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VOL. XL1X. No. 129 NOME, ALASKA. MONDAY, OCTOBER, 27, 1947_PER COPY — 15c
NEWS IN BRIEF
SEATTLE. (/P)—Publication of
live information pamphlets on
Alaska was announced Friday by
the Alaska department of the
Seattle chamber of commerce.
Purpose of the pamphlets, ac
cording to M. Dederer, chairman
of the Alaska committee, is to an
swer thousands of questions re
ceived by the department and to
assist Alaskan chambers of com
merce in handling inquiries being
sent to them.
The pamphlets are classified as
general information—business,
industry and resources, informa
tion on principal cities, employ
ment situation and the Alaska
Highway.
NEW YORK, (/P)—A mild busi
ness recession beginning next
spring is expected by a majority
of economists polled by the F. W.
Dodge Corp.
Thomas S. Holden, president of
the fact-finding organization, said
that 75 of 100 economists question
ed expected a recession in 1948,
that 21 did not expect a recession,
and four failed to express an opin
ion Forty-one expected it to be
mild, 19 described their expecta
tion as “moderately serious,” and
11 as “serious.”
MARSHALL. Tex. (P)—A train
man was killed and 30 passengers
and crewmen of a westbound Tex
as & Pacific train were injured
eaiiy Saturday when the locomo
tive and six cars left the track as
the train was nearing the Jeffer
son, Tex., depot. W. C. Door, fire
man, was dead when taken from
the locomotive.
Passengers and crew on the
train received first aid treatment
at hospitals and clinics in Mar
shall and Jefferson. None was re
ported seriously injured.
^ Cause of the accident was un
determined.
INDIANAPOLIS. (P) — A used
car dealer Saturday ran a three
column ad to show that his car
prices are cheaper—by the pound
—than the average dinner meat.
The ad offered a ’46 Ford club
coupe at 56 cents a pound, as a
“better buy than a porterhouse
steak.”
\ INDIANAPOLIS, (P)—Admiral
W. H. P. Blandy said today it is
“devoutly” hoped that economic
help alone will save Europe from
Communism but “we must never
► forget that aggressors understand ,
armed strength better than any
other argument.”
WARSAW, UP) — The Polish
government, having recovered a
major share of industrial machin- J
ery and equipment which was
carted off by the Nazis during the
war, now is concentrating on get
ling back other former properties |
found in Czechoslovakia and Aus- .
tria.
1 Equipment recently returned
from Czechoslovakia included
much electro-technical material.
Long-distance telecommunication
* equipment, valued at 1,500,000
Czech crowns, and considerable
factory machinery were retrieved
by the Revindication and War
Fifty-Two Killed In
United Air Lines
Crash In Utah
BRYCE CANYON, Utah, (/P)—
Six teams of experts probed care
fully Saturday through charred
wreckage of a United Air Lines
DC-6 plane in an effort to deter
mine the cause of the crash which
Friday took the lives of 52 per
sons.
Representatives of United Air
Lines, Douglas Aircraft, the
plane’s manufacturer; the civil
aeronautics board and other fed
eral agencies teamed off accord
ing to their individual ities.
Experts on electrical installa
tions, fuselage design, engines and
other features of airplane con
struction sought to learn the
source of the 'fire which caused
the plane to plummet to earth ju4
1,500 yards from the emergency
landing strip toward which the
pilot was heading.
The investigators were tight
lipped. They refused to hazard
opinions on the mishap.
The New York-bound ship,
flight 60S from Los Angeles,
smashed near the rim of Tropic
Canyon in Bryce canyon national
park, and exploded, scattering
wreckage and bodies over an are .
of several hundred yards.
Trailing smoke and flames for
at least 22 miles before ;t crasned,
the giant ship plowed a smoke
blackened swath for 600 varus
alongside stat? highway 22 ust
erst of the Bryce Canyon a'rpoit.
The scene is in southe*:i Utah,
about 275 miles south of Salt Lake
City.
The engines, scorched and twist
ed, were thrown 200 to 300 feet
beyond the burned area. A piece
of the tail, 15 to 20 feet long, was
the largest part of the craft re
maining.
The bodies, burned and unre
cognizable for the most part, were
horribly torn apart.
