2,233-lb, turbine
shipped by air
SEATTLE (/P) They chained
the nose of a giant air freight
er to a ton 'block of concrete
and piled 3,000 pounds of sand
bags in its nose before loading
an $11,520 “fare” for the Ori
ent.
The fore was a 7,233 pound
steam turbine, which North
west Airlines officials said
was the largest piece of air
freight ever flown across the
Pacific Ocean. It left here yes
terday for Hiroshima, Japan.
Because the loading doors
off the big DC-4 are back of
the miain landing gear, the
turbine’s weight bad to be
counterbalanced in the nose
while it was being loaded on
the plane. The ton off concrete
and' 3.000 pounds of bagged
sand did (the trick
The company using the big
turbine needed it now to keep:
a project going. That’s why
they sent it by air freilght in
j stead of by steamship, a three
! week jaunt. j
Montgomery Ward
will open 3 offices
CHICAGO (TP) Montgomery
Ward & Co. today announced
plans to establish catalogue or
der offices in three Alaskan
cities.
John Barr, chairman and pre
sident of the mail order house,
said after a board meeting that
the offices will be set up at An
chorage. Juneau and Fairbanks
“by the first of the year.”
! TEtL AVIV, Israel (TP) An
American tourist was among
three passengers killed and s
Canadian woman was wound
ed in the ambush of an Israeli
bus by an armed gang last
night near the Lebanese bor
der.
The American victim was
identified as Henman Bradh.
28, of Brooklyn, N. Y., a neph
ew of RaJbbd Joseph Teitel
baurn of Brooklyn.
Mrs. Rogica Bercowitz of
Montreal was among the nine
wounded in the attack. She is
now at the Poriah hospital,
south of Tiberias, where her
condition was reported as not
serious.
U. N. truce observers began
an on-the-spot investigation
today of the ambush after a
fall starts
i New England and upper New
York state to the 50s in Penn
sylvania and New Jersey,
j Moderately cool weather
; prevailed across the Great
' Lakes region, the upper Miss
issiippi valley and in the far
west.
The warm region extende
over tihe gulf states and the
[ extreme southwest desert re
gion. Temperaturs were most
ly in the 70s although they,
were near or a little above 80
in most of Texas.
TODAY IS THE DAY IN
THE AMERICAN LEAGUE
!by The Associated Press
This is the day the New York
Yankees can clinch the Amer
ican league -pennant and offic
ially reduce the Cleveland In
dians to a state of frustration
once again.
The Yankees, rumbling a
iong on an eight game winning
Streak, can claim their sixth
banner in seven seasons with a
victory in either the day or
night portion of a doublehead
er at Boston. And they can do
it without that should the In
! dians drop their afternoon
' game at Detroit,
i
j If the Trilbe. losing five of
i the last six, comes up with an
other clunker New York can
lose all four of its remaining
Igames and still hang up the
bunting in the Yankee Stadium
for the opening game of the
world senes against Brooklyn
next Wednesday.
Even a victory doesn’t figure
to perk up the listless Injuns,
(continued on page three)
FOOTBALL SEASON REALLY
GETS UNDER WAY
by The Associated Press
! Outstanding exponents of
the split T and single wing
styles of football clash tomor
; row when Jim Tatum’s Mary
land Terrapins and Red San
ders’ Bruins from UCLA meet
| in what shapes up as the na
| tion’s No. 1 college gridiron at
| traction.
; Colleges of all sizes swing
! into action for the first big Sat
| urday of the new season but
! the meeting of top ranking
; UCLA and fifth ranked Mary
j land at College Park, Md., fig
j ures to be the “big” game. Both
came through unscathed in
, their openers last Saturday.
The USCLA-Maryland game
is the only one involving two
teams ranked among the top
(continned oa<?e two)
... A report by the Alaska Steamship Company to its customers
and friends on the progress oj plans to provide ever-better se'""“e
to a growing area.
Alaska Steamship Company’s purchase of two additional ships
within the past six months... a total of seven ships since World
War II ... points up the Company’s expanding investment in
the future of Alaska. Six additional vessels under charter serve
in Alaska’s largest fleet to maintain the Alaska Line’s sixty year
tradition of serving Alaska best.
»
S. S. FORTUNA
EC-2 (Liberty-type), formerly “Volunteer State,”
10,500 tons, purchased from States Marine Corporation,
New York, for Alaska service.
M. V. GALENA
CI-MAV-I (Coastal freighter type), formerly “Levers
Bend,” 6,090 tons, purchased from Munargo Lines
Company, Weehawken, N. J., for Alaska service.
ALASKA STEAMSHIP COMPANY
THE MAIN LINE TO ALASKA