The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, November 17, 1949, Page 1

| » iy i . THE DAILY VOL. LXXIV., NO. 11,353 AIR SEARCH IS MADE FOR LOSTBOMBER HAMILTON, Bermuda, Nov. 17— (M—The biggest peacetime air res- cue search in history was under way today for a lost B-29 bomber which ran out of fuel and crash landed in the sea somewhere near Bermuda yesterday. Twenty U.S. ailmen were aboard. None were from the Pacific Northwest. Nearly 100 Air Force, Navy and Coast Guard planes trom bases all along the Atlantic sea-ocard criss-crossed akove Bermuda's sur- rounding waters hoping for a sight of the stricken bomber or bobbing liferafts. First search patrols yasterday’ afternoon were fruitless. H The last word from the Super- fortress, whose navigation instru- ments lailed on a flight to Eng- land, was a radio message: “Going to ditch in five minutes.” After that message yesterday morning U.S. Coast Guard vessels heard weak SOS signals—spuring hopes that the crewmen had taken to rubker life rafts equipped with automatic wireless distress sig- nalers. The plane, part of a B-29 group enroute to England from March Air Base, California, lost its way when its radio navigation equip- ment failed and it encountered bad weather. U.S. officials at Kindley Air Base here thought it probably went down 150 miles southwest ol northeast of Bermuda. HAWAIL, ALASKA T0 JOIN IN STATEHOOD, DRIVE — GRUENING Ey O. H. P. KING TOKYYD, . Novi" 11—‘-“—‘]55]:’3'5’ Governor said today liaison between Hawaii and Alaska will be effected next week in their efforts to gaini statehood. ! Gov. Ernest Gruening arrived to- day as:a hiteh hiker on the Coas. Guard _plane which brought U.S. Treasury Secretary Snyder and his | party. He said he boarded it at Juneau when he found out 1t would go on to Hawaii. ‘Tonight, Secretary Snyder met at the American Embassy with Jap- anese Prime Minister Ishigeru Yoshida and three of his cabinet members. Participating in the talks with the American were Hoshida, Hayato Ikeda, finance minister; Heitaro Ingagki, international trade and industry minister, and Takayoshi Aoki, chief of the economic stabili- zation board. ' The three cabinet officers pri- marily are concerned with Japanese finances and foreign trade. The Washington Merry - Go- Round By DREW PEARSON (Copyrignt, 1949, by Bell Syrndicate, Inc.! LOS ANGELES—It looks like Jimmy Roosevelt is definitely com- ing into his own. Once a callow youth, flound-| ering under the weight of a fa. mous name, Jimmy dealt with al- moest anybody who came along. At one time he was the political pal of Mayor James Curley of Boston. Another time his life insurance sales to Georgie Washington Hill of the American Tobatco Company didn't help the Roosevelt family. However, Jimmie is 42 now, and the years have done something to him. He has excellent political | judgment. He is careful about friends. And most important: of all he is now able to chart a straight political course, Jimmy knows what he wants and goes after it. One of the most interesting de- velopments about Jimmy Roosevelt is the group of youngsters around him. It is reminiscent of the young Democrats of his father's day, the young people who would fight and die politically to defend the name of Roosevelt. Those ydung Demo- crats of 1933 have now put on age, in some cases mould and crust. But a new generation has come along in california and their adoration of Jimmy Roosevelt is probably greater than that once given his father. Jimmie is amazingly popular in California. When he goes into a restaurant, a political meeting or any place where people gather the Meeks, twice found guilty of mur- iMET"ODIST YOUTH TO rbazaar to be held Satuiday. JURY IS SELECTED INBRIDGES' CASE; 8 MEN AND 4 WOMEN SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 17—(@#— A jury was selected shortly betore noon teday to hear the perjury and conspiracy charges against CIC Longshore Leader Harry Bridges. The development came with dra- matic suddenness as both the de- fense and the prosecution waived the use of further peremptory chal- lenges. It had not been expected that the jury would be picked be- fore tomorrow. The approval of