Two Tots Burned
By Wing Tank from
High-Flying Jet
FAIRBANKS, UP) — One child
was burned to death and another
suffered critical burns over most
of his body Monday when a wing
tank from a jet fighter plane
plunged to the ground and ex
ploded.
The tank hit the ground near an
apartment house and flaming fuel
splashed over Billy Ifft and Kathy
Price, both four, who were play
ing nearby.
The little girl died several hours
later in St. Joseph’s Hospital. At
tendants said the Ifft boy was in
“very critical condition.”
The tank plummeted to the
ground from the right wing of an
F89D flying high overhead. It hit
near the apartment house and a
bright flower of flaming fuel en
gulfed the youngsters.
Nearby buildings were scorched
severely before firemen could put
out the flames and rush the chil
dren to the hospital.
A spokesman for the Air Force
at nearby Ladd Air Force Base,
the plane’s home station, said the ;
accident was caused “by a mater
ial failure on the wing and was
not the pilot’s error.”
Merrily He Rolls Along,
But Wife Gets Nervous
LOS ANGELES, UPV—Mrs. Phyl
lis C. Brumfield testified in di
vorce court that her husband had
a genius IQ, but he “was always :
performing juvenile antics.”
“When we’d go out in the car
I’d be driving,” said the pretty
21-year-old wife, “and he’d be
climbing and crawling all over
the convertible—out on the hood,
over the windshield, behind the
seat, making remarks at passers
by. It made me nervous.”
She added that her husband,
also 21, wouldn’t establish a home,
had no interest in their baby.
She got the divorce.
Brumfield is supervisor of a nut
and bolt factory.
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Premier U Nu Wins
Majority in Parliament
RANGOON, Burma, UP)—Pre
mier U Nu’s anti-Fascist People’s
Freedom League and its allies
•won 169 of the 250 seats in the
lower house of Parliament in the
April 27 election, unofficial re-1
turns showed today.
The combined opposition won
53 seats. Twenty-eight are still
undecided. Election for the 125
seats in the upper house will be
held May 31.
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Seattle, Los Angeles and San Franciscc
Support Pan American Airways Bid
For A Northern Route To The Orient
Pacific N.W. Trade Assn.
Urges CAB Not Curtail
Alaska Bush Operations
VICTORIA, B.C., W*)—A resolu
tion urging the Civil Aeronautics
Board not to curtail present op
erations of certified Alaskan air
carriers was introduced at the
Pacific Northwest Trade Assn,
conference here Monday.
In making the plea the Alaska
delegation pointed out that 11 air
lines would be affected should
the CAB take the contemplated
action.
James P. Whaley, newly-elected
PNTA regional vice president
from Alaska, said practically
every Alaska Chamber of Com
merce and civic organization is on
record opposing any suspension of
existing air carriers.
So-called bush airlines are im
portant to development and ex
ploration of outlying areas,
Whaley added.
PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS
Arriving Tuesday were: Charles
\nderson, Agnes Galvin, Don Ste
vart, Herk Edwards, Mike Kelly,
Bob Oliver, Clarence Phillips, Jim
Erawford, LeRoy Reader, George
Bell, Dick Ludwig, and Messrs.
Fontazzi, Niles, Carrey, Sander
son, Koonaluk, Napagrak, Reik,
Balay.
Round trip passenger was H. O.
Erickson. Departing for Fairbanks
vas Airman Dafiti.
Tuesday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Chicago 5, Washington 1
Detroit 6, Boston 3
Baltimore 9, Kansas City 5
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Brooklyn 9, Kansas City 5
New York 6, Chicago 4
Philadelphia 3, Milwaukee 1
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
San Francisco 5, San Diego 1
Los Angeles 15, Cacramento 1
Portland 8, Vancouver 2
Seattle 10, Hollywood 4
To meet rigid requirements new
military' aircraft are tested in a
huge “refrigerator-oven” hangar,
where they are subjected to tem
peratures ranging from -65 de
grees to 165 degrees F.
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ARCTIC SANITARY
SERVICE
PHONE RED 181
a WASHINGTON, Uh — Seattle,
Los Angeles and San Francisco
Tuesday supported Pan Ameri
can World Airways’ bid for a
northern route to the Orient.
Pan American now serves the
Orient through Honolulu. North
west Airlines operates a northern
or great circle route to Japan
from Seattle.
A Civil Aeronautics Board hear
ing on Pan American’s request for
a great circle route opened Tues
day before examiner Wm. Cusick.
By order of President Eisenhower,
Northwest’s application for a
route to the Orient from San
Francisco and Los Angeles has
been excluded from this pro
ceeding.
The Seattle Traffic Assn.,
Chamber of Commerce and Port
Commission said they supported
the Pan American application
only on the condition that Seattle
be a mandatory stop on all of
Pan American’s arrivals from or
departures for the Orient.
J.D. Paul, secretary-manager of
the Seattle Traffic Assn., and
spokesman for the Chamber of
Commerce, said the nonstop dis
tance from Seattle to Tokyo is
4,770 miles, compared with 4,839
from Portland, 5,168 miles from
San Francisco and 5,482 miles
from Los Angeles.
Paul added plans are underway
to extend the 8,500 foot runway
at Seattle - Tacoma Airport to
10,400 feet to accommodate long
range jet transports.
Paul said San Francisco-Tokyo
non-stop service is not feasible.
Since transports must make a
stop, on the San Francisco-Tokyo
route, it is to the best interest
of the public they stop at Seattle
rather than some points such as
Annette Island, now a stop on Pan
American’s route to Alaska.
.Ray Allen, director of trans
portation for the Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce, testified
a permanent great circle route
would improve travel for South
ern California residents, and
1 sincti Pan American was the only
' applicant for such a route in this
! proceeding, Los Angeles support
1 ed it.
j Allen said the present rnanda
I tory round-about routings force
j passengers going from Southern
| California to Japan or elsewhere
| in the Orient to travel about 1,000
j miles further than they would by
' a direct route.
Monday Baseball
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Cleveland 3, New York 2
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
Vancouver 3, Hollywood 2
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‘White Alice' and TACAN Jet Planes Are Now
Bids To Be Opened May 24 Faster Than The Eye
ANCHORAGE — White Alice OMAHA, UP) — Modern warfare
and TACAN facilities at various is getting quicker than the eye,
remote northern sites again are Capt. H.E. Ramsden, optometrist
beckoning to contractors accord- at Strategic Air Command, said
ing to the Alaska District Corps yesterday.
of Engineers. The construction, Two high speed aircraft, com
for the U.S. Air Force, will start ing out of the clouds a half mile
this spring. apart, can crash before the pilots
For White Alice facilities at Ft. can see and recognize the other
Yukon and Kotzebue, bids under and turn their planes, he said.
Invitation 56-52 will be opened ^aP'- Ramsden told the Neb
May 24, in the Seattle office of raska Optometric Convention to
the Alaska District, 4735 E. Mar- days iets wil1 travel a mile in
ginal Way. two seconds, yet it takes a sec
T . . ,, , ond for the eye just to recognize
Later this month, contractors .
, ., . . ’ an aircraft in flight,
will foe invited to bid on TACAN ____
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