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AIRLINES SET SAFETY RECORD
The scheduled airlines, according to figures re
leased in their official publication of the Aircraft Indus
tries Association, have set a new record for safety in the
twelve-m.onth period ending Oct. 1. The record, it is
claimed, surpasses that of both automobiles and rail
roads in the year 1951, which is said to be the latest
year for which figures are available for these two forms
of transportation.
The airlines, it is said, ended the twelve-month
period, up to September 1, with a fatality rate record
of 0.38 for each 100,000,000 passenger miles flown. This
is the lowest fatality rate in the domestic carriers’
history.
There is no doubt that the airlines have been im
proving their safety record steadily and that the change
which has come about in .the last twenty years repre
sents an achievement of great significance. In the
period 1932-36, the fatality rate of the scheduled air
lines was fifteen deaths for each 100,000,000-passen
ger-mi ies flown. The latest figures show the death rate
bps been reduced about a fortieth of that figure. This
represents a considerable reduction in a period of
some sixteen to twenty years.
Though some people* still do not like the idea of
flying, the airlines’ safety record appears to be a very
promising one. Most of us will probably ■ live to see
the day when the fatality rate in air traffic is reduced
to even lower percentages and if the other carriers do
not keep pace with this record, the airways may one
day be the safest form of travel.
Reporter Who Posed As
Govt. Agent Re-indicted
WASHINGTON, UP) — Ray
Brennan, Chicago Sun-Times re
porter, was indicted for a second
time today on a charge of posing
as a government official to get
secret testimony given Senate
crime investigators.
An earlier indictment was dis
missed last week while under
heavy attack from defense attor
neys who contended it was de
fective. The case was presented
to the grand jury immediately.
The new indictment contains
two counts, instead of the single
count in the original indictment.
PAN AM'S CHARLES BENNET
TRANSFERRED TO RANGOON
Charles H. Bennet, 38, former
station operations manager for
Pan American World Airways in
Fairbanks, has been transferred
to the post of station operations
manager at Rangoon, Burma.
Bennet originally joined Pan Am
at Whitehorse, Yukon Territory.
He has served at Nome as well
as in Fairbanks and he was trans
ferred last summer to PAA divi
sion headquarters in San Fran
cisco.
FRENCH FORCES REPULSE
STRONG VIETMINH ATTACKS
HONG KONG, UP)—1The French
have beaten off in the last 72
hours a series of powerful Viet
minh attacks aimed at smashing
the big base of French Union
forces at Na San in northwestern
Indochina, it was learned here
Tuesday.
Sluice-box Johnson, from "Star
vation Gulch." now at the Polaris
Hotel, says: "I'm not going back
to camp until after the Roof Gar
den. Thai thar' big nugget fas
cinates me. I sure like the feel
of it."
Western Nations Refuse
Soviet Bid for Cease-Fire
And Repatriation of POWs
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., (/P)—
The Western and neutral nations
which have approved India’s
peace plan for Korea, refused yes
terday to accept a Russian de
mand for an immediate cease-fire
in Korea.
Fprty-one countries in the 60
nauon U. N. Assembly Political
Committee voted down the Rus
sian proposals, which would also
have demanded forcible repatria
tion of all war prisoners. Only the
Soviet bloc voted for the Russian
plan. Twelve countries, chiefly
the Orient, abstained.
The move cleared the way for
quick and overwhelming approval
of the Indian plan in a plenary
session of the U.N. General As
sembly today.
Radioactive Substance
May Be Source Curative
Powers of Biblical Springs
WASHINGTON, (/P) — Radio
active uranium may be the source
of curative powers ascribed since
Biblical days to springs near the
Lake of Gallilee, says a woman
scientist from Israel.
Dr. Rosa Goldstein said at a
news conference Friday that an
American researcher recently dis
covered evidence of uranium in
the springs.
These “hot springs of Tiberius,”
near the lake where Christ walk
ed upon the waters, were popular
with Roman governors of the
Holy Land and are mentioned in
the Bible.
Dr. Goldstein said “one can
speculate” that radiant energy, a
byword in the atomic age, played
a role in any actual cures for
I those who bathed at the spot in
' centuries past.
Taft Hits Durkin
Appointment as
“Incredible”
CINCINNATI, {&)—Sen. Rob
ert A. Taft Tuesday called the sel
ection of Martin Durkin, a Demo
crat, as Secretary of Labor “an
incredible appointment” by Pres
ident-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Senator Taft, who campaigned
for Eisenhower after losing the
GOP nomination to him, said in
a prepared statement:
“The appointment of Mr. Dur
kin is an incredible appointment.
This is no reflection on the char
acter or ability of Mr. Durkin.
I had a number of talks with Mr.
Herbert Brownell who has been
the key man in cabinet appoint
ments, and made several recom
mendations of qualified men.
“It was never even suggested
that a man would be appointed
who has always been a partisan
Truman Democrat, who fought
Gen. Eisenhower’s election, and
advocated the repeal of the Taft
Hartley Law.
