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Police: Chief's Fight on Bootleg Taxis.
Police Chief Jesse P. McMurtry's order to crack down on bootleg taxicabs today resulted in the conviction of two unlicensed drivers. Victor Rigot, judge pro tem in municipal court 4, this morning handed down stiff penalties to John W. Duncan, 20, of 1202 N. Capitol ave. and Jesse Haskins, 33, of 1135 W. 28th st. The case of a third cab driver, Willlam N. Edwards, 26, of 1358 W. 26th st., was continued to! Oct. 9. On the charges of having no license for taxicabs, Duncan and
~~ Haskins were fiped $25 and costs { oo sentenced to 30 days in jail.
Put on Probation The jail sentences were suspended and the two defendants placed on six months’ probation.
The two cabies were fined $10 and Dr. E.'C. CLmings Will Be commission finished its work after |
costs for operating without taxicab driver's licenses and on a no taxi meter count. Duncan "also was fined $1 and costs for failure to give a hand signal, City Prosecutor Henry Coombs to- | day estimated 100 bootleg cabs are operating in the city.
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Mr. Coombs said the heads of the bootleg taxi racket are “so bold that they are now issuing cards to customers on which are printed drivers’ numbers and telephone numbers for hiring the taxicabs.” He said bootleg outfits disregard all city requirements for operating! taxicabs. “Legitimate cabs are examined: every 30 days for mechanical defects! Taxi companies must carry public | liability and property damage insurance and they must have city licenses for their cabs,” Mr. Coombs pointed out.
-28 Arrests Made
Chief x McMurtry, who charges bootleg taxis have a direct effect on crime in the city, has assigned |
investigate illegal taxicab opera-
Yarbrough and James Shreve. Since the chief issued his boot-
been made. Heaviest previous sen- | “tence was yesterday when a driver was fined $28. Most of the cab drivers have received light fines of $1 and costs| for failure to have license. Eleven cases, set for Oct. 8-9, are pending in Municipal court.
EARL CARROLL SAYS HE WAS KIDNAPED|
HOLLYWOOD, Oct. 5 (U. P.).— Earl Carroll, night club owner, re- | ported to police today that a gun- | man “kidnaped” him from his | home and dumped him on” ‘a street corner at dawn after robbing him of about $400. Mr. Carroll ahd his chauffeur, Bert Cochrane, arrived at Mr. Carroll's Beverly Hills home early today.” When they went inside, a man with a gun told them to hoist their hands. They did. The gunman took their cash. Then, Mr. @arroll said, the man forced them back into Mr. Carroll's car and ordered them to drive toward Hollywood. After menacing them. with his gun, the man pushed them unceremoniously out of the car a half hour later on a street corner. Mr. Carroll hailed a taxi and | called police. The gunman raced off Carroll's custom-built car.
GIRL, 4, SPILLS HOT | WATER, IS BURNED
Four-year-old Beedella Buckner, 1103 Central ave., is in fair condition in City hospital today with burns received when she accidentally kicked over a pan of boiling water, The child was seated in her high chair while her mother, Mrs. Letha Buckner, was preparing supper. Beedella began to kick her feet in anticipation of an extra special dessert her mother was making. Her toe struck the edge of a pan on the stove, which tipped and splashed scalding water on her right leg and body.
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Amusements.. §|Inside Indpls. 7/.ld and scalpers were asking up| Eddie Ash ... 6|Labor ....... Tito $25 each for a ticket. Aviation ..... T|{Ruth Millett . 7 Hotel space was at such a premium Books ....... 14| Movies "...... 5|that newspapermen were housed in Boos .......s 4 Obituaries ... 10/gho% rooms and one industrial firm Carnival ..... F, C. Othman 7 |had gone so far as to rent a river hurches .... 4|Radio ....... 13/pa0ket to house its customers ana Classified. . 10-12 | Mrs. Roosevelt 17 employees during the series games. -Comics .."... 13; Serial ........ 3 aap ————— Crossword ... 10|Silly Notions. 7| ATHENS WORKERS STRIKE Editorials .... 8 Sports .....:. 6 ATHENS, Oct. 5 (U, P.).—Trade Forum ....... 8 Teen.Talk ... §|union members stopped work Gardening .. 3 Washington . 8|throughout Athens today in a twoDon Hoover .. 8 Weather Map 10/ hour protest against the Paris peace Indiana Saga B8|Joe Williams 6 |conference's rejection of Greek terIn Indpis..... 3/Women's News 9Iiritorial claims on Bulgaria,
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USSR PLEDGES | CO-OPERATION, DESPITE ITE ROWS,
Peace Parley Commissions Complete Work After ~Night-Long Sessions.
