Air Hero of Two
Wars Dies Flying j
To Dad's Funeral
SEATTLE, Aug. 10—ljP>—A Wash
ington state air hero of two wars,
who came unscathed through 102
missions over Korea, met a flaming
death yesterday on a flight to his
father’s funeral.
He was Maj. Raymond Schillereff,
34, of Seattle. Members of his family
were notified today that he was
flying the F-8C jet that collided j
with a B-26 bomber near Hill Air ;
Force Base, Utah. Two men aboard i
the bomber parachuted safely. j
Schillereff gained fame in 1950 j
after he was identified as one of j
the first American airmen to shoot
down a Russian-made plane in
Korea. It was among six chalked up
in the first two days of the Korean ^
fighting.
He later caught the national eye ,
when his picture appeared cn Life !
Magazine’s cover.
He was holder of the Distinguish
ed Flying Cross and an Oak Leaf
Cluster.
In World War II he was credited
with downing four German planes
over Europe.
Truman Backs
Boyle 109 Per Cent
Against Charges
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10— IIP) —
President Truman said today he is ^
backing Democratic National Chair
man William M. Boyle 100 perecent
and wants him to stay in his job.
Boyle has been under fire on
charges that he accepted fees to
help a St. Louis printing firm get
a big government loan. He has
denied that.
In two recent meetings with re
porters, Mr. Truman has said he
was looking into the allegations.
Today, he said he is convinced,
“Mr. Boyle had nothing to do with
the approval of those loans.”
He said he supported Mr. Boyle
in the later’s decision not to resign
from the committee chairmanship.
Among other matters, Mr. Tru
man:
1. Challenged Russia to lift bar
riers preventing travel and com
munication between the Soviet
Union and other countries. This
was in response to questions about
Moscow’s recent bid for a "peace
pact,” a move labeled by the State
Department as purely propaganda.
2. Named Senator Robert A. Taft
of Ohio as the man he would like to
see get the Republican Presidential
nomination.
3. Said he did not think Gen.
Dwight D. Eisenhower is a candi
date for the Democratic nomination.
But Mr. Truman wouldn’t say
who he has in mind as a candidate
on the Democratic ticket.
SAM KELSEY, FORMER
ALASKAN, DIES IN
LOCKEFORI), CALIFORNIA
Word of the death July 5 of
Sam Kelsey, former Alaskan, was
received today by Mr. and Mrs.
G. E. Cleveland in a letter from
Mrs. Kelsey. Their home was in
Lockeford, Calif., and burial was
at Ferndale, Calif.
Kelsey, a mining engineer, lived
in Juneau more than thirty years |
ago and • was associated later with ,
mines in the Valdez area. His wife
was the former Mina Sowerby, !
also of Juneau.
Years were spent by the Kel
seys in South Africa and the Phil
ippines where Kelsey mined for
gold. Tliey returned to Alaska and
Kelsey went with the Civil Aero
nautics Administration in Anch
orage.
Their son John is attending San
Jose' State College and Mrs. Kel
sey plans to move to San Jose un
til John is through school. She !
will spend a part of the winter !
with her sister, Mrs. C. K. White, i
in Palm Springs, Calif.
Wheat and rye are commonly
known as the “bread grains."
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6 Division Limit
For Europe Aid
Beet Down in House
WASHINGTON, Aug. 10, —LB—
The House refused today to clamp
a six-division limit on the num
ber of American ground troops
that can be sent to western Eur
ope.
It beat down 131 to 84 on a
standing vote an amendment to
the $56,200,000,000 military appro
priation bill that would have cut
off financing for more than six
divisions.
There could be a roll-call vote
later.
The s i x divisions constitute
present United Stales commit
ments to the Atlantic p'diit iiefeilaS
force of Gen. Dwight D. Eisen
j hower.
However, Senator Connally <D
| Tex) .said earlier today the United
| States may have to put more than
that number in Europe.
The limitation was proposed in
the House by Rep. Coudert R
NY>.
Republicans split on the amend
ment, and most Democrats op
posed it.
Earlier the Senate Foreign Re
lations committee met with Gen.
Omar Bradley, chairman of the
joint chiefs of staff.
Another troops-to-Europe scrap
—one of the hot issues earlier in
this Congress—already is develop
ing in the House. It is shaping up
in connection with a $56,000,000,
000 defense appropriation bill.
Pan Am Passenger
Traffic Up 28%,
Freight Tip 48%
SEATTLE, Aug. 10—l/P> Record
traffic gains for the month of June
for Pan American World Airways
Pacific-Alaska Division were re
ported today by the firm.
It said passengers traffic was up
28 percent in June as against the
same month in 1950. A total of
15,310 passengers wej'e carried in
the month as against 11,957 for
June 1950. Cargo traffic increased
48 percent in the same period.
The figures do not include PAA
operations on the Korean airlift,
where the airline is operating a
fleet of 15 planes for the military.!
Skagway is Fine
Place to Live,
Says Mrs. H. C. Lee
A pioneer woman whose youthful
appearance and attitude toward life
might prove her theory that hard
work has Kent her young, Mrs. H.
C. Lee, of Skagway, mother of Mrs.
Howard Dilg of Juneau, will return
to her home at the end of the week.
Aft:r 52 years in Skagway, Mrs.
Lee still thinks her town the fin
est place in the world in which to
live.
Mrs. I.ee tells of cooking meals,
Poking dozens of loaves of bread
and quantities of pies on a small
Yukon stove; of boiling water on
the same small stove in a lO-gallon
can for laundry. And, after Tier
husband died < he was Mrs. Hukill
then), she cooked lor 50 men in a
construction camp between Skag
way and Carcross. That was .maw
[years ago when her children were
young and she hud them with her
at the camp.
