British Flier
Claims World’s
Speed Record
DUNSFOLD, Eng., Uf) — Squad
ron leader Neville Duke, Britain’s
fastest flier, laid claim Saturday
to the world’s speed record for a
100 - kilometer (62 - mile) closed
circuit by flashing around the
course at 709.2 miles an hour.
The time is subject to confirm
ation and acceptance by interna
tional authorities.
Duke threw his swept wing
Hawker Hunter plane into a
series of exultant rolls before he
landed at the Hawker airfield
here. /
The record for the 100 kilo
meter closed circuit is claimed
by an American, Brig. Gen. J. S.
Holtoner, with a speed of 690.118
miles per hour in a Sabre on
Sept. 1
“I think I’ve made it,” Duke
said as he crawled from the ma
chine with a broad grin.
Duke made his attempt in the
same machine in which he set up
an as yet unconfirmed straight
away speed record of 727.6 miles
per hour on Sept. 7.
PLANE INTRUDES BEDROOM
SCULTHORPE, Eng., OP) — A
U.S. Air Force robot plane sur
prised Mrs. Bertha Elwood, 58,
at nearby Stiffkey by smashing
into an upper floor bedroom while
she was baking tarts in her
ground floor kitchen. She was
showered with tiles but escaped
unhurt.
The plane, used as a target to
train British and American anti
aircraft gunners, had no pilot or
passengers. Authorities were un
able to explain why it suddenly
refused to respond to radio con
trols.
100-Ton C-124 Globemaster Lands,
Takes Off From Floating Ice Island
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Congress Working
On 2nd Trillion $
In Last 82 Years
WASHINGTON, UP) — Congress
is working on its second trillion
dollars in appropriations in the
last 82 years.
Since 1872, when the House Ap
propriations Committee started
keeping year-by-year statistics,
Congress has appropriated $1,162,
000,000,000—well over half of it
to the military.
More than half of the stagger
ing total was appropriated dur
ing the last 10 years, although
the all-time high was the 147 bil
lion dollars allotted in 1942, the
first full year of World War II.
Only once during the last 10
years have annual appropriations
exceeded 100 billion dollars. That
was in 1951, when the threat of
World War III became real and
Congress shelled out 101 billion.
Congress didn’t start thinking in
terms of billions, much less tril
lions, until 1908. Appropriations
soared that year past the billion
dollar mark for the first time.
They totaled $1,006,432,726.
They haven’t dipped below the
billion mark since.
In 1917 and 1918, with, the
United States involved in World
War I, appropriations took a big
jump — to $18,000,000,000 in
1917 and 27 billion in 1918. The
following year they dropped to
$6,400,000,000.
They remained at a compara
tively low level until Hitler start
ed World War II in 1939. In that
year Congress appropriated $11,
400,000,000 as the United States
started preparing for war.
Richard Barnes, summer visitor
who made many friends among
the teen-agers, is attending the
Baptist College in Phoenix, Ariz.
By ELTON C. FAY
THULE AIR BASE, Greenland,
l?)—An Air Force C-124 Globe
master, biggest transport plane in
operation, landed and took off
from T3, the snow-flecked float
ing ice island just 100 miles from
the North Pole.
Newsmen who visited Thule
last week talked with officials
who helped plan and carry out
the daring landing of the 100-ton
plane which stands as high as a
three-story house.
The giant transport made the
flight from Thule to T3, 800 miles
to the north, in May to carry in
a tractor and other heavy equip
ment. At that tijne T3 had a land
ing strip 6,000 feet long, on which
there was about three feet of light
newly fallen snow. The ice island
has been used for two years as
a weather observation base.
Motion pictures of the landing
showed the big transport touch
down, lurch dangerously as the
snow gripped the wheels, then
settle back on its wheels. The full
force of its propellors, turned to
reverse pitch, stopped the plane’s
roll toward the end of the strip
and the cliff-like edge of the is
land.
The tractor was rolled down the
ramp of the plane, started up and
used to clear the runway of snow
so the transport could make its
takeoff run for the return to
Thule.
The usual supply flights to the
floating island are by ski-equip
ped C-47, two-engine airplanes
dwarfed in size and weight by the
C-124.
The island boasted a 6,000-foot
landing strip, as long as many
commercial airfields in the U.S.,
until a few weeks ago.
The runway was on the surface
of a fresh water lake, formed by
the thawing of ice during the po
lar summer and frozen to a depth
of several feet in the winter.
But something happened to the
lake. The water drained away and
the runway was gone.
Some Air Force men are in
clined to blame scientists among
the personnel at T3 for the loss
of their long runway. They say
the scientists bored holes into the
bottom of the ice island, through
the lake, to determine ice thick
ness and that when the spring
thaw came the lake drained away
through the test borings.
The ice island now has only a
2,500-foot runway, enough to land
the specially equipped C-47s but
much too short for another at
tempt to use the giant C-124s.
70,000 Chinese Communists
Replaced By Returned POWs
SEOUL, UP)—Communist China
was reported Monday to have
withdrawn 70,000 troops from its
million man force in North Korea
since the July 27 armistice and
to be planning to withdraw that
many more.
Sources with an authoritative
knowledge of activity in Com
munist North Korea said the
withdrawn Chinese are being re
placed by 70,000 North Korean
prisoners returned from Allied
stockades during the exchange.
MISSES HER "FORTUNE"
UTICA, N.Y., UP)—1The victim
sought police aid in locating a
client accused of stealing $370
and a diamond ring. The com
plainant identified herself as a
fortune teller.
Weapons Now So ‘Fearful’
No Nation Will Dare Use
Them, Says Secy. Of Navy
QUANTICO, Va., UPV—Secretary
of the Navy Anderson suggested
today .that there are now in exist
ence weapons so “fearful” no na
tion will dare use them.
In an address to the graduating
class of an officer candidate
course at the Marine Corps school
here, Anderson said, without spe
cific mention of American and
Russian progress in hydrogen and
atomic bomb development, that
nations are approaching “abso
luteness in mass destruction wea
pons.”
22,000 Auto Workers
Get Layoff Notices
DETROIT, (£>—Some 22,000 De
troit auto workers had layoff not
ices Saturday.
Chrysler Corp. announced it
was closing its Plymouth plant
here “indefinitely” and was lay
ing off 8,000 production workers.
A few hours later, Briggs Man
ufacturing Co., which makes Ply
mouth bodies, announced it was
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notifying 14,000 at three of its
plants not to report for work on
Monday.
Chrysler blamed a shortage of
trim material from supplies for
its Plymouth cars for the shut
down.
The average passenger car in
the United States uses about 650
gallons of gasoline a year.
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