the eight men and four women in the jury box came after a brief examination ot the 12th juror, Alfred F. Buck- men, former Philadelphia account- ant now living in Oakland. Buckman appeared in court with his head taped. He was injured in a cable car accident yesterday and did not appear in court then. Bridges, a native of Australia, is on trial for perjury and conspiracy to defraud the government. He is accused of lying when he testified at his 1945 naturalization hearing that he had never been a Com- munist. On trial with him on charges ot aiding and abetting the conspiracy are two of his high aides, Union Vice President J. R. Robert.on anc Henry Schmidt. CONVICTED MURDERER'S SECOND APPEAL WILL BE HEARD DECEMBER 15 The case of George Harrison der in the U. S. District Court here, will go before the U. 8. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco December 15. Meeks was found guilty of first degree murder without capital punishment after Clarence Camp- bell was found dead in Seatter Tract December 10. 1945. He appealed and the U. & Cireuit Jeurt ordered a re-trial. Again he was found guilty by the court here. And again he is appealing his case, He is represented by the firm of Merica and Walsh of San Fran- cisco. P. J. Gilmore Jr.,, United States Attorney here, will represent the United States at the Circuit Court hearing. CUB PACK 311 TO MEET Cub Pack No. 311, sponsored by ‘he Juneau Rotary Club, will hold its first pack meeting of the year tomorrcw (Friday) night at 7:3C o'clock in the Grade School gym. Since the pack’s reorganization is nearly complete, it is hoped that parents of the cubs will attend the meeting in order to become ac- quainted with the set-up and to learn of their part in'the program.‘ FROM SITKA Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Swan of Sit- ka are registered at the Gastineau Hotel. ANCHORAGE VISITORS From the district engineer’s office in Anchorage, John W. Gerwell, Tom Kowalczyk, Marvin Balcer, R.! W. Dobbs and 8. F. Olson are stop- ping at the Gasunea'u Hotel. PR AR - e SOROPTIMISTS MEET AT NOON TOMORROW* . Soroptimists are reminded that t their meeting on Friday noon n the Terrace Room a director will be elected and the monthly | service committee reports will be heard. N e b SKIP FRIDAY | The Rev. A. B. Morgan, pastor of the Methodist Churchaannounc- es that the regular Friday evening vouth activity will be canceled. for this week, and resumed November 25. The cancellation is madz to avoid conflicting with the High School play, as well as to allow the par. lors to be arranged for the church SGT. MARSH POSTED Sgt. Marsh of the Alaska Com munications System has been ord- ered to leave for duty at Adak November 19. KODIAK GUESTS G. E. Stetson and W. B. Thomas of Kodiak are visitors at the Bar- anof Hotel. FROM SKAGWAY Mrs. Alkert R. Hall of Skagway is registered at the Baranof Hotel. SEATTLE VISITOR H. V. Davis of Seattle is stopping (Continued on Page Four) km the Baranof Hotel. “ALL THE NEWS ALL THE TIME” JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURS! AIR MERGERS WANTED HERE, SAYS JONES SEATTLE, Nov. 17—(®—In a stop- over here on his way to Alaska, Harold A. Jones of the Civil Aero- nautics Board said the board wants a coordinated air route pattern de- seloped in the Territory by a series of mergers as soon as possible. “But we want merger plans of ntra-Alaskan carriers to come rom t| companies,” Jones ex- dlained. “We want the certiticated iers in the Territory to pro- se the arrangements for a con- olidation and improvement of the outz system there.” Jones said, however, that if thc ir* lines flying routes within slaska ‘do not propose a coori- 1ated pattern by merger, the CAE vill take steps to “smooth out the route situation in the Territory.” Jones, a Republican member o! the board, is enroute to Juneau, Anchorage and Fairbanks to meet with representatives of intra- Alaska scheduled carriers, CONSOLID ON TALX Aviation leaders have heard rumors for weeks that the CAE plans to insist on consolidation ot | certain Alaskan carriers to elimi- |nale weak links in the Territory’s air-route pattern, “The Board realizes that avia- don in Alaska is in a