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SEWARD, ALASKA, )VED„ SEPTEMBER 26, 1951
Prion 10 cents
lee To Ask Truman
p As Iranian Oil
lation Worsens
ndon, i.l’i — Prime Minister
e is asking President Tru
personally for help in Bri
» crucial oil dispute with
informed sources said
itain protested in the
gest terms in Tehran ear
today against an Iranian
ordering some 300 British
len to quit the world's big
refinery in Abadan by Oc
3.
a personal message to Tru
informed sources said,
e likely will make it clear
Britain is determined to
on in Abadan,
tlee conferred last night
his top advisors and mili
chiefs after Iran ordered
Jritish oil men expelled,
e informants said Sir Oliver
ks, British Ambassador in
lington, was expected to
a meeting with President
lan to deliver a message
Attlee.
Britain takes a most foree
ine toward Iran it would
grave international prob
for all the North Atlantic
Allies.
« has a mutual defense
with Russia* signed in 1921,
entitles Russia to send
s into Iran if Iran is in
d. This must be taken into
ml in ihe reckoning on
her force should be used
badan.
mon Pack Much
>ater Than 1950
special Washington Service
ishinglon t.?i — The Fish
Wildlife Service said today
the Alaska pack of salmon
igh September 6 totaled
.418 cases, 161,415 more
last year.
e agency said the yield in
rrnal year averages about
,000 cases.
e increase this year was
to a Southeastern Alaska
of 1.847.127 cases, 703.214
than last year,
the Puget Sound area, the
at the end of the first
in September was 413,420
, compared with 123,135
e same time last year,
e service estimated the
United States and Alaska
)n pack this year at about
.000 cases, an increase of
t 500.000 over the 1950
e and a decrease of about
00 from the 1949 total.
TTLE SHORT CF SALMON
IAGE SPACE
itlle P1 — Bellingham, Ana
s and Tacoma arc profiting
a congestion of Seattle's
ed fish storage spaces, a
>n terminal official said
tip salmon ships are al
unloading at those ports,
Bacon, general manager
ilmon Terminals, Inc., rc
d, and the diversion /nay
isc unless Seattle improves
orage facilities.
? problem became acute
the Navy took over Pier
Seattle during World War
id thus removed 600,000
e feet of floor space for
’ available for salmon stor
Jacon said.
Aviation Safety
Discussions
D. M. Greizer
for
The Office of Aviation Safely
CLIMBS MAY BE CRITICAL
Since the best angle of climb
speed of an airplane is different
from the best rate of climb speed
(it is less), a pilot must choose
which "best” he wants. Under
some conditions, the choice is
critical, and the wrong choice
will result in failure to continue
flight.
The best angle of climb is used
to clear obstacles. The best rate
of climb may not produce a high
enough angle of climb to clear
obstructions because of the air
plane's greater ground speed.
Flaps Increase Angle of Climb
Lift type flaps provide a high
er angle of climb. Their use will
reduce the maximum obtainable
rate of climb.
An airplane flying in a down
draft needs a maximum rate of
climb.
Pilot Confusion Easy
Keeping the foregoing in mind
it is apparent that a pilot may
easily be confronted with a situ
ation wherein it is not obvious
whether he should adopt a maxi
mum rate of climb or a maxi
mum angle of climb.
Sample Problem
A pilot may meet with this
problem. The take-off is from a
small field which requires using
the best angle of climb to insure
clearing trees at the end, but the
field is so located that the air
plane is bound to be flying in a
downdraft after leaving the
ground, and for some time there
after.
Use of flaps will be required
for the take-off. but after the
take-off is accomplished, the rate
of climb will not be great enough
to rise above further obstruc
tions while riding in the down
draft.
If the pilot recognizes this sit
uation, ha will not take off, be
cause the combination just will
not work.
Possible Solution
If the pilot knows from expe
rience just where the downdraft
will be met, he may then be able
to form a proper estimate that
he has enough room to climb
over the initial obstructions, us
ing flaps, then retract the flaps,
and obtain a maximum rate of
climb speed before entering tha
downdraft area.