By R. H. SHACKFORD United Press Staff Correspondent PARIS, Oct. 5.—Peace conference delegates, who made a marathon windup of commission hearings today, heard a Russian ‘promise of world co-operation, “however dif-
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ARMY REVEALS AIRBORNE PLAN FOR INFANTRY,
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Pinchot Dies.
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Andrei Vishinsky, Soviet vice foreign minister, told the Italian political commission that the entire Soviet union was behind the re-
Nov. 186,
SET INAUGURAL AT CANTERBURY
Installed Nov. 16. |
By VICTOR PETERSON Times Staff Writer : DANVILLE, Ind, Oct. 5—Dr. E C. Cumings will be inaugurated | {as the first president of Canterbury college Nov, 16 in the school gymnasium. The ceremony. will be | held at 10 a. m.
From its founding in 1878 until | this year, the college has been | known as Central Normal. It now | is under the sponsorship of the | Episcopal church. With the chang the institution lays claim to being | the youngest college in the United! States. | Symbolic with the spirit of youth, | a its “president-elect is one of the nation’s youngest leading educators at 36. In this light he ranks along | with a close friend, Dr. Frederick | = L. Hovde, new president of Purdue | university, who still is on the shy side of 40.
Former Associates ‘* Dr. Hovde, an associate of Dr. Cumings while the two were on the faculty of the University of Roches-
_ two policemen to full time duty to/ter, will deliver the presentation] real stcry Of the real Ric
tions, They are Patrolmen Harry) The Rt. Rev. Richard A. Kirch:| Ad JOhn Strohm will describe it
address. *
{hoffer, chairman of the board of trustees and bishop of the Indian-| apolis Episcopalian diocese, will! confer the presidential title. Dr.| {Cumings will respond with his] inaugural address. | | Included on the program will be| [selections by the Canterbury Belles, | a traditional sextet, and the college orchestra. The day promises to ve a gala ne for college officials are planpe to switch homecoming to injaugural day. According to an! earlier _schedule the year's big day | {for alumni was scheduled for Nov. 2. The change will give “alumni of Central Normal a chance to see a brand new eleven on the fieid when Canterbury college takes on Hanover college. ”
RED SOX FAVORED i 170 20 IN SERIE
Boston Is 5.1 1 Choice in First Game Tomorrow. |
Statistics and Other World Series Stories, Page Six)
By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor ST. LOUIS, Oct. 5—The Boston +Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardi{nals tuned up their siege guns to- | day for the opening game of the | 1946 world series with a pair of | “twenty-gamers’ expected to draw | the pitching assignments tomorrow. The Red Sox were favored at 7 to 20 to win the series and 5 to 11 to take the first game regardless of the pitching ‘nominees. Neither Joe Cronin, pilot of the American league flag winners, nor | Eddie Dyer of the Red Birds would come out definitely “with their] starting pitchers. But indications pointed to big Tex Hughson and lanky Howie Pollet as the fellows who will be on the firing {line when this delayed series finally gets under way at Sportsman's park | tomorrow. ! Both Cronin and Dyer promised | to name their starting pitchers after their workouts today. The forecast was for a warm world series opener with possible occasional showers. A capacity crowd of 34,000 was assured for Sportsman's park for the first game of the delayed classic, It was a typical world series setting. All reserved seats had been
PRIOR
{cent words of Premier Josef Stalin
Carry One Entire Division. WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 (U. P) — The army, gearing its operations to | ever-increasing speed, is planning to
make all ground forces entirely airborne, it was revealed today.
in a desire for peace. ' Senator Tom Connally (D. Tex.) joined Mr. Vishinsky in a peace utterance. In one of his now famous oratorical presentations, Senator Connally thundered that “we must not, can not have another war.’
