Confirmed That U.S. Patrol Plane
Was Fired On Before Vanishing
Off Coast of Communist China
TAIPEH, Formosa GW—It was
confirmed Saturday that a Navy
patrol plane was fired on before
it vanished off the Red China
coast Thursday.
Officials at the U.S. naval air
station at Iwakuni, Japan, said
the body of a crewman picked up
near the spot where the plane
went down had wounds inflicted
by gunfire.
The Navy said examination of
the body of Technician 1. C. Al
Babc Zaharias’ Condition
Remains Critical
GALVESTON, Tex., GW—A hos
pital spokesman said today there
had been no significant change
in the condition of Babe Zaharias,
famed athlete in serious condition
because of cancer.
Yesterday a hospital spokesman
said she had “lost some ground
because of difficulty in taking
nourishment.” Her family . was
called to her bedside yesterday.
Mrs. Zaharias, named “Woman
Athlete of the Half Century” in
an Associated Press poll of sports
writers in 1950, was first discov
ered to have cancer in 1953. She
recovered for a time, but has been
in John Sealy Hospital for some
time. Several weeks ago, a sen
sory nerve was cut to reduce pain
in the lower part of her body.
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Wilford Corbin, a new sub
scriber from Wales, Alaska,
writes that a bull walrus was
playing in the surf recently in
front of the village.
Corbin says “his friendliness”
was welcomed by the villagers
who are now enjoying many
hearty meals of walrus meat.
Western Newsmen See
Russian Jet Zip By
At Supersonic Speed
ORANIENBURG, East Germany
OP—Western correspondents saw
a silver Mig-19, Russia’s secret
jet fighter, zip past at supersonic
speed at an air show yesterday—
the first hint the new plane may
be in service at Soviet forward
bases in Germany.
The swept-wing, twin-engine
Mig is the Russian challenge to
the new American F-100 jet fight
er. It has never before been spot
ted and identified outside of re
cent Moscow air shows.
The air show was a farewell
for a Russian air division being
withdrawn from Communist East
Germany. Western newsmen sta
tioned in West Berlin were invit
ed, along with Anjerican, British
and French air attaches.
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TOBUK INFANT DIES
Everett Tobuk, infant son of
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Tobuk, passed
away yesterday. Funeral arrange
ments have not been announced.
NEW YORKER RECOVERS
IVORY LOST IN NOME
Mrs. Anna Zimet of New York
City has wonderful faith in the
honesty of Nome residents.
During her recent trip to Nome
with Cook’s Tours, she bought
and lost a set of ivory which she
had picked out as a souvenir of
arctic Alaska. She was unable to
find it before she returned to the
States, but had her tour conduc
tor, Jack Gourley, contact Wien
Alaska Airlines in an attempt to
recover it.
Mrs. Zimmet just recently re
ceived her ivory.
bert Mattin of Delta, Ohio, has
shown metal fragments from bul
lets. The wounds did not cause
death, however. Mattin died of
multiple injuries suffered in the
crash.
Patrols Will Continue
The Navy in Washington or
dered the air search for possible
survivors among the other 15 men
aboard the missing plane sus
pended. Surface ships have been
ordered to remain in the area.
Capt. Earl Junghann, com
mander of the fleet air detach
ment at Iwakuni, said loss of the
plane and its 16 men would have
no effect on patrol operations.
He said planes have been fly
ing the patrol route in the past
and there will be others flying
the route in the future.
Wreckage Listed
Junghann listed the. wreckage
found so far as the plane’s wheels,
two fuel tanks, two inflated sev
en-passenger life rafts, equip
ment for the rafts, cushions and
seats from the plane, parts of oil
and fuel lines, a thermos jug, and
personal items.
The two inflated rafts could
not add any hope there might be
survivors. Navy officials said the
rafts found were the type car
ried on the outside of the plane.
They woi^ld inflate automatically.
There was no indication the
rafts had been used by the crew.
Widows Pray Together
Officials said the wives of six
crewmen took the news well. The
wives went to a chapel and
prayed together.
“They are real service wives,”
a close friend said.
There still was no explanation
of the discrepancy between the
Navy’s calculation of the plane’s
location when it was attacked and
the spot where the wreckage was
found, 200 miles north of the
plane’s assumed position.
The executive officer of the
plane’s squadron said the code
message said the plane was being
attacked but did not give its posi
tion. The estimate of the attack
spot placing it. 160 miles north of
Formosa, was based on the known
course of the plane and a position
fix it had radioed 40 minutes
earlier, he said.
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Pacific Palisades Slide
Tumbles Picnickers • and
Covers Coast Highway
SANTA MONICA, Calif. 1*1—One
of the landslides that plague the
Pacific Palisades suddenly broke
loose yesterday, tumbling four
picnicking women down a 175
foot-high bluff and dumping tons
of earth on the coastal highway.
Two of the women suffered
broken vertebrae. They were not
in serious condition.
One car was caught in the on
rush of dirt, but its two occupants
escaped. They said the avalanche
“sounded like a waterfall,”
The highway, which parllels
the ocean, was covered for about
150 feet with dirt 15 feet deep.
‘Texas Teaspoon' Too Big
For Mouths in Ohio
COLUMBUS, Ohio (*>—Cowboy
star Roy Rogers told a grandstand
crowd at the Ohio state fair last
night that Ohio’s Gov. Frank J.
Lausche had received a “Texas
teaspoon” from Gov. Allan Shiv
ers of the Longhorn State.
Rogers said Lausche told about
the gift at a press luncheon re
cently. ‘The Texas soupspoon,"
Lausche was quoted, was as big
as a soup ladle.
The Ohio governor reportedly
wrote Shivers, thanking him for
the teaspoon, but added that he
couldn’t find a mouth in Ohio big
enough to fit it in.’’
ALASKA AIRLINES
From Unalakleet: R. Grosvold.
From Anchorage: Rev. and Mrs.
W. Mecklenburg, Wm. Wagner,
John Williams, John Couchan, T.
Martin, Sam Kennewick, Sig
Krogstad, Mr. Meagar, Wm. Gold
en, Bryant Brady.
To Anchorage: Marie Oovi, H.
Lee, R. C. Rader, Mike Smith.
HEW GOP SLOGAN
ROCHESTER, 'N.Y., i*>—Here’s
the latest campaign slpgan, brain
child of Monroe County Repub
licans:
“Drive carefully. The life you
save may vote Republican.”
The slogan is printed on cards
designed to fit in rear windows
of automobiles.
NOME SANITARY
SERVICE
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