If was a lot of hard work, hut
through the years it has kept her
young, she says.
She is proud of her six children
and twelve grandchildren. Two of
her children, Mrs. Mavis Soldin
and Duncan Hukill, live in Skag
way; Belle, who is Mrs. Dilge, lives
in Juneau; Cecil a«d Jim Hukill, in
San Francisco and Edith, Mrs.
Mark Lee lives in Montana.
Back in the early days in Skag
way Mrs. Hukill lived next door to
the John Troy's, when both their
children were babies, and Mrs. Huk
ill and Mrs. Troy were good friends.
Though she has made several
trips to the States and Canada,
where she was born, Mrs. Lee is
always glad to return to her home
in Skagway where she has acquired
property and where her friends
live.
In Juneau for medical attention,
she has been living with the Dilges,
enjoying her time with them and
her Juneau grandchildren.
FROM WISCONSIN
W. J. Ellerblock of Fort Atkin
son, Wis. is stopping, at the Hotel
Juneau.
CONCERT ASSOCIATION
Meeting Tuesday, August 14, 8
p.m. Elks Hall. Public Invited.
833-3t
EVERYONE ASKS FOR
2 Military Men
Have Narrow Escape
In Icy Lowe River
VALDEZ, Aug. 10, —l/PI— Two
military men lind a close brush
with death yesterday when their
car plunged into the raging Lowe
River in Keystone Canyon.
Lt. Col. J. B. Goldsmith of the
Medical Corps had the closest
call. He is a professor in.the Okla
homa Medical School in civilian
life. His companion in the dan
gerous “dunking” w’as a Sergeant
Letson from Ladd Field.
7 heir weapons carrier was com
pletely submerged in the icy tor
rent near Horsetail Falls, 14 miles
north of Valdez.
Letson got out first and risked
his life by diving back twice in an
unsuccessful attempt to free Gold
smith. The Colonel finally got
free of the vehTele'after 'what the
two men estimated was a subincr
[ ing of at least a couple of min
utes. Letson helped him from the
river.
An Alaska Road Commission ve
hicle later dragged the cairier
from the river.
Colonel Goldsmith is working on
a project to determine what pre
ventive measures are possible
against the spreading of human
disease by parasites and wild ani
mals.
CAN MEN ARE HERE
J. M. Angcll and J. T. Yalland
of the Continental Can Co. of Se
attle are stopping at the Gastin
eau Hatcl.
Backing Given lo
Kiflens for Aid
Of i a; mesa
Washington. Aug. 10, — mp>—
A '.000,000 military and econ
uni .id program lor Chinese Na
1 tloi i. -held Formosa received
| the barking today of Senator II.
: A1 aider Smith 'R-NJ.)
| ; 15 Senator Fulbright MD-Ark)
I tfjlii reporters it represents "a lot
of :ey." adding that he hopes
;soiii'’ si the provisions of the $H,
5t0 10.000 fori i ;n aid authoriza
tion bill can be cut down.
Small said in a sepaiate inter
view lie is •'cheered” by the inclu
sii of .;.217,030,000 in military
an; 33,000,000 in economic assis
ta: for tha Chine re Nationalists.
('presents quite a change in
thi .lad’ istration’s thinking from
the lime, 18 months a’.o, when
I the President announced there
I v 1 be no more military aid
| for Chiang Kai-Shek's forces,"
thi New Jersey Senator commen
ted
j Emi h said the funds would ire
jus .! to build up Formosa's de
, leu and included no equipment
to : •■•pure the Nationalists for any
aggn ivc action against Red Chi
nn.
'i :• $307,030,000 item for For
ma . a part of a $930,000,000 aid
pin mm for Asia and the Pacific
an outlined to the Senate For
eign Relations and Armed Services
Committees yesterday by Dean
Ru.assistant Secretary of State.
i HUM MT, EDGECUMBE
Dr. R. H. Shuler from Mt. Edge
cumb" is at the Baranof Hotel.
Prtetty Betty Haas of San Fran
cisco wil take a “busman’s holi
day” from her duties as an Fan
American Airways stewardess to
piloa her li;;ht plane in the trans
continental Women's Air Race
from Santa Ana, Calif., to Detroit.
Mich. Betty is sponsored by the
San Francisco Junior Chamber of
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Condon Gives Up
Bureau Job for
Private Industry
WASHINGTON. Aug. 10. —-MV
Dr. Edward U. Condon resigned
today as director of the National
Bureau of Standards. He said: “I
can r.o longer afford to accept the
severe financial sacrifice invol
ved."
President Truman accepted the
resignation, effective Sept. 30,
"with regret.” He said Condon has
served "in amost critical position
with continued and loyal atten
tion” to his duties.
Condon, titwkh government sal
ary is., tM.OHo a year, said he is
leaving to take a job in private
industry. A physicist and an ex
pert on atomic energy, he was di
rector' of is e’ajrch for the West
ing house g’eytiV Corp. before en
tering 'goverrmW'nt service in 1945.
Three years ago Condon was the
target of a House un-American
Afiairs cube4*1 ^j\^i(.tee headed by
the then *l«>n. J. Parnell Thomas,
New Jersey Republican. The com
mittee called Condon “one of the
weakest links in our atomic se
curity."
Condon hotly defended his loy
alty and demanded a hearing, but
none was held.
FISHING BOAT AGJtOlM)
U. S. Coast Guttrd featlquarters
herr reported today that the 31
foot fishing vessel Toy,«with two
aboard had gone aground In Mabel
Bny on the west Side of Prince of
Wales Island early this morning, i
The cutter White Holly was sent ‘
to the scene and will attempt to
refloat the vessel oil hi»li tide
this evening, headquarters said. |
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