Alaska Peaks I
May Be Named for
Crosson and White
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(By Vern Haugland)
<(/P) Special Washington Service)
WASHINGTON — A mountain
in the shadow of Alaska’s famed
Mount McKinley, and a glacier 12
miles long, soon may bear the sur
name of the late Joseph Crosson,
pioneer Arctic bush pilot.
Another Alaskan mountain may
be named for the late Tom White,
a founder, explorer and developer
of the Territory’s Katall-a oil and
coal field.
The board on geographic names J
said it would consider the propos- i
als on or about Dec. 1.
The proposed Mount Crosson
stands at an elevation at 12.780
feet, at the head of Kahiltna Gla
cier. Crosson Glacier extends to
the northwest.
Crosson died recently in retire
ment at Seattle. He was the hero!
of many a dramatic mercy flight i
in the northland and a former j
manager of Pan-American Air-1
ways in Alaska.
Crosson was one of the first
persons to fly over Mount McKin
ley—highest peak in the United
States—which is almost 10 miles
to the northeast of Mount Crosson
and Crosson Glacier.
Alaskan explorer Bra dford
Washburn proposed to the board
that the flier’s name be approved. I
The Cordova, Alaska, chamber
of commerce and the Cordova |
town council asked that a 10,000
foot peak east of Cordova—about
five miles east of the head of Miles I
Clavier and 20 miles northwest of
Mount Steller—be named Mount
Tom White.
White visited Alaska twice with
the St. Elias expeditions of the
geological survey and National
Geographic Society, and on the
second visit in 1891 remained to
try to find gold.
Instead he found the Katalla
field. He also took part in surveys,
railroad construction and develop-!
ment of the lower Copper River
area north of Cordova.
The board also will try to decide 1
whether the five-mile-long creek ,
flowing southwestward into the
Tok River, about 2Vt> miles above
the mouth of Shindata Creek, in
Alaska should be known as Boul
der, Silver or Stibnite.
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brought about a virtual reign of
terror there, with no Frenchman
any longer feeling safe. The ar
rests began last week when the
clerk of the French consulate at
Stettin was seizen on espionage
charges.
In the Far East the communists
closed in on Chungking. A dis
patch from the provisional capital
of the Nationalists said commun
ist gunfire could be heard in the
city. Generalissima Chiang Kai
Shek was reported personally di
recting the fight.
The last plane from Chungking
reported the communists on the
banks of the Yangtze River oppo
site Chungking, which has been
abandoned by the national gov
ernment. All indications were
that the city would be in commun
ist hands before long.
Fighting in the Chungking area
was reported to be desperate.
The South China Morning Post
published a story that Li Tsung
Jen, absent acting president of na
tionalist China, would leave for
the United States soon. Li, on the
outs with Generalissimo Chinag
Kai-Shek, has been in Hongkong
for treament at a hospital.
Wednesday. November 30, 1949
New Zealand literally tore out
the labor government which has
been in the little British Com
monwealth for 14 years.
The election result takes on
added significance in that two
other Commonwealth nations with
labor governments—Australia and
Britain itself—face the electorate
i nthe next six months.
The Labor regime of Prime
Minister Peter Fraser which prid
ed itself on its advanced social
legislation went down in the
groundswell of anti-labor senti
ment. The people appeared tired
of government controls.
New Zealand is tied strongly to
Australia, her nearest neighbor
and to Britain by sentimental, po
litical and economic bonds. The
Labor governments of the three
commonwealth nations have long
worked in friendly concord.
The defeat of the labor party in
New Zealand does not necessarily
mean the same result will follow
in the other countries where the
issues are somewhat different.
The Australian general election
will be held Dec. 10. The British
labor government of Prime Min
ister Clement Attlee is expected
to call an election next spring.
The election must be held before
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Death Foil From
Plane Crashes
Rises Rapidly
By the Associated Press
The crash of an American Air
lines plane at Dallas today raised
the death toll from major civilian
and military air accidents in the
past month to more than 200. j
Twenty-eight persons were be-1
lieved killed at Dallas.
It was one of the worst months
for aviation in peacetime history.
Just about a month ago on Nov.
1, an Eastern Airlines plane and
a P-3 8 fighter collided near
Washington, D. C., killing all 51
passengers and a crew of four on
the DC-4
Three days before a Paris-New
York transatlantic airliner crash
ed in a flaming heap against a I
I
mountain peak in the Azores. The]
4'8 dead included Marcel Cerdan, j
former French and world middle
weight boxing champion.
Then, on Nov. 20, a Dutch mer
cy plane carrying 28 JewLsh ref
ugee children from North Africa
to Scandinavia came down in a
maks of twisted wreckage near
Oslo, Norway. A 12-year-old boy
survived, but 34 others died.
Meanwhile, the Air Force
plagued by a series of tragic mis
haps^ took some of its famed B-29
superfortresses out of the air for
overhaul.
