4th Flying Boxcar
Crash In 11 Days
Claims Eight Lives
BILLINGS, Mont., OR) — The
fourth crash in 11 days of an Air
Force C-119 Flying Boxcar
claimed eight lives Monday after
noon when one of the huge trans
ports crashed and burned in a
muddy field 12 miles east of this
south central Montana city.
The eight deaths raised to 91
the number of servicemen killed
in “boxcar” crackups since Nov. 7.
Four of the dead* in the Montana
crash burned to death when the
two-engined craft plowed into the
ground while attempting to make
an emergency landing. Four died
of injuries.
Eight others, including the pilot
and co-pilot, were rushed to two
Billings hospitals. Attendants said
two were in critical condition.
The Air Force withheld identi
fication of the dead pending noti
fication of next of kin.
Bound from Edmonton, Aibei'ta.
Canada, to Denver, the plane
crashed in cloudy weather but
visibility was good.
Two Royal Air Force officei-s,
Dudly Mills and John Downs,
both 21, wei'e among the survivors.
The two English officers, who
were hitching a ride to Denver
cm their way to spend leaves in
Los Angeles, escaped from the
flaming wreckage and walked to
a neai'bv^ highway within minutes
after the crash.
They said in a hospital inter
view that “something went bang
at about 6,000 feet.” Mills added:
“It was the left port engine. It
Civil Aeronautics Administration
tore completely away.”
investigators said pi'opellor trou
ble apparently caused one motor
of the transport to shake loose.
Alaskan fur seals migrate about
2,000 miles every season between
their oi-eeding grounds and parts
of the ocean where they live the
remainder of the year.
Ceiling Prices Set For
1952 Canned Salmon Pack
WASHINGTON, (/P)—1The ' gov
ernment said Tuesday there will
be no change in packet’s ceiling
prices for 1952 canned salmon be
cause the supply will be about
the same as a year ago.
The Office of Price Stabiliza
tion extended its 1951 pricing or
der to cover the 1952 pack, effec
tive November 22nd.
The order provides for these
canners’ ceilings covering three
items representing more than 50
percent of the total pack:
$19 for a case of 48 one-pound
tall cans of chum salmon, up to
$21 a case for pink salmon and
$32 for Alaska reds in the same
size, case and can.
OPS said figures showed the
total salmon catch as of last Sep
tember 13 was 3,385,000 cases,
compared with 3,399,000 cases on
September 15, 1951.
OPS said a check also showed
there is no substantial over-all
cost in production changes this
year from 1951.
WEATHER FORECAST
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Compiled by the
Partly cloudy today with oc
casional light snow Thursday.
Northeast wind 10-15 mph. Low
temperature expected tonight 10,
high tomorrow 26.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 33, low 25. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 36 in 1949,
low -15 in 1948.
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow 3 Snow
Kotzebue 5 Part cloudy
Wales 15 Clear
Gambell 25 Snow
Nome 10 Part cloudy
Unalakleet 9 Fog
Bethel 13 Part cloudy
McGrath 16 Part cloudy
Anchorage 30 Cloudy
fairbunks 15 Snow)
Whitehorse 31 Part cloudy
Edmonton 47 Cloudy
Juneau 37 Showers
Ketchikan 42 Rain
Seattle 39 Fog
San Francisco 55 Clear
Taft Says Senate GOPs
Could Choose Leaders
Without Eisenhower Help
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, HP) — Senator
Taft (R-Ohio) called on President
elect Eisenhower Tuesday to- fix
the timetable for legislative action
in the new congress.
At the same time, Taft told a
news conference he doesn’t be
lieve it will be necessary for Eis
enhower to intervene in the choice
by Senate Republicans of their
new leaders.
Taft predicted the Republicans
will fill major posts “without any
battle.” He declined to say wheth
er he wants to be chairman of the
GOP Policy Committee or floor
leader in the new organization.
But the Ohio senator said he
belives Eisenhower should sum
mon to the White House for week
ly conferences the three top lead
ers in the Senate: the policy chair
man, the floor leader and the head
of the conference of all Republi
can senators.
BOB PALMER IS COMING!
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Hat and Coat Stolen From
Cloakroom Accessible
Only From Courtroom
BOSTON, (fP) — The FBI, the
U.S. marshal and ^he U.S. dis
trict attorney Wednesday were
looking for a man who stole a
hat and coat.
The federal agencies were call
ed out by Federal Judge William
T. McCarthy Tuesday because the
clothing was stolen from a cloak
room which can be entered only
through his courtroom.
The hat and coat belonged to a
juror.
The judge adjourned court a
half-hour early so the juror could
get to a clothing store and equip
himself against the chilly wea
ther.
The juror’s name is William K.
Freeze.
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The actual owners of Standard Oil Company
of California now number 115,942—which is 17,000
more than just two years ago. They include 283
universities and other educational institutions; 236
churches and religious organizations; 1825 small
and large businesses; 159 hospitals and other med
ical groups; 10,876 employees of the Company, and
102,563 other individual citizens, few of whom could
be called rich. The great number of our shareholders
are people like your own friends and neighbors—
STANDARD OIL COMPANY OF CAUFi
Who
really owns
Standard?
That old bogeyiWOll—the Tycoon of Big Business
—seems still to linger in the minds of some people. Whether
or not this was ever a true picture, it is certainly false
today. Standard Oil Company of California, for instance,
is widely held, independent. It has its own management
and shareholders. It is not connected with any of the
Standard companies in the East.
yourself, perhaps—mechanics, clerks, farmers,
white-collar men, widows, men and women who
have retired. 9 In another sense, of course, the
“owners” of the Company are our customers, who,
in effect, control it and receive its benefits. You
control Standard by your choice of brands. You
benefit by the quality and economy of the products
we sell. The only way we can look after the inter
ests of our shareholders is by making sure that
Standard serves you well.
9RNIA plans ahead to serve you better