The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, February 16, 1950, Page 1

HE DAILY ALASKA EMPIRE “ALL THE NEWS VOL. LXXIV,, NO. 11,429 JUNEAU, ALASKA, THURSDAY, F ALL THE TIME” EBRUARY 16, 1950 MEMBER ASSOCIATED PRESS PRICE TEN CENTS FOUR BOMBER SURVIVORS STILL MISSING TRUMAN HOT 'WARMANEUVERS |( INCOLD WEATHER WHEN ASKED " yow unoerway TO AMP“FY American, CanadlanForces; Are Fighittng If Out in Yukon Terrifory ted Press) Gets Made aT P—ress Confer-| ence Affer Exclusive Infer-! | | | ) socl 1 1 H It's a real-life war that's being VIew w"h New York .“mes |fought in the Yukon by Amex’xczufl and fan troops on winter | By Douglas B, Cornell WASHINGTON, Fcb. 16— (» — President Truman barked at repor eseription: | tlage | He “Men eye-witness d white ¢ ers today in a chip-on-should ver th pear attered | news conference that they were dis- | the icy stillness of th m\zunt*,h“ gruntled, he didn’t like their at-|with machinegun and titude, and they ought to cool off. | Thy That was all because he had given {1y Toad blocks. Flares like Roman an exclusive interview to Arthur|candles dropped around us, orange, Krock of the New York Times and | sily en and gold—sim )| 2 reporters were trying to emplify|artiliery fire. v{u swooped 1\«‘ ps and spot thei: | chopped spruce trees o Pla some of the points in that intcz'-im strafe the trco view regarding dealings with Rus- | positions. i sia. The Chief Executive said with| | obvious heat that he is his own ,.,Iln iBogp du A,&”B”e(} P““; | free agent, he will see whom heV;' th i ng“ }t‘el pleases, say what he pleases, and |, gnon e o m(‘ he isn't going to be censored by |, s ) < v e iy it have invaded When the President emphn:iy'dl}\' £, S0 1 i : | defenders have f3 thay ue is going to do as he pleases £ ca T scmebody asked whether “you in. S tentionally omitted ‘damn’.” 2 Yes, the President said, but you| O]);;le:.l (i" ‘}:!.1“1“ t ;uc]) g | can put it in if you like. o0 TIREE s PEPRCIRIC Fand, : y | At the fnr] of their 25-mile re Mr. Truman said that he himself | ,u.l‘ ‘ men is not disgruntled in the slightest. | sport “Why should you be?” a woman | tac “It was 35 below presumed The s i late: 25 miles, | They'v Lom i columnist, Doris Fleeson, asked.| They've been fighting all mighi She added “we think our business |1cpg, = R R J is quite important.” [ At the height of the battle, this Scmetimes I'm not so sure, MI.|pappened: | Trumen came back. | A Canadian tcok a pot shot at| After the atmosphere had cle2*-|;ne of the aggressor troops. Bu! ed a bit, the President sald in|ine gooressor knp[ on “3]'\"](1 response to questions that: | 1. He doesn’t think the time has|«vgyre arrived to send Chief Justice Vin- The velled, “I'm not son to Russia but the door always|qsaq 5 is open for discussion of atomic| Tne Canadian appealed to the controls. This doesn’t need any dra- | matizing. | 2. There will have to be a wait | to see whether California oilman | umrire, o decided th ndezd alive. ‘When a man is killed, he is given e man was a ticket and sent back to camp| George Luckey drew the right con. ntil next day. 3 "pi clusion that Mr. Truman will run! h o t { Which leads our correspondent tc for President again in 1952, | remark: e o soRempenaERE i 3. The State Department qns-; “In this kind of weather, one wered Senator McCarthy (R-Wis) | would be tempted to join the hon- ored dead, without argument.” in saying there wasn't a word of | 57 Communists worked, for the De- | " s EMPLOYMENT BILL IS press for things like a political un- ion of Atlantic Pact nations. There | 5. He isn't considering fu-mg‘ Robert N. Denham as general coun- (0 M M ITIEE VOIE truth in the Senator’s charge that | 4. This isn't the pru;?er time to are other things more important. \SQUASHED BY ’RU{ES sel of the National Labor Rela- that the | CHIPS MAY FLY OFF AT BIGDINNER Truman May Séeak Out at Democrats’ Jefferson- Jackson Day Feed (By 2 sident FREE SPUDS FOR STRIKERS AS COAL INDUSTRIES SLOW PITTSBURGH, Feb. 16—P—CIO | and AFL labor groups came to the aid of striking soft coal miners today with donations of food and‘ money in some sections of the| | country. Idle diggers also obtained sacks | of free government surplus pm.a-‘ toes, distributed by local govern- ment officials. ‘ . The miners’ walkout, in defiance | iated Press) | of stop strike orders of both John step up I, Lewis and a federal court, ap- to the microy tonight to lead | peared e to continue at least m‘ off the De ratic Party's cam-|the end of the week. The 372,000 | vember’s Con- | jdle miners vow they won't work | without a contract. They say cur- 5 fore him will be more|rent contract talks in Washington than I ' who are lay-|do not change things at all. ¥ the | The number of workers idled in 100 apiec to csident e acn at the Den n filet mig- | annual Jef- coal using industries—mainly stee! mills and railroads—climbed slowly | bt HOME" IN "45 [Harry Bndges Still on Stand, Gives Furth- er Testimony SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 16— Harry Bridges admitted toda erjury trial that his longshore nion staged a work stoppage on c. 3, 1945, to “propag dize” for a5t rican troops Yes, and u worked, t00,” Bridges d in answer to a cross exami- question by governmen ferson-Jactoon Day dinner. SImilar| pase the 38,400 mark. Much greater | R, N S linners—with lower tabs—will be|jayoffs due to ccal snpovtaces are S l. “: én}‘. a"bn 'f\',(‘t 0f heldb over the n \l few weeks in | sieht. i vi‘:‘tg clleqh:e(i f;]ePr h(;’lt;:l ‘r‘“‘::’\’:{, various the y. The | R % , cla e ha Republi «l L\VL)OL:;:[': cf;:r.