Wavering Radio
Beam May Have
Caused PAA Crash
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properly marked on charts.
The plane hit the peak on a 45
degree slope, barely missing a
sheer perpendicular wall of rock.
The tail assembly was partly
burned out, leaving a metal skel
eton. Ahead of it are the crumpled
wings.
Above and to the left 150 feet
lies what looks like a portion of a
wing. Smaller parts of wreckage
are strewn up and down the
mountainside.
Until the army’s mountaineer
paratrooper party and civil aero
nautics board personnel reach the
scene, nothing is to be touched.
Amateur climbers probably will
be unable to reach the scene be
cause of the precipitous, snow
covered slopes well above the tim
berline.
Several pilots told the Chroni
cle that the Annette Island beam
was waverning Sunday afternoon,
when the airliner crashed, and
that it brought other planes in to
the east of the airfield. This was
confirmed by several sources, but
neither coast guard nor civil aero
nautics administration officials
would make a statement about it.
Atom Explosions
Produce Inherit
able Deformities
PASADENA, Calif. (TP) — Laba
oratory tests with corn by Cali
fornia Institute of Technology sci
entists indicate that radio-activity
from the two atomic bomb explo
sions in Japan may result in in-j
heritable defects- producing hu
man deformities for the next 1,000
years, says Dr. Ernest G. Ander- i
son, biologist and professor of
genetics.
"Dr. Anderson, in an interview,
Friday;, announced that the tests
were made at the Institute’s plant!
genetics garden with com grown j
from seeds exposed to last year’s j
Bikini Operations Crossroads.
‘•Although it is impossible to con- j
duct experiments with humans,;
the same biological laws apply to I
them as apply to corn,” he said.
These tests, he said, were the
first laboratory confirmation of
the theory that atomic bomb ex
posure can lead to inheritable de
fects and revealed that exposure
to radioactivity disturbs chromo
somal genes, the inheritance fac
Rescuers Find All
Dead On Crashed
P.A.A. Clipper
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three of the canvas-wrapped bod
| ies have been brought down the
; rugged 3,600 foot peak to Tamgas
, Lake.
, The task of carrying the bodies
to the lake will be long and diffi
cult the rescue groups reported,
| because of the precipitous terrain
and bad weather. Intermittent
j snow storms save swirled around
: the mountain top since the shat
tered DC-4 was first sighted from
the air last Thursday.
As a side-light to the intensive!
five-day search for the missing
skyliner, the coast guard disclosed
that a Ketchikan camper, Joe Wil
liams, saw -the big craft headed
toward cloud-covered Mount!
Tamgas apparently a few mom-1
ents before it crashed.
Williams told the coast guard
early last Thursday he heard the
roar of a plane’s engines on the
previous Sunday while camped at
Reef Point on the northeast tip of
1 Annette Island. Looking up, the
I sighted the low-flying transport
j moving southward between Spine
I and Narrows mountains in the di
rection of Tamgas Peak.
On the strength of Williams’ re
port, the coast guard ordered out
an 11-man ground party under the
direction of Lt. Comdr. Fred J.
Schreiber, only an hour after the 1
group had left Ketchikan for Mt. j
Tamgas the plane’s wreckage was
spotted from the air.
As an indication of difficulties
encountered during the search, '
the Ketchikan weather bureau re
ported 11 inches of rain fell dur
ing the five days from the time
the clipper disappeared until it,
was found. The Sunday it went 1
down rainfall around Ketchikan
measure 1.83 inches and steady!
winds were recorded on the1
ground up to 25 miles an hour, j
The October mean wind velocity '
of 9.4 miles an hour was/the high- 1
est for any month since the bur- 1
eau has been in operation.
tors in cell tissue.
“Affected genes and chromo- i
somes in some Japanese people I
may result in the birth of morons,1
cripples and deformed progeny in
future generations,” said Dr. An
derson, adding that the mutations
(changes) did not appear in first
corn plantings, but were of a re
cessive nature, appearing in the
second generation of the plants.
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Sailings from Seward: -
On alternate Thursdays for Valdez, Cordova, Juneau, Ketchikan
and Seattle. Next sailing - SS ALEUTIAN - November 6.
_________
Every third Monday for Ketchikan, Seattle
Next sailing - SS DENALI - Nov. 10. Service to Kodiak-Island
Cook Inlet ports every three weeks - Inquire for details.
• • On alternate Fridays for Juneau, Ketchikan, Seattle.
Next sailling SS. Baranof Nov. 14.
All sailings subject io change without notice.
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Reservations made through Anchorage, Fairbanks or Nome Agent
U. S. Communists
Not To Affiliate
With “Cominform"
•
NEW YORK. (A3) — The Com
munist party of the United States
says it has decided not to affiliate
with the new cominform at Bel
grade, for fear such action would
be seized upon by “reactionary
and pro-Fascist forces” in this
country, “as a pretext for new
provocations and repressions.”
