Ex-Marine Flies
Across Atlantic
In 1-Engine Plane
SHANNON, Ireland, UP>—A for
mer U.S. Marine jet pilot flew
into' Shannon Airport from New
foundland—via Paris—Saturday
after starting off on what he in
sisted was a one-hour hop in Can
ada in a single-engine plane.
Thomas H. Danaher, 30-year
old uranium miner from Wichita
Falls, Texas, wouldn’t say much
about how ho happened to extend
his flight, but he did say emphat
ically: “The trip added ten years
to my life.”
Danaher, a six-footer in a ten
gallon Texas hat, a leather jacket
and fawn trousers, said he always
wanted tcf see Paris. The marine
reservist flew in the Pacific in
World War II and in Korea.
So, fitting out his Beech Bon
anza with additional fuel tanks,
he notified authorities in Canada
he was off on a short hop. Some
how, he explained to newsmen
here, he headed across the Atlan
tcc and reached Paris—or at least,
the sky above Paris. He couldn’t
get permission to come down so
he turned back to Shannon, he
added.
After 3,100 miles and 13V£
hours of flying he came down
about midnight.
MULE KICKS CAR
SHELBY, N.C., liPI—Two mules
were wandering along a highway
near here.
An automobile struck and killed
one. Another automobile stopped
to give help. The second mule
backed up to it, raised his hind
legs and let go, smashing the car
door.
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Army Denies Claim of
Damage to Watermelon
Crop by Paratroopers
TOKYO, UP) — The U.S. Army,
taking issue with some Japanese
farmers, said today its paratroop
ers did only $36 worth of damage
to watermelon crops on a recent
test drop—including the ones the
soldiers ate.
The farmers had claimed the
soldiers had .eaten and otherwise
damaged, $360 worth.
An impartial survey set the fig
ure at 10 per cent of that, the
Army said, but it didn’t say who
made the- survey.
The announcement said every
company in the 187th Airborne
Regiment that participated in the
drop will be held equally respon
sible for the watermelons and will
chip in to repay the farmers.
Average Personal Income
In U.S. Was $1,709 In 1953
WASHINGTON, OP) — Per per
son income in the United States
averaged $1,709 last year—a $65
boost over 1952.
Reporting this yesterday, the
Commerce Department said states
showing the biggest gains in 1953
were Michigan, Florida, South
Dakota, Ohio, Indiana and Nev
ada. Individual income totals rose
from 9 to 12 per cent in these
states with Nevada, the highest,
averaging $2,175 per person.
Five states reported lower per
sonal income in 1953—Wyoming,
Nebraska, Kansas, Idaho and
Iowa. Missouri showed a gain but
s*ill had the lowest individual av
erage, $834, the department said.
Personal income nationwide
was listed as totalling $270,577,
000.000 in 1953 compared with
$256,091,000,000 the year before.
ALASKA AIRLINES
Frorp Anchroage: J. R. Malone,
Mrs. H. Havens, Mr. and Mrs.
Herb Muller, Elmer Seetomona,
Frank Long, E.H. Moss, Margaret
Mowat, Capt. J. H. Simmons.
From Unalakleet: Mr. and Mrs.
H. Bailey.
To Anchorage: Arthur Jones,
Karl Dissley, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred
Black, John Bell, Ophelia Burke,
Mary Burke, Major MacKenzie,
Tom Jensen.
Congress Votes
$53,909,000,000
To Run Gov’t
WASHINGTON,MV-Congress has
voted a mere $53,909,000,000 to
run the federal government this
fiscal year—the smallest total
since before the outbreak of the
Korean War.
At the same time, the lawmak
ers cut only about $32,600,000,000
from the $56,554,000,000 in new
cash requested by President Eis
enhower in his budget for the
year ending next June 30.
about $5'/2 billion below the $59,
498,000,000 voted by Congress last
year after the Republicans re
turned to power.
And they were only about half
of the post-World War II record
total of 101 billion voted in 1951,
the year the nation started in
earnest to rebuild its military
might after the Red attack on
South Korea.
Congress wound up its appro
priating for the session Thursday
when first the House, then the
Senate, passed a compromise for
eign aid funds bill totaling $5,243,
575,795. The measure lays heavy
stress on military defenses, much
less on economic aid, in providing
$2,781,499,861 in new cash and
re-appropriating $2,462,075,979 in
carryover funds to bolster the
free world against the Communist
threat.
Although this totals about three
quarters of a billion dollars less
than the President asked, the
House voted in favor 188 to 77
and the Senate sent it on to the
White House without a record
tally.
Alaska’s Pioneers’ Home
To Get Large Addition
Cole and Paddock of Juneau
have been awarded a contract for
moving the garage at the Alaska
Pioneers’ Home at Sitka to a new
site recently “sold” to the Terri
tory for $1 by the Russian Greek
Orthodox Church of North Amer
ica, Chairman Henry Roden of the
Home’s Board of Trustees said
this week.
Moving of the garage will clear
the site for building a large addi
tion to the Home for which the
last Legislature appropriated
funds and matching money is ex
pected from Alaska Public Works,
Roden said.
