Bert Acosta, Famous Flier,
Dies of Cancer and TB
DENVER, UP — Bert Acosta,
whose teen-age flights in home
made planes heralded later ven
tures to aerial fame, died Wed
nesday, ravaged by cancer and
tuberculosis. He was 59.
Death came to the sad-eyed
birdman at Jewish Consumtives’
Relief Society Sanatorium here
two years after he collapsed on
a New York sidewalk with what
was diagnosed as an advanced
case of tuberculosis.
During his fabulous lifetime,
Acosta was in turn a World War
I flight instructor, pathfinder for
the U.S. Air Mail Service, hold
er of the 1921 world speed record
and co-holder of a flight endur
ance mark.
He later became a test pilot and
aviation consultant, and made his
last flight as a pilot in 1946.
Relatives said Acosta’s body
will be cremated and the ashes
scattered over the Pacific Ocean
near Los Angeles by Cmr. George
Neville.
Three-Year-Old Girl Run
Over In Parking Lot
ANCHORAGE, UP)—Three-year
old Kristine Jensen, who loved to
play outdoors, died beneath the
wheels of a neighbor’s car late
Wednesday afternoon while
romping in a parking lot in front
of her apartment home.
The little daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Jens A. Jensen was dead by
the time 1he city rascuc- truck
reached Providence Hospital.
She was run over in the park
ing lot in front of the apartment
house where her father is build
ing superintendent.
Police said the driver of the
car was Mary E. Rowley, also a
resident of the apartment, who
was starting out on an errand in
a borrowed car. Miss Rowley, a
nurse, told police she was just
pulling out of her parking place
when she felt a “bump” and saw
in the rear mirror the child
lying on the pavement.
Miss Rowley was not held.
Valdes District Road Engineer
Resigns To Teach Civil
Engineering at University
The Alaska Road Commission
has announced that Hendryx W.
(Woody) Johansen, district engi
neer in charge of the Valdez dis
trict for the past two years, is
leaving the organization approxi
mately Sept. 10, 1954. Mr. Johan
sen is returning to the University
of Alaska as professor of civil
engineering, the position he occu
pied prior to his employment with
the Alaska Road Commission.
Pending appointment of a re
placement for Mr. Johansen, as
sistant district engineer Frank
Morris has been appointed acting
district engineer in charge of the
Valdez district.
What Do You Know About Labor Day3
1. What day was set aside as the legal Labor Day?
2. Who started the observance and when?
3. When is Labor Day celebrated in Europe?
4. What was the first organized action of American wage earners?
5. How is Labor Day usually celebrated?
6. Who was the first woman to become secretary of lab'or?
7. Who was the early great leader of the AFL?
8. When was the CIO formed?
9. Name the unions to which these men are connected: Walter
Reuther, Cesar Petrillo, John L. Lewis.
10. Who was the first AFL official to become secretary of labor?
ANSWERS ON PAGE FIVE
Yanks Beat Indians
To Prove They’re
Still In Business
NEW YORK, “Wednesday we
were out of business; today we’re
back in it.”
Manager Casey Stengel was in
an expansive mood following the
New York Yankees’ 4-1 “must”
victory over Cleveland Wednes
day that sliced the Indians’ first
place margin over the defending
champions to 4Vfc games.
“It was a game we had to win,”
said Stengel, “and just as we’ve
been doing for six years, we won
it. That’s why you can’t count us
out yet. Never sell the Yankees
short until they are mathemati
cally eliminated.
“The other guys don’t have it
wrapped up yet. They just think
they have.”
As expected, the Cleveland
clubhouse was quiet but no one
appeared dejected. Manager A1
Lopez accepted the defeat philo
sophically.
“I feel the same way about it
now as I did Tuesday night,” he
said. “I still think that was the
big one for us. No matter what
happens tomorrow, we’ll still
leave here with a pretty com
fortable lead.”
The Yankee battery Of south
paw Ed Lopat and catcher Yogi
Berra was the “whole” club Wed
nesday. Lopat spaced nine hits for
his 12th victory of the year and
his 40th lifetime win over the
Indians. Berra laced three of the
Yank’s hits, including his 18th
home run, scored twice and drove
in two runs.
National Polio Cases
Have Reached Peak
With 17,112 Cases In ’54
WASHINGTON, W)—The Pub
lic Health Service said today “it
appears that a definite ‘leveling
off’ ” has been reached in new
polio cases and that “the peak
is now being approached.”
There were 2,210 new cases of
infantile paralysis reported over
the nation last week, only three
more than the 2,207 in the week
ended Aug. 21 and 27, fewer than
the 2,237 in the corresponding
week a year ago.
Up to Saturday, there had been
17,112 cases this year, compared
with 18,191 in the similar 1953
period.
Two Fairbanks Polio
Victims Seriously Stricken
FAIRBANKS, W)—Two of the
ten people now stricken with polio
here are seriously ill, according
to Dr. Joseph Ribar, city health
officer.
Both are suffering from the
bulbar form of the disease. One
of these cases is that of a house
wife and mother of a small child.
The other is an eight year old boy.
Champ Not Impressed
By Pistol Prowess of
Old-Time Gun-Toters
CAMP PERRY, Ohio., UR —
Harry Reeves, Detroit policeman
who won his sixth national pistol
championship here yesterday,
isn’t overly impressed by the
prowess of the gun-toting bad
men of the old west.
“They all used the heavy, long
barrelled six-shooter — the clum
siest gun in the world to get out
of a holster in a hurry,” Reeves
explained while he waited on the
“ready” line at the national
matches here.
“Given an even break, the
present-day expert could out
draw and out-shoot all the old
western marshals and bad men.
“I can pull two 45-caliber auto
matics from their holsters and
put 16 shots into a man-sized
dummy at 15 feet in around three
seconds. And a lot of other fel
lows can do it, too. I can pull one
gun and hit the dummy three
times in one second, including
the draw.”
Reeves said most of the frontier
gunfights were close - up affairs
and “the one who did the killing
generally had his gun out and
was firing before his opponent
realized it.”
Reeves’ 2,587 out of a possible
2,700 yesterday enabled him to
retain the championship he won
last year. He previously had won
the pistol title in 1940-41-46-48.
Ted Atkinson Boots
Home 3,000th Winner
NEW YORK, WV-Ted Atkinson,
a native of Canada, rode his
3,000th winner when he booted
the Greentree stable’s Devastation
to victory in the third race at
Aqueduct Wednesday.
Sir Gordon Richard’s world
record of 4,870 probably is be
yond his reach as is Johnny Long
den’s American standard of about
4,400 but Ted is within striking
distance of Eddie Arcaro, who has
passed the 3,300 mark.
Ted recalled that in 1936, after
he got a job as a stableboy with
Greentree for $20 a month and
keep, he went to a riding acad
emy in the Bronx and paid $1.50
a ride for three or four out
ings.
“Just wanted to see how it
felt to ride a horse,” he said.
Since then he has been up on
18,114, not counting the many he
exercised in the morning hours.
In addition to his 3,000 winners,
he has been second 2,546 times
and third 2,263 times.
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cards this year than last, so even
this summer Japanese artists are
bending to their easels. The rea
son for increased output is a
mounting demand for “Oriental
ism” in Christmas cards.
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