House Group Okays
Whittier Reconstruction
WASHINGTON, UP) —A House
Armed Service subcommittee
Monday approved a $6,000,p00
Army reconstruction project at
Whittier, Alaska, which previous
ly had been approved by the Sen
ate committee. The project was
made necessary by a recent fire
at Whittier. ,
CROP DUSTING PILOT. 73.
KILLED IN HIS SMALL PLANE
CLEVELAND, Miss., UP)—Henry
Elliott of Cleveland, recognized as
the world’s oldest crop dusting
pilot, was killed last night when
his light plane hit a telephone
wire.
The 73-year-old Elliott had just
finished dusting a field when the
propeller and wheels of his plane
struck the lines.
He had been dusting crops since
1924.
STARLETTE HUNT MARRIES
ACS MAN AT LADD FIELD
Miss Starlette Jo Hunt became
the bride of Kenneth Franklin
Downer in a double ring cere
mony read recently in the Ladd
Air Force Base chapel by Chap
lain Robert P. Holdt.
Miss Hunt is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph K. Hunt of
College.
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.,
(.?•—The 22nd annual nudist con
vention of the American Sunbath
ing Association opens today at
Oakdale Ranch with about 1,000
delegates attending.
Events will include a fashion
show. Jim Grant, director of Oak
dale explained:
“Some will model earrings, oth
ers beads; possibly some will wear
bracelets or fancy shoes.”
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Shave . 75
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E. German Police
Flee To W. Berlin
In Mass Desertion
BERLIN, Wl— Thirty-seven East
German soldiers and policemen
fled to West Berlin today in the
second largest mass desertion of
Red armed forces this year.
The fugitives, including one of
ficer, deserted from the food
blockade which the Soviet zone
government set up around Berlin
last Saturday to kill off American
relief for 18 millidn East Germans.
Twenty were from the Red
Wehrmacht and 17 from the Peo
ple’s Police.
The record for one day’s flight
was set June 24, a week after the
East German revolt, when 46
soldiers and policemen applied
here for political asylum. The to
tal for 1953 is 2,533—two-thirds
of them army troops.
The Communist hunger block
ade and a rash of terror trials cut
sharply today the rush of East
Germans to receive free American
food packages in West Berlin.
The first death in anti-Commu
nist clashes last weekend with
police and Red civilian gangs was
reported today by the Free Jurists
League, a West Berlin intelligence
organization.
It said anti-Red fishermen from
Zossen, a town 20 miles south of
Berlin, fought a pitched battle
Saturday night with Communist
Free German Youth (FDJ) and a
police patrol at Mollen.
One fisherman was wounded in
fche arm with a pistol shot by a
blue-shirted FDJ, and the latter
was then beaten to death.
Four members of the Zossen
fishing association were arrested
on murder charges Sunday by So
viet zone security agents.
The Free Jurists said the fight
started when the FDJs tried to.
break up a moonlight fishing ex
pedition.
The Zosseners fought on, even
after the FDJs used firearms and
called up police, the report said.
“Knots” is the term for the
speed of a ship derived from the
ancient method of measuring
speed by counting the number of
knots in a line pulled over the
stern by a piece of wood thrown
into the water.
I
Col. Lars Johnson
Leaves A.N.G. To
Head Air Guard
JUNEAU — Announcement was
made Tuesday by the office of the
Adjutant General, Alaska Nation
al Guard, of the departure of
Col. Lars L. Johnson for An
chorage. Col. Johnson recently re
signed as Adjutant General of the
National Guard and is moving to
Anchorage to assume the position
of Base Detachment Commander
of the Alaska Air National Guard.
He. will remain acting Adjutant
General pending appointment of
his successor.
Col. Johnson was a former resi
dent of Anchorage and has been
a resident of Alaska since 1938.
He was called to active duty with
the Army Air Force in 1941, and
served in Alaska and the South
Pacific theatres during World War
II. After the war, Col. Johnson
returned to Anchorage to make
his home.
During Col. Johnson’s two years
in office, the Alaska National
Guard has grown from a small
initially organized group into a
well organized and efficiently op
erating body with a strength of
almost 2,000 men and spreading
throughout the territory at seven
ty-some locations.
The allocation and organization
of the 144th Fighter - Bomber
Squadron at Anchorage during
the past year was almost entirely
due to the efforts put forth by
Col. Johnson to obtain an Air Na
tional Guard for the territory.
Upon leaving for Anchorage,
Col. Johnson stated, “The past
two years as Adjutant General
have provided me with the op
portunity to really know the terri
tory and its many problems. It has
been a great privilege to have had
a part in the organizing and
growth of the Alaska National
Guard. I wish to personally com
mend all members of the Alaska
National Guard for their hard
work and forthright interest in
creating such a fine guard. In
addition, I also want to commend
and sincerely thank all individ
uals in the Alaskan Command, the
National Guard Bureau, the var
ious territorial agencies, and the
communities of Alaska who have
been instrumental in helping the
guard to prosper and grow.”
Taft Burial Service
Held in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, IP) — Senator
Robert A. Taft, the son of a presi
dent and one of the nation’s lead
ers in his own right, was buried
Tuesday in the little community
church which has claimed him as
its own for three decades.
His family and close personal
friends were the only ones in at
tendance as a simple funeral ser
vice was read in the little slate
roofed Indian Hill Church.
There were slightly more than
200 persons in the church.
Fifteen miles away in down
town Cincinnati public officials
and the public gathered in Christ
Church for a memorial service.
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