Chadwick Sets New
Woman’s Record
For Channel Swim
DOVER, England (/P)—Florence
Chadwick, San Diego swimmer,
conquered the English Channel
yesterday in record time but Shir
ley May France was forced to give j
up eight miles off shore.
Miss Chadwick, who is 31 and a
professional swimmer, cut the wo
men’s record set by Gertrude
Ederle in 1926. She made it in 13
hours 28 minutes, one hour and
three minutes under the Ederle
mark.
She swam to Dover from Cap j
% Gris Nez, France, on a course of
at least 22 miles.
Thousands of persons lined the
white cliffs of Dover. Reporters j
asked if she was all right. “Yes,”!
she said, “but these slippery, jag
ged rocks are not so good to scram
ble over after a long swim.
“I feel fine and am quite pre
pared to swim back.”
When she was only a quarter
mile out, she had been asked if
she wanted to rest her legsj
“No fear,” she answered, laugh
ing. “I’ll keep going now. It looks
only another yard or so to the fin
ish.”
She was not far short — by |
Channel Swim standards-—of the
recognized men’s record of 11:05
set by France’s Georges Michel in j
1926. Thirty-two persons have!
swum' the channel, five of them
Americans.
Miss Chadwick was the third
American woman to make this
crossing—19 miles as the crow'
flies, but actually much farther
in swimming distance because of
the sween of the tides.
The others were Miss Ederle ■
and Mrs. Mille Gade Carson, who
crossed in 1926 in fifteen hours t
and twenty-eight minutes.
WISSANT, France. (JF) — Flo- j
rence Chadwick posed for photog- i
raphers today and read messages
congratulating her on her record-1
breaking channel swim. But in
Dover, England, Shirley May
France, who failed yesterday in
the same grind, woke up only long
enough for breakfast, then dozen
Crazed Gunman
Terrorizes Homer
ANCHORAGE, {JP)— A berserk
gunman roamed the streets of Ho
mer, 125 miles southwest of here
early today, as terrorized inhab
itants hid in their homes.
The rifle-toting wild man began
his reign of terror last night,
threatening to kill six men as he
started roaming the streets of the
homesteader’s town on the Kenai
Peninsula. He fired only one shot
but it was enough to keep resi
dents indoors.
Two deputy marshals, armed
with rifles and gas grenades, left
here by a Tenth Rescue Squadron
plane at 4 a.m. today in answer to
a distress call. They had been ad
viesd to approach the man with
extreme caution and cut him
down if he starts a fuss.
First word of the incident was
received over the civil aeronautics
administration wire from Homer.
U. S. commissioner George Bishop
reported that “myself and five
other men weer threatened to be
killed with a high-powered rifle
in his hand after he fired one
shot.”
“We need experienced help, if
possiblefi so he may be captured,”
Bishop wired. “He is a large man
and apparently insane.”
The gunman’s name was with
held until charges are filed.
U. S. Marshal Paul Herring said
lateness of the hour prevented
further communication with Ho
mer, but he believes no one has
been injured. He said Bishop’s
message did not state what pro
voked the rampage.
Homer is a town of about 325
population.
off again.
Miss Chadwick, 31-year-old pro
fessional swimmer from San Di
ego, Calif., received 25 cables,
mostly from her home town, hail
ing her 13-hour-20-minute drive
to break the women’s record set in
1926 by Gertrude Ederle.
In Dover, a doctor examined
Shirley May, the heart-broken 17
year-old Somerset, Mass., high
school girl. He said she was suf
fering from extreme exhaustion.
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AUGUST 19 IN SEATTLE
The wedding of Helen Hartford,
daughter of Mrs. Edna Hartford
and the late Art Hartford has
been announced for Aug. 19 in the!
Chapel of the Flowers, Bellevue,
Washington, to Michael J. Allep^
Olga Hay, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Ole Hay left last week by
way of Anchorage and the S.S.
Aleutian to be a bridesmaid at the
wedding. She will remain in Seat
tle to enter college in the fall.
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENT
Received, U.S. Land Office* Nome,
Alaska Date: Aug. 1, 1944. Hour:
11:55 a.m. Mineral Entry No.0972.
IN THE UNITED STATES
LAND OFFICE FOR THE NOME
LAND DISTRICT. NOME, AL
ASKA.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
FOR PATENT
Mineral Surrey No. 1890
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN;
that Ralph Lomen by and through;
his attomey-in-fact, Ira D. Orton,'
whose post office address is Nome,
Alaska, has made application for,
a United States Patent for the
No. 3 Below Discovery placer min
ing claim situated on Newton
Creek, No. 1 a tributary of Dry
Creek, a tributary of Snake River,
in the Cape Nome Mining and Re
cording Precinct, Territory of Al
aska, and designated as United
States Mineral Survey No. 1890
and particularly described in the
official plat and field notes now j
on file in the said Land Office!
►with magnetic variation at each
corner of the survey of mean val
ue of 17 degrees 12 min. E., as
follows:
Beginning at Cor. No. 1 ident
ical with Cor. No. 2, Survey No.
1166, No. 4 Below placer and Cor.
No. 17, Survey No 1310, Great
Western Group Claim Placer from
whence U.SX.M. No. 11, bears S.
86 deg. 33 min. W., 7290.75 ft.; E.
edge Anvil Rock bears N. 40 deg.