Two infants and 21 or more wo
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Nat’l Blood Bank
Needs 3,700,000
Pints A Year
BALTIMORE. UP)—One Ameri
can out of every 35 will be needed
to donate blood each year under
a peace-time blood donor pro
gram. a Red Cross official report
ed here.
Dr G. Foard McGinnes, direc
tor of health services, American
Red Cross, Washington, outlined
a program “to furnish blood and
its derivatives to all the people of
the country, irrespective of race,
creed or ability to pay.”
McGinnis, addressing a quarter
ly meeting of the Maryland state
department of health Friday, said
the estimated national blood need
is 3,700,000 pints a year.
Reparations bureaus
In Austria, in the American
Army occupation zone, the Poles,
found 111 carloads of equipment j
for the Moscite nitrous com-1
pounds production plant.
Widespread Search
For Missing Pan
American Plane
JUNEAU, </P)—Improving wea
ther conditions aided a widespread
land, sea and air search today for
a four-engined Pan American Air
ways clipper plane with 18 aboard
that disappeared Sunday ne: r
Ketchikan in a rain and wind
storm which lashed the Southeas -
ern Alaska coast.
The first search plane, a co.isi
guard Gruman, left Ketchikan’s
Annette Island airport at 7:1 r» a m.
Visibility was good in the Ketch
ikan area, with the wind 18 miles
an hour and decreasing. *
Ciewmen of another Pan Amer
ican DC-4 which arrived at Seattle
from Alaska early today said they
circled the Annette Island area in
darkness without sighting any
flares. The plane was quickly re
fueled to return north with a PAA
party headed by Capt. Ralph Sav
ory, chief pilot of the airline’s
Alaska division
Lt. Comdr. Edward Chester,
aide to Alaska’s Gov. Ernest
Gruening. was placed in charge of
the coordinated search here.
Planes from Ketchikan were to
scan the Admiralty Island area,
where one report said residents
heard an airplane circling for
i some time Sunday.
Disappearance of the clipper
"Talisman” with the greatest
number of persons aboard of any
! civilian plane yet reported missing
in Alaska set into motion one of
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Many Killed In
Plane Crashes
Over The World
• Bv The Associated Press)
Sixty-two persons were feared
dead in plane crashes today.
Airmen who flew over the
wreckage of a Swedish Airline
transport which crashed into Mt.
Hymettos, southeast of Athens,
Greece, last night said all aboard
were believed killed. The plane
carried 36 passengers, among them
; two Americans, and a crew of
eight. It was enroute from Istam
bul to Athens.
Low-hanging rain clouds threat
ened to hamper a far-flung land,
sea and air search for a missing
Pan American World Airways
plane which vanished during a se
vere storm near Ketchikan, Alas
ka, with 18 persons aboard.
Investigators, meanwhile stud
ied the site where another giant
DC-6 United Airlines plane crash
ed and burned last Friday, taking
a toll of 52 lives. Only 12 of the
bodies have been positively iden
tified thus far.
The accident, second worst in
the history of commercial aviation
in the United States, occurred
near the rim of Bryce Canyon,
Utah, only 1,500 feet away from
an emergency landing strip.
In another week-end crash, six
unidentified bodies were taken
from the wreckage of an airplane
which crashed into a mountain
side at St. Etienne, France, Satur
day.
Truman “Plays
Politics * In Calling
Special Session
WASHINGTON. (A1)—President
Truman confronted the Republi
can Congress Saturday with a de
mand for “prompt and courageous
action” to halt runaway prices at
home and snatch Europe back
from the edge of economic disas
ter.
With this demand he coupled a
sharp warning of his conviction
that failure to act would lead to a
depression in America and “total
itarian aggression” in Europe.
This winter, he said, is a “de
cisive time in history.”
Those, he told a national radio
audience Saturday night, are tine
reasons why he has summoned
Congress into special session No
vember 17.
Even before he spoke, and in
comments immediately afterward,
some of the Republican leaders in
j Congress made it clear that the
Democratic administration will
have a fight on its hands over
measures to be taken.
