr. Charles Anderson . 5.00
Mr. Peter Dalgaard . 10.00
Friends from Pelicay City 2.00
TOTAL ..*.$6,434.00
170 Shares (n) $37.00 each ..6,290.00
Balance on deposit in Bank $144.00
Respectfully submitted,
William W. Knight,
Superintendent
Pioneers’ Home
Sitka, Alaska.
"IT'S GREAT TO BE ALIVE
IN ATOMIC AGE"
NEW YORK f/P)—The man who
runs one of the world’s biggest
gold mines says it’s great to be
alive in the atomic age—even if
we’re all blown sky-high.
Donald Hamilton McLaughlin,
president of Homestake Mining
Company, San Francisco, told the
American Institute of Mining and
Metallurgical Engineers last night:
“Perhaps the purpose of this
green ferment called life on the
Father And 6Dead*
Daughter Meet
After 27 Years
EUREKA, Salif. i/P)—A retired
contractor and his daughter,
whom he had believed killed in an
accident, were reunited here last
night after 27 years.
It was the first time that J. B.
Miller of Los Gatos. Calif., had
seen his daughter, Mrs. Viola
Sedgewick of Seattle, since leav
ing Colorado for Alaska. A con
versation he overheard last sum
mer while driving through Grand
Junction, Colo., from the east, led
him to Eureka.
Here he met members of the
Barnett family, whom he had
known years ago in Colorado.
And, in turn, they knew the
whereabouts of Mrs. Sedgewick.
Miller said that, in 1925, he was
advised by relatives that his two
daughters had been killed in an
automobile accident. He said he
came to California from Alaska.
His other daughter, Mrs. Hazel
Rosson, resides in Portland and
he had a granddaughter—about
whom he learned last night—re
siding in Oakland, Mrs. Janet
Medling, 24.
“I’ve been living all alone, all
these years,” said Miller. "Will
we have fun!”
He said he and Mrs. Sedgewick
would return to his home at Los
Gatos and that the other daughter
and Mrs. Medling would join
them later.
planet is simply to serve as a
detonator to explode the solar
system into a new star,
j “If so, it is really a tremendous
destiny and an immense privilege
to participate in it.”
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