24 min. W.; Newton Rock bears
N. 1 deg. 35 min. W.; Radio Tower
at Nome bears b. 43 deg. 24 min.
W.; U.S.L.M. No. i399 bears S. 23
deg. 44 min. W.; thence N. 17 deg.
17 min. E., 1041.66 ft. to Cor. No.
2; thence N. 81 deg. 08 min. E.,
661.90 ft. to Cor. No. 3; thence S.
16 deg. 01 min. W., 1587.19 ft. to
Cor. No. 4; thence N. 45 deg. 37
min. W., 333.0 ft. to Cor. No. 5;
thence N. 55 deg. 33 min. W.,
347.52 ft. to Cor. No. 1 and place
of beginning, containing an area
I of 18.223 acres.
There are no conflicting claims.
The adjoining claims are:
On the N., Survey No. 1335,
“Doyle Fraction”.
On the E., Survey No. 1182, No.
7 Below Discovery.
On the S., Survey No. 1166, No.
4 Below Placer.
On the W., Survey No. 1310,
Great Western Group Claim Pla
cer.
The original certificate of loca
tion of said placer mining claim
is recorded in the office of the Re
corder of said Mining District and
Precinct in Vol. 216, Page 79 of
the records of locations of said
District.
The mineral monument to
which this claim is tied is de
scribed as follows:
U.S.L.M. No. 11 is a fir post,
6 in. sq. 5 ft. above ground in
stone mound. It is situated about
| 70 ft. east of the Bessie Road from
! Nome and about 2.7 miles N.E. of
the mouth of Snake River, and is
in Lat. 64 deg. 32 min. N., Long.
165 deg. 22 min. W.
Dated the 1st day of August,
1944.
Mrs. Helen M. Bockman
Acting Register
Pub. June 7, 14, 21, 28, July 5,
12, 19, 26, Aug. 2, 9, 16.
PAA Has Vast
Military Airlift
In dramatic fashion, Pan Amer
ican World Airways has proved
the statement by its president,
Juan T. Trippe, that “America’s
merchant air fleet is a vital sec
ond line of national defense.”
Approval has been given Pan
American by the Military Air
Transport Servoice to disclose to
day, for the first time, some de
tails of the vast, trans-Pacific mil
itary airlift operating out of West
Coast gateway cities.
It can be revealed that:
Within four days of June 25,
when tanks and armored columns
of Communist North Kor e a n
forces slashed across the 38th
parallel, Pan Am had organized
and put into operation, under con
tract to MATS, art airlift to rush
key personnel and vital supplies
7,000 miles from the 'Pacific Coast
to the war theatre.
Since the start of the fighting
in Korea, PAA’s military lift has
become greater than its regular,
commercial service in the Pacific,
despite the fact that commercial
schedules have been maintained
virtually intact.
The lift is utilizing both four
engined DC-4 Clippers and Seat
tle-built, double-decqed Boeing
Stratocruisers.
Military specialists were the
first passengers flown westward
on the long lift. Wives and de
pendents of army men in Korea—
and widows of the first men kill
ed in combat—were the first pas
sengers flown back to the United
States on return trips.
In addition to clippers transfer
red from the airline’s Atlantic and
Latin American Divisions, aircraft
have been subcontracted for the
I lift from Western Air Lines, Amer
ican Airlines, Eastern, Capital and
| National, American-Overseas and
| Pan American-Grace Airways.
Four complete flight crews have
! moved into the Pacific with each
plane from these companies. Liv
ing quarters have had to be found
for them and arrangements made
for their housing and subsistence
at “line stations” in the Pacific
Alaska Salmon
Packs Reach Slates
SEATTLE (/P)—Close of 17 mil
lion dollars worth of Alaska can
ned salmon will arrive in Puget
Sound during the next two weeks.
The canned salmon is on four
ships, two of which arrived on the
Sound Monday. The SS. Victoria
arrived in Seattle with 42,000
cases of salmon, and the freighter
Sailor’s Splice arrived at Belling
1 ham with 96,000 cases.
Bulk of the Bristol Bay pack
will be brought to Puget Sound
by the SS. Nadina and the SS.
Chena. They will carry a total of
570,000 cases. The Chena is due
in Seattle Friday. The Nadina is
expected to arrive late next week.
The Victoria loaded its cargo,
including 13,000 sacks of fish meal
and a quantity of cold-storage
fish, at Kenai Peninsula and
Prince William Sound ports. The
Sailor’s Splice loaded its cargo at
| Kodiak Island and Cook Inlet
i ports.
The four ships are all operated
by Alaska Steamship Company.
Value of the canned salmon be
ing brought in by the vessels was
figured, roughly, at $24 a case.
Salmon brokers said it is too early
to predict a definite price per
case on the new pack.
——, — — —I ■ -
along the overseas lifeline to Tok
yo.
PAA has recalled to active duty
144 pilots who were furloughed
on January 1 this year.
Strict security measures have
been put into effect to prevent
any possible attempts at aircraft
sabotage by home-grown com
munist enemies. These same se
curity measures are intended to
prevent any “useful information”
from filtering out to the enemy
abroad. (Such information in
cludes any exact description of
the size or scope of the airlift to
day). •
In charge of all pilots in PAA*s
portion of the Pacific lift is Cap
tain Basil Rowe, a veteran skipper
with a world’s record of 30,405
I hours of flying.
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