Air Force Masters
Arctic Flying
With B-29’s
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continents.
“The main thing you need for
Arctic operations,” Kenney said,
“is just about twice as many peo
ple because a man’s effic'ency
there is just about half of normal.”
This was demonstrated, ho said,
by the exhaustive studies, tests
and training during which super
fortress crews in Alaska actually
flew more hours than groups in
the United States.
Failure of equipment in the Arc
tic training, however, was pared
down until it was no greater than j
it was for bombers operating over
the deserts of the southwestern
United States.
Kenney had no comment on the
status of the polar bastion’s other
air defense — fighter protection,
warning networks, anti-aircraft
and garrisons—except to say that
“the situation has improved slight
ly.”
The air force however has dis
closed that operation of jet fight
ers in the far north is getting close
attention. A sqadron of F-80 fight
ers went to Alaska from March
Field, Calif., last December for six
months of training and test flights.
Like the bombers, the fighters
were “winterized” with special
lubricants and equipment to pro
tect them against the sub-zero
cold. v
Bering Sea Holds
Large Food Fish
Potentialities >
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PORTLAND, Ore., (JP) — The
Bering Sea, the central Pacific and
the waters off Alaska could pro
vide enormous amounts of fish for
nations running short of land-pro
duced protein, Dr. John C. Marr,
U. S. Fisheries expert at Stanfard
university, reported yesterday.
The Alaska-Bering Sea area of
fers the greatest possibilities for
fishery expansion adjacent to
North America and probably is (
the most promising production
area of the entire Pacific, Dr. Marr
told the American chemical soci
ety.
Oceania, which is the area from
the Equator to Hawaii and from
the Society Islands to New Guinea
and the Philippines, is another
area of great potential fish re
sources Dr. Marr said.
Up to now the North Pacific has
produced 47 per cent of the world’s
fishery products and the South Pa
cific only one per cent of the total,
Dr. Marr reported. This does not
mean the southern ocean is a poor
er fishing ground. It reflects the
fact that many haore people live in
the northern hemisphere than in
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the southern hemisphere, he said.
Foremost among the possibilities
for increasing the food supply, Dr.
Marr reported, is the potential
supply of tuna.
The present sardine season has
been no more encouraging than
the preceding one, with its record
low catch, Dr. Marr reported.
There had not been an outstanding
sardine year since 1939, he added.
The bronze statue known as
Christ of the Andes, on the bor
der of Chile and Argentina, was
erected in 1902 to commemorate
peaceful settlement of a boundary
dispute between the two coun
tries.
U. N. To Look Into
Hyderabad
Invasion
PARIS (iP)—The United Nations
security council voted 8 to 0 yes
terday to look into the war situa
tion in Hyderabad. China, Soviet
Russia and the Ukraine abstained
in the vote placing the Indian in
vasion of the princely state on the
agenda.
The council met in the Palais de
ChaiUot.
Hyderabod is seeking a cease
fire order, withdrawal of Indian
troops and mediation by the U. N.
Sir A.‘ Ramaswami Mudaliar,
representing India, told the press
his country contends “This is*
strictly a domestic affair” and is
outside the province of the council
because Hyderabad is not a sov
ereign state.
Hyderabad, attempting to re-!
main free despite its position in- 1
side territory of the Indian Domin
Seagull Meat
Tastes Good-~If
i You’re Hungry
SEATTLE, (^P) — Seagull meat,
broiled over a roaring drift- wood
fire, is not bad eating—when you
are very, very, very hungry.
So says Kern Devin, 19, of Seat
tle, nephew of Mayor William F.
Devin, who was shipwrecked on
an isolated Alaskan beach.
“We needed pepper and salt,”
said young Devin as he told of his
experiences shortly after he and
two other castaways arrived at
Boeing Field on a Pan American
Airways plane from Juneau. “The
seagull meat was sickeningly
sweet.”
The other arrivels were R. W.
McLane, 20, Seattle, second engin
eers, and L. C. Hewitt, 21, Brem
erton, chief engineer. Devin was
a passenger en route from a San
ion, was represented by foreign j
minister Nawab Moin Nawaz J
Jung.
Juan fishing and packing company
cannery to Seattle.
Their vessel, the fishing tender
vJaleduma, split her bow during a
three-day storm a weeK ago last
Sunday and the crew ran her
ashore on Icy Point, 100 miles west,
of Juneau.
The coast guardsmen joined De
vin and eight crew members from
the Caledonia on the beach when
a rubber life raft in which they
were making a rescue attempt was
swamped by surf 12 to 15 feet
high. The 11 finally were saved
last Friday. Other coast guardsmen
landed on a quieter beach hiked
seven miles, chopped down trees
to bridge glacial streams separat
ing the two groups of the casta
ways, and escorted the party to
the cutter Citrus.
“We had no sleep for 36 hours,”
Devin said. “There was no shelter,
our blankets were wet and it rain
ed constantly for 36 hours. A roar
ing fire was all that saved up.”
The smallest of the South
American countries is Uruguay,
with an area of 72,153 square
miles.
Typhoon Lashes
Most Of Honshu
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TOKYO, </P)—Ten central Hon
shu prefectures were lashed by a
typhoon last night as winds up to
60 miles an hour zipped west of
metropolitan Tokyo.
At least two were dead, three in
jured and 23 missing in the 10
prefectures, early reports indicat
ed.
Torrential rains deluged sections
north and west of Tokyo sending
rivers on rampages. Thousands of
Japanese fled as rivers threatened
to engulf their homes.
Fears were expressed for the
ripening rice crops.
Residents of Shimizu, 80 miles
south of here, cringed with terror
as four storm loosened Japanese
vessels were tossed about the har
bor where the American freighter,
Governor Bibbs, was trapped as it
loaded explosive ammonium ni
trate, the type of cargo that wreck
ed Texas City last year.
The center of the storm passed
west of the city at 8:30 p.m.
Tbit is Air Force Day. a lay of <grqat memories . •.
and great hopes.
The memories are of days of battle when U. S. Air
Power proved that strength in the air is s prerequisite
to victory.
The hopes are for the future, when U. S. Air Power
proves to all the world that it can bq as effective in help*
ing prevent wars as it was in helping to win them.
Today, wherever you are. the U. S. Air Force invites .
you to visit one of its air installations, ft wants you to
meet, face to face, the fine young men who fly and service
iu planes. It ayits you to see for yourself hpw the Air
Force lives and works . . . what iu role is on America's
, great Army-Navy-Air Force team.
This intimate glimpse of Air Force life today will give
you a ,deeper appreciation of the ire- ^
mendous peacetime responsibilities
that your Air Force it shouldering.
Above all. it will help you get better
acquainted with the high type men
who serve the nation in the air with
such honor and distinction. [2222522533
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