PAA Air Lift To
Alaska Grows
SEATTLE, (A3)—Pan American’s
Air lift movement is gradually
gaining momentum, traffic mana
ger D. E. McMorran traffic man
ager said today.
The airline carried a record
247,491 pounds of cargo out of
Seattle during the first 11 days
of this month, as compared with
58,372 pounds flown to Alaska
during the entire month of Octo
ber last year.
A ten-ton shipment of fresh
meat was flown to Alaska last
week-end, and heavy orders for
fresh milk, cheeses, ice cream,
produce, and eggs are received at
Boeing Field daily.
PAA has adde dtwo extra cargo
flights this week to Ketchikan,
Juneau and Fairbanks, McMor
ran said, and has thus far added
25 extra flights since the begin
ning of the strike.
Air Lift Plane
Crashes; All Dead
FRANKFURT, Germany, (/P)—
A C-54 Berlin airlift plane cradl
ed today near Frankfurt, killing
its three American crewmen.
This brought to 13 the number
of Americans who have died fer
rying food and supplies to Berlin
over the Soviet land blockade.
Officers at the busy Rhine-Main
airport had no immediate explan
ation for the crash. The plane had
not reported any trouble to the
control tower .
Truman Seeking
To Avert States
Railroad Strike
WASHINGTON, (A5)—President
Truman today created an emer
gency board to investigate dis
putes between the nation’s rail
roads and 16 non-operating rail
road unions.
The unions are now taking a
strike vote, and creation of the
board is intended to head off the
possibility of a walkout.
Under the railroad labor act, a
work stoppage is forbidden while
he emergency board is studying
the dispute.
The board is given 30 days to
make its findings, and neither
0
strike nor lock-out can be ordered
within 60 days after the board’s
recommendations reach the White
House.
About 1,000.000 workers are in
volved. The so-called “non-oper
ating” workers are those not ac u
ully engaged in running trains.
They include switchmen, yard
men, maintenance workers, teleg
raphers, and numerous other
crafts.
Mr. Truman did not name the
members of the board. A White
House spokesman said they will be
announced shortly.
“Starboard” in nautical par
lance is believed to stem from the
fact that Vikings placed the steer
or “star” oar on what they called
the “board” side.
More than 7,000 miles of mine
tunnels have been cut in extract
ing copper ore at Bu.te, Montana.
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Barge Feared
Font In Storm
_ I
SEATTLE, (£') — Coast guard
headquarters reported early Sat
urday that a 105-foot self-propell
ed barge with five men aboard!
had sos’d it was sinking in heavy i
seas 85 miles east of Cape St. Eli-j
as, Alaska.
Contact with the barge, the j
Starstone, was lost within min-1
utes of the time its distress call!
was received at 11:06 p.m. Friday |
night.
The vessel reported it was tak
ing water more rapidly than its
pumps could handle, and radio
batteries would be shortcircuited
at any moment. No further word !
was heard.
No coast guard vessels were in
the immediate area, but efforts
were being made to send out two
j ocean-going tugs berthed at Yak
utat, about 12 hours sailing time
' away.
Gale winds up to 4u miles an
hour were reported in the north- :
ern Gulf of Alaska where the
barge was foundering.
The Starstone’s crew list, home
port and destination have not been
learned, but it was believed head
ed for Cordova.
| A leaking barge and its five-man
^crew was attempting to ride out
I rough waters in the Gulf of Alas
ka last night as a tug sped to its
rescue.
An ominous silence had kept the
fate of the vessel in doubt. How
ever, a coast guard plane radioed
it had sighted the barge, The Star
stone, about 38 miles west of Yak
utat.
Part of its superstructure had
been washed away and it was rid
ing low in the water. Two men
were observed on dcek.
| The coast guard said water
flooding the vessel’s batteries was
probably responsible for the radio
silence which descended on the
craft.
Tlie Starstone was sighted at
4:35 p.m. last night and the tug
Shinn left Yakutat at 6 p.m. to go
to i'.s aid. The run would take
! about eight hours.
