Driver Killed In
Cah Strike
PITTSBURGH, (VP) — A pistol
shot from a passing cab early yes
terday killed a striking Yellow
Cab Co. driver in the first fatal
violence in the steel city’s three
day old taxi strike.
Witnesses said the shot was
fired into a group of about 20 per
sons, including women, standing
on a downtown corner.
About 1,100 Yellow Cab drivers
went on strike Sunday in support
of demands for higher pay.
The dead man was Louis E. Da
lembo, 28, a corporal in World
War II.
Police Lt. Peter Connors said
forty minutes after the shooting,
Joshua Allen, 35, an Owl Car driv
er, was arrested on a charge of
murder.
Stripteasers Don’t
Step To Music
LOS ANGELES, </P)- The strip-,
tease gals at a local burlesque
theatre were doing some very very
strange steps, ,and the stage direc
tor was calling them to ask.
“You weren’t in step with the
music,” he complained.
“We know it,” they answered,
“but something is hitting us, and
it hurts.”
Police were called and found
William C. Kiele, 23. sitting in the
eighth row with a rubber sling
shot. They said he was peppering
the dancers with half inch steel
staples.
Kiel was jailed on charges of
suspicion of attack with a deadly
weapon. The dancers went on
dancing.
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and bivouac three miles north of
Nome Air Base at a secondary
strip named “Moonlight Sprirtgs,”
to set up a defense against a “the
oretical” enemy under the com
mand of Captain Earl Acuff, a
graduate of Idaho University,
hails from Kellogg, and who is
known to the natives of Alaska as
an officer in 1hc fabulous Alaskan
Scouts, during World War II.
The military problem—part of
“Exercise Yukon” — the fourth j
phase of the Army’s winter ma
neuvers, which are designed to
help the Air Force and Ground
Forces provide training in an air
lift under extreme cold; to train
troops in security of an air base;
to develop local security plans and
acquire data upon which to base
joint air-ground training under
Arctic conditions.
NOME, Alaska, Feb. 17 — The
Seward Peninsula today watched
in open wonder, as a squadron of
P-51 Mustangs from the 57th
Fighter group of the Alaskan Air j
Command, bombed and straffed
“Moonlight Springs” into theoret
ical oblivion, during the point air
force, ground force winter man
euvers known as “Exercise Yu
kon.”
The “Pearl Harbor” punch was
delivered to distract the attention
of defending Second Infantry Di
vision troops, while a giant C-82
transport plane dropped dummy
parachute troops in an open area;
two miles east of the secondary
airstrip. Operating at housetop
level, the P-51 attack was driven
home with a realism which left
only bombs and bullets to the im
agination. Such a show is seldom
seen by either military personnel
or civilians.
Adding realism to the maneu
vers five picturesque Eskimos
from the old Alaskan Scouts, were
flown from Shishmaref, where
they wrestle a living from this al
ways challenging land, and added
to reinforce “enemy" forces un
der the command of Captain Earl
Acuff, from Anchorage.
Quick to react to the early morn
ing air-ground threat, Lt. Col. Wil
liam M. Preston, West Virginia,
moved his troops on the double to
engage the enemy ground forces
before this scattered body of
troops could assemble and attack.
Combat loaded, the approach
march was made over dry, pow
dery snow, and the badly winded
2nd Division GI’s rapidly built up
a firing line on contact with the
enemy.
Using those troop? as a pivot of
maneuver, the two other platoons
soon flanked the snow-bound and
still disorganized enemy para
troopers, forcing an early with
drawal. 1
The entire battle was conducted
north of Nome in the rugged hills
where snow and ice made all
movement a problem. Weather
terrain, and the unusual, added
interest to the maneuver. For ex
ample, Pvt. Geo. W. George. Tren
ton, Tenn., brought a laugh of hu
mor to the tired doughboys, when
during an early twilight tour of
guard, he felt the cold nose of a
wolf on the back of his neck.
Jumping to his feet and crying for
help, Geo. soon discovered the i
wolf to be “Buddy,” a hundred
pound pet Husky, who is a friend
of all the soldiers.
Tonight, Nome Air Base, com
manded by Colonel Harry N.
Burkhalter, Boise, Idaho, is in a
Capi. C. T. Pederson, who will
be remembered by all oldtimers
as master of the schooner Patter
son which for many years was the
only vessel touching villages along
the Arctic Coast. lie made one
trading trip annually to Point Bar
row trading supplies for fur. ivory
and whalebone.
With the advent of airplanes,
Capt. Pederson retired from the
sea and now makes his home in
Quebec.
He writes that ho misses the Far
North but is very*busy on his fox
ranch and finds his work very in
teresting. He sends greetings to
his many friends.
state of “alert” as the base person
nel prepare to defend the Air Base
from an attack tomorrow from the
“doughboys” of the 2nd Infantry
Division, as the final phase of Ex
ercise Yukon maneuvers draws to
a close.
Mountain Slides
Block States Hoads
<F3y The Associated Press)
Mountain slides, brought on by
heavy rains and melting snow,
threatened cross-state travelers in
Washington State yesterday as a
warm front, carried by heavy
winds, boosted temperatures gen
erally across the state.
Early yesterday, Stevens F’a.ss
highway still was blocked com
pletely by a snow anti rock slide
that rumbled'down the hillside at
Gaynor, 10 miles east of the sum
mit, the state patrol radio said. •.
Traffic over Snoqualmie Pass on
an emergency only basis for thre
hours as small sildes cut the high
way to a one-way basis.
A mass of warm air, carried
over western Washington and
Oregon, boosted temperatures in
Seattle from 41 above to 53 above
in less than an hour.
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