Ice-Cloaked Army
Transport Staggers
Into Whitehorse
GREAT FALLS—An ice-coated
army transport pUtne successfully
battled a blizzard for three hours
over northwestern Canada’s most
rugged mountains landing at
Whitehorse, in the Yukon territory
after the crew had jettisoned 6,000
pounds of “very valuable” cargo.
The big four-engined craft, en
route from Great Falls to Fair
banks, managed to reach White
horse with three tons of ice
weighting its wings, the Great
Falls Army Air Base reported.
The pilot, Capt. Jack D. Sisson
of Cheyenne, Wyo., messaged from
Whitehorse that the plane started
to stall five times while the crew
frantically tossed cargo and per
sonal baggage overboard.
The ship’s airspeed was cut to
120 miles an hour as three and a
half inches of ice formed on the
wings sb rapidly that the de-icing
equipment could not function ef
fectively.
The crew chose to remain with
the plane rather than risk para
chuting into the bleak wilderness.
SANDY MAZEN JOINS
U. S. ARMY
Sandy Mazen, older son of Mr.
and Mrs. David Mazen has entered
the service of the U. S. Army here
and is serving with the ACS.
Starting at the bottom, he is now
messenger boy.
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Fairbanks Man
Dead In Fire
Charles Mortimer. (>3, longtime
resident of Fairbanks, was burned
| to death shortly after noon today,
and the daughter of his new bride
was severely burned when a rag
ing fire destroyed their home at
the junction of the Richardson
Highway and the South Cushman
extension.
Mortimer was overcome while
attempting to fight the flames in
side the house. The daughter, Mrs.
Mary Devail went to his rescue,
trying to keep the flames back
with snow, but was unable to
reach him to drag him out and
was forced to retreat after her
hands and face had been badly
burned.
Mrs. Mortimer, the victim’s
bride of less than three weeks,
and Mrs. Dev all’s two children,
Carl 6, and Carrie Rose 4, months,
all escaped injury.
The origin of the fire was not
discovered.
Supreme Court
Fails To Agree
WASHINGTON (/P)—'The strife
torn Supreme Court today handed
down its first three formal opinions
of the new term and failed to
agree on any of them.
Justices Black and Jackson,
whose own quarrel dragged the
feud into the open last summer,
were on the same side right down
the line today.
“Take it easy, Mr. Abercrombie.
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WASHINGTON (A*)—George E.
Janey, 34, acidentally stepped up
on a passenger’s foot yesterday in
a crowded trolley car. As Janey
turned to apologize, witnesses told
police, the other man pulled a gun.
fired once and escaped from the
car’s center door. Janey, wounded
in the stomach, died a few' hours
later.
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Senator
Arthur Vanderberg of Michigan,
said today that Republicans had
better concentrate on justifying
their November 5 election victory
before they thing about 1948 poli
tics. Vandenberg’s remark came
when a reporter asked at an in
formal news conference if he will
be a candidate for the Republican
nomination for President two
years from now.
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PASADENA, Calif. (/P) ~ Like
everything else, the price of foot
ball is going up. Tickets for the
i\ose Bowl game next New Year’s ;
day have been scaled tn $5.50 a
copy, an increase of 50 cents.
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LOS ANGELES (#») — Bill Til
i den,, the old tennis trouper, was
; missing today from the $5,000
j world professional hard court
! championships. He was eliminated
yesterday by Bob Harmon, Los
i Angeles, 6-0, 6-1, after he had de
feated Frank Josephs, San Diego,
6-2, 6-4.
LOS ANGELES, UP) — Bobby
Riggs is still the world’s hard
court pro tennis champion. Riggs
yesterday defeated Don Budge 6-2,j
6-4, 4-6, 6-2 in the 57th match be
tween the two.
MADOC, Ont., </P) — Mrs. Ray
Ephraim and her six children
were burned to death today when
their two-story farm house was
destroyed by fire.
UNITED NATIONS — Brit
ish Foreign Secretary Ernest Bev
in planned to urge the five major
powers to draft a new code of con
duct to restrain their use of the
veto power in the U. N. security
council.
FRANCE (P) — Socialists con
sidered a Communist proposal for
leftist front government of the
Fourth Republic which would put'
a ^ommunist in the premiership.
FHINA, (P) — The Communist
cmital, Yenan, was being stripped
of schools, hospitals and factories
as Communist leaders said they
^xoected an asault by central gov
'"nment troops of Chiang Kai
Shek.
PORTLAND, Ore. (P)—Oregon
state liquor stores abandoned the
one-bottle-to-a-customer limi t a -
tion on blended whiskey today,
permitting buyers to purchase up
to two cases for the first time in
years. Bonded, straight, Scotch
mported whiskies, however,
will remain under the one-bottle
limitation.
DISTRICT COURT POSTPONED
UNTIL WEDNESDAY
The U. S. District Court opened
this morning but was adjourned
until Wednesday due, it is report
ed, to lack of sufficient jurors.
LT STANLEY MORGAN
** * CK FROM FAIRBANKS
Lt. Stanley Morgan, of the ACS,
who has been in Fairbanks on of
ficial business returned Friday
evening on the Pan American.
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F'orce equipment is being inspected here by Col. Faul A. Reichle of
York, Pa., Commander of Task Force “Frigid.” Members of Task
Force “F’rigid,” composed of 1,700 officers and men, three of whom are
shown here garbed in “deep snow and cold” paraphernalia, will sail
from Oakland, Calif. The Army’s largest Arctic weather test unit i*
•n route to Ladd Field, Fairbanks, Alaska.
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