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The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
SEVENTEEN
 PARACHUTE
 TO SAFETY
Escape from PIunging Bomber, Land on Rugged
 and Wooded B. (. Islands

McCHORD AIR FORGE BASE, TACOMA, Wash, Feb. l6LR-All IT men who fled the ice-sheated American B-36 bomber early Tues day morning by parachute survived the ordeal.
 They landed on two rugged, wooded islands in the Queen Char otte group off the northern British Columbia coast about 800 miles northwest of here.
 Ten of the men were flown here in a C-82 flying boXcar last night.
 The other seven, including one in serious condition, were to be brought off the 1.404-square mile Princess Royal Island today.
 s /Sgt. Vitale Trippodi of Brook lyn, NY, was the survivor in the most serious condition.
 Hangs Head Downward
 His parachute landed him in a tree on cliff, where he hung head downward for 10 hours before Capt Harold L. Barry, of Hillsboro, Ill. pilot of the ill-fated bomber, and First Lieut.. Raymond P. White field Jr., of San Antonio. Tex, cut him down from the tree, brought him to a level spot on the 3,000- foot cliff face, and bedded him down on pine boughs.
 Foot in Crevice
 Trippodi's foot was caught in a crevice of the cliff in his fall. Both his legs were reported gangrenous.
 Maj. Joseph O. Smith, Command Ing Officer of Flight c Fourth Res- cue Squadron, said early today he understood Trippodi had been re- moved to the Canadian destroyer Cayuga for treatment.
 The Coast Guard said the other six men would be brought to the beach by rescue parties today. They were reported located about three miles inland.
 Trippodi wasn't the only crash survivor to have trouble with tree.
 Lands in Tree
 s Sgt. Dick Thrasher, 29-year- old gunner from Chiffon, Tex, told interviewers last night that he landed in big tree and had to cut my shroud lines with a knife. l was hanging next to the trunk. After I cut the lines I slid down the trunk md slept until morning"
 That night Thrasher, It. Col. Danield V. Mcdonald of Arlington, Va, an observer but not crew member; s /Sgt. James Ford, 28, radio operator from Holdenville Okla; and It. Paul Gerhart, 26, radar observer from Germantown, Pa.. made a tent out of parachute and slept there until yesterday morning.
 Groups on Shore
 The party which arrived here last night had grouped on shore and was picked up by Canadian fish ing beat. A Coast Guard PBY flew them to Port Hardy. on the north ern shore of Vancouver Island whence the C-82 picked them up.
 The B-36 crash was not without it's tragic aspects. A B-29 bomber taking off from Great Falls, Mont. to join in the search yesterday crashed two miles south of it's base Eight men were killed.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
Merry Go Round The W ashingion
ICopyrisht. 1850. by Bell Syndicate, Incl
 By DREW PEARSON

" ASHINGTON-The big Demo- cratic dinner in Washington to- night contrasts sharply with the Republican box supper ten days ago. It will be the biggest banquet in the history of the world-even big ger than the banquet once given to Julius Caesar. If the Democrats are smart, however, the contrasts will be red flag of warning.
 The Democratic dinner costs $1OO per plate-not bad idea to raise n0litical money. But what's hap pening is that the fat-cats who once backed up the Republicans now flock to the Democrats, Tor very simple reason: the Demo- crats have power.
 Tn ether words, included among the guests tonight will be a few who have income-tax cases to fix, who want to get a governmment contract, who seek to influence White House policy or are angling for an airline franchise. Two tab- les seating ten guests each cost $2,O00-and sometimes the invest ment is worth it.
 It used to be that the big-money boys Hooked to the Republicans, but-except for the very faithful lot are now switching to the Democrats. This doesn't mean that they are really for Truman. They just think it pays.
 But the danger to the Democrats is that when any party gets indebt- ed to too many fat-cats, it starts riding for a fall. Likewise when the Republicans really draw support from the S1 box-supper class, it will start riding to victory Only trouble with the recent COP box
 (COntinued on Page FOurD
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
STEAMER MOVEMENTS

Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday.
 Denali schedule. southbound Sunday;
 Princess Norah scheduled to ar rive at o'clock tomorrow morning 9nd sails south one hour later at 8 o'clock.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
President Says
 Pay loss Claim

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16- R- President Truman has approved legislation to pay the Puget Sound Bridge and Dredging Co.,. of Seattle $9.739 for the loss of supplies and a scow enroute to Alaska.
 The loss occurred at the time the government was building defenses in Alaska during the way.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
VFW WOMEN TO GIVE
 COVERED DISH PARTY
 !NDUG0UT TOMORROW

