Jet Plane Crashes;
Pilot Uninjured
WATSON LAKE, Y. T. (&)—An
American army filer, Lieut. John
M Fitzpatrick of Dayton, O., to
day described the dizzy crash of a
jet plane as “just like doggone
long toboggan ride.”
His aircraft crashed earlier in
the week 44 miles west of this Yu
kon settlement, skidding a mile
down the Alaska Highway before
coming to a halt.
The pilot’s only injury? A stiff
ne9k. The aircraft was demolished.
Fitzpatrick was saved from al
most certain death in 40-below
zero weather when he was sighted
by Royal Canadian Air Force and
picked up by an automobile.
The lieutenant said the jet
craft’s engine exploded when he
was eight miles out of Watson
Lake. He considered bailing out,
but decided to crash land on a
small lake.
Then his controls froze.
“Within seconds I noticed what
appeared to be a bridge pass un
derneath me,” he said. “Then I
saw' I was headed straight into the
Alaska Highway, so I held her
right in as best I could.”
When he hit the road, the lieu
tenant said, the jet ship was “do
ing about 200 miles an hour.”
He said when the plane finally
came to a halt he “stepped up
through a hole in the ship and
climbed out.”
Girl Scout News
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Intermediate Girl Scouts met
last Thursday after school. Patrols
1 and 3 presented a short play for
the rest of the groups.
On Saturday Girl Scouts who
wish to have skis went to the base
where they were issued to them.
Scribe Mary Jeanne Boucher
Wm. Rumple, radio technician
of P.A.A. from San *Francisco, is
here for a few days checking the
radio equipment of this station.
Military Must Be
Assured Immunity
Before Testifying
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Brewster (R.-Me.) said Saturday
top military officials due to testify
on Formosa in the Senate should
be promised immunity from pun
ishment if they differed with
President Truman’s policy.
Brewster told reporters he does
not want military men appearing
before the foreign relations com
mittee to get into trouble as did
Admiral Louis E. Denfeld. Denfeld
was removed as chief of naval op
erations after he publicly opposed
Pentagon policies, but defense
chiefs denied that "reprisals” were
involved.
The committee Friday called
General Omar N. Bradley, chair
man of the joint chiefs of staff,
and secretary’ of defense Johnson
%
to testify Jan. 26 on the strategic
importance of Formosa.
President Truman has announc
ed that the United States will of
fer no military aid to the Chinese
Nationalists in their effort to keep
the communists from seizing the
big island.
Brewster said it is important to
have an administration promise
that there will be no reprisals in
case the joint chiefs differ with
the President in this policy.
TEXAS WEATHER HARD ON
REINDEER; 2 ILL. 1 DEAD
FORT WORTH, Texas. (/P) —
Texas weather has proved too
much for a third Alaskan reindeer
from the small herd kept by Grady
Carrothers on his ranch near
Goldthwaite.
The animal was brought to an
animal hospital here suffering
from pneumonia. It was reported
in serious condition.
Two others, Donder and Blitzen,
were reported improving from
nervous exhaustion. Attendants
said they were eating once again.
Carrothers flew the herd to
Texas from Alaska last year.
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Tiny Tol Burns;
Clutching Pet Cat
YELM, Wash. (A*) — A pet cat
clutched tightly in her arms, the
body of seven-year-old Barbara
Marine Wright was found early
yesterday beneath a bed in her
partially burned home.
Coroner Ralph Swanson said
the child died of burns and suffo
cation after crawling under the
bed to escape the flames.
An overheated stove was blamed
for the blaze.
Swanson said the mother, Mrs.
John Wright, had left the home
briefly to ask neighbors if she
should let her water faucets run i
to prevent freezing. On her way
home she saw the flames in the
tiny three-room structure, three
miles east of here.
Mrs. Wright and a neighbor,
Robert Smith, were hospitalized
at nearby Olympia for treatment
of burns received in a vain at
tempt to rescue her daughter.
The father, a soldier, is stationed
in Anchorage, Alaska.
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Another Witness
Testifies Bridges
W as A Communist
SAN FRANCISCO, i/P) — The
Harry Bridges perjury trial was in
week-end recess Saturday after
one of its most dramatic and
shortest sessions. ,
The drama was provided by
George H. Wilson, the newspaper
man who headed the Harry Brid
ges defense committee in 1941.
Wilson, now of Los Angeles, but
a former newspaperman and la- i
bor leader here, was visibly af
fected by the testmony he gave.
For one thing, he revealed public-1
ly for the first time he once was a 1
member of the communist party—
from 1941 to 1945.
And he pointed out three of his i
former close associates as men
who attended communist meetings
with him.
The three were Bridges, presi
dent of the CIO LWU, and his two I
co-defendants, Henry Schmidt and
J. R. Robertson, both top union
aides. \
Wilson was the first in the long i
line of ex-communists to testify
Robertson attended a communist;
meeting.
The defense, which often cross
examines witnesses for days, ask
ed only ten questions. The prose
cution was caught by surprise and 1
did not have its next witness
ready.
Out of court Bridges explained
the easy cross examination with
the statement Wilson, an old
friend, had not been ‘vicious” in
his testimony. He said Wilson tes
tified “only because he was on a
spot and had to.”
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C.A.P. SEEKS CADET
ENLISTMENTS
This afternoon at three o’clock
High School students between the
ages of 15 and 18 years of age will
be interviewed by officials of the
CAP. in the in trest of enlisting
the boys in the cadet program of
that organization.
This wonderful opportunity for
the boys who can partake in the
group will entitle them to ground
training and aircraft familiariza- j
tion, as well as being allowed to
fly as observers on flights which!
are of a non-emergency nature.
The boys will also be able to
compete for the privilege of high I
rank which will take that lucky
student into the European theater.
Lud Urick has been named Coip
mandant of Cadets and will be in
charge of the group.
The C.A.P.’s first active mission
accurred last month when they
assisted in locating the missing
Alaska Airlines pilot Swede
Blanchard. *
Th following day they went to
Teller and delivered mail to the
Air Force personnel and took a
military photographer to Cape
Spencer for pictures there of the
military area.
SEATTLE, (/P) — Alterations to
the Motorship North Star of the
Alaska Native Service, a $600,000
contract underway at the Todd
Shipyards, will be completed early
in February.
The North Star, formerly the
Coastal Rider, returned to the
Todd Shipyards last November,
after a voyage to Arctic Alaska, to
complete alterations begun last
spring.
Under plans prepared by Cari
J. Nordstrom, Seattle naval archi
tect, the vessel is being converted
from te freighter to a passenger
ship. The work includes quarters
“Security” Costs
Mount To Five
Billion Yearly
WASHINGTON, yP)—America’*
rush to provide for its old age—
by act of Congress, by bargaining,
or by strikes if necessary—may
tag 1949 as the year of departure
into a new economic era — the
“age of security.”
On New Year’s Day the social
security tax will increase by half.
By spring Congress will—by all
present evidence — complete its
present program of raising social
security pensions and wrapping
perhaps 11 million more workers
under protection.
The big unions, scoring what
they call “inadequate” federal
pensions, are out to nail down se
curity for their own members.
The drive has sent most of big
industry scrambling to the adding
machines.
Counting the plans already in
force and those newly won on the
picket line, “private” pensions to
day call for contributions about as
great as the federal government
, will collect in social security taxes.
The total—private and federal—
approaches $5 billion a year.
The sum gives every promise of
mounting for years to come. It is
becoming an economic force. The
government cannot weigh its im
pact, but can and does worry
about it.
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