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Eleven Dead !
In B-50 Crash
In Georgia Swamp j
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SAVANNAH, Ga. (>P)—A fla
ming air force B-50 bomber
crashed in a dreary river marsh
last night, killing all 11 airmen
aboard and scattering and bury
ing bodies and wreckage in the
muck.
The big bomber had just taken
off from Chatham air force base
here when it went down on the
bank of a branch of the muddy
Savannah river. The crash was
only seven miles above the city,
but it was so inaccessible it took
rescue parties hours to reach it
j by boat.
The first persons to reach the
scene were visible for miles.
Col. Frederic E. Glantsberg,
commanding officer of Chatham
field, said it took off on a training
light to El Paso, Texas. It crashed
about five minutes later. •
The plane had been in service
at Chatham for a year or a year
and a half. The B-50, an im
proved version of the B-29 super
fortress, has a wingspread of 141
feet, is 99 feet long, and weighs
125,000 pounds. The air force de
scribes it as a more powerful ver
sion of the B-29 which bombed
Japan.
The crash was only a few miles
from the spot where a chartered
airliner crashed Jan. 7, 1948, kill
ing 18 and injuring 18 Puerto Ri
cans on a flight from Newark,
J N.J., to their home.
DENISON, Tex. (vP)—Lt. Rog
ers Hornsby, 29, son of Rogers
Hornsby of baseball fame, was
among eleven airmen killed when
a B-50 bomber crashed near Sav
annah, Ga., last night.
This was learned today when
the victim’s mother, Mrs. J. R.
Hayden of Denison was notified
by the air force.
Young Hornsby was a veteran
of 50 bombing missions during the
war. He was born and reared in
Denison.
Fail To Locate
Lost Pilot’s Shelter
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ANCHORAGE </P>—A close, on
the-ground search and a recheck
with one of the men who first re
ported it brought to a close this
week the hunt for a canvas shel
ter and clues to the whereabouts
of missing pilot Francis Brown
field.
A 10th Rescue Squadron trail
crew reported by radio it found
no trace of the canvas shelter ear
lier believed to belong to Brown
field in the Big Kozima Creek
bench area.
Brownfield has been missing
since Sept. 5. His parents live in
Sequim, Wash.
The crew reported to a C-47 pi
loted by Capt. Charles Holdiman
as he circled overhead, saying it
had covered the entire area thor
oughly but was unable to find any
sign of the canvas shelter.
On its return to Anchorage, the
i C-47 stopped enroute to Talkeet
! na and crew members questioned
pilot Sheldon Simmons, one of the
two men who gave the original re
port of the shelter.
Simmons denied he ever said he
was positive he saw a canvas shel
ter in the Big Kozima area. He
said he and trapper George Plair
spotted what “looked like it might
be a canvas shelter.**
Seven Die When
Fire Razes Home
EMMET, Mich. (^*>—Death took
its sixth and seventh victims of
farmer Clarence Bethway’s fam
ily of 14 yesterday.
As sorrowing townspeople gave
aid in the Christmas week calam
ity, 80-year-old Grandma Louise,
a heroine of Monday’s fire, suc
cumbed with a granddaughter,
Mary Lou, 13.
Both the elderly woman and the
child died of burns.
Five other children, ranging in
age from 3 to 11, were burned to
death when trapped in an upstairs
bedroom in a pre-dawn blaze
which destroyed the family home.
Grandma Louise Bethway was
burned while rescuing one child. I
Theer were 11 children in the
family.
LARGE FEDERAL BUILDING
PLANNED AT ANCHORAGE
ANCHORAGE, (JP)—A proposed
new federal office building will
be about a block square, it was
disclosed Saturday.
This became known when the
public buildings administration
published a call for bids specify
an area of approximately 225 x I
225 feet.
Downtown blocks here measure
about 280 x 300 feet.
Since the proposed site indi
cated the federal government con
templates construction of a sub
stantial structure here to meet the
office needs of the numerous
agencies here.
Bids will be received by post
master H. F. Brown until Jan. 9.
They will be opened at 9 a.m., on
that day.
Kake Purchases
Salmon Cannery
SEATTLE, (#*)—Purchase of a
salmon cannery by an Alaskan
fishing village was announced this
week.
The village of Kake bought the
cannery on its shore from P. E.
Harris and Company, Seattle, for
an undisclosed price. Kake is 56
miles west of Petersburg on Ku
pieanoff Island.
The announcement was made
jointly by Frank Johnson, mem
ber of the village council and the
Territorial House of Representa
tives; Don C. Boster, area director
of the Indian Service for Alaska,
and P. E Harris
Foster also said negotiations for
another cannery, this one at Kla
wock, will be completed within
a month Klawock, across the chan
nel from Sitka, will buy the can
nery from Charles Demmert com
pany.
Both canneries will be pur
chased with funds borrowed from
the federal government under the
Indian reorganization act. Kake
will pay off the loan in 10 years.
The village has a population of
400, which is dependent on fishing
for a livelihood. Nine fishtraps
were included in the sale. Villagers
own 20 fishing vessels.
Jennie Corrigal Adams, who
worked at Polet’s and the U. S.
Weather Bureau is now with the
C.A.A. in Anchorage where both
she and her husband are em
ployed.
There are approximately 71,
000,000 life isurance policies in the
United States. v
Santa says:
“Let’s do something drastic.
Let's trip the light fantastic;
Rosy reindeer sets the pace.
And they dance with Yuletide grace.”
MERRY CHRISTMAS TO OUR FRIENDS!
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