The Air Force’s November pack
of woes was highlighted by the
loss of 18 personnel when two su
perforts collided in a mock bomb
ing run near Stockton, Calif., on
the 16th.
Of course you have read the
"Shooting of Dan McGrew" by
Robert Service; poet laureate of
Alaska; come and hear it sung
and re-enacted at the Roof Gar
den. —Adv.
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mid-summer.
In all three countries Labor has
had to handle the tricky prob
lems of post-war years—difficult
years for any government. Labor
has kept taxation high. It has had
to face a thousand-and-one prob-1
Jems caused by the dollar short-j
age. It has been harried by strikes
some of which were lec^ by com- j
munists.
Elsewhere on the international
scene;
Chungking. which held out
against the Japanese invaders
throughout the weary war years,,
was in the grip of the revolution
ary armies of Mao Tze-Tung to
day. Hong Kong dispatches said
25,000 Chinese communist troops
reportedly entered the outskirts
I of the city and that it fell at noon.
iChiang Kai-Shek was leading his
troops in the defense of Chung
king according to last direct re
[ ports from that city, the third na
tionalist capital hit this year.
In R<fme, communist labor un
ion leaders called 5,000,000 Ital
ian workers to go out on a 24-hour ,
general strike tomorrow. The
strike is in protest of the slaying
of two peasants in a clash with
police in Italy’s deep-south. Po
lise clashed with peasant squatters
trying to take over farmland near
Bari.
Berlin’s communists celebrated
the first anniversary of the putsch
by which they split Germany’s j
main city into two. In West Ber
lin, Mayor Ernst Reuter said the
communists never would abandon
their aim to take over the whole
city. He said if the communists
wanted unity only, the simplest
answer would be free elections
for all the city. i
conducted by Claud C. Ruch
Educational Director,
Childcraft Advisory Service
Most of you mothers of small
babies worry needlessly when your
little ones don’t start to sit up or
to walk or talk as early in life as
the baby in the house next door
or the apartment upstairs
Before you begin to wonder
whether or not there may be
something
wrong with
little Mary or
Bill, read what
one of the coun
try’s leading
authorities on
"The Baby’s
First Year”
has to say on
this subject:
"As in all
' , _ ” " other aspects
ClaudC. Ruch of develop.
ment, babies vary a great deal
with respect to the time when they
begin to do certain things.”
That is the expert opinion of Dr
Donovan J. McCune, Professor of
Pediatrics at Columbia University
and Childcraft writer.
An attending pediatrician at the
Babies Hospital in New York City,
he has the opportunity to observe
hundreds of infants closely every
year.
According to Dr. McCune, ‘‘ba
bies seem to follow* the same gen
eral pattern of development, des
pite differences in the time of
beginning.” Here is the outline he
gives for their progress:
1. When lying on his abdomen,
the newly born infant can usu
ally raise his head briefly, but
cannot do so if he is lying
on his back.
2. During the first four months,
he can lift his head backward
with greater and greater effi
ciency^ but he usually cannot
lift it forward until he is about
. four months of age.
8. A month or tw*o later, at from
five to six months, he can sit
upright with a little support.
4. By seven or eight months, a
baby can maintain a sitting
posture without aid for a short
time and pull himself back in
to it if _he falls over.
Because soldiers of Marseille
marching into Paris in 1792 to
take part in the attack on the
Tuileries sang Rouget de Lisle’s
battle song, it became knowm as
the Marseillaise.
Northwest Airlines
Radio Operator
Threaten Strike
TOKYO, </P) — Radio operators
on Northwest Airlines’ interna
tional flights threatened to strike
yesterday. One plane was delayer!
five and a half hours.
Leslie Osborne, assistant Orient
traffic manager for Northwest,
said the radio operators agreed to
work pending cabled instructions
from union officials in Minneap
olis.
A. D. Piepgras. company comp
troller here, said all aspects of
the dispute would be handled by
Northwest’s head office in Minne
apolis.
The company said notice of a
strike was received but it con
tained no demands. Haneda air
port’s dispatched said, however,
the radiomen were demanding the
same rate of pay received by oper
ators for other airlines.
A Northwest plan from Alaska
which arrived at 4:30 a.m.. took
off for Seoul. Korea, at 9 a.m. Tt
was scheduled to leave at 5:30.
Piepgras said this plane would
return from Seoul late yesterday
and today’s flight from Manila to
Alaska via Tokyo probably would
be made on schedule.
Northwest is installing air to
ground facilities that eventually
will eliminate radio operators in
plane crews. Piepgras said later,
and the dispute centers on sever
ance pay.
Approximately 15 flight radio
operators are employed in the
Orient by Northwest, he said.
WRANGELL GETS $8,800 IN
FIRST QUARTER SALES TAX
In the city of Wrangell, Alaska,
where sales tax went into effect
in July, the first returns for July,
Aug. and September collected to
date amounts to $8,800. Sales tax
funds are earmarked for health
and education and cannot be used
for any other purpose.
“This pen leaks,” said the con
vict as the rain came through the
roof.
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