NEWS IN BRIEF
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FAIRBANKS, </P)—In a stormy
first session Monday, the city
council repealed the levy collec
tion of 10 mills Territorial tax.
The session was the first for the
new mayor and three newly-elect
ed council members.
The city tax rate is 20 mills.
FAIRBANKS OP)—Capt. George
A. Accas, 28, of New York City,
died here Sunday after a brief ill
ness. He was the Ladd Air Base
public information officer.
He flew in the air transport
command during the war in At
lantic and Pacific theaters. He was
transferred to Fairbanks in April, •
1948, where he was active in a 1
number of rescue missions.
He is survived by his widow,i
Ermile, and two sons, of Fair
banks. His parents, Mr. and Mrs.!
Anthony Accas, live in New York
City. )
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ANCHORAGE. OP)—U. S. Mar
shal Paul Herring said yesterday
a 26-year-old native will be
brought before a grand jury here
in connection with the drowning
Sunday of two-vear-old Arthur
Flurey at Copper Center.
Herring said the boy’s body had
been recovered and was being
brought here for autopsy. An in
quets will be held at Copper Cen
ter.
SEATTLE, )/P>—Fire in a two
story Ballard apartment house
brought death to three persons
shortly before midnight last night.
Six other occupants fled to safety.
The victims weer Jack Schaum,
70; his wife, Caroline, about 67.
and Carl H. Rappe, about 65. Mrs.
Schaum and Rappe died in the
flames, Schaum was dead on ar
rival at the hospital.
Gertrude Stein, author, was
born in Allegany, Pa., and studied
medicine for four years at Johns
Hopkins university.
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Flier Land After
1,124 Hours in Air
YUMA, Ariz., _ The new
world’s champion endurance fli
ers, Woody Jongeward and Bob
Woodhouse, are resting at their
homes today.
The wartime navy pilots brought
their four-place plane, “The City
of Yuma,” to a landing at the Yu
ma county airport Monday after
noon at 3:33 p.m. after 1,124 hours
and 18 minutes of continuous fly
ing.
“Never again,” the two said,
when asked if they’ll make an
other endurance try.
Both stepped from their plane
and confided that they knew they
could walk ail the time. An exer
cise rig had been set up in the
plane for the purpose of keeping
their legs in shape while they
were cooped up in the tiny cabin.
Neither knows exactly what
they’ll do next. Vacations say their
wives and Berta Woodhouse de
clared they “won’t fly wherever
we go.”
Since Aug. 24 when they took
off from the smaller Marsh avia
tion field on the other side of
town, they had flown 85,000 miles,
the 'equivalent of three times
around the world.
Decision to terminate the flight
—most of which was spent over
Yma to show the world this city’s
flying weather — came Sunday
night when one of thei rtwo mag
netos burned out.
On hand to greet the new cham
pions when they taxied to a stop
on the runway at the Yuma coun
ty airport weer their wives, par
ents, and the holders of the old
record of 1,088 hours. The former
holders, Dick Riedel and .Bill Bar
ris of Mullerton, Calif., landed in
their record plane, “Sunkist Lady”
about half an hour before Jonge
ward brought ‘’The City of Yuma”
to a perfect landing.
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Two 11-Year-OlcIs
Stowaway To See
The World
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SEATTLE, (/P> — Two 11-year-'
olds bent on a northward-ho jour
ney of adventure via the stow
away route bumped into an adult
roadblock on the S.S. Aleutian
and are nothing but first-class!
tourists today.
The Alaska Steamship company i
reported the boys were discovered
by the Aleutian’s master after!
they stowed away in Seattle Sat-1
urday and kept cover under until
the steamer was at sea.
Their parents were notified here
and paid first class fares for the
| young adventurers. They will be
j transferred at Ketchikan to the
S.S. Baranof for the return trip.
| home.
The company and parents with
held their names, but a “warm”
reception that the boys would not
take sitting down was probably
! promised by the perturbed fathers.
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old Seattle boys, who started north
as stow-aways and completed their
trip as paving passengers, took in
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At A Glance ...
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to Chungking, the wartime capital
away in the interior. Roads lead
ing out of Canton were jammed
with refugees.
1 Hong Kong dispatches said thou
I sands of Canton refugees are
pouring into the British Crown
Colony. They came in a steady
stream by train, plane, and boat.
One steamship with a normal ca
I pacity of 300 brought 700.
Hong Kong is overcrowded. In
! addition to the regular popula
I tion. the British has quartered
40,000 defense forces in the tiny
island colony and the adjacent
| leased territory of Kowloon.
Some reports in Canton said the
i communists have already reached
. tlie outlying suburbs. Others said
| the advance units of the Reds were
35 miles away.
There was no sign of nationalist
resistance, although there were
-upposted to have been live na
tionalist armies to defend the tot
tering capital. An estimated 30.
000 government troops were fall
ing back of the city. The com
munists speculated these troops
would be evacuated to Formosa
where Chiang Kai-Shek has built
a fortress for a last ditch stand.
Nationalist leaders continued to
squabble in the face of defeat.
Acting President Li Tsung-Jen
was said to be resisting efforts of
Chiang to run what was left of the
South China show.
U. S. secretary of state Acheson
is expected to outline United
States policy on China in a closed
door talk with the Senate foreign
relations committee in Washing
ton.
The Soviet Union has renewed
her demand for a world wide cen
sus by the United Nations of all
armaments including the atom
bomb.
Under a proposal made by dep
uty foreign minister Jakob Malik
yesterday before the U. N. security
council, each nation would report
on its own weapons. He proposed
no provision for checking on the
truth of the statements.
Warren R. Austin, U. S. dele
gate, told reporters: “A census of
weapons without verification is
meaningless. This is another at- |
tempt to fool the public.”
No-one to Blame In
Forrestal’s Death
WASHINGTON, (/P) — A navy
board has absolved “any person
or persons in the naval service”
of fault or negligence in the death
of former secretary of defense
James Forrestal.
Forrestal, who retired from of
fice in March, leaped to his death
May 22 from a tower at the naval
hospital in Bethseda, Md. He was
admitted to the hospital April 2
suffering what naval medical au
thorities described as “operation
al fatigue.”
Navy secretary Matthews made
public the board’s findings yester
day but made no mention of the
delay of more than four months
in doing so.
Rear Adm. Morton D. Willcutts,
then head of the national naval
medical center at Bethseda, con
vened the five-man board of in
quiry on May 23.
the sights here like regular tour
■ ists.
They started homeward on the
SS. Baranof after Boy Scouts had
shown them the town—from to
tem poles to movies.
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Adm. ‘Bull* Halsey
Attasks B-36 Plans
WASHINGTON, (/Pj _ Grizzled
fleet admiral William F. 'Bull)
Halsey called today for a defense
strategy based on readiness to
wage instantaneous air attack on
troop and military targets.
Halsey made clear that would
require lighter, swifter planes
than the B-36 “intercontinental
bomber” on which the ai rforce is
concentrating.
He was before the House armed
services committee, continuing the
navy’s barrage against a military
policy which puts so much em
phasis on the B-36.
Navy men contend the B-36
could be of use only for “mass at
tack” on large areas.
With a reference to that, Halsey
said a successful war "cannot be
fought by carrying on separata
campaigns against industrial and
civil populations.”
He scornfully compared this
concept of strategic air warfare to
medieval “seige” operations.
Ralph Lomen is in from Coun
cil. having closed down dredging
operations for another season. Ar
riving with him from Council
were R. Gustafson, dredgemaster,
and Teddy Reed.
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