Members of the Auxiliary to Taku Pest 5559, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will give a covered dish dinner at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in the Dugout. The affair IS for members and their husbands, and Taku Post members and their families.
 pr. T. H. Spiekles of the Terri torial Department of Health will talk on the fight against poliomy- olitis and cancer in Alaska.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
STOCK QUOTATIONS

NEW YORK, Feb. 16-Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can .113, Anaconda 29h, Curtiss- Wright 9, International Harvester 28, Ken necott 55fs, New York Central 1928 Northern Pacific 149s, U. s. Steel 291a, Pound $2.80B.
 Sales today were 1,920.000 shares
 Averages today are as follows industrials 201.69, rails 54.4l, util- ities 4258.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
By CAPT. HAROLD L. BARRY

By CAPT. HAROLD L. BARRY (As told to The Associated Press)
 McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, TACOMA, Feb. 16-R-When we started to lose altitude at around 5000 feet, told the radar operator to direct us over land.
 We dropped to 5000 feet in 10 minutes.
 set it on automatic pilot and we bailed out in only 10 to 15 sec- onds. I was the last to leave the plane. It kept flying on beyond us after we left the ship.
 Landed in Slush landed in little lake on Prin- cess Royal island. It was covered with slush and ice. came up pretty good, then waded through the water, dragging my parachute behind me. That got the chute wet, and it didn't do me any good during that first night.
 I tried to start fire but it was raining in torrents and the wood was wet. It wouldn't start. Early Tuesday morning I started off for the coast. I saw a ground squirrel and shot at it couple of times with my .38 service revolver ] but I didn't hit it. Then I heard Whitefield tFirst Lieut.. Raymond P. Whitefield, Jr. 25, of San Antonio, Tex) blowing on l his whistle. He was about mile away.
 | It was about noon. He was the first of the crew that I saw. The island was hilly and brush-covered and it was hard to make progress. Whitefield and I could only make about a half mile per hour on foot. Then we heard S-Sgt. Vitale Trippodi (of Brooklyn. ND yelling | for help.
 Hung in Tree He was hung up in his chute on tree and had been there all night. It took all our efforts to bring him down. He was in pretty bad shape. We did everything we could to make him comfortable, and made him a sort of bed out of pine boughs, after we'd cut him down from the tree and moved him down from the cliff where the tree was. Later the Canadian destroyer Cayuga sent in 25 men to pick him up and search for the others. Meanwhile, however, Whitefield and scrambled down to the beach, where we stamped out an sos in the snow. Then we waited for the others, who showed up shortly A little while later the fishing boat picked us up. We were all anxious that our wives and families know we sur vived okay.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
AppLICATI0N MADE FOR SECOND RADIO
 STATION IN JUNEAU

WASHINGTON, Feb. 16-tR-The Communications Commission re- ceived these applications for con- struction of new standard broad cast stations yesterday:
 Aurora Broadcasters, Inc. at Ju- neau. Alaska, 580 kilocycles, one kilowatt power. unlimited hours; also, at Ketchikan, Alaska, 63t kilocycles. one kilowatt power, un- limited hours.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
Still Accounted

McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash. Feb. 16-R-The six mem bers of the abandoned B-36 who were reported as still unaccounted for at the start of the search opera tions along the British Columbia coast today were:
 Capt. Theodore F. Schreier, CO., pilot, Madison. Wis.
 Capt. William M. Phillips. 50, navigator, Garber, Okla.
 It. Charles G. Pooler. 36, engineer, Beloit, Kans.
 It. Holiel Ascol. 37. bombardier. Fort Worth, Texas.
 S/sgt. Neal A. straley, 30, gum ner, Cushing. Okla.
 s Sgt. Ebert w. Pollard, 2S, gum ner, Bowie, Texas.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
TWO ARE REPORTED
 RESCUED
Intensified Land Search Is Being Made Shouts and
 Shots Reported Heard