WEATHER FORECAST
Compiled by the
U.S. Dept, of Commerce Weather Bureau
Continued cloudy tonight and
Tuesday with intermittent rain
and fog. Little change in temper
ature. Winds SE 12-25 mph. in
creasing to 30-45 late tonight.
Low temperature expected to
night 52, high Tuesday 55.
Nome data last 24 hours as of
7 a.m. today: Precipitation .55 in.
Highest temperature 55, low 52.
Max. wind 33 mph. from the SE.
Sunrise 4:15 a.m., sunset 7:51 p.m.
Temperatures a year ago today:
high 58, low 47. Extremes this
date since 1907: high 68 in 1911,
low 30 in 1929.
Other stations as of 7 a.m. today:
Station Temp. Weather
Kotzebue 56 Cloudy
Wales 45 Cloudy
Nome 53 Cloudy
Unalakleet 50 • Cloudy
Bethel 57 * Rain
McGrath 57 Cloudy
Anchorage 56 Cloudy
Fairbanks 60 Cloudy
Whitehorse 53 Cloudy
Edmonton 57 Cloudy
Juneau 58 Cloudy
Ketchikan 65 Part cloudy
Seattle 60 Part cloudy
San Francisco 62 Clear
Important
Polio Vaccine
Verdict Due
NEW YORK—Eighteen labora
tories throughout the country
have started a half million dollar
study of blood samples from chil
dren who took part in the polio
vaccine trials, it was announced
last week by Basil O’Connor,
president of the National Founda
tion for Infantile Paralysis.
Mr. O'Connor revealed that
grants totaling $516,000 have been
made for this particular phase of
the evaluation of the polio vac
cine developed by Dr. Jonas E.
Salk of the University of Pitts
burgh.
The laboratories play an im
portant role in the study of effec
tiveness of the vaccine, he said,
since their analysis will reveal the
presence and amounts of polio
fighting antibodies in the blood of
children before and after vaccin
ation.
The grants of laboratories are
in addition to $890,000 previously
awarded to the University of
Michigan, where a Poliomyelitis
Vaccine Evaluation Center has
been set up under the direction of
Dr .Thomas Francis Jr. The total
cost of the vaccine trials this year
will come to $7,500,000 in March
of Dimes funds.
Dogs and Cats Lead Long
List of Biters in L.A.
LOS ANGELES, W—The resi
dents of Los Angeles found out
Saturday what has been biting
them.
The Department of animal reg
ulation reported that dogs, top
ping the list, took 14,887 nips.
Next were cats with 1,092, exclu
sive of scratches.
In the last fiscal year, the re
port said, a sundry assortment of
bite-rs included lions, coyotes, a
baboon, a blackbird, a coati-mun
di and a cockateel, a duck a chick
en, kinkajou, ocelot, goat and
mule.
There were 57 rabbit bites and
gophers gnawed 37 times.
Twining Visits Former Command
ANCHORAGE, M — General
Nathan F. Twining, Air Force
chief of staff, arrived here Satur
day for a week’s tour of Alaskan
air bases. He formerly headed the
Alaska Command.
Lost River Ships
183 Tons of Tin
Worth $225,000
SEATTLE, (/PI—A shipment of
183 tons of tin concentrate, which
owners said was the largest ever
produced from an American tin
mine, arrived by freighter Friday
from Alaska.
J. J. Gilmore, treasurer o'f the
United States Tin Corporation,
placed its value at about $225,000.
It came from tho company’s Lost
River mine, 90 miles northwest of
Nome, the country’s only under
ground tin operation.
The shipment will be forwarded
to the government smelter at Tex
as City, Texas. Another one is
expected in October, before win
ter closes the Bering Sea to ship
ping.
“Not counting today’s lot, the
mine has already produced $300,
000 worth of tin,” Gilmour said.
A congressional committee has
been investigating the company’s
operations this summer, including
charges that large loans have not
brought a resulting production of
metal.
Five Men Killed When
Bonneville Dam Current
Sucks Tugboat Under
PORTLAND, Ore., (/PI—A current
sucked a 47-foot tugboat under
the Bonneville Dam spillway Fri
day and five men lost their lives
in the accident, the worst in the
history of the Columbia River
project.
Another man, Harold A. Cole,
29, Astoria, was rescued by Ivan
Donaldson, a fish biologist for the
Corps of Engineers, who hap
pened to be in a boat nearby con
ducting experiments.
The bodies of two men were
recovered. They were Merle
Tobias, 48, Portland, an engineer,
photographer and world traveler,
and George Graham, Kalama,
Wash., a carpenter.
Woman, Aged 102, Dies,
Leaving 148 Descendants
MILTON, W.V., (/Pi—Mrs. Mary
Drucilla Lilly, 102, died yester
day at her home near hear, leav
ing 148 descendants.
Mrs. Lilly is survived by two
daughters, five sons, 35 grand
children, 88 great - grandchildren
and 18 great, great-grandchildren.
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