Navy To Hold
Maneuvers In
Alaskan Waters
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part in the training.
The ships will be headed by a
carrier and supported by a heavy
cruiser, a squadron of destroyers
and probably no more than one
submarine, he said.
In addition landing craft, at.ack
transport and a cargo ship, plus
rocket-firing landing-craft will
take part in the practice landing.
The Pacific exercises are much
smaller, the official pointed out,
than those scheduled for next
month in the Atlantic off New
foundland. A total of 31,000 sailors
and marines and 65 ships of the
Atlantic fleet will take part off
Newfoundland in the largest cold
weather amphibious operations
yet attempted by the navy.
BATAVIA, Java., (JP)—A Du'ch
army communique said today
communist rebels in the Indone
sian republic have begun scorched
earth tactics.
‘Mike" Unable To
Attend Funeral
NORTON, Kas., — Michael
Lintner 11, did not get to attend
the funeral of his mother, killed
in a Canadian air crash in which
the boy almost lost his own life.
The boy’s mother, Mrs. A. L.
Lintner, was killed and her son
seriously injured last September
23, when their light plane crash
ed about 600 miles north of Ed
monton. Michael hung head down
ward for 42 hours before he was
rescued.
. Brought here to his mother’s
home town by plane, train and
ambulance, Michael still is con
fined to his bed.
Mrs Lintner was the wife of L4.
Col, A. L. Lintner, Anchorage.
Fred r>uroschsr who has spent
the summer in Council looking
af er mining interests and visiting
with friends is here for a few days
before leaving for a warmer cli
mate for the winter.
Cannon were first cast from
bronze in 1326.
Alaska Passenger
Traffie Increases
SEATTLE, (/P)—Passenger traf
fic on the Pacific-Alaska division
of Pan American Airways in
creased 24 per cent in August
over July, Willis G. Lipscomb,
vice president of traffic and sales
reported today.
The line carried 13,290 passen
gers in August and 10 694 in July
For Alaska routes alone, passen
ger traffic increased 39 per cent
for August over July. On the Pa
cific routes, the increase was 16.5
per cent.
Air cargo carried on Alaska
•ou es for August this year show
ed an increase of 395.5 per cent
over the same period a year ago,
bi t a drop of 2.5 per cent over the
preceding month.
Air cargo flown over Pacific j
routes in August showed an in- j
crease of 5.2 per cent over July.
Rev. and Mrs. R. Amundsen of
the Covenant Chuvch are the par
ents of a ten pound son, born yes
terday morning at the Maynard
^olumbus hospital. Both mother
and child are reported getting
along nicely.
CONGRESS COMMITTEE
STUDIES ALASKAN
LABOR CONDITIONS
Four members of the Labor and
Education committee of the House
of Representatives arrived at
Marks Air Force Base today, ac
companied by Brig. Gen. Frank A. '
Armstrong, chief of staff Alsakan
Air Command.
Members of the Congressional
committee are: Charles J. Kerst
ner, O. C. Fisher, and committee
staff members Frank C. McArthur
and Howard Rushmore.
The party is studying matters
of general concern to the national
military establishment and certain
aspects of the Alaskan labor situa- j
tion. j
The party expects to depart for
Fairbanks today.
FLAMES MAKE TWENTY-SIX
FAMILIES HOMELESS
NEW YORK CITY (/P)—-Flames
swept through 13 two-family
frame houses in Coney Island near
the amusement section early to
day, leaving 26 families homeless, j
Five occupants of one house, in- j
eluding a three-year-old child and
a four-year-old were burned and
taken to a hospital. Two firemen
and a policeman were injured.
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U. S. Has No Air
Defense Force
In Panama
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fighter group regularly stationed
there.
However, air force defense plan
ning is based on the idea that both
figh:ers and bombers can be flown
to Alaska quickly if a sudden mil
itary menace developed.
The forthcoming missions of
the B-50’s will be the first such
bombers have made in organized
units to any point outside the
country.
The B-50 is a radically changed
version of the wartime B-29. It
has a top speed of 400 miles an
hour, a 10-ton bomb capacity and,
he air force says, can reach tar
gets “over 2,300 miles” from the
take-off point.
While B-50's have been in use
by the air force for several months
they have never been flown under
Arctic conditions. This, said the
air force, is the purpose of the
training missions to Alaska, in
cluding studies to get the longest
range out of the planes through
fuel-conservation technique.
Similar training was conducted
last winter with the older B-29’s.
Air force officials told a report
er they are unable to discuss fu
ture plans for air defense of the
Panama Canal. But available in
formation shows that no fighter,
bomber or troop carrier units now
are based in the Canal ^one.
The 36th fighter wing—an out
fit equipped with 75 F-30 jet fight
ers—left Panama in August for
transfer to Germany to rienforce
the single fighter group there.
U.S. Commissioner’s Court
William Ozenna, 21, was sen
tenced to 15 months in a peniten
itary for burglary in a dwelling on
Sept. 1, 1948. He was dishonorably
discharged from the U. S. Army in
March, 1948.
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