McCHORD AIR FORGE BASE. Wash, Feb. 16-tR-Two more sur vivors of the B-36 bomber from which IT men parachuted off the British Columbia coast early Tues day morning have been found today. the 4th Rescue Squadron reports.
 RCAF. headquarters at Van couver. B.C., said, however, that only one more crew member had been found today.
 Meanwhile, Canadian Naval off, cials said they are certain other men survived. Four men were still miss ing.
 The searchers heard shouts" said Naval spokesman. and an- other search team reported hearing shots"
 The shots came from an inland point on the rocky, wooded Princess Royal island
 Ground Parties
 Four ground parties were on the island, landed earlier today. while more than a dozen low-flying planes from Canadian and American bases were in the search area.
 The Cayuga put three landing parties of 20 men ashore while others were sent from the United States Coast Guard cutter Wyonna. and the R.C.A.F. had group of para rescue men standing by.
 Skilled Mountaineers The searcfiers also included five skilled mountaineers of the Alpine Club of Canada who were taken to the remote island by an R.CA.F. search plane.
 They were under the leadership of Fred Parkes, an expert mountaineer.
 Rescue squadron headquarters re- ported both of the newly-found sur vivors were injured. One was re- ported to have broken ankle.
 Four Canadian and American ground parties were famed out over the rugged island in the desperate race against time and weather.
 Planes continually criss-crossed the area in pressing the search from the air.
 A Coast Guard report last night that all IT of the men had been picked up or located was without substantiation this morning.
 Search headquarters here and at Vancouver. B.C., and the Coast Guard at Ketchikan, Alaska, sad large scale search was under way today for the six.
 Dramatic Rescue
 Eleven men were rescued dra- matically by a fish boat yesterday and last night from Ashdown and Princess Royal Islands. They had parachuted from the burning B-36 during Monday night after three engines caught fire on a flight from Alaska to Texas.
 Cold, Wet, Hungry
 Ten survivors were picked up after they had endured miserable cold and wet and hunger for more than 30 hours. One was picked up later by a rescue team from Ca nadian destroyer after he had hung with head down for 10 hours, With legs broken. after he had landed Ill tree on cliff side. He suffered for additional hours in an improvised shelter after other survivors freed him but couldn't ge5 him t0 fha beach
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
Pilot Tells How Grew Hit
 The Silk; Pair Rescue Man
 Hung Up in Tree Over Cliff

EDITORS NOTE: Capt. Harold l.. Barry, 30. of Hillsbor0, H., pilot of the ill-fated B-36 which crashed off the northern British Columbia coast around Monday midnight after the 17 men aboard had parachuted was one of 10 survivors to reach McCh0rd Air Force Base last night. Follow ing is his story.'
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
FROM SEATTLE

Seattleites at the Baranof Hotel include G. E. Munger and Norman c. Stines.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16

The United States produced ap- proximately 60 percent of the worlds s corn in 1948 and l949
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
WEATHER REPORT

WEA AlhEn nEEOhA Q In Juneau-Maximum 16; minimum II.
 At Airport-Maximum IT; minimum 6.
 FO k F C A s T Duncan ana vicinityb Partly Cloudy with occa- . sional snow flurries and gusty northeast winds to- . night and Friday. Lowest temperature tonight near 10 in town and zero in outly- c ing arears. Highest temper . ature Friday 20.
 . P R E CIPI T A TT ON . tPast "A hours ending 730 m, today City of June-.01 inches; since Feb. 1-1.61 inches; since July 1-56.72 inches. At Airport-.04 inches; . since Feb. 1-1.48 inches; . since July 37.l9 inches.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
FROM PORTLAND

Eldora Leonard Perkins of Port land. Ore. is guest at the Bar anof Hotel
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16
FROM YAKUTAT

Laura Spencer of Yakutat is re- gistered at the Baranof Hotel.
The Daily Alaska empire., 1950-02-16

Mrs. D. Dale of St. Louis, Mo. is registered at the Baranof Hotel.
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Evening star., 1950-12-17

The Eager Beaver: He considers the
party utilitsrian occasion designed espe-
cially to give him an opportunity to hint in
the right quarters that the firm owes him
living more in keeping with the circum-
stances to which he would like to become
accustomed.
The Drunk: This part is usually played
by fellow who all year long never has more
than a raspberry cordial on his mothers
Evening star., 1950-12-17

hooker in a paper cup before he
latches onto the nearest blonde
and tries to lure her behind the fill
ing cabinets.
The Wallfiower in Bloom:
Self-effacing 1854 days out of 365,
this modest violet turns violent.
She does an impersonation of
Katharine Hepburn or demands
the Boss try an intricate rhumba.
Evening star., 1950-12-17
CHRISTMAS CUT-UPS
by Margaret Fishbaek