different .ategory than aviation in the United States,” Jones explained Up there, it's the primary means of communication and travel. “Too, commercial aviation has defense and territorial-development mrlications,” the CAB otficia. <aid. Jones explained that over thc ears a system of conflicting routes ind regulations has grown up Atound intra-Alaskan carriers. At sresent, several of the smalle! Alaskan air lines arz in precarious .inancial .pesitions, Jones said. The CAB official plans to fina out during his Alaska visit if car- lers there are entitled to morc mail pay. Mail pay for all of the ntra-Alaskan carriers at presenc .otals atout $1,500,000 a year. “It will take the CAB years to ctraighten out the Alaska situa- tion,” Jones declared. “But we ‘now development of aviation in Alaska is important, snd weTe oing to devote the time necessary to the project.” Jones said, incidentally, that the long-awaited examiner’s report on the extra service to Alaska case is cxpected to te made public this month. Several lines are seeking loute extensions into Seattle and other Pacific Coast and Middle West cities. FATHER BEGINS JAIL SENTENCE FOR* NOT SUPPORTING. CHILDREN Angus Jack Ballinger was jail- ed today for failing to carry out a court order to pay for the sup- port of his minor children. In court Monday he was ordered to pay $750 of the more than $1300 he was in arrears in his payments as ordered in the decree of divorce from his wife, Patricia O. Ballinger, or go to jail for 60 days. He failed to do this and was jail- ed this morning by the U. S. Marshal here. LEO WEIS, MOTHER, LEAVE Leo Weiss and his mother, were recent passengers to the states, where they intend to make their home gt Coquille, Oregon. Weiss sold his troller, home and car, in- tending to make their future home in the States. e o'eo o o » WEATHER REPORT (This data is for 24-hour pe- riod ending 7:30 am. PST.) In Juneau—Maximum 43; minimum 37. At Airport—Maximum 37; minimum 32. FORECAST (Juneau apd Vieinity) Cloudy with intermittent rain tonight and Friday. Low tonight about 40. High Fri- day about 45. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a.m. today city of Juneau—17 inches; since Nov. 1—9.14 inches; since July 1-—45.23 inches, At Airport—1.24 inches; since Uov. 1—166 firches; since July 1—31.54 inches. e o o ® ° & & o 0000000000000 00000000 e ILoats and planes. 7 “We jarticle written by Drew Pearson, | Washington commentator. Pearson FISHERY BOARDS UPS PATROL BY 10; WILL BEGIN TAGGING (0D The number of patrolmen hired by the Territorial Department of Fisheries will be increased by 10 this coming season, it was revealed by Chairman Ira H. Rothwell. ‘This will be a 50 percent increase over the 20 men who worked with the Fish and Wildlife Service last year, which department had 80 men in the field. This will mean a total of 110 patrolmen investigating for viola~ tions. Rothwell said the new men will be used mainly in the red sal- mon areas, now under serious de- pletion threats, and also in silver salmon areas. The five-man wuvard is combing through matters which come up at its public hearing Monday, and compiling suggestions which came to them by briefs. They expect to have their recommendations com- piled by mid-week. These will then te turned over to the FWS so that body may have the opportunity to study them before making out next year’s rules. TAGGING PROGRAM Other points on next year's pro- gram, Rothwell revealed, are seeing that traps follow rules governing them; a projected tagging of all sizes of troll caught salmon, as well as black cod, the latter tish never before having been studied as to habits, One or two barren lakes will be stocked in some fashion py the De- partment for experimental pur- poses. It was brought out that for jevery 10 lakes now spawning sal- imnn in Alaska, perhaps two are { barren for unknown reasons. In some cases spawn will be sewn, in others small fry, and in others matured fish, the board de- clared. Outcome of this experiment may later lead to a stocking pro- gram to te built up in future ycarsv! A study of the shrimp fishery will be undegtaken, by using pots rather than trawls such as commer- cial