Clearly, such a flight requires
an educated estimate by a pilot
of mature experience. Guessing
is no good.
BOARD TO SETTLE ARR
WORKERS DISPUTES
Washington l/P) — The Int rior
Department announced yester
day establishment of an adjust
ment board for settling griev
ances with train and engine
service employes of The Alaska
Railroad.
Secretary of the Interior
Chapman said the board will
have three members, one ap
pointed by the railroad, one by
the union involved, and one by
agreement between the two
parties.
The board will handle griev
ances rising out of interpreta
tion of labor agreements.
Chapman said a new board
will be set up for each dispute.
No unsettled disputes are pend
ing, he said.
Big Three Ready To
Bring Italy Into UN
Washington (/PI — The United
States, Britain and France de
clared their readiness today to
lift permanent restrictions and
“discriminations” imposed on
Italy by its World War II peace
treaty.
. One big result would be to
remove treaty limitations on
Italian arming. The three gov
ernments also jointly confirmed
their determination “to make
every effort to secure Italy’s
membership in the United Na
tions,” something which has
been blocked in the past by Rus
sia's veto.
Today’s declaration followed
talks among the three big pow
ers and conferences here with
the Italian Prime Minister Al
cide de Gasperi.
The Allied powers called on
other nations which signed the
Italian peace treaty five years
ago to act in concert with the
Big Three.
Today's declaration said Italy
had “loyally cooperated with the
Allies during the latter part of
the war as a co-belligerent.”
It added that she has re-estab
lished democratic institutions
and has lent her‘cooperation to
“other peaceful and democratic
governments" for the strengthen
ing “of the free world.”
Despite this record, the West
ern Big Three said, Italy is still
prevented by Russia's “unjusti
fiable veto” from getting into
the U.N. and is also subject to
peace treaty restrictions which
arc no longer in line with Italy's
role "as an active and equal
member of the democratic and
freedom-loving family of na
tions.”
NORTHERN COURTESY
SURPRISES TRAVELERS
Anchorage, (AMNS) — If you
have a small chore to be done
on the Arctic Coast, just dele
gate it casually to someone going
that way. That's how things are
done in the sparsely populated
north.
cause of this typically wil
derness* attitude, Major Harry
J. fcessums oi Odessa, Texas,
today has his alarm clock. Seems
the major was travelling up the
Alaska Highway en route to his
new job in the manpower re
quirements arid allocations divi
sion ox the Alaska Air Com
mand. He stopped overnight at
the Kluane Inn in Bur wash
Landing, Yukon Territory,
where he proceeded to forget his
clock.
A day after he had left (traf
fic being heavy), along came
Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Newman
of New York City, on a photo
graphic trek of Canada and Al
aska.
“The major was on his way
to Anchorage, too,” explained
the inn host. “Would you mind
taking his clock along?”
So 560 miles, over the border
and into this community of
32,000, came the Sessums clock.
The incident was calmly accept
ed by old timers, but Major
Sessums and Mr. and Mrs. New
man are still a bit surprised.
SENATE OK S HUNTLEY
Washington — The Senate
approved last night the nomina
tion of Walter E. Huntley to be.
U.S. Marshal for Division 3 of
the district of Alaska.
King Spends "Less
Restful Night" After
Lung Operation
London :,4*l — King George’s
doctors reported today the mon
arch spent a less restful night
but still is gaining strength
after Sunday’s dangerous lung
operation.
They also said his general
condition is good.
One medical expert said the
phrase “less restful night” need
not necessarily cause any con
cern. He explained that the
doctors probably have cut down
the amount of opiates gi^en to
the King to ease his pain in the
period immediately after the
operation in which all or part
of a lung was cut out.
London i*t — A Buckingham
Palace spokesman said tonight
the Canadian-American tour of
Princess Elizabeth and her hus
band, the Duke of Edinburgh,
has been postponed because of
the King's serious illness.
The spokesman said a formal
statement from the palace states
the change in plans would be
forthcoming shortly.
He declined to give any details
on rearrangements.
In Ottawa, a Canadian offi
cial said the postponement
would be for a minimum of two
weeks.