The American Communist par
ty, however, approves strongly of
the announced purposes of the
Cominform, an information bur
eau set up by the Communist part
ies of nine European countries, an
official party statement declared |
yesterday.
Announcement of he decision of
the national board of the party
against affiliation, issued by na
tional chairman William Z. Fos
ter and general secretary Eugene
Dennis, said:
“The reactionary and pro-fas
cist forces now whipping up anti
communist hysteria and war in-.
citement in our country would un
doubtedly seize upon such action ^
(affiliation* by the American Com-'
munist party as a pretext for new
provocations and repre s s i o n s
against the Communists and all
other sections of the American la
bor and progressive movement.”
Foster and Dennis said the
party in this country will “con
tinue to promote the international
solidarity of labor and all anti
Fascists and anti-imperialists”
and “especially the friendship of
the American and Soviet peoples.”
The Communist leaders said
creation of the Cominform as “a
medium through which these par
ties can consult, and, if they deem
it desirable, coordinate activity,
has heartened anti-fascist, anti-1
imperialists and lovers of peace in 1
every land. x
Cougars Beat
Pilots 35-0
PORTLAND, (A*) — The sharp
clawed Cougars of Washington
State, undaunted by the rain-sod
den field, slashed and splashed
their way to a 35-0 victory over
the Portland University Pilots un
der lights Friday night, disposing
of their usual week-end football
chores a day early .
Too much Washington State
power told the story of the non- i
conference encounter. The deepest
Pilot penetration of Cougar terri
tory was halted on the 30-yard
stripe in the second half.
Halfback Hal Akins led the vis
itors’ scoring drive, counting twice
and setting up a third touchdown
with a 31-yard punt return.
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THEATER
—•—
1 Show, Nov. 3 and 4, 7:30 P.M.
Monday and Tuesday m
"THE HARVEY GIRLS"
Judy Garland John Hodiak
Also "White Rhapsody"
—•—
1 Show, Nov. 5 and 6, 7:30 P.M.
Wednesday and Thursday
"JANIE GETS MARRIED"
Joan Laslia Robert Hutton
Also "Five Star Bowlers"
Britons Ordered
To Give Up j
Pleasure Driving
LONDON, UP) — 3ritons grudg
ingly gave up another of their
pleasures Saturday, foregoing mo
toring to save dollars by saving
gasoline,
Under the British government's
latest austerity order—effective
Friday midnight—a private cdi
zen cant’ drive his car at all, ex
cept on “essential business.”
Officials estimate the ban will
save appro ximately 9,000,000
pounds <$36,000,000* a year of
dwindling dollar credits.
A few hours before the dead
line, motorists—armed with cans,
saucepans and even jugs—jammed i
filling stations, determined V) get
every drop of their ration.
"They tell me,” one attendant j
said, “they are going to take the
last drop they are entitled to and
intend to put the petrol in bottles
when they get home.”
Skiff Found, Fear !
Two Men Drowned
SEWARD, —A capsized skiff
found drifting in Resurrection
Bay, seven miles from Seward,
prompted official fears today that
its two occupants, Edward Day,
33. and James Effler, 39, hay have
drowned.
Both of the men were newcom
ers to this area, Ray having re
cently come here from Randle,
Wash., and Effler moving here
last month with his wife from
Juneau where he was employed
How To Prevent
Fii •es In The HomQ
# _
Fires From Defective
Heating Apparatus
Set stoves and heaters on sub
stantial bases well away from
walls. Place a sheet of metal un
der stoves on wooden floors. Pro
tect any nearby woodwork with
sheet metal or asbestos Keep
stovepipe clean, in good repair, se
curely supported, and at least a
foot from woodwork or combusti
ble material. Where stovepipes
pass through a combustible parti
tion use ventilated thimble with
a foot clearance around the pipe.
If an oir burner is used, select
a type approved by Underwriters’
Laboratories and have the instal
lation looked over by the fire de
partment. Make sure that there
are no leaks. Have the equipment
cleaned and overhauled annually
Remember that every stove or
heatef- is a potential hazard unless
properly controlled. Always look
to the fires before leaving the
house or retiring for the night.
Automatic control devices are now
available to reduce the danger of
overheated furnaces.
by the Alaska Juneau gold mine.
The drifting skiff was found
Saturday by the coast guard Tight
house tender Bittersweet midway
between Cain’s Head and Thumb’s
Cove light.
A search of the area yesterday
by the Bittersweet and by a pri
vate plane piloted by Gerald
Protzman failed to disclose any
clue to the missing men’s where
abouts.
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