DEAR MISS FISHBACK: As a former
advertising woman, you've attended
many "A Yuletide office party - enough
to give pointers for next week.
ANSWER: All guests at an office Christmas
party should try to remember that no mat
ter what they do, they've got to face each
other again in a day or two. The time to
think about this is during the festivities.
Office parties are fun and good way to get
to know people, but here are a few tradi-
tional characters you should try not to inn
personate:
The Wolf: This high-octane example of
spontaneous combustion needs only one
Evening star., 1950-12-17

birthday But come the Christmas party,
he renders Good King Wenceslas" while
swinging on door.
The Wag: Male or female, the Wag cor
ners colleagues to tell dog stories,
long, involved and preferably in dialect.
The Tough Guy: He's harbored
grudge against co-worker since July and
offers to punch his teeth down his throat and
black both eyes, all in nice Yuletide spirit.
The NC: Self-appointed, he leaps on the
reception desk, welcomes the help as though
he had paid for the party, recites last nights
radio jokes, and calls on everyone for speech.
Surprise Attacker: Ordinarily nice shy
Evening star., 1950-12-17

glrl, she picks the Office party as
the ideal time to straighten out her
boss - And if you could only see
yourself during dictation, Mr..
Schmaltzr'
The Siren: She dances with all
the executives, lets the pats and
pinches fall where they may and
sends samples of lipstick home to
waiting wives.
Evening star., 1950-12-17

The Ubiquitous Boss: It's darned nice
of him to throw the party and he thinks so.
too. Unluckily, the fun doesn't begin until
he leaves. If he hangs around doggedly
making light conversation with the clerks,
they may neper relax and enjoy themselves.
"EVERYBODY'S ETIQUETTE" takes
a holiday for the NEXT t,co sceeks, comes
back on January Z.
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-10
Alaska Bureau of Vital Statistics Now Year Old

AlaSka's Bureau of Vital Statis- tics celebrated it's first birthday on April 1. This isn't an April fool joke the law setting up the Bureau within the Alaska Depart ment of Health became effective on April l, l949.
 The attending physician at its birth, Dr. C. Earl Albreche, com missioner of health for Alaska, reports that the infant is in good health and doing fine.
 The bureau has on file the birth records of most persons born in Alaska since 1913, according to Francis E. Kester, director of Vii tai Statistics. The bureau is kept busy issuing birth cards and cer- tified copies of these certificates to the individuals who need them to prove age, birthplace and citi- zenShip. Many VerificationS are also made directly to local, Terri torial or state, and national agen- cies who need them to help pro- vide benefits to the individual or his family.
 Besides the records of births,
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-10
Reds Release Film American Pirates

LONDON, (P) - The story o1 American Pirates" being chased from RuSsia's ChukotSki PeninSu- la back across the Boring Strait !. is shown in the latest Soviet prop aganda film.
 The Moscow radio reported to- day the release of "Alitet Goes to the Hilly'-the story of the eS- tablishment of the Soviet System on the peninsula, in Russia's ex- treme northeast.
 The action of the film, laid in 1923-24, shows how, before the Red revolution, American traders crossed into Russia Vit the Boring Strait. In the words of the Mos cow radio, here is what they did:
 "They turned the chukchi (peo- ple) into drunkards and robbed them, carrying away from Russia valuable furs and also tried to lay their hands on other riches of this area"
 The broadcast, heard in Lon don, said Russia now "has for ever liberated the chukchi and other peoples of the north from the predatory raids of American pirates"
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-10
Poachingg Reduces WildIife Species

WASHINGTON, (P)-Poaching and ver-fishing-especially in the Florida Everglades - are a menace to resources of the na- tional parks, Newton B. Drury, director of the park service, said last week.
 Although some of the rare spe- cieS of Wildlife are increasing, Drury said in his annual report, illegal destruction of wildlife continues to be serious in num- Der of areas"
 He said poaching has helped re- duce the antelope of Wind Care National Park, S. D., to the low est number in 10 years and has resulted in marked scarcity of goats, deer and hair seals in Gla- cier Bay National Monument, Alaska, where the service has no protective staff"
 Drury said encouraging devel- opments among park wildlife in clude:
 The apparent increase of cer- tain rare species, including the Dall sheep in Mount Mckinley National Park, Alaska.
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-10
Monday. April 10. 1850