shrimpers use, they said. The atch of shrimp by the pot method | will be tabulated, because of the present debate now in “vogue” over their usage. The pots would be roughly similar to crab pots, it was pointed out. POSSIBLE PUCHASES The board discussed advisability of what type of equipment it might be necessary to purchase. They be- lieved in employing existant facili-! ties wherever practicatle, such as believe that we should: charter a boat for work we want done,” Rothwell said, “or a plane if the need for one arises. But there is certain equipment we must own. That is what we are attempting to decide now.” The hoard blasted a recent criticized the Alaska trip under- taken. by the subcommittee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries which toiled through Alaskan ports, terming it a “junket.” C. L. Anderson, department di-! rector, accompanied the ‘committee | on its trip, and told of arising at 4:30 am. to catch planes, eating catch as catch can, and sleeping in the sick bay of the cutter Storis during the tour of this area. Long involved hearings were held each day, they pointed out, with no time for “sightseeing.” “A trip like that was absolutely necessary,” Rothwell explained. “No} legislation for this territory is ever passed without a group’s com- ing here—we have no representation ourselves, and that method is the only one we have. “After all, Mr. Wickersham was criticized by taking trips to Moscow and now one to South America. We know nothing about that. But Alaska is not exactly a’ foreign country, and the trip here was a hard workout.” PACIFIC NORTHERN | BRINGS 21, JUNEAU Pacific Northern Airlines yes- terday brought 21 passengers into Juheau and took six to the west- ward. They were: From Anchorage—Burll Nesbett, Robert Kinsey, Russell Wade, Mrs. | Grace, Hartley, W. D. Burk, David| Brown, Mr: and Mrs. Church, W.| D. Kerr, Beatrice Kerr, From Yakutat—Mr. and Mrs. | recentatives of DAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1949 T-YEAR-OLD GIRL SLAIN; BODY FOUND BURLEY, Idaho, Nov. 17—(®— The tody of Glenda Joyce Bris- bois was found today in a cana. and Sheriff Saul H. Clark said the seven-year-old girl was murdered The sheriff said also that a ca: which may carry the girl's abduc- tor is believed cornered in a max of little-used roads in the genera vicinity of Malta and Bridge Idaho. Clark said Glenda’s body wa: mutilated. It was found in a canal Hive mles south of here this morn- ing. He said it had not yet been determined definitely whether the girl had Leen sexually attacked She disappeared yesterday. Clark said a dark car had been “spotted intermittently” from the air by one of the planes which had teen searching for the girl. The plane reported that at onc time the car stopped and a man ; wearing a white or light colorea shirt got out. Radio-equipped state police ana Sheriff's cars were rushed into the area in an effort to blockade al exits from the vicinlty. Cfficers in Northern Utah have Leen asked to blockade highway: trere, Clark said, in the event the car should be able to reach Strevel and then make its way southwaro on U 3. highway 30-south. BUSINESS CENSUS NEAR COMPLETION, CHAMBER IS TOLD Alaska’s first business census will be completed at the end of next we:k, and preliminary reports irom the findings will be released shortly affer January 1. This ' news was given to the ChamLer of Commerce at its noon meeting today in the Baranof Hotel Ly Gene H. Harris, Supervisor of the Bureau of Census area whick includes Alaska. He has be¢n meeting with Bu- reau of Census officials and rep- Territorial office: to plan for the population census lwhich will begin next spring. He poinied out the unusual pro:- lems posed by Alaska's great area, saying that business census enu- meration had to ke carried out by mail in remote areas because of high cost of reaching outlying business establishments. Some of the mailed forms have nct yet teen returned, he said. He “lamed this to some extent on the faet that merchants do-not realize that the forms are kept confidential .y the Bureau of Census and fear that information included by them n the forms will be used against them. “Information