U.S. Engineers Use ‘Freeze-Back’ to
Combat Permafrost at Radar Sites
Negro Boy Shot
For Wolf Whistle
At White Woman
GREENWOOD, Miss., (J*—Thej
wolf-whistle slaying of a 15-year
old Chicago Negro boy deep in
delta plantation country goes to a
Mississippi grand jury Monday.
Death came to Emmit Louis Till
from' a bullet wound behind his
ear soon after he was kidnaped
from the tenant farm home of his
uncle—apparently in revenge for
the two notes he sounded at a
white storekeeper’s wife.
A 16-year-old cousin, Maurice
Wright, told yesterday of the inci
dent preceding Till’s death.
“When he came out of the
store,” said Wright, “I told him:
‘Boy, you know better than that.’
He just laughed.
“He had polio when he was
thr^e and he couldn’t talk plain.
You could hardly understand.”
Two white men have been ac
cused of the boy’s kidnap slaying
and it is likely a Tallahatchie
County grand jury will consider
the charges by Tuesday. Held
without bond are Roy Bryant, the
storekeeper, and his half-brother,
J. W. Milam, of Glendora.
Maurice Wright described the
scene in which the lad was kid
naped. He said his father, Mose,
pleaded with the kidnapers not to
take Emmit away “Just take him
out in the yard and whip him and
J'll be satisfied,” the uncle begged.
The National Assn, for the Ad
vancement of Colored people in a
bitter statement following the
slaying said “Mississippi has de
cided to maintain white suprem
acy by murdering children.”
3,348,000 cc. Polio Vaccine
Released for Children
Ages Five Thru Nine
WASHINGTON WV-The Public
Health Service yesterday released
3,348,000 cubic centimeters of the
Salk polio vaccine for children
ages five through nine.
This was the third and largest
allocation to the states and terri
tories of new vaccine under the
voluntary control plan started on
July 31. The allocations, in num
ber of shots, included 2,142 for
Alaska.
The allocation is based in the
number of its unvaccinated chil
dren five to nine years old.
WEATHER FORECAST
Partly cloudy today with north
erly winds 10-12 mph. Low tem
perature expected tonight 35, high
Saturday 53.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: High temperature
49, low 37. Max. wind 30 mph.
from the north. Sunrise 4:46 a.m.,
sunset 7:15 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 49, low 45. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 60 in 1923,
low 25 in 1930.
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Visitors welcome year 'round
Daily tours are conducted
> Along the Alaskan coast and in
the interior where the Alaska Dis
trict Corps of Engineers is super
vising construction of military in
stallations at isolated sites for the
U.S. Air Force, contractors are
working ’round the clock to beat
the early arctic freeze-in.
“Progress reports from our
project engineers who are super
vising the jobs show we are set
ting records in building the de
fense network,” said Col. Eai'l Y.
Farrell, Alaska District Engineer.
The Unalakleet installation is
on Bering Sea, 100 miles east of
Nome. Sam Bergersen of Tacoma,
Wash., has the contract at $3,087,
046. Government-furnished tower
steel has been unloaded from
barges. Also prefab buildings,
lumber and plumbing supplies,
heavy equipment and machinery,
and the jobsite is established.
Initial landings for the Bethel
military installation did not arrive
until early August. That contract
for $4,053,457 was awarded to
Morrison-Knudsen, who also were
low bidders on the Middleton in
stallation.
- Situated on Kuskokwim Bay on
the southwestern Alaskan coast,
Bethel lies on a vast tundra flat.
This is “the land of lakes”—hun
dreds of them. It also is the land
of permafrost, where the soil un
der the tundra blanket is perman
ently frozen.
In Bethel and Kotzebue, where
the permafrost thaws shallowly
and treacherously when tundra is
removed, the problem of stable
foundations is a major one.
At these sites, the new method
developed by the Corps of Engi
neers to combat shifting will be
used. This is a winter “freeze
back,” restoring soil to normal
conditions to hold foundation pil
ings in perpetually frozen earth.
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Cincinnati 7, New York 4
Pittsburgh 7, St. Louis 6
Pacific Coast League
Portland 5, Seattle 1
Hollywood 3, Los Angeles 0
Oakland 9, San Francisco 7
San Diego 4, Sacramento 3
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7-Hour Work Week in
100 Years Predicted
LOS ANGELES, —Men will
work one seven-hour day a week
100 years from now and receive
the same pay they now get for a
40-hour week, says Joseph Pren
dergast.
He is executive director of the
National Recreational Assn, of
New York and made the state
ment to the California Recreation
Commission Wednesday.
The work week was 84 hours
100 years ago, he said, and within
20 years it will be 30 hours.
CAB Decides in Favor
Of Air Freight Firms
WASHINGTON, UPV—1The Civil!
Aeronautics Board decided Wed- j
nesday that air freight firms are i
helping both the shipping public!
and the aviation industry by mov- j
ing cargo at rates lower than I
those charged by the airlines.
In a 3-2 decision, the board re
newed indefinitely the authority
of these concerns — called air
freight forwarders—to continue to !
operate on this basis.
NOTICE
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Dr. E. E. Bach, optometrist from
Anchorage, will be in Nome to do eye
examinations on Sept. 19, 20, 21 and 22.
For appointment call the Polaris Hotel.
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