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In Session 28 Hours { The disclosure was made by The Balkan - Finnish economic! Brig. Gen. William M. Miley, comimander of the airborne school at
Pt. Benning Ga., in an article in the iA. A FP. Review, official air force publication. Gen. Miley said ordnance equipiment was being redesigned to fit | aircraft loading requirements and that giant air transports were being designed: The key vehicle will be the C-82 | Fairchild Packet known as the { “Flying box car.” This plane is | capable of carrying a 155 mm. can-| non or a two and one-half ton!
a session of 28 hours. Today was the! deadline for all commission reports | to the full conference. It fixed Bulgarian reparations at | $125 million in a parliamentary victory for the Anglo-Americans, who outsat the Soviet bloc, The commission had been in ses-| | sion" since yesterday morning, with | only the briefest recesses. The session broke all recent records for such a body by id through a night and a day.
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Cairo-Bound Dreamboat Passes Above
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The solid line on the map above shows the intended route of the “Pacusan Dreamboat” from Henolulu to Cairo.
The dotted line
shows the actual course followed by the Platie to avoid storms in the
I ans Deus lor Biwi Always a Rebel. ° {reparations finally broke down, and | ’ . ot : within an hour after that the com- division and all its equipment, {mission completed its work. | NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (U.P) —Gif- - Plan Trailer Plane The $125 million sum for Bul-|ford Pinchot, founder of America’s, Other air transports being dee \garian reparations was proposed by ,| forest conservation system and veloped are: (the British. It was adopted by a former governor of Pennsylvania, - ONE: The C-97 Stratocruiser, al [died at the Harkness pavilion of 'double-decked cargo version of the - Columbia-Presbyterian medical Boeing B-20 that will carry 36,000 BEHIND RUSSIA" center last night’ of leukemia. pounds of equipment or 142 men | Mr. Pinchot, who was 81 years old, thousands of miles. IRON CURTAIN entered the hospital early this week| wo. The C-74 Douglas Glyobe{after an illness of several months. | master. capable of catrying 125 Have propagandists given Amer- He is survived by his wife, Cor- toops of 49,000 pounds of air transicans the TRUE. picture of post- |nelia Bryce Pinchot, a son, Dr. Gif- portable equipment. war Russia? ford B. Pinchot, currently working THREE: The C-99 cargo version | “You can't afford to miss the °t the Yale medical school, and of the XB36, world's largest bomb- | ling plane, now coming off the as- |
tiiree grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at | sembly line. This plane is capable of carrying 75,000 pounds of equip-
Milford, Pa, on Monday. A disciple of Theodore Roosevelt, ment or over 300 troops. It could carry 10,000 pounds of equipment
Mr. Pinchot headed the U. 8. forestry service from 1898 to 1910. 10,000 miles. He is credited with ihe® present The A A. F. revealed it is work= system of grazing on public lands, ing on the development of an air | the Alaska coal lands lease arrange- trailer that is a two-sectioned de- | ments, the introduction of practical | tachable plane. The forward part| would be the power unit and the |
forestry on private timberlands and: |the organization of the National |; ion part would transport troops and cargo.
