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Ex-Paratrooper
Falls 11 Stories,
Only‘Breaks a Rib
CHICAGO, OP) — A husky ex
paratrooper “just relaxed” when
he fell 11 stories from a building
under construction Monday and
suffered only a broken rib.
“Hey, I must have forgotten my
parachute” grinned Thomas
Grace, Jr., 27, as fellow workers
rushed to his aid.
Grace, a pipefitters apprentice,
joking about his fall, said;
“I was in the paratroops in
World War II and I learned how
to fall. I twisted my body so my
head wouldn’t hit. That saved
me.”
Grace was drilling a hole at the
11th floor of the skeleton build
ing when the handle of the elec
tric drill came off and the vibra
tion tossed him out into space.
At the third floor level his left
side smashed against bracklayers’
scaffold.
“I got a' look at the faces of
some of the bricklayers,” laughed
Grace. “Boy, were they sur
prised!”
Grace landed between two
manholes under construction and
missed bricks and rubble in the
area. Two other pipefitters who
ran to his aid said he told them:
“I’m going back up there and
finish drilling that hole.”
When the fire department am
bulance arrived he didn’t want to
be carried on a stretcher—but was
overruled.
At Mother Cabrini Hospital, the
5-foot 9-inch 190 pound Grace
told a nurse: “I’m hungry. I
missed my lunch. How about a
nice, thick steak?”
When Grace’s parents arrived
at the hospital, he quipped:
“What’s all the fuss about? It
wasn’t much of a fall. Why, it
didn’t last hardly any time at all.”
“That’s our son,” smiled his
father. “He makes jokes about
everything.”
World’s First Jet Ace
On Second Tour in Korea
SEOUL, tiP — U.S. Sabre jets
shot down 12 Communist MIGs
and damaged another Tuesday,
boosting their MIG kills this
month to 51 — 12 less than the
war’s one-month record set last
September.
Two sharpshooting pilots bag
ged two MIGs each in savage sky
battles high over North Korea.
Maj. James Jabara of Wichita,
Kas., the world’s first jet ace now
serving his second combat tour in
Korea, got two and boosted his
total kills to nine.
Night - flying B - 26 bombers
wiped out 90 Communist trucks,
destroyed a locomotive, seven box
cars and a railroad bridge in pre
dawn strikes.
B-29 Superforts smashed a 130
acre troop and supply area north
of Hamhung on Korea’s east
coast.
Ground fighting dwindled to
patrol clashes as the air war
mounted in intensity.
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Gen. Van Fleet Believes
First Scout Bn. at Pt.
Barrow Are Good Soldiers
JUNEAU, UPl—The former com
mander of the United Nations’
military forces in Korea believes
that the First Scout Battalion of
Eskimos at Point Barrow are cap
able soldiers.
A report on Gen. James A. Van
Fleet’s visit to the far northern
community on the Arctic Ocean
reached Juneau today from the
commanding officer of the Alas
ka National Guard unit there, Lt.
Lloyd Ahvakana.
Lieutenant Ahvakana served as
General Van Fleet’s interpreter
during an honor guard (teremony
at Point Barrow on May 19.
He quoted General Van Fleet as
having told the unit:
“I know that you men are cap
able of the qualifications of a
good soldier and I want to con
gratulate each and every one of
you for being here.
“I am proud that I could have
come such a great distance to wit
ness such a show above the Ar<^.
tic Circle.”
Air Force Rescue Plane
Finds and Leads To Shore
Shishmaref Seal Hunters
FAIRBANKS, UP) —Six Eskimo
seal hunters and their dog teams,
adrift two days on a Bering Sea
ice floe 25 miles off shore, were
guided to safety from the skies
Sunday night.
A radio1 call for help from Shish
maref, a flight by a 74th Air Res
cue Squadron plane of the Tenth
Rescue Group at Ladd Field, and
a dropped message all figured in
saving the party.
The Eskimos failed to return td
Shishmaref Saturday night and
word was radioed to National
Guard headquarters at Nome and
relayed here.
A plane was ordered into the
search Sunday and it flew over
the ice pack until it sighted the
Eskimos on an 800-foot floe.
A message was dropped say
ing a wind shift had packed the
ice tight towards shore. Then, for
three hours, the plane circled
overhead to show the most direct
route to Shishmaref over the rag
ged ice floes.
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