Rep Halleck <R.-Ind.>, House
majority leader, and Rep. Wol
cott 'R.-Mich.) chairman of the
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Alaska Freight
Rate Hearings
>en Today
SEATTLE, i/P) — Hearings into
the highly controversial steam
I ship rates between Puget Sound
and Alaska will open here at 2
p.m. today with steamship com
panies and Alaska being repre
sented.
The rate hearings, expected ^o
last approximately 10 days, will
be conducted by Robert Furness
and C. Robinson, examiners f >r
U. S. Maritime commission.
For information disclosed at the
hearings they hope to draw up a
plan for permanent Alaska serv
ice to take effect after the interim
rate schedule granted last sum
mer expires next June 30.
Representing the Alaska Trans
portation Company will be attor
ney Albert E. Stephen and Stan
ley B. Long of Seattle, and Ira
Ewers of Washington, D. C.. will
represent the Alaska Steamship
company and the Northland
Transportation company.
Guy Carlon, economist; Clar
ence Kuntze, attorney, and Tho
mas Woodward, special assistant,
will represent the commission.
Speaking for the people of
Alaska, who have contended the
35 per cent increase aranted last
summer is rapidly increasing the
cost of living in the Territory, will
be Ralph Rivers, Alaska attorney
general. Assisting him will be
Malcolm Miller, Washington, D.
C., attorney, and Donald J. O’Con
nor, economist.
Under the interim service plan
the three companies, and the
Santa Ana Steamship company of
Seattle, were chartered ships by
the government at a dollar a year,
to take over services which the
government operated during the
war.
Pan American
Plane Missing Near
Ketchikan
JUNEAU. (i^P) — The 44-passen
ger transport, which was car
rying only thirteen passengers,
including one infant, and a
crew of five, disappeared yes
terday after radoing the Annette
airport at 1:55 p.m. <PST> that
“extreme turbulence" prevented
a contemplated instrument land
ing.
Gusts of 40 miles an hour were
being recorded then at the Annette
field, 12 miles from Ketchikan.
Winds gradually increased during
the day until they reached 63
miles an hour by 9:30 p.m.
Hopes that the PAA clipper may
i have survived the storm and made
an emergency landing hung on the
reputation of the pilot, Capt. A. N.
Monserl, 47, of Juneau, one of
Alaska’s best known bush fliers
before he joined Pan American’s
Alaska division in 1932.
Monsen said in his last report
he was heading into the storm at
Juneau, approximately 230 miles
northward. His plane had gnsoline
enough to last until 8:40 p.m.
The Talisman, first DC-4 to en
. counter trouble since PAA put the
1 lour-engined craft on its Alaska
, runs, disappeared only two days
after 52 persons lost their lives in
the crash of a United Air Lines
DC-6 at Bryce Canyon, Utah.
Pan American has had only
| three fatal accidents, with 23 per
sons killed, in its 15 years of Alas
ka operations. Three civilians died
in a crash near Fairbanks in 1933
while 17 military personnel and
three crewmen perished in two
1944 crashes while under navy
contract.
Of the 13 pessangers aboard the
missing clipper, seven are from
i Alaska, three from Seattle, two
from Cheyenne, Wyo., one from
Ely, Minn.
' Best know’n of the group is the
| Rev. Willis R. Shank, Seattle di
rector of the Youth For Christ
movement. He was enroute to
to Alaska on a Youth for Christ
mission.
Four members of the crew, two
men and two women, are from
Seattle.
Monsen, one of Alaska’s first
airmail pilots, is a resident of Jun
eau, where his wife Mrs. Helen.
Monsen, is publisher of the Daily
Alaska Empire. They were mar
ried in 1941
Mrs. Monsen, a daughter of the
late Gov. John Troy of Alaska,
was reported near collapse in
Seattle where she had been with
her husband before the ill-fated
flight.
The Talisman took off from
Seattle at 10:30 a.m. Sunday for
the north and was to have made
, its first stop at Annette airport.
SEATTLE, {&)—The occupants
of the Pan American plane miss
ing in Alaska, as announced by
PAA offices here:
Crew: Capt. A. N. Monsen, pi
lot, New Washington Hotel, Seat
tle. L. A. Foster, 1st officer, uni
versity district, Seattle. C. A. Bun
woody, flight engineer, 2003 Pa
cific Highway S., Seattle. Mary
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