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NEWS IN BRIEF
CINCINNATI, i/I’) — Fourteen j
major league clubs drafted 20
players, including several bonus
stars, from the high minors yester
day in the annual draft. The major |
leaguers paid $182,500 for the tal- i
ent. t
ALl clubs except the Detroit
Americans and the Boston Nation-;
als participated in the grab. The |
Tigers and Braves passed their;
chances.
The selected players included: i
American League: Washington,
Newton Grasso, Seattle, a catcher.
Cleveland; Leo Thomas, Port
land, Ore., a third baseman.
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SITKA, l/P)—Alaska may be a
raw meat country, but the Sitkan
who wants to watch the size of his
poke is eyeing turkey these days.
An ad in the Sitka Sentinel yes
terday by one o# the largest stores
here proclaimed a price of 59 cents
a pound for over-ready, grade A-l
tom turkeys—must less expensive
than other kinds of meat of the
same grade.
SEATTLE, Ed A. Ander
son. 65, Ketchikan fishing boat
skipper, was injured seriously
early Wednesday morning in a fall
near Lake Union.
He was taken to King County
Hospitaltal where attendants said
he may have a fractured skull. His
boat is docked at Ballard.
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ANCHORAGE, </P) — Fish and
Wildlife Service officials are hop
ing the thief who raided an FWS
vehicle here isn’t planning any
personal use of the loot.
It included: 20 cyanide guns, 20
cyanide cartridges, one can of
scent and a can of strychnine.
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SEATTLE, (^>)—Lyle Christian-'
son of Ketchikan, Alaska, who
suffered near-fatal injuries in an
explosion and fire last summer,
arrived in Seattle Thursday morn
ing to enter the Swedish Hospital.
He is superintendent of the Fi
dalgo Island Packing Company
cannery at Ketchikan.
ANCHORAGE, </P)—Power has
been turned into six miles of new
Chugach Electrical Associat i o n
lines outside of Anchorage.
The first lines energized from I
the Inlet Power Company plant
are to Rogers Park, Arvort Height
and toward Mountain View. The
Inlet management said C. E. A.
service will be extended to a total i
of 57 miles of new lines when
further hookups are completed.
YOKOSUKA, (A*)—Ail 27 patrol
frigates loaned to Russia under
wartime lendlease have been re
turned to the U. S. navy, it was
announced today.
The vessels, which displace
1,430 tons and have an overall
length of 304 feet, were returned'
here in groups of nine The last ar
rived this week.
(By The Associated Press) j
Portland’s Penguins ran up a;
first period 4-0 lead over New j
Westminster’s coast league hockey ,
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Two Superforts
Collide Over
Stockton, Calif.
STOCKTON, Culif. (JP) — Two
airforce superforts collided 26,000
feet above Stockton at midnight
Wednesday. One fell in flames.
The tail of the other fell off and
it crashed in a muddy area below.
Four of the 22 men aboard were
saved.
Seven were found dead in the
wreckage.
Eleven were missing early yes
terday.
The four survivors—all at the
navy annex of the Stockton Sup
ply Depot after treatment for mi
nor injuries—were:
Lt. Warren F. Sharrock, whose
home, ironically, is only 26 miles
east of Stockton in the Sierra foot
hills.
Pvt. Keith R. Bursn, 19, Boise,
Ida., apparently the only survivor
of the burning plane.
T/Sgt. Frank D. Schmidt, Meg
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Large Search On
For B-29 Down In ,
Sea Near Bermuda
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HAMILTON, Bermuda, (/P) — j
The biggest peacetime air rescue
search in history was under way
yesterday for a lost B-29 bomber
which ran out of fuel and crash
landed in the sea somewhere near
Bermuda Wednesday. 20 U. S. air
men were aboard. None were from
the Pacific Northwest.
Nearly 100 air force, navy and
coast guard planes from bases all
along the Atlantic seaboard criss
crossed above Bermuda’s sur- j
rounding waters hoping for a sight
of the stricken bomber or bobbing
liferafts.
Frist search patrols Wednesday
afternoon were fruitless.
The last word from the super
fortress, whose navigation instru- ;
ments failed on a flight to Eng
land. was a radio message; going
to ditch in five minutes.
After that message Wednesday
morning a U. S. coast guard ves
sel heard weak sos signals—spur- 1
ring hopes that the crewmen had
take nto rubber life rafts equipped
with automatic wireless distress j
signallers.
The plane, part of a B-29 group
enroute to England from March
air base, California, lost its way
when its radio navigation equip
ment failed and it encountered
bad weather. U. S. officials at
Kmdley air base here thought it
probably went down 150 miles
southwest or northeast of Bermu- I
da.
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WASHINGTON. (/P) — The Air
Force has grounded all B-29's that
have not been modernised. The or
der applies to those not given
"stress" tests. There was no es
timate of the number of planes in
volved. The order follows the se
ries of disastrous crashes.
