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Students Stranded
By CAB Ruling,
Reach Home
NEW YORK, (/P)—Twenty-sev
en students, stranded overnight
when their return from a Chicago
to-Amsterdam round trip tour by
plane abruptly ended here, made
the last lap Monday night.
After a day of uncertainty, dur
ing which many of an original
group of 46 found their own ways
back home, arrangements w’ere
made to fly the rest to Chicago.
The original 46, including some
teachers, arrived at Idlewild inter
national airport Sunday night to
find that there were no arrange
ments for their transportation any
further.
» Alaska Airlines, which had sold
them the round-trip tours for $350,
had been forced to halt its over
seas operations because of a civil
aeronautics board ruling.
Alaska had arranged with the
Seaboard and Western Airlines to
get the group from Amsterdam to
New York. But Seaboard cannot
fiy from here to Chicago.
At first Alaska Airlines said it
would fulfill its contract and find
a way to Chicago for the students.
Then a company official in Seat
tle said the CAB ruling had ter
minated the contract — and the
group would have to get back to
Chicago the best way it could.
Most of the students were short
of cash, but some made arrange
ments to get home by air or rail
road.
Others found lodging in the
city. Seventeen — including eight
women—spent the night on cots
and in lounges at the airport, pool
ing their resources for coffee and
sandwiches.
Monday Alaska Airlines chang
ed its mind again. The line an
nounced it had arranged with the
Robin Air Line to carry the stu
dents back to Chicago.
The airline said the arrangement
with Seabord to get the students
to New York had cost Alaska more
that the line got from the students.
JACKIE ROBINSON'S BATTING
AVERAGE DROPS
NEW YORK. i/P»—Jackie Rob
inson's batting average has drop
ped fifteen points in the last two
weeks.
The speedy Negro second base
man for the Brooklyn Dodgers still
is first in the National league,
however, with a clubbing percent
age of .349 including Sunday’s
games.
That leaves him a slump.margin
of 21 points over second place
Enos Slaughter of St. Louis.
Stan Musial of the Cardinals,
last year’s batting champion,
moved past Pittsburgh’s Ralph
Kiner into third place. Musial got
14 hits in seven days, boosting his
average five points to .321.
Kiner, the league’s home run
monarch with 37 non-stop licks,
filled the fourth place among the
batters with a slimming .311, com
pared with the .318 he had a week
ago. ,
LONDON, f.-'P)—“Spare the rod,
spoil the soldier,” the British
army believes—and parents of ca
dets agree. The war office says
that it asks permission of parents
of all boys in military schools to
cane their children “if the occa
sion should arise.” Seventy-five
percent of the parents approve of
the canings.
“The old fashioned punishment
of caning is better than such pun
ishments as keeping the boys in
to do extra work,” a war office
spokesman explained.
Fabled “Ice Worm”
A Reality
JUNEAU, (VP)—The “ice worm”
—long fabled in gag and quip—
maye have appeared in the flesh.
Members of the project Snow
Cornice, sponsored by the Arctic
Institute of North America, re
ported yesterday they found a
mass of worms crawling between
two melted water pools in the Sew
ard Glacier.
They numbered in the hundreds,
expedition members said.
The group tried to bring back
several but only four survived un
A contractor went out to look
over one of his postwar homes, j
Walking up to a house in which a
carpenter was working, he whis* '
pered: “Can you hear mo through
1 this wall?”
“Yep!”
“Can you see me?"
“Not very well.”
“That,” said the contractor ju
bilantly, “is what I call a darned
good wall.”
til immersed in alcohol for even
tual study by the American Mu- i
seum of Natural History in New |
Lork. and by the University of j
British Columbia. i
Preacher Roe
“Best Pitcher”
NEW YORK. (/P)—Who is the
best pitcher in basebali?
Preacher Roe ot the Dodgers—
on the basis of his stinginess with
earned runs—say a copyrighted
article published yesterday in the
September issue of Baseball Di
gest.
The Digest’s figures, prepared
well in advance to meet magazine
deadlines, covered the first half of
the season. Official figures pub- .
lished by the leagues do not ap-*
pear until December.
In his first 13 games, Roe gave
up only 2.41 earned runs per nine
innings, according to the maga
zine's tabulations. That led regu
lar pitchers in both leagues, al
though a few reliefers could sport
a better mark.
Tops in the American League
was Vic Raschi of the Yankees
with an average of 2.4.
Rats are now used for pregnan
cy tests because they cost only 40
cents and give the report in two
hours.
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