the Bureau of Vital Statistics files certificates of death, marriage and divorce. These records are inn pOrtant in filing claims for insur- ance, and for benefits under vet erans, public welfare, and other laws, Hester states.
 One important and growing part of the work of the bureau is the making out of a new birth certifi- cate in cases of adoption or legit- imation. Although the law was passed three years ago, the public is just becoming aware that new record may be made out and substituted for the old one when a child is adopted or when the un- married parents of a child later marry, MT. Hester explained. The child is thus spared the embar- rassment of explaining differ enceS in name, or of being stig- as ''illegitimate."
 MT. Hester emphasized the fact that ''most" birth records for per sons born in Alaska since 1913
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-10

are on file. Since that date there
 has been a law requiring such fil-
 ing However, lack of doctors and other factors peculiar to Alaska prevent lOOfo compliance with this law even today, he said. Any person born in Alaska either be- fore or since 1913, who does not have certificate on file, may have a birth certificate filed at the present time.
 Copies of these records may be obtained from the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Juneau, or from the U. s. Commissioner of the pre- cinct or recording district where the birth, death, or marriage oc- cured. In the case of divorce, the record should be obtained from the Clerk of the District Court where the divorce was granted. A fee Of S1 is required for each copy of record issued by the Bureau of Statistics.
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-10
Air Freight To Alaska Skyrockets In Volume

iContinued from Page One, stepping up operations, with three and four flights a week scheduled to Anchorage and Fairbanks.
 Construction and fishery work CTS are beginning to head north ward, too, and impressive increas- es in passenger volume are being recorded.
 Apparently every line serving the Territory will have to assign all available planes to Alaska service not later than May 1. And even then it's doubtful if the firms can meet the demand.
 Word has been going around the aviation industry here, for ex- ample, that contractors bidding on secret government projects in the Far North are seeking air line bids on cargo ranging up to three million pounds this season alone.
 Airline officials are convinced that the civil aeronautics board must approve more scheduled Alaska air service to meet this stepped-up demand. They want decision soon so additional plar oe can be placed into service d,rino this rush season.
 If Pacific Ncrtbern Airlines wins its June au-Seattle link, for example. ,ne firm plans to ae- q'lie :" Iditional DC-4 transports. " al arguments in the Alaska 0e .ivice case were completed in Washington, D. C., last week Conceivably a CAB decision on the route award could be. made within month.
 Cargo consignmeAts b ein flown north by Pan American in' clude food caches destined foi geological survey partleS or ut department of the interior work ing far inside the Arctic Circle.
 Small containers of food art loaded in huge drums, resembling regular oil drums, and then thu drums are carried out into un mapped wildernesses by bush pi lots and dropped on the tundra on river sandbarS or other terrail where their shiny, black surfac will be visible.
 Food thus cached in the air tight containers is sought out b. survey parties working from cen tral survey camps. The drums ar delivered two or three weeks | advance of the land parties.
The Nome nugget., 1950-04-10

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The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-05-11
GAMBLING:
Probe Continued

The battle against gambling syn
dictates conducted by cities through.
out the nation and many states for
years, and recently picked up by
the senate, seemed to have reached
the right road and moved along
rapidly.
The senators, considering a pro-
posal to bar the interstate transmits
sion of information about gambling,
hope to curb what some lawmakers
say is a nationwide crime syndi-
cate founded on illegal bookmaking
and slot machines.
The senate subcommittee in its
investigation gained two admissions
from Frank Erickson, called one of
the nations biggest gamblers:
1. He broke the law in running up
a $4,000 a year net income from
taking bets which ranged from
$50, 900 to $40, 900 a day.
2. His interstate operations would
be stopped if the government pre-
vented the transmission of gambling
information across state lines.
At n point in the Investigation
Erickson admitted that he was often
ashamed" of his activities.
The Hardin tribune-herald. [volume] (Hardin, Mont.) 1925-1973, 1950-05-11
PLOYMEN
Almost Peck

The census bureau reported that
employment was within a stones
throw of 60 million jobs, a pickup
Of 1,117,0 900 over the bureaus pre-
vious report.
Included in the report was the
good news that the 1850 number of
unemployed sank to 3,515, 000-a new
low for the year.
Secretary Of Commerce Charles
Sawyer said the gains were ''prob-
ably greater than was generally an
ticipated." He cautioned, however,
that the gains were at least partly
seasonal.
Commerce officials had hopes
that the high employment rate
might be maintained through the
summer. The reason: factory pro-
duction and sales both at the high
est levels in more than a year,
new orders placed with manufac-
turers reached a postwar peak, and
untitled" orders continue to &C.
cumulate.
Farming was the only branch not
rejecting increases, however. De-
spite the seasonal rise in jobs, the
total number in farm work con-
tinued below the level a year ago
by about 625, 900.