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> Dive - Bombs
Fairbanks
A 30-minut: “joyride” in a
“borrowed” airplane, during
which he gave scores of gasping
Fairbanfc-ans his version of dive
* bombing tactics, may tailspin Al
lan B. Hunt into a 3-year over
haul in the Federal penitentiary.
Jailed when he finally swoop d
to earth with a fear-crazed pas
senger, Ken Frawley, shortly be
fored) o’clock April 20, the young
refrigeration expert who aspir d
to higher activities faces a felony
charge of wanton injury to per
sonal property, and possible cita
tions on at least nine Civil Aero
nautics Administration air traffic
regulations.
Second “Escapade”
Last night’s escapade in which
spellbound spectators on the
ground saw the tiny ship power
dive, stall, sideslip, and skid as
close as 20 feet and scarcely ever
higher than a few hundred feet
off the ground, was the second
such experience for Hunt. H
served 60 days in the Fairbanks
jail last summer after pleaSig
guilty to Alaska’s “joyride stat
ute”—operating a motor vehicle
without the owner’s consent and
without intention to steal.
The airplane taken by Allen
Hunt was parked at the Arctic
Wings Flying Service reserva
tion. Owner of the ship, a Pipe
Coupe flown to Fairbanks from
Juneau by two girls from Lock
Haven, Pennsylvania, last sum
mer, is Arthur H. Purdy of
Chicken. Purdy signed the com
plaint against Hunt.
^ Frawley. who stalled he wen'
up with Hunt on the latter’s
word that he was competent and
authorized to fly, said when he
reached the ground, totally un
n rved by the harrowing ride,
g. that his companion “seemed all
right until he got in the air.
Then he wrent off his h“ad. and
began laughing and taking drinks
from a bottle he had with him.
Harrowing Ride
The passenger said he pleaded
with the other man to bring the
plane back to earth. Hunt’s reply
was a series of dives a. :he tower
of the United States Signal Corp=
transmitting station on the bank
of the Chena southeast of Fair
banks. In one of these maneuv
4 trs the propellor clipped a cable
stretched from the top of the 130
foot tower to a 75-foot support
on the opposite river bank.
Inspection of the plane indicat
ed the cable had switched around
many revolutions with the pro
pellor, ripping gashes in the
wing fabric and punching holes
in the cowling. The landing geai
was also slightly damaged.
RAF Receives
1.00!) Planes
"rosi America
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LONDON, April 23— Lord Bea.
, British Minister of Air
jcr-f Production told the House
;of L rds, “nearly 1,000 assembled
American and Canadian aircraf'
hn'-. been handed over to the
RAF.”
Beaverbrook further said: “Up
to this moment we have lost only
cn° aircraft in the ferry s'rvice
between America and this coun
try.”
The British Minister said the
Admiralty has received within
the past few days 95 aircraft by
sea, 355 tons of airplane parts
and .326 engines.”
MAN AGED 74 IS
FATHER OF TWINS
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PLAQUEEN.La., April 25—Sev
enty-four-year-old J. P. Gustaire
boasted today of a double addi
tion to his family.
Gustaire’s third wife, became
the mother of twins. Gustaire
now has 20 children, the oldest
of whom is 55 y ars old.
One motorist was reported to
jhave been forced to pull off the
highway when the diving plane
j Ircpned low toward his autorno
. High radio antennae of a*
11 cst three residences in south
Fairbanks were said to have been
mapped by 'the hedge-hopping
1 prof*.
When the plane came to r st
erratically on the runway. Hunt
’AT.s shouting "Did you see all
those Germans I shot down!” at
the time he was apprehended.
A bottle containing about one
inch of liquor was found inside
•>, cabin of the plane.
Airways Regulations
In addition to the felony charge
already on fde by the United
S.utes Attorney, Hunt may b°
object to penalty as violator of
- veral CAA regulations. Th se
| will be filed out of Washington
1 D. C., according to Burleigh Ptit
nam. Fairbanks CAA inspector.
Nine regulations appear to
have been violated by Hunt, the
CAiA inspector said, each of
which carries fin s up to $1000.
Doctors who examined Hunt
:,L. r he was jailed said he “had
been drinking.”
Released on $750 Bail
Posted bail of $750 relased Al
lan B. Hunt from custody after
h" waived preliminary hearing
before United States Commission
er William N. Growden.
In waiving preliminary hear
ing, Hunt consents to being over
to the grand jury on the charge
of wanton injury to personal pro
perty.
Colorado Youths
To Search Fcr
Gold Jo Alaska
DENVER — Two Englewood
youth=, b"th 19. h"vs headed
hack to Mr a id fi Ids of Alaska
in soar?' of mor? gold than they
Sock out la<t year from the
streams ,{ hat far-north coun
try They ar? Tom Shocklen, Jr.,
and Usd Grover, Jr. The two
young r. n did pi cer mining on
’a =mall scale ar. end Valdez last
year. Th y said th y took out
gold a
month.
