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Four Men Indicted for
Interstate Movement of
Stolen Oil Maps
PITTSBURGH, Wt—A federal
grand jury yesterday indicted
four men ir. connection with the
interstate movement of valuable
oil exploration maps stolen from
Gulf Oil Corp.
The indictment said the four
defendents conspired to transport
“certain geological or seismo
graphic maps of the Gulf Oil
Corp. in interstate commerce.”
According to the indictment the
maps were valued in excess of
$5 ,000, but government officials
earlier said the maps’ potential
value was over a million dollars.
Proposals for Higher
Hungarian Refugee Quota
Faces Fight in Congress
WASHINGTON, UF>—Rep. Burle
son (D-Tex) said today he will
oppose any legislative proposal
toy President Eisenhower to boost
the number of Hungarian refu
gees allowed to come to America.
But Rep. Burdick (R-ND) said
he would favor raising the Hun
garian refugee quota, now filled
at 21,500.
Burdick is a member of the Ju
diciary Committee, which would
consider such legislation. Burle
son is not, but heads a special na
tional security subcommittee of
the House Foreign Affairs Com
mittee.
The opposing views, given in
separate interviews, were a sign
that an Eisenhower proposal to
ease the refugee problem might
not have entirely smooth sailing
:
Canadian Train
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Jumps Tracks,
Killing Two Men
BROSSEAU, Que., Wl—A train |
carrying about 150 Royal Canadi- j
an Air Force men and women
plunged off the tracks last night
at a switching point here, killing
the engineer and fireman.
About 12 of the RCAF passen
gers suffered bruises and lacera
tions. i
The engine and seven cars of
the 10-car Canadian National
Railway train left the rails. Wit
nesses said the engine seemed to
leap in the air as it reached the
switch. It dug up about 400 feet
of track before overturning on its
side.
The baggage car and engine
uncoupled when the engine left
the tracks and none of the other
cars overturned, altho they were
tilted in two “Z” formations
along the track.
Trapped inside the locomotive
and killed were Engineer John
Ruttenberg and Fireman Paul La
Fontaine, both of Montreal.
in Congress. Immigration legisla
tion has led to some stiff battles
in the past.
Eisenhower took special action
Wednesday which could be a first
step toward admitting more Hun
garian escapees. He ordered U.S.
agencies to continue processing
applications of refugees who want
to come here, even tho the pres
ent quota is all allotted.
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CITY FUEL & TRANSFER
HOW CIVIL AIR PATROL STARTED
History Reviewed on
Fifteenth Birthday
Fifteen years ago, Fiorello H.
LaGuardia, then director of the
Office of Civilian Defense under
the late President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, set his signature to an
order creating a home-front air
arm made up of civilian pilots,
owners of light planes, and other
volunteers.
The year was 1941. Europe was
aflame with war. Poland, France
and Belgium had been overrun by
the Nazi hordes and England was
under attack from the air.
America had been girding
against the inevitable day she
would be forced into the conflict,
but guns, planes and tanks still
were pitifully few. It had become
apparent to the owners and oper
ators of the hundreds of little,
singled-engine light planes that
they would have an important
role to play when war came. A
handful of their leaders including
such men as the late Guy P. Gan
nett, owner of the' Gannett news
papers, Gill Robb Wilson, then
aviation editor of the New York
Herald Tribune, and the late
Earle L. Johnson, prominent Cle
velander, met with General H. H.
“Hap” Arnold, chief of the Army
Air Force, offering the services
of a volunteer civilian organiza
tion known as the Civil Air Pa
trol. The offer was accepted.
President Roosevelt’s executive
order brought the CAP into being
just six days before Pearl Harbor.
Three months later, a gfoup of
these civilian volunteers, trans
planted from almost every state
in the Union, arrived at Atlantic
City, N.J., and began making avi
ation history. Nazi U-boats skulk
ing within sight of our Atlantic
and Gulf coasts were sinking
ships right and left. Neither the
City Council
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from military headquarters that
transient military personnel will
soon have regular quarters while
in the community. This matter
was brought to a head recently
when a group of servicemen were
stranded here without hotel res
ervation and had to be housed in
the city jail.
The Council passed a resolu
tion to apply for funds for addi
tional facilities for juvenile cases.
Nome, now a member of the
League of Alaska Cities, paid its
per capita assessment of lO cents
on an estimated population of
2,000. ’
Water System Delay
It was reported that the finan
cial statement being prepared by
Molitor and Co. for the city to
present to APW in connection
with the proposed water and
Councilman Arnold and Fire
Chief Webb for obtaining new
street signs for the city.
Recommendations for ordinance
sewerage system has not been
completed, as anticipated.
A study is being made by
changes for the re-codification of
ordinances were reaa totaling
about 20 ordinances.
More mercury vapor lights
were requested for other parts of
the community.
Fine Job Printing at The Nugget
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Army nor the Navy had enovgh
planes for anti-submarine patrol.
CAP asked for and got tbe job
of ranging far out to sea in their
planes hunting the killers, drop
ping bombs against some, pin
pointing others by radio for de
stroyers, sub chasers and the few
land-based bombers available.
Many such bases were estab
lished from Maine to Texas dur
ing the early months of World
War II. Hundreds of CAP mem
bers flew from these bases. Twen
ty-six of them made their last
flights from these bases, trading
the clean, blue sky for the watery
grave the sea held constantly
open to receive them.
From March 5, 1942 thru Aug
ust 31, 1943—the period of coastal
patrol operations—these amateur
warriors logged 244,600 flying
hours on 86,000 missions. They
officially are credited with dam
aging or destroying two enemy
submarines and with bombing 82.
They spotten another 173 U-boats
and directed surface ships and
bombers against them. They lo
cated and reported 91 vessels in
distress and 363 survivors of ship
sinkings.
In these operations, the infant
Civil Air Patrol lost 90 planes
and 26 pilots and observers. An
other seven were seriously in
jured.
In .other parts of t country,
the volunteer membeis of the
CAP were performing other val
uable wartime tasks. A total of
4,900 hours were flown on air
craft warning missions for the
Third Fighter Command. On the
Southern Liaison Patrol along the
U.S.-Mexican border CAP planes
racked up 23,000 hours. Anti-air
craft tracking missions accounted
for 38,000. In courier missions for
the Second Air Force the light
plane air force of the CAP logged
70,000 flying hours, airlifting
more than 2,600,000 pounds of
critically needed cargo. Another
2,500 hours were flown in courier
flights for the First Service Com
mand.
With the advent of peace, a
grateful Congress granted a char
ter to the CAP, authorizing it to
act as a non-profit corporation
dedicated to maintaining U.S.
air supremacy and contributing
its services to the public welfare.
Congress also made it the civilian
auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force.
There are more than 89,000
CAP members in every state and
territory, each devoted to main
taining faith with those pioneers
who founded America’s home
front air arm in the black days
of 1941.
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