Missing Plane With Three
Men Aboard Is Found
Apparently Okay in Arctic
ANCHORAGE, W—'The Alaska
Air Command at Elmendorf Air
Force Base announced Wednes
day that a missing Fairbanks
plane carrying three men to a
remote radar site in the Arctic
have been found and that all three
men are apparently safe.
The plane, an Interior Airways
Cessna 180, was sighted by one
of the searching planes in the
snow near the foothills of the
Brooks Range on the Arctic coast.
The pilot who spotted the plane,
which had been missing since Fri
day, reported to Elmendorf by
radio that the three men jumped
up and down in the snow “waving
like mad” as he flew over them.
The Cessna failed to reach Her
schel Island in the Canadian Arc
tic after an overnight stop on
Barter Island off the northern
coast of Alaska last Friday.
The plane was piloted by Keith
Lenhart, Anchorage. Passengers
were Harold N. Brazell, Harpers
Ferry, Iowa,* a Western Electric
Ce mechanic, and R.F. Castling,
Toronto, Canada, a General El
ectric Co, technician.
Veteran Affairs Bureau
Disperses Million in Loans
To Korean War Veterans
JUNEAU, UP) — A loan to Wil
liam Berry of Fairbanks Wednes
day completed dispersal of a mil
lion dollars provided by the 1953
legislature for assistance to vet
erans of the Korean conflict.
Berry, who will use the money
to pay on a service station busi
ness, was the 161st person to ob
' tain a loan since July 1953, from
the Alaska Bureau Veterans Af
fairs Commission
Hereafter, says Edward Brehm,
Veteran Affairs commissioner,
other veterans of the Korean con
flict and World War II “will
share loans from the veterans’ re
volving fund as such monies be
come available from loan repay
ments.”
Brehm said the commission has
loaned more than 12 million dol
lars since the fund was set up for
World War II veterans in 1946.
Repayments total approximately
$90,000 a month and 790 loans
now outstanding total $4,700,000
or approximately $6,000 each.
Flying Boxcar Lands
Safely Despite Loss
Of Landing Wheel
ANCHORAGE, (4V-A Cl 19 Fly
ing Boxcar which lost a landing
wheel after taking off from El
mendorf Air Force Base here
yesterday made an emergency
landing safely on the field hours
later.
The plane, loaded with 4,000
pounds of cargo and with a crew
of five and four passengers,
circled the field until its extra
fuel had been used.
The plane had started on a re
supply mission to a remote radar
site.
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| Ambassadors of U.S* and
Red China Resume Their
12-Week-Old Secret Talks
GENEVA, (tf*—Ambassadors of
the United States and Communist
China resumed their 12-week-old
secret talks in the Palace of Na
tions, one floor below the council
chamber where the big four for
eign ministers’ conference opened
Thursday afternoon.
U.S. Ambassador Alexis John
son and Wang Ping-Nan of Red
China, talked for 2 hours and 45 j
minutes but made no announce
ment on the subject of their dis
cussion. They agreed to meet
again on November 3.
Thursday’s meeting, their 23rd,
was the longest of the series.
Soldiers Guarding Atomic
Works at Hanford Must
Destroy Enemy—Rabbits
CAMP HANFORD, Wash., I#—
Orders of “shoot to kill” have
been issued soldiers guarding the
Hanford Atomic Works from an
elusive enemy that has been nib
bling at the roots of the super
secret installation.
One man in each battery of the
anti-aircraft group was issued a
.22 rifle and told to keep shoot
ing until the enemy is destroyed.
The highly mobile intruder is
the hungry jackrabbit—in fact,
hundreds of jackrabbits. The bun
nies have nibbled the post’s
100,000 rose bushes down to 10,000
and chewed away most of Han
ford’s grass and shrubs.
Discharged Teller Crashes
Light Plane Into Airport
Bank ‘To Get Even’
LOS ANGELES, IflP) — A private
pilot was instantly killed when
his light plane crashed through
the window of a branch bank at
International Airport, showering
glass on the official who had
fired him from a teller-trainee job
only the day before.
Witnesses said Benjamin Fauth,
28, glided his Aeronca downwind
with the engine dead Wednesday
and suddenly veered into the
Bank of America branch. Diners
in the Flight Deck restaurant on
the second story of the building
were jarred but no one was in
jured.
“I heard a boom and hit the
floor. When I got up I saw the
plane in the room,” said Robert
J. Workman, 37, the bank’s chief
clerk. He said he discharged
Fauth because “his work was not
serious enough.” Workman suf
fered a cut cheek.
Fauth had rented the plane with
a full tank of gas only an hour
before at nearby Hawthorne Air
port.
Police said Fauth apparently
“was trying to get even with the
bank for firing him and get rid
of himself at the same time.”
In Toppenish, Wash., Fauth’s
father, E. Fauth, said he could
not understand the crash. Fauth
said his son was a World War II
pilot.
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FWS Administrator
Disputes Gruening On
Alaska Salmon Runs
JUNEAU, (AV—Fisheries Admin
istrator Don McKernan Wednes
day disputed a statement by for
mer Gov. Ernest Gruening that
the Fish and Wildlife Service is
doing nothing about the Alaska
salmon runs.
Gruening was quoted in an in
terview in Kansas City as saying
the salmon industry is decimat
ing the salmon population without
interference from the FWS.
McKernan said the service re
duced the fishing in Southeast
Alaska, increasing spawning es
capement; closed Prince William
Sound to both fishermen and
packers, and forced “very strin
gent” regulations on harvesting
of red salmon in Bristol Bay, Ko
diak and Cook Inlet areas.
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available at The Nome Nugget
Preparations for Merger
Of AFL and CIO Are 1
Practically Complete
NEW YORK, Uf) — Preparations
for merging the AFL and the CIO
into one big labor organization
are practically completed, report
labor leaders George Meany and
Walter Reuther.
Meany, now president of the
AFL and slated to head the new
organization, said its constitution
is in the “final stages.”
Reuther, president of the CIO,
reported “real progress” has been
made. The main outlines of the
new organization are firmly
drawn, he added, and he could
foresee “no changes in substance”
between now and the joint merger
convention here on Dec. 5.
At a unity committee meeting
Wednesday the two groups, ag
reed on directors for 22 regional
posts throughout the country,
with 13 coming from the AFL and
9 supplied by the CIO.
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