Conservation association. The trailer would be detached a |
could transport an entire infantry
WASHINGTON
‘A Weekly Sizeup by the Staff of the Scripps-Howard
WASHINGTON, Oct. month before election , . .
by internal dissension. in his first article from behind the
Iron Curtain in Monday's Indianapolis Times, -
vote of tothe usual alignment jof ast against west. The vote wus reached only after France had moved for closure of debate, and was upheld 9-to-5. + Earlier the commission rejected, 9-to-5, a Soviet proposal to refer the question to the Big Four foreign ministers without recommendation. Another marathon session in the Italian economic commission ended at-3:30 a. m. That commission |agreed upon a total of $325 million lin reparations payments by Italy. Russia, Greece and Yugoslavia will | get $109 million each, and Ethiopia
districts. Most active campaigning will he done by this group. The recent Chicago conference, little noticed, | planned efficient organizing work. The Democratic organizacon relies on city bosses, can't agree on which speakers, among meager | supply, will win votes. Commit- | tee Chairman gan, apparently on way out works at arm's length with the White House. Democratic House Leader John W. McCormack's break with the President over meat to save his own skin symbolizes party confusion.
Never Reached Senate Twice he served as Republican few feet above a meadow or landing | governor of Pennsylvania—from 1823 strip and gently glide to a stop | to 1927 and from 1931 to 1935. How- | while the power unit returned to | eyer, he never realized his greatest base to pick uw another trailer. ambition—a seat in the U. S. senate. He was defeated for the nomination three times hgcause of opposition of the Pennsylvania Re-
GUS HABICH, SPORTS Da es wi. cxhied ba ENTHUSIAST, 13 DEAD
the fact that he was a, political rebel all his life. He once boasted
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LAUNDRY DAMAGED
But Republican blundering can't 3 tt BY $250,00 BLAZE he had nevat YOIad 2 Seralent une. Operated Store, Gun Shop be discounted. National Chairman RION, Ind. Oct. 5 (U. P.).—| Roosevelt was characteristic. He Here Many Years | Carroll Reece's promise to fire phIaE] was estimated at $250,000 supported the second President | . two million federal workers does
| today in a fire which last right de-
Roosevelt during three campaigns. ‘Gus Habich, widely known Indi-
|stroyed a_part of the Brown- but just as vehemently supported angpolis sports enthusiast “and | Trueblood laundry. Mr. Roosevelt's second-term oppo-! former sporting goods store rae The blaze broke out in the finish- nent, Alfred M. Landon. | prietor, died this morning at ing department and firemen fought He wrote 11 books, the last at the Vincent's hospital after hi
it for an hour before bringing the fire under control. Flames and water also caused slight damage to offices in another building. General Manager Dewey Weller
age of 80. He was working on three more books when he died.
DECLARE MARTIAL LA LAW SEOUL, Korea, Oct. 5 (U, P.).—
{months - illness. He was 177. Mr. Habich operated |Habich sporting goods store on E. | Washington st. until his retirement in 1917 but the store continued to
By EDWIN C. HEINKE Times City Editor
said that clothing and equipment |The entire province of Kyongsang : MADISON, Ind Oct. "'5.—It's| | is name. Since retiring fro ' " valued at $250,000 were destroyed.| Pukto—scene if 59 rioting deaths SRITY Lis name oo a spi Ou | ‘she’s guilty all right, they'll indict | Furs valued at $75,000, stored in| since Tuesday—has been placed | {time between a home in Florida Der and find her guilty, too.”
the rear of the building, were saved, he said,
{ under martial law, the U, S. mili-|
the Ti canoe | it's “listen, Tot Lockman is as inno-. tary government announced today. ppe
cent as anybody in the county-— As the low in
and another on river, near Rochester. | Learned Trade as Young Man
‘HOW TO GROW YOUR OWN CRIMINALS— | He had learned the gunsmith hangs
mellow harvest Jefferson county's
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Democratic high command is rattled, inefficient, torn | report on the Drenmbont
Robert E. Hanne- |
Washington
Newspapers
b».~—Here is the outlook, one
Yet the Democrats have better than even chance to keep senate and fighting chance to keep the house. Liberals and labor, with no place else to go, will fight to elect Democrats to congress, may turn the tide in close
today, 2,232,136. Mr. Reece would leave 232,136. That's 40,000 less than enough to run the post-
missing when 80th congress assembles mext January. Death, decisions not to run, and party primaries have eliminated that many, Thirty-six Democratic house members are out, 20 Republicans, and in senafe, nine Democrats, six Republicans.
