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Plane Drops Wreath on
Wrill Rogers, Wiley Post
Grave Near Pt. Barrow
FAIRBANKS, UP!—An Air Force
plane dropped a wreath Saturday
on a weathered stone memorial
that marks the spot where Will
Rogers and Wiley Post died in a
plane crash just 18 years ago.
The stone memorial lies approx
imately 12 miles from the village
of Point Barrow, northernmost
point in Alaska. It is in an unin
habited region of flat tundra near
a small arctic lake where Post
and Rogers died.
The plane from Ladd Air Force
Base at Fairbanks circled low,
dropped a wreath and then scat
tered flowers in the area.
10 Passengers Die
In English Train Wreck
MANCHESTER, England, —
Two British trains crunched into
each other atop a viaduct 80 feet
over the River Irk Saturday, kill
ing 10 passengers and injuring
50 others.
One coach somersaulted into the
river bed, landing upside down
after ripping a big gap in the
viaduct wall.
An emergency call went out for
acetylene equipment to bum
through parts of the wreckage to
reach at least three persons be
lieved trapped in the coach. The
river is shallow at the isolated
stretch of track about a mile from
Victoria Station.
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Improved Radar
System For Alaska
To Operate Soon
SAN FRANCISCO, UR—An im
proved radar system that will spot
the location and flight path of all
aircraft flying within a 30- to 60
mile radius so'on will be in opera
tion at San Francisco, Seattle,
Portland, Salt Lake City, Anchor
age, Alaska, and Honolulu.
Charles T. Haist, General Elec
tric radar equipment specialist
here, announced the new system
Saturday. It has been installed
and accepted at San Francisco
and Oakland airports, but opera
tional tests and training of oper
ators are necessary before it can
be put into use.
Haist said the new system will
assist Civil Aeronautics Adminis
tration controllers in directing
each plane via radio through a
safe and efficient traffic pattern.
During periods of poor visibility
the new radar can be operated
with an airport’s precision ap
proach control aids.
Haist said the new system helps
the control tower to space and
control the arrival of inbound
planes so they can be fed into the
precision approach control system
at the safest, most efficient rate.
Only moving aircraft show on
the screen of the new radar. This
prevents images of stationary ob
jects such as tall buildings or
mountains.
Dec. 8, 1900, President McKin
ley, by executive order, “reserved
lands in the town of Nome and
also near the mouth of Nome Riv
er for military purposes . . .
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AIRCRAFT SPOTTERS
NEEDED IN WESTERN
AND ARCTIC ALASKA
ANCHORAGE, UP)— Maj. Clar
ence Suver of the Alaskan Air
Command said Friday civilian air
craft spotters are needed in “ear
ly observation” along Alaska’s
western seacoast and arctic fringe
where thorough coverage by radar
is not financially feasible.
Major Suver, who was in charge
of the Ground Observer Corps
before its transfer to the civil
defense organization of Alaska,
said civilian help is not needed to
to augment the military air de
fense system in the Anchorage or
Fairbanks areas.
Wild Pacific Typhoon
Misses U.S. Okinawa Base
TAIPEH, Formosa, t/P)—A wild
typhoon ripped across the China
mainland Monday after sideswip
ing the big American base at
Okinawa and the Chinese Nation
alist island of Formosa.
The Japanese weather bureau
in Toyko said the big storm,
which changed course and did
not hit Okinawa or Formosa with
its full force, struck the China
coast about 150 miles south of
Shanghai.
The bureau said the typhoon,
one of the mightiest ever recorded
in the Pacific, was churning
northwestward. \
Okinawa escaped with minor
damage, mostly to power lines,
but northern Formosa was lashed
with heavy rains and winds up to
69 miles an hour.
Rough Ailaniic Crossing Does
Not Faze These "Africans"
NEW YORK, Lf) — It was a
rough crossing from Liverpool but
that didn’t seem to bother a
party of four zebras, five mon
gooses, three vultures and a
hyrax.
The thirteen African animals
were passengers on the storm
tossed liner Media which docked
1 yesterday after skirting the edge
of a hurricane.
Many of the 219 human passen
gers were laid low with seasick
ness.
But not the animals, reported
their caretaker.
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George Bayer, Secty.
Thursday Luncheon
Northwestern Alaska
Chamber of Commerce
Meets
EVERY TUESDAY NOON
Dewey Goodrich, President
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Dorothy Young
Worthy Matron
Rosa B. Hagen
Secretary
Meets the third Monday of each month.
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