B-29 Crashes
Searehing For
Missing B-29
TAMPA, Fla. (/P)—A B-29 start
ing out to hunt for the B-29 miss
ing near Bermuda crashed bare
seconds after takeoff here today.
Five of the nine known crew
men aboard were killed. The
other members of the crew were
thrown clear of the plane and
were only slightly hurt.
The plane was from MacDill air
base and was one of nearly 100 air
force, navy and coast guard planes
which had been searching for the
bomber which ran out of fuel and
crashlanded in the sea Wednesday.
The crash of the MacDill bomb
er ocurred shortly before 8 a.m.
Seconds after it took off from
the field which borders Tampa
Bay, its number fou rengine be
gan smoking. As it turned to land,
the engine broke loose and the
plane crashed.
The tide was out at the time
and the ship plunged into mud
and slime.
The muck prevented a crash
boat from reaching the wreckage
and greatly hampered firemen
from reaching the scene with a
hose.
Harold Jones Will
Investigate Air
Needs In Alaska
SEATTLE, (TP) — In a stopover
here on his way to Alaska, Harold
A. Jones of the civil aeronautics
board said the board wants a co
ordinated air route pattern devel
oped in the Territory by a series
of mergers as soon as possible.
“But we want merger plans of
intra-Alaskan carriers to come
from the companies,” Jones ex
plained. “We want the certificated
carriers in the Territory to propose
the arrangements for a consolida
tion and improvement of the route
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I r> MIMI Typhoon I
Hits Guam: l)o<\>
IVltirli l)ama‘re
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TOKYO, (/l1) — The air force
weather bureau reported winds
approaching 145 miles an hour
battered the island of Guam late
yesterday.
The weather observers said they
managed to get a “freak call”
, through to the island after regular
communications went out. They
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: said the connection did not last
' long enough to get damage reports.
Earlier reports from the island,!
where hundreds of American serv
icemen and civilian workers are
stationed, said several buildings
had been blown down. Winds at
that time had not exceeded 90
miles an hour.
The typhoon, one of the worst
, in years in the Pacific, was cen
tered 45 miles south of Guam and
moving west northwest at about
17 miles an hour.
Weather observers here predict
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ST. LOUIS, (&)—'Vice President
Alben W. Barkley and Mrs. Carle
ton S. Hadley were married today
in a ceremony climaxing a ro
mance that has been in the public I
spotlight for the past.four months.
The Vice President, who will be
72 next Thursday, and his attrac
tive bride of 38 were wed by
Bishop Ivan Lee Holt of the Mis-1
! souri area of the Methodist church.
Mrs. Hadley, who first met the
Vice President on a cruise down
the Potomac last July, wore a
smartly tailored woolen suit of
“Barkley Blue.”
Only thirty-three members of
the immediate families and news
men were in the chapel of St.
John’s Methodist church when the
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<By The Associated Press’
Representatives of 12 North At
lantic treaty countries are map
ping a single strategic defense
plan in Washington today
Under the chairmanship of sec
retary of state Acheson the dele
gates are considering secret plans
drafted by their military officials
to defend the western world.
The Shah of Iran, whose coun
try borders on the Soviet Union,
has scheduled talks with Gen.
Omar Bradley and other defense
chiefs. He is discussing his coun
try's need for increased military
a ssU t.ance.
Iran is not a member of the
North Atlantic defense grouping.
However, it shares in the vast
American arms aid program for
friendly nations. The young Shah
said yesterday his country’s rela
tions with Russia had improved
somewhat recently.
The state department is expect
ed to make new efforts to obtain
the release of Consul General An
gus Ward, now languishing in a
Chinese Communist prison in
Mukden. President Truman said
yesterday Ward’s detention is an
outrage.
The communist radio said Ward
was jailed with four members of
his staff on Oct. 24 because he
beat a Chinese employee in a wage
dispute.
American officials are boiling
mad over the incident. Washing
ton observers said the state de
partment may dispatch a note to
Moscow asking Russian interven
tion with the Chinese Reds. Mos
cow is believed to have far great
er influence and control over the
Mukden area of China than ele
ments of the new regime of Mao
Tze-Tung.
The United States has not
recognized the new communist re
gime. Secretary of State Acheson
said he would not even consider
recognition while Ward is impris
oned. The Chinese communists
have tied themselves closely to
Moscow and the Kremlin has full
diplomatic relations with them
and is championing the new re
public’s cause at the United Na
tions.
Following a U. N. general as
sembly plenary session yesterday,
Russia’s Andrei Y Vishinsky had
a 15-minute talk with Britain’s
minister of state Hector McNeil.
The results of the talks were not
disclosed but observers said Bri
tain is taking the lead in efforts
to see whether Russia is willing to
compromise on some of the dead
locked east-west issues.
Thirty-five Czechs were senten
ced today by a Czechoslovak
state court in Prague on charges
of spying for an unnamed western
power. The court, in sentencing
the convicted to terms ranging
from life to one year, announced
a big spy ring had been smashed.
Wholesale charges of anti-state
activities and treason trails are be
coming a regular fixture in Czech
oslovakia.