Emergency Aerial
Supply Line Aids
Hospital Patients
ANCHORAGE, (/P) — An emer-|
gency aerial supply line was es
tablished yesterday to the western
village of Bethel, where fire de
stroyed the Alaska Native Service
hospital.
The flames drove 70 persons!
into to near zero cold late Mon
day. The only person injured was
a native employee of the hospital.
He said the last he remembered
was an explosion as he clung to a
second floor window ledge of the
$300,000 structure.
Dr. Duncan M. Chalmers, head
of the hospital, advised the (/P)
from Bethel that the hospital staff
evacuated the nursery, surgical
patients and tubercular cases
within 20 minutes of the fire’s
I
outbreak.
He said: “Bethel townspeople
responded at once and coopera
tion was magnificent from all
sources. Maintenance personnel
worked all night to protect out
buildings. The hospital was in
smouldering ruins this morning.
Church groups are taking care oi
some of the personnel, the Terri
torial and ANS schools are hous
ing patients and evacuation is
progressing rapidly.”
While planes carried supplies
* and medical aid to the stricken
village, others started the evacua
tion of patients. Four were flown
here.
Dr. Chalmers advised the ANS
office at Juneau that the blaze be
gan in the boiler room. *
A 57th Fighter Wing plane took
a cargo of emergency supplies to
Bethel the night of the fire.
A transport plane followed with
Lt. Col. Alton Saxer, Wing sur
d
You Can’t Keep
The Women Away
From The Marines
SEATTLE, (iP)—Miss Anne Re
vak, a corporal in the Marine Re
serve since World War II, applied
last July from Fairbanks, Alaska,
for active duty in the Corps.
“Sorry, can’t do it,” was the
gist of a score or more of replies
received to her insistent demand
for restoration to duty, “We are
not ordering reservists resident
outside the Continental United
States to active duty.”
Miss Revak supplied her own
solution. She drove the 3,252 miles
to Seattle via the Alcan Highway
arriving here early this month.
Then came word from Washing
ton that she’s in. But Miss Revak
wasn’t.
She had driven to Pittsburgh,
Pa., to visit relatives rather than
wait for what she figured would
be the slow word from Washing
ton. So she reeled off another fast
3,000 miles and yesterday she was
sworn in, preparing to go to Camp
Pendleton, Calif., — 1,000 miles
south of here.
That’s roughly 10,00 miles total,
but Miss, oops, Corporal Kevak, is
happy and so, presumably, is the
Marine Corps.
geon, and two medical corpsmen.
It also carried 25 cases of army
j rations, 250 blankets, dozens of
| cots and medical supplies.
They said bed patients were
taken to a nearby Native Service
school. Other buildings also were
| used as emergency wards to get
the patients out of the cold.
A 57th Wing spokesman said
the unit will keep supplies flying
to Bethel as long as they are
needed.
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Canadian Trains
I t
In Head-On
Collision, 18 Dead
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been recovered, but searchers still
probed beneath the debris for two
other soldiers and four trainmen
—the engineer and fir e m e n
aboard both locomotives. Most of
the injured were soldiers. Four of
them were railway employees.
Twenty-two of the injured
were reported in a serious condi
tion.
One train, carrying 340 officers
and men, was bound for Fort
Lewis, Wash., where 10,000 Cana
dian soldiers will be trained to
: fight with United Nations forces
in Korea.
The troop train, running slightly
! behind schedule, and a trans-con
tinental limited collided on a
mountain curve on the main line
of the Canadian National Rail
ways. They were near a siding at
Canoe River, British Columbia,
where they were scheduled to
pass.
The crash occurred in a lonely,
snow-covered stretch of country
83 miles west of Jasper, Alta.
Both trains were traveling at
reduced speed, but there was a
half-foot of snow on the ground
|
and the temperature was near
zero.
As the 17-car troop train and
i the 10-car limited collided, cars
from both trains spilled off the
! tracks, ripping up the right of way
and tearing down communications
lines.
An official of the Canadian Na
tional Railways said the omission
j of the words “at Canoe River” in
a message given the conductor of
; the troop train may have been
responsible for the wreck. The
dropping of the words caused the
troop train crew to believe the
Estimate Foreign
Aid Program To
Cost Eight Billions
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recommendations will larg e 1 y
shape the President’s foreign eco
nomic proposal in his State of the
Union message to Congress in
January.
In the main, Gray proposed ac
tion along three lines:
1. Foreign assistance—a vastly
expanded U. S. air program car
rying billions not only for Europe
but also for under-developed
! areas—Africa, Asia and Latin
| America — and administered by
I single agencies in Washington.
• *
The amount of economic assist
ance they will need remains to be
i figured out, but at one point
| Gray’s advisers tentatively es
i timated the cost at $1,500,000,000
1 to $2,000,000,000 a year. Mean
| while, the U. S. in cooperation
with the International Bank
would also undertake a loan and
' grant program for the underde
i veloped areas totaling at least
$1,100,000,000 a year—far beyond
anything previously planned.
2. Domestic economic policies—
drastic revision of American tar
I
trains were to meet at Gosnell, 10
miles west of Canoe River, rather
than at Canoe River, the official
said.
Deer And Man.
Kill Each Other
COTUULA, Tex. (£>)—'The tale
of how a deer, mortally wounded
by a hunter, evidently kicked and
killed the hunter in its death
throes, was told here yesterday by
chief deputy sheriff Frank New
man.
Granville Wiedner, 60, of Ca
tulla, was the victim. His body
was found a week ago about 24
miles southwest of here.
Newman said that a st-ate rang
er and several others investigated
and reconstructed the incident
this way:
Wiedner shot once and the
deer ran. Wiedner followed and
when he tried to cut the deer’s
throat he was kicked.
“We found a large ib’ue bruise
on his head,” Newman said.
i
I “There was another place, sort of
a nick, on his head.”
iff, shipping, agricultural and
other internal policies which Gray
(described as conflicting with this
country’s foreign economic poli
I
' cies aimed at helping friendly
| nations produce and sell more
; goods for dollars.
3. Conditions of aid—the Gray
! report takes the line *hat the
' United States, using rid agree
ments and distribution as a lever,
should continue to insis* on high
performance by other nations in
I carrying their share of the load.
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