They head d for Seattle by
automobile. From there they will
take a b at to Juneau and then
pick up their equipment and
start the new s- arch far inland
this summer.
HEAD HENTERS
GET LIFE TERMS
MANILA. P. I„ April — The
Philippine Commonwealth Su
pren e Court commut d to life
imprisonment the dea.h sentenc
es of 21 Philippine head hunters.
T:v tribesmen were convicted
of beht d.ng two brothers in
Nu vu E; ja province last year.
The higli court upheld a defense
plea that the head hunters did
not con.-ider tha, they hud cum
in i.. led niurder.
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C H A N C E— At 16, Glynis
Johns stars in film being made
in England to relate four Nazis'
encounters with a Ilutteritc
colony in Canada. The Hutterites
migrated from Germany in mid
dle of 19th century.
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ANOTHER MUTINY
ON PITCAIRN ISLE
0\KIAND, Calif. Pitcairn j
Id- I f ;‘o"v-b' k fam . in the!
S ‘h Pacific practicaPy faces a
- mutiny cv-r the British
law, acco:divg to a letter
r 'v l by Mrs. Kathryn Green
.vo ! of Oakland.
•• I ' t t si- from Ada Chris j
■ . h vvi low of a descendant |
r Fi teh r Christian, who led
!! :rij’i.-.y on the frigate "Boun
P " The Pitcairn I danders art1
P ct *o draft by r he N: w Zea
P'-'d Army, according t - Mrs. j
Ch: : Pan, but are almost unani- ;
ntna in their desire to have no-;
thi: g to do with th war.
M -t of the 200 resident of the
tiny island colonized by the Boun
tv mutineers arc devout mem
ber- of the Seventh Day Advent!
ist Church, and according to Mrs.
Christian, they aren’t mad at any
on .
O’ f\’ \ GETS
i.SOfi.OOO
—
WASHINGTON, April Trea-'
sury Secretary Henry Morgen
thau, Jr., indicated that (the $50,
000.000 stabilization loan to
China may be made this week.'
Mergm-thau conferred with Chin
e.-e A" bas-srdor Hu Shih and the1
S’ate Dt p rttn nt Far Eastern ex
p rt. Mi'N well Hamilton.
The stabilization loan is in ad
li a ‘.e a $50,000 000 advance to
Ci- na for outright purchase of
war materials. The stabilization
loan will be used principally to
bolster Chinese currency.
SEATTLE EXPECTING
NORTH STAR MAY 10
The rrotorship North Star of
the Office of Indian Affairs will
'soon be in northern waters again.
Th vessel, returning from her
sec 'ncl voyage to the Antarctic
. with 40 members of the Byrd ex
i peditim is due to arrive in Seat
tle about May 10.
The North Star reached Val
l paraiso, Chile, 10 days ago.
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* FIRST UNITED STATES BATTLES HIP IN 18 YEARS COMMISSIONER
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At colorful ceremonies at the Brooklyn Navy Yard the 870,000,000 battleship North Carolina was commissioned, the first capital
ship commissioned by the Navy in 18 years. This was the general scene on the quarterdeck of the fighting craft during the ceremony
THE DARDANELLE S—Here is a view of Gallipoli penin
sula and the Dardanelles, that narrow stra’t 40 miles long be
tween Europe and Asiatic Turkey that forms an outlet for the
Black Sea. Turkey is often called "watchdog of the Dardanelles."
JOCKEY FROM TOKY O—Around Bowie, Md„ Harry J.
Takara (above), 44, who's believed to be the only Japanese owner*
trainer-jockey in U.S., is quite a figure, known as Toki. He says
he’s a little old to jockey and figures on retiring to one of his two
farms in Virginia and New York. He came to U.S.A. in 1916 after
having been on tracks in China, South Africa, Argentina.
TANK TEST-Spray flies as army’s new M3 medium tank,
25 tons and carrying two cannons and five machine guns, is given
a test in water basin at Aberdeen, Md. This is a “pilot model”;
0 accepted design will be pattern for mass production.
Department of Commerce Weather !''!r,'oii
FORECAST, NOME AND VICINITY
Generally fair tonight. Wednesday, increasing cloudiness and
warmer with increasing winds in the afternoon.
Data fo-r 24 Hours Ending 1:00 p. m. Today
Highest temp — 45 Lowest te mp — 34 Precipitation — 0
Total precip this month — 0.30 z Total since Jan. 1, 1941, L57
Temp. Humidity Wind Weather
12 Midnight _ _ -.— - 37 73 ENE 17 Cloudy
Sam _ ..._.... - 39 67 ENE 13 Cloudy
12:30 p m ___- 42 60 SE 6 Pt Cldy
Tomorrow: Sunrise 3:39 a. m. Sunset 8:12 p. m.
One Year Ago Today
Highest temp — 42 Lowest te mp — 30 Precipitation — 0