received. is confi- dential and can't be used for tax purposes,” he said. He was enthusiastic atout the cooperdtion promised by Territorial and Federal officials in carrying out the population census. He said that AJaska Native Serv- ice officials have promised that ANS teachers will be available 101 nse as census-takers. Fish -anc Wildlife Service, Territorial Depart- ment of Education, Alaska Nationa Guard, and Alaska's Highwa) Patrol have promised cooperation as well, he said. Preliminary repert stating the population of the United State. and its possessions will be delivered to President Truman December 1 1950, Harris declared. Final repor! will not be published until at least 18 months after that time, he said . THREE NOMINATIONS Three nominations for the Execu- tive Board of the Chamber were made from the floor at the nool meeting today. Henry Green, Herb Rowland and O. F. Benecke é added to the list of six ‘al nominated. Election will be held December 8, with further nomina- tions from the floor being accepted at the Chamber meeting Decemter 1 Resolutions adopted by the Asso- ciated Boards of Trace of British Columbia at their annual conven- tion August and of interest to the Thambers of Commerce ot Southeast Alaska were read by Roy Pelky, Mr. and Mrs. Crooks. From Cordova—Frank McCon- | aghy, Mr. Darling, Mr. Thomas,, John Gerweis, Ralph Dobbs, Sidney Olson, Mr. Baker, Mr. Kowaleyak. | To Anchorage—Paul Fellows, | Joyce Mitchell, G. A. West, Henry Wolfe, Elroy Ninnis. “ro Cordova: K. Brittell, Chamber Secretary Herb Rowland. Guests at the meeting included Harris, John M. Bell, assistant chief of the field division of the Bureau of Census; Clarence P. Keating, Alaska supervisor of the bureaw’s activities; and Clinton C. Staples, Territorial director of the Federal Housing Administration. MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS ARREST MADE, SLAYING CASE, LITTLE GIRL LOS ANGELES, Noy. 17—(#-— Police announced the capture ot Fred Stroble, sought in the L.nda Glucoft slaying. Sgt. W. T. Reid of the Homicide Squad said identification “is posi- tive.” “We are questioning him now,” said Reid. “I can tell you no more than that.” Stroble had been the object of !t an international search since six- year-old Linda was found, muti- lated and strangled, in a rubbish heap two days ago. Stroble was found in Pershing Square, in the heart of the down- town district, frequented by scores of old-timers who sun themselves by the hour. “It made a good hiding place, said one policeman. Deputy Policz Chief Thad Brown told reporters that Stroble readily admitted his identity, and said he had just gotten off a bus from Ocean Park, a beach city 15 miles away. He was spotted Ly Bill Miller, & towel service man, who called a traffic officer from a corner. Stroble did not resist arrest. The arresting officer Stroble as saying: “I'm sorry I did it. have done it if I drinking.” There was no formal statement from the elderly habitue of cheap Stars‘ sought throughout the west for two days. He was hustled intc a private District Attorney's ottice for detailed questioning. But A. W. Carlson, a gangling traffic patrolman who put Stroblc under arrest as he wanderec through a downtown park, relayec the informal conversation to Dis- | trict Attorigay’s’ investigators as the questioning began. TYPHOON STRIKES; GUAM BATTERED BY 145 M. P. H. WiKDS TOKYO, Nov. quoted L wouldn’t hadn’t teen 17.—#—The Ai Force Weather Bureau reported winds approaching 145 miles ar hour battered- the Island of Guam late today. The weather observers said the managed to get a “freak call” through to the Island after regu- lar communications went out. They said the connection did not last long enough to get damage reports. Earlier reports from the Island, where hundreds of American ser- vicemen and civillan workers are stationed, said Séveral buildings had been blown dowh, Winds at that time had not éxceeded 90 miles' afi hour, A The typhoon, one of the worst i years in the Paclfic, was centerec 45 miles south of Guam and moving west northwest at about 17 mile: an hour. Weather observers here predicted the typhoon would be 300 miles northwest of