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Home; 123 Days
TETERBORO, N. J. (/P)—Cliff
Evans and George Truman landed,
their two pint-sized, 100-horse
power flivver planes at Teterboro
airport at 10:10 a.m. today, ending
a leisurely 25,000 mile globe-circ
ling flight unique in the history of
aviation.
The two former army pilots
came in as casually as they de
parted from this suburban com
mercial airport on Aug. 9. They
had flown around the earth in 123
days to show that it could be done
in little fabric-covered aircraft
with a cruising speed of lt)5 miles
per hour.
A flight of fighter planes es
corted the two pilots on the final
lap from Harrisburg, Pa., today.
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Experimental planting of date
palms was begun in 1890 in the
southwest by the Department of
Agriculture.
Navy Tanker
Breaks In Half
BOSTON, (/P) — The $4,000,000
former navy tanker “Ponagansett”
broke in half yesterday at an east
Boston pier—pitching upwards of
250 workmen to the decks.
One man was injured critically
and thirteen others were freated
for minor hurts.
The 523-foot vessel was being
converted to commercial use alter
serving in the Pacific during the
war as a fleet oiler. She was built
in 1944 and is about 5700 tons.
Both parts of the ship remained
I afloat. A cleft eight feet wide at
the deck line narrowed toward the
water line.
As she buckled amidship with
a rending sound, a huge spray of
oily water shot high into the air.
Chief engineer Frank Cardua
said at first he thought “something
had struck us.”
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Govt. Must Start
Paper Industry
In Alaska
WASHINGTON, UP)—'The gov-j
ernment should immediately de-1
velop forest resources in Alaska to
provide sorely needed newsprint
for American newspapers, Senator
Morse <R.-Ore.) said yesterday in
a Senate speech.
“Unless cheaper newsprint is i
supplied, several hundred small
weekly newspapers will have to j
cease publication within a year,”
Morse said. “I call on the govern-!
ment to take immediate steps to
develop a newsprint industry in
Alaska.”
Morse said that the nation can
not have a free press unless it can
obtain paper on which to print. He
said:
“The American newspapers are
confronted with a mono poly
where they must rely on foreign,
sources for much of their news
print.
“Paper companies in Canada
have announced increased prices
for newsprint, the prices of which
were outrageous. The American
publisher has no choice but to pay
; for he has no other place to get his
paper.
“The government should take
, immediate steps for development of
Alaska and the newsprint sources
there. That can supply a large per
centage of the needs of American
publishers for years to come. The
foreign sources are holding up our
publishers economically with an
economic gun.”
Morse declared that under sci
entific forestry Alaska could sup
ply newsprint in perpetuity. He
said he hoped the time will come
when the government, and Con
gress will realize “the importance
of Alaska and stop sleeping at the
switch.’’
4 Army Officers
Dead In Fire
PINE CAMP, N. Y., (£>)—Four
army officers assigned to “Exer
cise Snowdrop” winter maneuvers
were burned to death early today
in a fire which razed a two-story
frame barracks at this northern
New York military reservation.
Six other officers were injured,
one of them severely burned.
The death count rose to four when
the body of an officer, reported
missing earlier, was recovered.
Eight others leaped to safety
from first and second story win
dows of the flaming barracks.,
Cause of the fire was not deter
mined. *
Army authorities planned to
evacuate five of the injured by
plane to Murphy general hospital
at Waltham, Mass. The sixth was
in critical condition at the camp
hospital here.
The army withheld identities of
l the officers killed pending notifi
cation of next of kin.
SAN FRANCISCO (JP)—A dam
age suit for $100,000 was filed
! against the United States govern
| ment yesterday as a result of the
breakup on Nov. 24 of the army
1 transport Clarksdale Victory on
storm-battered Hippa Island off
the Alaskan coast. Forty-nine men
lost their lives. Four seamen were
saved.
Yesterday’s suit was brought by
Mrs. Lorraine Ruth Dehne whose
husband, Eugene Dehne, 21-year
old seaman, was among the miss
ing. She charged negligence in op
eration of the ship.
Attorney Melvin Belli said 10
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Police Cars With
‘Molotov Cocktails’
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Stern group of the underground.
Unofficial reports said two Jews
were killed when other armored
cars sprayed the streets with bul
lets. Two others were reported
slain in other incidents.
The new fighting followed a
wild night in the Morder area dur
ing which a “taxicab army” of
Jewish v’olunteers summoned by
Hagana, the underground militia,
raced to counterattack a group of
Arabs armed with machineguns
and grenades.
A “Palestine Liberation Com
mittee” announced in Damascus,
Syria, that Arab volunteers train
ed in commando tactics were be
ing sent int^ the Holy Land to be
gin guerrilla fighting in support
of Palestine’s Arabs.
At the same time the exiled Riff
warrior chieftain, Abd El Krim,
who led rebellions against the
Spanish and French in Morocco
two decades ago, declared in Cairo
that North Africa’s Arabs wou I
contribute to a fight against pan
tion.
The seven-nation Arab ieagi
announced in Cairo Monday nig
it would take "immediate me; •
sures” for military and other ac
tion against partition.
In London authoritative White
hall (government) sources said
Britain was considering suspen
sion of arms shipments to certain
Middle Eastern countries in vie.v
of Arab threats of war against the
Palestine Jews. A foreign offic '
spokesman said the subject migi:
be dealt with in a House of Con' -
mons debate Thursday.
At Lake Success, N. Y., the U.I*.
security council, which will be re
sponsible for maintenance o!
peace in a divided Palestine, w.
to receive official notification ye
terday of the general assembly
November decision to cut Palestii
in two. The council had before i
messages from two Arab nations
Lebanon and Egypt—demandii ;
non-voting participation in all d( -
bates on the Holy Land.
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