Wreckage of C-119 On
Mt. Silverthrone Scattered
Over 300-Yard Area
ALASKAN COMMAND Head
quarters, Elmendorf AFB — The
heavy clouds which normally
shroud jagged Mt. Silverthrone
lifted Saturday to permit Air
Force planes to fly low over the
wreckage of the C-119 aircraft for
the first time since it crashed into
the 13,000-foot peak Nov. 7 with
19 military personnel aboard.
Pilot and observers reported
sighting the partially snow-cov
ered wreckage scattered over a
300-yard area below the flame
scorched point of impact where
the ill-fated aircraft exploded.
Capt. Wm. D. Hackett, Ft. Rich
ardson Army officer and veteran
mountain climber, accompanied
one flight as an expert consultant.
“No one viewing the scene of
the crash can have any doubt
that all aboard were instantly
killed when the plane exploded
upon impact,” Capt. Hackett said.
He further said that it appeared
that an avalanche had been start
ed by the explosion which had
swept pieces of debris far down
the mountainside and buried oth
ers in deep crevices.
Officers of- the 10th Rescue
Squadron also consulted M r.
Grant Pearson, Mt. McKinley Na
tional Park ranger as to the feasi
bility of sending a trail party to
the scene of the crash. Mr. Pear
son headed an Army expedition
in Dec., 1944, in a futile attempt
to recover bodies from the crash
site of a C-47 plane in the same
genei’al vicinity, of the recent ac
cident.
' WEATHER FORECAST
L'.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Compiled by the
Cloudy with occasional light
snow flurries tonight. Mostly
cloudy Tuesday. Southwest winds
10-15 mph tonight and Tuesday.
Lowest temperature expected to
night 28, high Tuesday 31.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation: .05 in.
Temperatures: high 33, low 29.
Max. wind 25 mph from the NE.
Sun rises 8:41 a.m., sets 2:52 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 32, low 21. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 38 in 1916,
low -14 in 1948.
Other stations, 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Barrow , 4 # Cloudy
Kotzebue 29 Snow
Wales 30 Part cloudy
Gambell 23 Cloudy
Nome 30 Showers
Unalakleet 32 Snow
Bethel 26 Part cloudy
McGrath 15 Part cloudy
Anchorage 27 Snow
Fairbanks 6 Cloudy
Whitehorse 28 Cloudy
Juneau 40 Rain
Ketchikan 41 Cloudy
Seattle 41 Smoke
San Francisco 55 Clear
Scandinavian Airline Crew
To Blaze Shorter Route
From Calif, to Denmark
• NEW YORK (JP)—Eight Scan
danavian airlines crewmen plan
to blaze a new shorter air route
between California and Denmark.
Capt. Alf Frandsen of Stock
holm said the plan is to establish
a flight route 1,100 miles shorter
than the present air trip from
Los Angeles through New York
to Copenhagen.
The crew will take off at 8:30
a.m. Nov. 19 from Santa Monica,
Calif., in a new DC-6-B airliner,
carrying emergency equipment
'.such as snowshoes, boots, thick
skin uniforms and rations in case
of accident.
The flight is scheduled to land
at Edmonton, Alberta, take off
two hours later, land at Thule, a
U.S. airport base in Greenland,
take off two hours later and reach
Copenhagen at 10 a.m. Nov. 20.
Capt. Frandsen, who will act as
extra pilot to Capt. Poul Jensen
of Denmark, said the 5,106-mile
flight will pass about 300 miles
east of the magnetic pole.
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ALL KINDS OF ELECTRICITY
MINNEAPOLIS, (A*)—You can
find almost any kind of electricity
if you look far enough, say the
scientists in the engineering lab
oratory of the Minneapolis-Honey
well Company here.
Most U.S. electricity is 60-cycle,
but you can find 25-cycle at one
place in India — and across the
street it’s 50-cycle. The Isle of
Capri has 42-cycle, Gibraltar, 76
and Cairo 40 or 50.
So the laboratory here, part of
a company which makes auto
matic controls, has machines
which will make electricity with
any desired cycle. They use it to
test control devices designed for
export.
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Seattle Group Asks
Reactivation of
I
Lifeline Committee
Reactivation of the Alaska Life
line Committee was urged re
cently as an immediate result 6f
the Seattle waterfront strike.
Simultaneously, President Phil
A. Strack, of the Seattle Chamber
of Commerce, said that the new
outbreak brings a “real threat to
the future of shipping from the
Port o‘f Seattle.”
The plea for renewal of the
Lifeline. Committee’s activities
came from A1 Shyman, chairman
of the Chamber’s Alaska Division.
He called on the Lifeline Commit
tee to “take whatever steps will
help in bringing about resumption
of shipping to Alaska without
delay.”
The Lifeline Committee was
formed last June when the strike
of the Sailors Union of the Pacific
halted most of the shipping to
Alaska.
The chamber president said in
a statement that “the chamber is
not commenting on, ot taking a
position regarding the issues and
objectives in the present tie-up.
We are seriously alarmed by the
threat it brings to shipping, mari
time operations and waterfront
employment in Seattle.”
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