Guam tomorrow af- ternoon. The storm covers a 36C mile radius. ‘Last direct communication be- tween the Associated Press Bureau in San Francisco and its Guam cor- respondent said civil authorities or Guam had checked home and busi- ness houses for safety measures be- {fore the storm struck. PAN AM TAKES OUT 28, BRINGS IN 16 Twenty-eight passengers Were carried to Seattle yesterday by Pan® American World Afrways, with 16 arriving from the same port, They were: To Seattle: G. Darling, T. Thom- #s, F. McConaghy, Roy,Pelky, Grace Pelky, Elmer Jones, R. E. Joy, Mr. and Mrs. M. Langberg, L. V. Tate Bill Carson, Wally Karki, Melvin ‘Walker, Orville Meyers, Edward Pet- tit, J. Jajaer, Ed Fagaroft, Bill Ma- loos, Warren Houston, Mrs. C. W Stevenson, Mrs. P. M. Hoffman Ernest Tarr, J, Wier, 8. Slecha- tiuk, Mr. and Mrs, L. Crooks and child Linda. To Annette Island: M. A. Emer- son. From Seattle: Shirley Cole, Paul Fellows, Lois Jund, E. J. Krause, Dorothy Matson, Joyce Mitchell, Harold Olson, Lois Smith, William Stoddard, Billie Stoddard, Willa | stoddard, Willard Swan, = Ruby Swan, G. A. West, William, Eugene, Ethel Humphrey, | | ALASKA EMPIRE PRICE TEN CENTS GIRL SCOUTS GET | i VALUABLE CAMP SITE AT TAX SALE Tee Harb&‘—ProperIy! | Among 21 Parcels in | School Dist. Auction Ihrough the consideration of other idders at the delinquent tax sale his morning, the Juneau-Douglas Girl Scout Council now owns one of the most desirable camp sites in the channel area. Like the other 120 parcels of property and mining claims which went on the block today, the tract is subject to being redeemed within two years. The instant the former cannery site near Tee Harbor was put up for auction, Girl Scout Council Member Ed A. Peyton jumped up rd offered $100, explaining that he and Ed Neilsen made the tid on behalf of the Girl Scouts. Although others were known to se there to bid on the property, no competing offer was made. In- ormed persons say the tract is ex- tremely valuable, and would have ~tought a far higher sum had bid- ders not been so cooperative. It includes 9.24 - acres, . The long finger of the property is on the west side of the north nlet above Tee Harbor, facing the mainland and running generally aralle] to the Eagle River Road its protected beach promises fine swimming, and, from the higher cortion of the land, there is a sweeping view across Favorite Channel. The tract, described as J.8. Survey 377, follows the beach ne for about 1,600 feet. Its gravel beach should make a ine playground as well as a swim- 1ing and boating area, and a rark'ing stream runs through the property. Moreover, Tee Harbor residents say there are no mos- uitoes! . The land is about 1,000 feet from | the main road, and it is under- stood that, should the proposed Girl Scout camp be built, the Scout Council will ask for construction of a side road directly to it. No use has been made of the land for more than 20 years. Taxes and accruec costs against he property formerly owned by .he International Fisheries imounted to $11.79. Attorney Robert Boochever rep- cesented the Juneau Independent School District as auctioneer, for the sale of property on which taxes wvere delinquent. This was the first .uch sale, and they are to be held annually. Taxes for 1949 are held against Al properties and claims sold to- lay, and all sales are subject to .ing redeemed by the previous swners. An owner may claim re- «mption by paying the purchaser he purchase price, plus i5 percent .er annum and any other taxes ad Ly the purchaser on the aroperty. : If such redemption is not made | vithin two years, the new owners will receive title. 2 Among other successful bidders 1t today's sale, with general details of the transactions are: Leonard 3erlin, property at Eagle River _anding and Auk Lake and eight nining claims; Fred Jacobsen, who ought @ land-and-building parcel 5f H. R. Blood on the Glacier Tighway; Peter Ludwig, Lena Cove ind Auk Bay parcels; Mrs. John J. Klein, property of W. W. Lazier it Tee Harbor; J. B. Caro and A. 2. Duncan. properties and claims; _udwig Gusjaas, property on the oop Road and cla!ms; and Loraine jusiaas, survey claims. Marie A, Fueston bid in two racts on the Glacier Highway, and sther successful bidders were John Xnudson, William Maier, Douglas Babcock, Lueria Jordan and Ann B. 3heldon. STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Nov. 17.