“It is an affront to millions of
union members and officers who
had the courage to defy the edict
of officials like Air. Durkin that
they vote for Stevenson.
“This appointment leaves with
out representation in the cabinet
those millions of Democrats, north
and south, who left the party to
gives representation to their most
support Gen. Eisenhower, and
bitter opponents.”
The statement immediately
brought to question Taft’s future
political relationship with Gen.
Eisenhower.
Only a few days ago', Taft re
marked that the general’s choices
for cabinet posts had not included
anyone he had recommended.
The senator had gone all out
for Eisenhower’s election after
his own defeat in the GOP con
vention, making speeches in many
states.
One of the things the Republi
cans fought during the campaign
was the declaration by President
Truman and others that Eisen
hower was more or less under
control of Taft.
Wien Employees and Families
Arrived io Make Homes Here
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Finnegan
and three children arrived yes
terday- with Wien Airlines, to
make their home here as Mr.
Finnegan is employed by Wien
Airlines.
Mr. and Mrs. Bob Fisher and
two children were passengers
with Wien’s yesterday. Mr. Fish
er is also employed here by
Wien Airlines.
Plan to Keep Radio
Stations Broadcasting in
Air Raid Starts in March
WASHINGTON, (/P)—The White
House Tuesday announced a plan
for keeping standard radio sta
tions on the air during any air
raids — thus maitaining a vital
communication link with the pub
lic — and at the same time using
their beams to confuse enemy
bombing missions.
The novel master plan, which
goes into effect in three months,
is in sharp contrast to the World
War II policy of silencing all
broadcasting during any such
emergencies.
The White House said the idea
now is to get as many as possible
of the 2,500 standard radio sta
tions on the air during an air raid,
but with their frequencies so
shifted that they may not be
Used as guides by planes or miss
iles.
Tuesday Hoop Rundown
In Tuesday night’s basketball
doubleheader at the high school
gym, the Federated Church won
their first game of the season as
they tro’unced a 'tough CAP team
60-21 and in the second tilt, the
23rd Detchment knocked over
the 5001st 43-11.
The Church, in winning their
game, was never pressed by the
Patrol five and gained a com
manding 30-10 score at the half.
Coach Pete Hahn was high
point man with 17, followed by
Ray Kangas with 16, Herb Wil
liams 14, Larry Minix 7, Spook
Lucas 4, and Corky Kost 2. For
the losers Kliest 11, Borst 6 and
Vincent 4.
The 23rd Det. had an easier
time in their game as they led
the 5001st 12-5 at the half, after
the two teams had battled on
even terms in the first period.
For the winners, Baumgartner
collected 20 points, Steward 10,
Games 5, Bakken 4, Hummel 3,
and Rudy 1. Dann of the 5001st
4, Dumloeker 3, Vincent 2, Kra
mer and McClure 1 each.
13 Die in Craslx
Of Air Force C-47
SAN BERNADINO, Calif, (/P)—
An Air Force C-47, with 13 men
aboard, apparently crashed during
the night at the 3,000-foot level in
the San Bernardino mountains,
the sheriff’s office i-eported Tues
day.
Deputy Sheriff Lcring Poleman
of Victorville said he saw a big
| fire in the mountains north of
j here and west of Big Bear Valley
about 4 a.m., which finally died
out.
Checking again at daybreak,
he could still see smoke from the
spcrt, well above the snowline,
which was about 4,500 feet high.
The plane left Davis-Monthan
Air Base at Tucson, Ariz., last
| night, enroute to nearby March j
Air Base. It last checked in by j
radio over Palm Springs, on the i
desert east of here at 9:51 p.m. j
Between Palm Springs and
March Air Base lies towering, 10,
j 305-foot Mt. San Jacinto. It was
storming heavily at the time.
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17 y2 of $40 Billions
For Defense Slated
To Go To Air Force
By ELTON C. FAY
AP Military Affairs Reporter
WASHINGTON, f/P)—The Air
Force was reported today to be
getting a 17V& billion dollar slice
of a total of $40,700,000,000 ap
propriation budget requested for
the Defense Department in the
next fiscal year.
Word on the size of the new
military budget which now is
awaiting preliminary approval by
the White House and Budget Bu
reau and final action by the next
Congress fallowed by a day a
news conference of Defense Sec
retary Robert A. Lovett which
produced:
1. Disclosure that he has ap
proved inclusion in the budget '
request of some funds to start
work on a third supercarrier a
sistership of the 60,000-ton U.S.
Forrestal, now building, and the
US. Saratoga, the keel- of which
will be laid this month.
2. A flat assertion by Lovett
that he differed with a top Air
Force official, Undersecretary
Roswell Gilpatric that the United
States has instead of one air force
a total of four—the USAF, the
Navy’s air arm, the Marine’s
force and the Army’s aviation
units.
Gilpatric said in a recent speech
tha: he thought Jimmy Doolittle,
retired Lieutenant General of the
Air Force, was right when Doo
little said the U.S. should have
an Army, a Navy and an Air
Force, but needs “only one of
each.”
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