SAS Trans-polar Route
Seen As Another Link
Between Free Countries
COPENHAGEN, Denmark, UPI—
Transport Minister Marler of
Canada said last night the in
auguration of the trans-polar air
route by Scandinavian Airlines
System was another link binding
closer together the freedom-loving
nations of America and Europe.
Mr. Marler, who reached here
earlier yesterday on the SAS in
augural eastbound flight between
Los Angeles and Copenhagen,
spoke briefly at a dinner given
by Danish Foreign Minister H. C.
Hansen.
Hansen thanked Marler for the
cooperation Canada had given the
filghts, with the weather stations
at Winnipeg, Churchill and Fro
bisher Bay providing radio ranges
and bearings to guide the trans
polar planes through the Arctic
darkness.
Axel Gjores of Stockholm, an
SAS executive, said the next aim
would be to take traffic from in
termediate points, including Can
ada. At present, no commercial
traffic is picked up at Winnipeg,
which is being used only as a
refueling point and a changeover
spot for crews.
IT IS A SMALL WORLD
FAIRBANKS, (At—It’s a small
world, the saying goes, and this
happened at yesterday’s Fair
banks Chamber of Commerce
meeting :
John White, of Pan American
Airways, Seattle, sat beside Edna
Ferber, the author.
Nothing unusual? Well, they
last sat side by side at a wedding
party in New York City 24 years
ago.
WIEN AIRLINES
From Fairbanks: Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Anderson, L. Tenney, E. L.
Parsons, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Bern
hardt.
Fairbanks to Kotzebue: Edith
Bullock.
To Fairbanks: Richard Schmidt,
E. L. Parson, Lou Tenney, and
Ralph Paine and daughter.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Arvo Saario, Sil verio
Ruiz Jr.,
Discharged: Timmy Jack.
ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
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McCarthy Proponents
Hope To Collect 10 Million
Signatures On Petition
NEW YORK, UP) — The head
quarters of a move to collect 10
million signatures in support of
Sen. Joseph McCarthy says it was
swamped by visitors and phone
calls Monday.
“The thing is catching on like
wildfire,” commented Rear Adm.
John C. Crommelin (ret.), chief
organizer of the drive for signa
tures on a pro-McCarthy petition.
He said 26,000 copies of the peti
tion, each with space for 50 names,
were distributed during the day
from his two-room headquarters
in the Hotel Roosevelt.
The organization announced
Sunday it hoped to find 10 million
signers for its petition within 10
days. The petition urges the U.S.
Senate to reject censure charges
against McCarthy.
ALASKA AIRLINES
To Anchorage: Jack Wichels,
Claire Sears, Lt. Col. Keating,
Sgt. Chas. Sanders, Mrs. Betty
Alexander, Devon Alexander, Sen.
Howard Lyng, Wm. Angell, Mrs.
Louis Kost, Virginia Morris, John
Thomas, Ben Young, T. Campo
basso, Sgt. John Christiansen.
From Anchorage: Fred Kingik,
Fred Pushruk, John McLuke,
Marlott Trigg, Stanley Ahkvaluk,
Frank Nunooruk, Patrick Omiak,
Dean Martin, Mr. and Mrs. Dewey
Goodrich.
To Kotzebue: Dana Naylor,
Tommy Sage, Floyd Wesley, Del
bert Wells.
From Kotzebue: Ralph Long,
Miss Gill Pain.
From Unalakleet: Maj. B.E. Mc
Neill, Robt. J. Garnett.
To Unalakleet: Ronald Smith, i
John Heckman.
From McGrath: Daniel Smith,
Mrs. Daniel Smith.
NERVY, EH, WOT?
FOLKESTONE, England, tf) —
Two 19-year-old British army pri
vates were fined 3 pounds ($8,405)
each yesterday for exceeding the
city speed limit — in two 20-ton
army tanks.
George Bodis. veteran miner
from Dick Creek, on the Arctic
slope north of the Kougarok, is
scheduled to leave on Pan Ameri
can Airways Thursday for a well
earned vacation in the States.
When asked about the character
of the gold produced in that high
ly mineralized, undeveloped area,
George said, "You might have an
opportunity to see some rare
specimens which will be given
away at the Roof Garden."
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Veteran Actor
Lionel Barrymore
Dies At Age 76
HOLLYWOOD, Iff)—G rump y
sounding, warm-hearted Lionel
Barrymore, who had no stomach
for the theater but was long one
of the most illustrious of actors, is
dead at 76.
Stricken at home Sunday night
shortly after reciting the “Tomor
row and Tomorrow and Tomor
row” soliloquy from Shake
speare’s MacBeth, the senior
member of acting’s “Royal Fam
ily” died at 7:15 Monday night.
He had been in a coma 19 hours
at Valley Hospital. A complication
of ailments included arthritis,
which, after two hip fractures,
had forced him to use a wheel
chair and crutches the past 17
years. Dr. John Paul Ewing said
heart congestion was the immedi
ate cause of death.
Barrymore’s last moments of
health were described by Miss
Benson Wheeler, sister of his sec
retary, Miss Florence Wheeler,
niece of his late, second wife.
Barrymore had lived with them
and their mother, Mrs. J. E.
Wheeler, in suburban Chatsworth,
for the past 18 years.
Miss Benson Wheeler said the
four had dinner Sunday night and,
as they frequently did, joked and
recited quotations from Shake
speare. Barrymore quoted a favor
ite soliloquy spoken by Macbeth
following the death of his wife.
It includes the words:
. . Out, out, brief candle,
“Life’s but a walking shadow,
a poor player
“That struts and frets his hour
upon the stage
“And then is heard no more . . .”
Miss Wheeler continued: “We
were watching television about
nine o’clock when he began to
breathe heavily. My sister Flor
ence and a nurse who happened
to be visiting us, Ella Nordahl,
helped him to the door for some
fresh air.
As his condition worsened, Dr.
Ewing was called. The actor was
taken to the hospital and placed
in an oxygen tent.
More Than 515,000
Refugees Flee North
Viet Nam For Freedom
SAIGON, Viet Nam, UFi — The
head of the American Aid Mission
here says more than 515,000 refu
gees have fled North Viet Nam
since the Geneva conference.
“The refugees continued to
move south at a steady rate,”
aid director Leland Barrows re
ported Monday night. “How many
more hundreds of thousands have
chosen freedom, but have been
unable to get out, perhaps will
never be known.”
Under the progressive sched
ule set up by the Geneva con
ference, the Vietminh is to take
over the whole North Viet Nam
by May, 1955.
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