—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3%, American Can 991, Anaconda 28'z, Curtiss-Wright 7%, International Harvester 277%, Kennecott 50%, New York Central 10%;, Northern Pacific 13%, U. S. Steel 24'%, Pound $2.80. Sales today were 1,410,000 shares. Averages today are as follows: ndustrials 191.34, rails 4821, util-| ities 39.22. FROM TENAKEE Mrs. Roscoe Bangs of Tenakee s a gucst at the Baranof Hotel. CLOVERDALE GUESTS ’ Mr. and Mrs, Joe Lenihan of Sloverdale, B. C., are stopping at .he Baranof Hotel, TWO B-298 COLLIDE, 5 MILES UP Four of Twenty-one Crew- men Escape With Lives by Parachuting STOCKTON, Calif, Nov. 17— —Two B-29s carrying 21 crewmen collided five miles above Stockton at midnight and crashed with earthshaking impact in nearby fog shrouded delta country. Only four men are known to have survived the collision over this central California city 75 miles east of San Francisco. They spilled out of the planes in para- chutes, Three of them came out 6f one Superfort which plunged down in flames on a McDonald Tsland levee on the San Joaquin river nine miles west of Stockton. The other four engine bomber ploughed six feet into a mud two miles north and across the river. It barely missed a ranch bunkhouse with 30 laborers as it crashed with the high tail section sheared off. FOUR SURVIVORS The four survivors—all at the Navy annex of the Stockton Supply Depot after treatment for minor injuries—were: Lt. Warren F. Sharrock, whose home, ironically, is only 26 miles east of Stockton in the Sierra foot- hills, § Pvt. Keith R. Burns, 19, Boise, Ida., apparently the only survivor of the burning plane. T-Sgt. Frank D. Schmidt, Me3- ley, Ohio, engineer on the plane, whose wife and daughter live in Spokane. Sgt. Ro:qn 8. Kluge, 26. Spokane. BODIES RECOVERED The sheritf’s office 'fleld party taken from- > that burned on a McDonald Island levee on the ' San Joaquin river in the delta’ nine miles west of here. State Highway Patrolman Bill Alott said four bodies were taken from the plane that crashed six feet deep into the mud on a tract two miles north and across the San Joaquin. The wings of this plane were in- tact, but the tall assembly had collapsed. HIGH FUMES A radio from the field party at this plane ordered all spectators cleared from the area because of high octane gasoline fumes. Hamlilton Field, 25 miles north of San Francisco, said the plane that burned was from the 326th Squad- ron. The other was from the 325th. Both were part of the 92nd Bom- baxdment Group at Spokane, Wash., Air Force Base, First definite word of the crash, in a fog, came from one of the urvivors, Lt. &harrock. The lleu- enant staggered into Edward Ken- yon's King Island fishing resort Lleeding from a head injury. “The other plane ran smack into us,” he gasped. CRASH iS HEARD The Kenyons heard the crash. Chey were out looking for the lames in the fog when Sharrock rrived Soon afterward the San Joaquin sheriff's office reported finding two cnlisted men alive. One was Pvt. Burns, the other T-Sgt. Schmidt. Sgt. Kluge, of Spokane, said he parachuted from the ship Iater found styck in the mud. He too, ‘eached a King Island fishing re- sort, Highway Patrolmen and sheritt’s leputies from four counties circled ‘or nearly three hours across the ields and streams of the delta :ountry before they found the wreckage of both planes. The still burning craft from the 126th Squadron was/sighted first. IDENTIFICATION ‘The last four of its serial num- 'ers—6364—were the only marks of identification. But from this the Spokane air- base was able to determine it was one of 13 which started out at 3 p.m. yesterday on a round-robin flight (no landings and return to home base) over Sacramento, San Prancisco, Stockton and Salt Lake City. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Denali scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at 8 am. Priday and sails south, at 11 am. . Baranof from west sthedued southtound Sunday evening. # .