F. L. Ekholm, one of the owners
| of the vessel, said it was “almost
unsinkable unless it breaks up”
because of its independent com
partments. It was sealed above
with a house on top.
1 he barge was carrying general
cargo from Seattle to Anchorage
I when it met trouble midway be
tween Yakutat and Capt. St. Elias,
which juts down midway in the
j northern Gulf of Alaska. It had
i been leased by the Capt. Douglas
canning company to one of the
veteran seamen aboard for service
during the west coast maritime
strike.
The flying lizards of the Malay- j
an region have a fold of skin
along the sides of the body which
enables them to make gliding
flights from tree to tree. These
“wings” are often so gorgeously
colored that the animals in flight
resemble gaily colored butterflies,
but the body is usually of a sober !
hue and when the wings are fold
ed, the change is so abrupt that
the animal itself seems to disap
A Sunday school teacher was
showing her class a picture of the
Christian martyrs in a den of
lions. One little boy seemed very
sad about it.
“Gee,” he exclaimed. “Look at
that poor lion away in the back. '
He won’t get any!”
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Nugget Ads Bring Quick Results
San Francisco
Stinks; Gas
War Feared
SAN FRANCISCO, •/!*>—It was
an ill wind that didn’t smell goocj,
and it had the San Francisco Bay
region in a gas war dither until
the experts got its number!
At San Bruno, south of here,
startled citizens began sealing
windows and doors against a pos
sible chemical attack from off
shore.
From all quarters came reoor's
Friday of the big stink.
Some said it smelled like onions.
Some said a leaking gas main <the
gas company protested “no, it isn t
us”>. There was plenty of support
for the wet dog and dead f'sh
theories.
It took the city health director,
the city toxicologist and the
United States weather bureau to
straighten it out.
It was s-ethyl-thioumcil, a non
toxic sulphurous cloud resisting
from refining petroleum, it came
from the East Bay, where “dead’’
air had hung over the refinery dis
trict several days. An east wind
blew the accumulated gases over
the bay and out to sea. Then a
west wind — the stinker — blew
them back, over the land.
From blueprints to final launch
ing, American commercial ships
are subject to scrutiny of Coast
Guard officers who pass on their
seaworthiness and detalis of oper
ational control.
I Suicide Saved liy
Her Murderer
TOKYO, — When Wakaji. o
Arai, 56, came upon pretty Fum
ko Kasagi, 24, she was about to
hurl herself into the river and end
it all.
Aria, whose neighbors say he
was a kindly man, dissuaded Fu
miko from suicide and took her
to his home. As the days passed,
I he fell in love with her and she
with him.
Then, police said, Arai became
1 panic stricken for fear his wife
i would detect his secret. So, said
the police, he butchered Fumiko
land buried her in his back yard.
Today police arrested him for
murder. On the way to jail, Arai
broke from the police and hurled
himself beneath the wheels of an
onrushing train which killed him.
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Week-End Rest
For New Strength
For Ballot Battle
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| “playing political checkers” to put
out the inflationary blaze; Dewey
charged that the Democrats made
“trades with the forces of aggres
sion.”
The New York governor also
took issue with former secretary
of state Cordell Hull, who said
Dewey was “incorrect” in claim
ing to hav'e originated this na
tion's bi-partisan foreign policy.
Alaska Airlines
4 Scheduled trips a week: Monday, Wed
nesday, Friday, Saturday. Nome, (Moses „
Point Flag Stop), Unalakleet, McGrath,
(Farewell Flag Stop), Anchorage. Alaska
Airlines IS STEADILY INCREASING
THEIR SERVICE to the peop! e of Nome
and the surrounding districts. We are
proud of our dependable service, and in
tend to maintain the BETTER SERVICE
to Nome. Low freight rates and even
lower rates on produce shipments will
help everyone—Merchants. Businessmen,
and Housewives.
Mail service four times a week speeds
your correspondence.
Alaska Airlines maintains a Shopping
Service too, for your convenience:
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THE STARLINER ROUTE.
One carrier service from Anchorage to
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