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NEWS IN BRIEF
ALAMEDA, Calif. (7Pi—Brem
erton ran roughshod over Kodiak,
19 to 5, during Friday’s play in the
Navy’s Pacific Coa$>t baseball
tournament.
THURMON^T, Md. (^ — Presi
dent Truman took it easy Saturday
as he and Mrs. Truman enjoyed
the cool of their nearby Catoctin
Mountain retreat. The President,
his work finished on 194 bills sent
up to him in the closing days of
Congress, hiked, swam and read
as part of a week-end devoted to
relaxation. He drove to this park
area, 65 miles northwest of Wash
ington, Friday, accompanied by
Mrs. Truman and a secret service
detachment.
JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (/P> —
One Missouri Pacific passenger
train plowed into the rear of an
other here shortly before sunrise
yesterday, Killing one person and
injuring 29. Dead was Armin H.
Emich, 50, of St. Louis, a railway
mail clerk.
COUDERSPORT, Pa. (/P)—A 37
year-old woodchopper said he
shot his wife to death in their one
room cabin because she insisted he
say “pretty please,” deputy sheriff
Carl Butler reported today.
Butler said the husband, George
Henry Chapman, said in a state
ment he shot his wife, Minnie. 37„
in the head and heart last night
with a 22 caliber pistol.
DETROIT, (/PI—'The Ford Motor
Co. recalled 32,000 workers to
their jobs today, ending a three
day layoff caused by a parts short
age blamed by officials on the con
tinuing strike at Murray Corp. of
America.
Another 19,000 employees in the
Ford Rouge, Highland Park and
branch assembly plants remained,
idle. They were to return to work
Wednesday.
—
WASHINGTON, (A>) — The Far
Eastern commission ruled in a I
policy decision published today j
tha an Allied-seized stock of!
Japanese gold and jewels valued
at more than $137,000,000 might be
used to help finance a revival of
Japans peace economy.
The ruling was made by the ll-<
nation commission in a directive
covering Japan’s foreign trade pol
icies for the immediate future. It
said that the precious metals and,
jewels ultimately should be dis
posed of as reparations.
Walter Disney To
Visit Alaska
LOS ANGELES, t/P>—Film pro
ducer Walt Disney and his daugh
ter Sharon left by private plane
yesterday on a research trip to
Alaska.
The Disneys departed in a craft
piloted by Los Angeles oilman
Russ Havenstrite. Other passen
gers were Mrs. Havenstrite and
banker and Mrs. Hugo Anderson
of Chicago.
With stops scheduled at Van
couver, B. C., and Juneau, Fair
banks, Anchorage and Candle,
. "Radio Tokyo Calling U. S. A.... Take It Away!"
.. . . . ________
Broadcasting over Hie American Forces network at Tokyo, these Army Regulars have the interesting job
of keeping the home folks posted on happenings in Japan as well as keeping occupation troops informed on
the latest events in the U. S. A. For young men between 18 and 34 years of age, inclusive, the new Regular
Army offers similar interesting jobs.
I
Search Continues
For Navy Plane
Lost In Aleutians
KODIAK, l/P)—Planes and sur
face vessels continued an unre
lenting search for a navy PBY
plane which disappeared Wednes
day en route from Kodiak to Dutch
Harbor with five crewmen, two
other navy passengers and 13
members of a military post soft
ball team aboard.
Seventeenth naval district head
quarters, in releasing the names of
the missing men last night, dis
closed that the ball team was re
turning from an Alaska-wide
tournament at Kodiak.
Seven of the team members
were from the Dutch Harbor navy
base and six from the army’s near
by Fort Mears.
Joining the search were transient
aircraft and military planes from
Fort Randall, Fort Richardson,
Kodiak and Adak. The USS Sus
sek, enroute to Adak, was sent to
the area to direct the surface op
erations, in which the coast guard
ship Unalga and navy tug Pota
watomie are participating.
The big flying boat took off on
its 600-mile flight Wednesday
morning and made its last report
four hours later while about 150
miles from Dutch Harbor.
District navy headquarters at
Kodiak released the following list
of persons aboard the plane.
Crew members: Pilot, Lt. (jg>
William H. Seigler, USN; Colum
bia, S. C. Co-pilot, Lt. (jg) Nave
A. Fuleihan, USN; Grand Blanc,
Mich. John E. Duvall, Amm-lst,
USN. Pervis E. Duvall, seaman
1/c, USN. Lixville, Mo. Bryce
Stennett Herndon, Arm 1st, USN,
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Disney is making the trips for
background material for a film he
is producing on Alaskan seals.
Congressional
Party Here For
Short Visit Sunday
_
Yesterday at noon a Congres
, sional party of the Interstate and
Foreign Committee arrived in
Nome with the Air Transport
Command on a DC-4 and were
taken by members of the Chamber
of Commerce to the Bering Sea
Clab where a special dinner was
served.
The tables were set in a horse
shoe—with goldpans containing
nuggets for centerpieces. Small
pokes of gold were attached to the
place cards for all guests. Beauti
ful wild flowers and flowers from
the Wallace greenhouse decorated
the room.