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NOTES: E. Roland Harriman, brother and banking partner of new commerce secretary, has
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Tot's Case Nears Grand Jury, h ofl Tongues Are Wagging Again
They'll hear state's evidence, then gravely deliberate whether to indict the motherly, tan of the hills, on charges that | patients, | deaths.
The townspeople are still divided | in their opinions. The prosecution
thereby
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NONSTOP B-29 DODGES STORM
AND ROARS ON
Speed Is 2560 M. P. H. as '6000-Mile Point Is Left Behind.
BULLETIN UXBRIDGE, Middlesex, Eng» land, Oct. 5 (U. P.).~The Royal Air Force reported tonight that the superfortress Pacusan Dream - boat was passing over Iceland at 11:16 a. m. (Indianapolis time).
NEW YORK, Oct. 5 (U. P).—~The army superfortress Pacusan Dreams
| boat passed the halfway mark in ite |epic flight over the top of the world
today. It roared on toward Cairo, 10,300 miles from its starting point as
{ Honolulu.
At 9:45 a. m¢ (Indianapolis time),
|the big B-20 was flying between
Greenland and Iceland, and was some 6000 miles on its way. It was due to roar over Meeks field, Kefla« vik, Iceland, soon after noon. The last report from Col. C. W, Irvine, commanding the crew of 10,
command's Greenland base heade quarters, at Narsarssuak, Greene at which time_ Col. Irvine gaid he was flying over the Greenland ice-cap, and all was well, Flying at 15,000 Feet Army air forces headquarters im Washington received a report place ing the Dreamboat midway between Baffin island and Greenland at 6:30 a. m. | miles an hour at 15,000 feet. It was expected that the
come from Meeks field. There had been a three-hour radio silence while the plane passed
{through the atmospheric disturbe
ances of the north magnetic pole area. In the first 17 hours of its flighs {the plane averaged 253 miles an hour and its speed was increasing as its 13,000-gallon load of gasoline decreased. | See Northern Lights | The Dredmboat was flying at 15,000 feet altitude and a 3:45 a. m, | radio report said the crew was {watching a “spectacular aurors | borealis, " indicating that the plane | was flying in clear weather. Previously the Dreamboat was {believed heading into a blinding Arctic snowstorm, but a radio station on Arctic bay, Baffin land, said the plane was changing course te avoid the storm area. The plane's course was approxi | mately 100 miles north of the mage | netic pole. The 10-man- crew was | encased in heavy, electrically heated | flying suits and battling tempera tures of 17 degrees below zero. ’ Worst Part Past
The most hagafdous part of the $3 million gxperimental flight was believed aver. AL.3730 a. m. the Canadian dee paftment of transport at Edmons [ton, Alberta, reported that the | Dreamboat was 100 miles due west of the magnetic North Pole. At 2 a. m. the Dreamboat report
And| she gave mercury to her elderly ed to Kodiak radio it was 150 miles causing their Pat Coppermine over Coronation
ulf and was heading across the | Victoria island. At 2 a. m. Col. C. W. Irvine, come
{trade when a young man and in| haze-covered hills and the leaves admits its case is pretty much cir. | Mander of the 74-ton plane; report=
was received by. the air transport
It was making about 250.
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' Tod! ed to Edmonton that they were “She's inn ‘lerossing Great Bear lake on the " 0% fringe of the Arctic circle.
later years became an authority on | | drift and ballistics for
into the Ohio river, the|cumstantial but “a good: one.. the | | tongues are wagging with new vigor | lawyers simply say,
|system here that includes political | short time later, driving west on E.|
and smoking.
| over the guilt or innocence of Mrs, Lottie Lockman,
Because Tot's time “is drawing
Escapes Hit- Run Death "Rap! “me = me teem » one or gran fp me wees; BUTLER, SYGAMORES CLASH HERE TODAY
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ht. ediiarial, Page Eight) ~~ _+__ | reckless driving and. no muffler on “Another juvenile case taken from | | his automobile. His driver's license actual police and court records is | was suspended in Municipal court 3.