20 Persons Killed In
Viennese Train Wreck
Vienna —The Vienna-Rome
Express crashed into a stationary
freight early today, killing 20
persons and injuring 10 serious
ly. About 30 others were slightly
injured.
The dead were believed to be
members of an Italian railway
man's organization who had
been vacationing in Vienna.
The disaster occurred in a
midnight fog at the small rail
way station of Langenwang, 55
miles southeast of Vienna. The
crash telescoped the wooden
first class coach in which the
Italians were returning home.
A heavy baggage car, rammed
into the air by the force of the
crash, fell on top of the passen
ger coach and buried the occu
pants.
Other passenger cars behind
were partly telescoped by the
collision, but most of the occu
pnats"escaped serious injury.
HUGE WAR CEMETARY
IN HOLLAND
The Hague (.1*) — The Nether
lands have granted the United
States a 50-year lease on the
grounds of the second biggest
American war cemetary in Eu
rope, Margratcn, the foreign
office announced today.
It is near Maastricht, in the
southeastern corner of the coun
try. Eight thousand American
World War II dead are buried
there.
700 DIE IN HEAT
Cairo. Egypt UP) — An Arab
news agency dispatch says tem
peratures reaching 129 degrees
in the shade have caused the
deaths of 700 Moslem pilgrims
at Mecca. The heat wave comes
at the peak of the yearly pil
grimage season.
U.N. Command Headquariers.
Korea l/P) — Allied pilots today
destroyed or damaged 14 Com
munist planes over northwest
Korea in history’s greatest day
of all-jet battles.
There were 256 jets in action.
The number dwarfed all previ
ous jet actions for a single day.
“The MIG war is getting grim
mer,” said Col. Francis S. Ga
breski, America’s leading ace.
“Their planes are better, their
pilots are better and their sys
tem is better.
“Whoever is flying these MIGs
is using some of the old German
Luftwaffe tricks. They are as
good as any German pilots I
met in the last war.”
(Gabreski’s comments, the
range of the new Red jets and
the unusual eagerness of their
pilots in seeking battle, hinted
the Communists may have
thrown a newer model jet, pos
sibly the MIG-19, into the sharp
ening air war.)
Seventy-seven Allied jets
tangled with 120 Russian-type
MIGs in a roaring duel Wednes
day morning over northwest
Korea's MIG alley. It was the
biggest single jet fight of all
time.
The U.S. Fifth Air Force said
its pilots probably destroyed
one Red jet and damaged four.
It said no Allied planes were
lost.
Then 24 American Thunder
jets swooshed back into MIG
alley in the afternoon and clash
ed with 35 MIGs.
The score, as reported by
Fifth Air Force: One MIG prob
ably destroyed, eight damaged.
It gave no report on the Ameri
can planes.
The afternoon battle was join
ed at 15.000 feet near Sinanju.
The MIGs roared in fast and
forced the Thunderjets to drop
their bomb loads before they
had made their target runs.
In the morning battle, the
MIGs roared out of the north
in a bold attempt to block an
Allied smash at Communist rail
lines.
On the ground, Allied forces
stormed again at Heartbreak
Ridge in east-central Korea.
They were carrying on their five
weeks old drive to ’take the
height commanding a key Com
munist supply area.
Reds A^eiirj Suggest
Korean Truce Ta'llks
By Don Huih
Tokyo UP) — The United Na
tions Command today rejected
another Communist suggestion
that full-dress Korean truce
talks be resumed immediately.
The Allies insisted that ar
rangements first be made to
prevent further interruptions
when the meetings are resumed.
The Reds made their repeat
proposal at a meeting of Allied
and Communist liaison officers
in Kaesong. Korea, site of the
stalled cease-fire talks.
Peiping radio said the Com
munists suggested that the full
truce talks be resumed Thurs
day but the Allies “again re
sorted to the old stalling tactics
of discussing conditions first.’’
It was the third and longest
session held by the liaison teams
in an effort to get the talks roll
ing again.
The Wednesday meeting last
ed one hour and 20 minutes.
The first liaison session, on Mon
day, lasted an hour.