After the dinner the party was
driven to King Island village, and
Polet's store to see the furs and
handicraft of our local craftsmen. |
Representative Evan Howell,
chairman of the group who ar
ranged the trip in support of the
two big airport bills for Fairbanks
and Anchorage, which will total
appropriations of $8,000,000 has
been interested in Alaska for many
years and visited in 1944 as a
member of the armed services
committee of the House. His work
on the airport bill marks the close
of his session in Congress, as he
has recently been appointed a
judge of the U. S. Court of Ap
peals in Washington, D. C. He
stated, “This committee has the
broadest duties of any committee
in Congress.”
Besides the airports they are in
terested in anything in the line of
commerce and all legislation and
activities in Alaska including Bar
row oil, Alaska Railroad, harbors,
roads.
Other members of the party are
Leonard Hall, of Oyster Bay, New
York, who is chairman of the Re
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Forest Service
Offers Tongass
Timber For Sale
—
WASHINGTON, UP) — Quickly
following up President Truman’s
approval of a bill to establish a
newsprint industry in Alaska, the
U. S. Forest Service has put up
for sale 1,500,000,000 cubic feet of
i timber in the Tongass National
[ Forest near Petersburg in central
Southeast Alaska.
The block is the first of several
which will be sold from the esti-1
mated 80,000,000,000 cubic board
feet in that area of the Territory.1
The initial sale will include
enough timber to insure operation
for 50 years of a mill w’ith a capa-!
city of 525 tons of newsprint a day.!
Buyers will be required to cut on
a sustained-yield basis, safeguard i
salmon spawning streams, prevent!
pollution and preserve scenic
areas.
As a result of the newsprint
measure, signed Friday by the
President, the forest service says:
1. Bidders on the first block of
timber must submit information
regarding their financial responsi
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U. S. Demands
Accounting Of
Spending Of Loan
WASHINGTON, (fP)—An Amer
ican demand for a full explanation
of how Britain is spending her
$3,750,000,000 loan will confront
British delegates coming here to
discuss their country’s worsening
financial plight.
Officials said today they need
this sort of comprehensive state
ment before they can agree to re
lax any of the loan agreement
provisions in a manner to help
Britain save her disappearing dol
Odom 'Round The
World In 73 Hours
5 Minutes
CHICAGO, </P> — Pilot Bill
Odom said today that he would
try it again after setting a new
record for the fastest trip around
the world.
The 27-year-old veteran flyer
broke all previous globe circling
records as the buzed the Douglas
airport control tower yesterday
just 73 hours, five minutes and 11
second after leaving Chicago
Thursday on globe girdling hop.
Odom said that he had dozed off
from fatigue over the mountains
of western Canada and awoKe .o
find himself flashing toward a
19.000 foot mountain peak.
Despite failure of an automatic
j pilot, lack of gas near the end o?
, the trip, the extreme weariness,
Odom, with his converted army, a
26 bomber, the Reynolds Bomb
shell, broke all existing records.
These included the former solo
record set in 1933 by the l*te
Wiley Post, of 186 hours and 49
: minutes, and the previous flight
I of the Bombshell with Odom, Mil
ton Reynolds, and flight engineer
T. Carroll Sallee, which made the
) trip in 78 hours 55 minutes last
April.
Odom’s average speed for the
flight, including nine house and
ten minutes on the ground was ap
proximately 269 hiles an hour;
but during the 63 hours and 15
, minutes of flying time he averaged
310.59 miles per hour.
Franklin Lamb, Odom’s flight
manager, said the youthful airman
would enter the Bendix air races
at Cleveland Aug. 30, and is
planning another global flight in
late October with scientists and
newsmen aboard.
The balding, six foot two-inch
airman said it had been his ambi
tion to circle the globe ever since
he met Wiley Post in 1933 in Tul
sa, Okla., when Odom was 13
years old. Post gave him an auto
graphed piece of the fabric of his
record setting, single engined
plane, the Winnie Mae.
fcarly yesterday Odom paid
homage to Post by leaving the
lragment attached to a small
wreath, at the Anchorage, Alaska,
airfield, in tribute to the earlier
record smasher. Post Died in a
1936 plane crash, with Will Rog
ers at Pt. Barrow, Alaska.
On his trip Odom decided to
pass over Shanghai, China, where
he was scheduled to make a stop.
Since early afternoon he had been
awaited at Lunghwa airdrome on
the western outskirts of the city.
As he drew near, the runway was
outlined with flares, and lunch
for the flier and fuel for his plane
were ready, but Odom reported by
radio that he would not land.
There was good weather all the
way to Tokyo, and he decided to
make the hop from Calcutta to
Tokyo without stop.
He passed over Shanghai at an
altitude of 18,000 feet.
lar resources.
The report given parliament last
Thursday by Hugh Dalton, chan
cellor of the exchequer, is re
garded by authorities here as not
sufficiently in detail.