Teller Andrew Blake will close up his books, Bricklayer Edward Kimmel will cancel his jobs for several
that of a 16-year-old hit-run driver,| Aug. 14, 1945—He took his fa- ; days, and Farmers William Stites whose automobile fatally Injured a ther's 16-year-old car out of the Purdue, U. Away; Irish Alvert 8. Pheasant, Herman L. Jespedestrian. garage; told police he was unable . . sup and Paul N. Jackson, will pass | This boy, like dozens of others, to recall whether he had permis- | Home With Pitt. |on their duties to.their hired men
escaped punishment under a lax sion. Picked up another boy, A!
[or sons and assemble at the courtButler had Indiana State as its | | house at Madison.
nigh” as they say in the hill coun-'
cent.”
Feverishly working at Indianapjolis are expert Indiana university medical center toxicologists, seeking {to prove or disprove that the mer-
On Monday, First National Bank cury found in three hodies already 8: : {flight designed to test men
exhumed actually caused the deaths. Tot herself still places her faith
in God, as she helps her daughter, |
Mfs. LaVerne Jeffries, with whom she's staying pending all the trouble, She does the. washing and ironing, sews the clothes for the family,
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interference, misguided ‘rehabili- | New York st, scene of his earlier football guest today at the Fiir- | tation,” and pure oversight. racing exploits with a motor-bike,|view bowl while the state's two Big | The record— {he heard a thud, saw a man fly Nine representatives were on the
Oct. 10, 1943—He and three other over the hood of the car. {road in search of comeback vicboys were taken to the juvenile | “I pushed on the brakes, then got | |tories. aid division at police headquarters so scared and nervous I didn't know| Notre Dame and Pitt met at following an automobile accident.|what I was doing,” his statement South Bend in a setting somewhat | The car in which the youths were | to police reads. unfamiliar for the Irish—playing| riding went out of control, crashing| He said he told his mother * ‘some- (before a crowd of less than fel into a fence. It had been reported | one backed into me,” breaking the|out proportions. stolen earlier from a used car lot. headlight. The youth said he| At Minneapolis, Indiana faced a The boys declared that they had) bought parts and repaired the dam-| Minnesota team “hopped up” on taken other ‘cars from the lot, with| age to the car. |vengeance. The Hoosiers, already permission of the owners. ‘since “I have had three different driv-| victims of Michigan, could expect! none of the boys had a previous|er’s licenses, one minor's, one .be-! nothing. but- harsh treatment from | ™ police record, JAD, officials re-|ginner's, both of which I lost. I [the team they walloped, 49-0, jast| leased them. 'went to (a downtown department! | season. # , Sept-Oct, 1944 — On several store) and told them I was 17 and Illinois and Purdue et ina re- | occasions, police reprimanded the got a regular driver’s license.” {bound battle at Champaign. The youth for racing on. E. New York Oct. 24, 1945—The boy was sent! yjjini hoped to fare better ‘against st. with a motor-bike, disregarding to the juvenile detention home: +88 the Boilermakers than they did last | school children. His mother was an incorrigible youth. 5 Saturday against Notre Dame, while informed that the boy often played - Nov. 10, 1945—He was tried in| purdue, already one down in the truant, “hanging out” at a neighbor- the juvenile court of Judge Mark conference race as the result of its hood filling ‘station, using profanity W. Rhoads, released to his moth-|io.c to Towa sought entrance into He was 14 at the|er, who earlier had admitted in- Vi ? me. ability to control the youth, the Big Nine vietory column, sy s : i
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Jubsrforiress Before Honolulu Takeoff
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“All okay,” the message said. Sitka in 11 Hours
The aerial giant took off from
Hickam field, Honolulu, at 10:21 m._yesterday on the gruelling and equipment in the toughest weather in the world. It’ made Sitka, 2745 miles’ from Hickam field, at 9:49 p. m. and then soared to 15000 feet to leap over the 12,000-foot high jagged peaks of the Mackenzie mountain range. » »
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