SOVIETS COMPLETE
fii Til HOT TIE!
MOSCOW, Dec., 23, (/P)—Progress
in Soviet aviation may be judged
from a giant new multi-mofcored
plane, the ANT-14, which has suc
cessfully completed its trials and
soon will be put into large scale
production.
The ANT-14 is claimed here to be
the largest laud plane in the world.
It is a five-motored, high wing, all
metal monoplane and carries 36
passengers with their baggage and
a crew of five men. The plane it
self is entirely of Soviet construe
tion, made of duraluminum.
The motors are the British Jup
iter Six, made in Russia under a
special license. Each has 430 horse
power, delivering 2,400 horsepower
altogether. One motor is mount
ed in the nose and the other four
are on the leading edge of the wing.
The propellors are of the two
bladed tractor type.
BUILDINGS DESTROYED
j BANGKOK, Siam, Dec., 23, (#•)
jFive hundred buildings, including
l the Bank of Canton, in the Chin
ese business district, were destroy
!ed in the most destructive fire in
the city’s history. Two thousand
persons were rendered homeless.
When it’s developing and print
ing-think ALASKA SHOP.
FIGHT MTU OF
TK1FRIGH IS HHI
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec., 23, (,P)_
The battle for control of the Trans
america Corporation was thrown
into the courts recently.
Charging that the present offi
cials and directors of Transamerica
Corporation are using the Bank of
America in their fight for proxies,
a group of Transamerica stock
holders allied with the A. P. Gian
nini faction, asked for a perma
ment injunction.
Superior Judge Jackson granted
a temporary restraining order and
aiguments will be heard before the
Superior Court.
WILL RAISE CATTLE
, Dan Crawford, who with Mrs. i
[Crawford moved to Juneau from!
[Idaho several months ago, has
[ leased the Skuse homestead at
Mendenhall for a five-year terriV
He will raise cattle for local mar
keting and specialize in truck
farming, reports the Juneau Em
pire.
Frank Mercer, 55 years old,
prominent Southeastern Alaska In
dian, died recently of tuberculosis at
Juneau. Mercer was an organizer
of the Alaska Native Brotherhood
and was a leader among his peo
ple, says the Juneau Empire.
About 2,500 Aiaska natives own.
reindeer.
Now Is the time to Iook over old
packs and have new bottoms pot
on *or winter.
SEWARD LEATHER WORKS
— and here's how they get that way!
The mildest cigarette is bound to be
the one that’s made of the mildest to
baccos. It’s harder to find the milder
varieties—but we pay the price and
get the choice. The world’s finest
I urkish the world’s finest Domestic
the purest, mildest and best tobacco
that grows—that’s what we buy for
Chesterfield.
We tie up millions of dollars age
ing these tobaccos right. Then we
blend and cross-blend them for extra
mildness and taste. Good —* they’ve
got to be good!
Everything that money, science and
skill can do to make a milder cigarette
shows up with every puff. A cigarette
can t be made any milder or purer—
you can smoke as many as you like.
And you’ll like as many as you smoke.
Chesterfields TASTE BETTER and
THEY SATISFY!
TASTE BETTER
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