‘ The State of Pennsyivania esii- jusands of telegrams from en- gression T lgn with a series| [ates that families of more than| jieq men asking if something | half the commonwealth’s 100,000 ., 1an't be done to provide ship dinners over ns are few expected to hots from i in his speech his time there won't cans cn hand to jeer | ernment potatoes. More than 53.000 | families in 10 counties have been | certified by county ocfficials | eligible to receive free potatoes. Striking miners in Monongalia | onight. But any Repu said pupils may get a‘holiday, start- ing next week, if the miners don‘ return to work. CONTRACT PROPOSED WASHINGTON, Feb. 16— John L. Lewis was reported t to have proposed to soft coal op- erators that they guarantee 200 day: of work a year for his United Min ‘Workers. Such a contract provision would | be in line with Lewis’ expressed de- sire for more stailized employment n the coal fields, where a full- fledged strike is in progress and | gunfire crackled on some picket lines today. Four men identified as xpected to have ¢ al races this year: e Congression- FAIRBANKS ASKS | TRUMAN FOR AIR STUDY, CAB STAY Feb. / FAIRBANKS, Alaska, 16~ Truman asked | oint an impartial fact- | d to study intra andj .nter Alaska air carriers. The Chamber of Commerce = | e arter Harry Swanton.| ,ipets were reported injured in a of Arctic-Pacific Air-{ g, pagtle at a non-union Wes ways, anpounced he was discontin- | Virginia miine. uing passenger service over his line| *qpe jgleness of 372,000 soft coal tetween Fairbanks and Seattle be- | -diggers pinched the nation’s econ-| cause of Civil Aeronautics Board | omy tighter by the hour. There was egulations. | o i no indication they would resume The APA has been operating lhe.“m_k this week. They have vowed P —President miner strikers are lining up for free gov- |, county, W.V., met to draft plans for | {sons were evacuated; \H‘SHINGTON, Feb. 16—!P---The (Continued on Page iive) Merry - Go- 11011nd | The Washingion| 2 Bments wm two meps | ICopyrieht. 1950, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) com'mttec pfik‘o‘lhnln where it h,. Bv DREW PEARSON : seen since last summer. An equal | | number of Democrats and Repub- | ASHINGTON—The big Demo- |licans voted to give the House o cratic dinner in Washington to- | chance to settle the issue. \ night contrasts sharply with tho\ Voting to approve the mcmuu Republican box supper ten days ago. | were Reps. Herter (R-Mass), Brown | It will be the biggest banquet in|(R-“Ohic), Delaney (D-NY), Mad-| the history of the world—even big- |den (D-Ind), McSweeney (D-Ohio) ger than the banquet once given and Sabath (D-IID. to Julius Caesar. If the Democrats| Voting against the bill were Reps are smart, however, the contrasts|Allen (R-IIl), Wadsworth (R-NY) will be a red flag of warning. |Cox (D-Ga), Howard Smith (D- The Democratic dinner costs $100 | Va), Colmer (D-Miss) and Lyle per plate—not a bad idea to raise: (D-Texas). nolitical money. But what's hap- Chairman Sabath told news men pening is that the fat-cats who| rmgonentfl of the bill will try to| once backed up the Republlcmfi pass it next We inesday under pro- | e Rules Committee refused to- | nd) by a 6 to 6 tie vote to clear the | \qnu -job discrimination (FEPC) bill | cx Huh(* ion. now flock to the -Democrats, lm‘u‘dme sharply limiting debag a very simple reason: the Demo- | He seemed pessimistic, however, crats have power, 1;\ t the chances. In cther 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 angli for an airline franchise. Two tab-| les seating ten guests each cost| et aermes e e | EW WOMEN TO GIVE It used to ke that the big-money ‘ (OVERED DISH pAR'Iv INDUGOUT TOMORROW boys flocked to the Republicans,| Members of the Auxiliary to Taku Some backers.of FEPC had hoped \ Allen might change his vote allow- ing the bill to go to the floor. Allcn‘ said in advance, however, that he had no such intentions and voted against the bill. but—except for the very faithful—| a lot are now switching to tne; Democrats, This doesn’t mean that they are really for Truman. They | just think it pays. | P 5559, Veterans of Foreign| But the danger to the Democlaus'“ will give a “covered dish” is that when any party gets indebt- | dinner at 6:30 o'clock tomorrow ed to too many fat-cats, it starts| |evening in the Dugout. The affair | riding for a fall. Likewise when the is for members and their husbands, Republicans really draw support | @nd Taku Post members and their | from the $1 box-supper class, it families. will start riding to vietory, Oply| Dr-'T. H. Spickles of the Terrl- | trouble with the recent GOP hox | {0rial Department ‘of Health willj 240 |tali on the fight aga poliomy- | (u)x.umwd on P:we Four) | clitis and cancer in A i he |~ | came. ight and passenger flights ween the two cities. have converted our planes go carriers and will operate tly as on. said. Chamber of Commerce’s re- to President Truman also/ regulations permit,” The juest ked that the President stay all ding action of the CAB on Al- non-skeds. BILL MUNZ, BUSH PILOT, ESCAPES $50,000BLAZE FAIRBANKS, Alaska, Feb. P—Bill Munz, weil-known Alaska push pilot and Territorial Senator, |had a narrow escape from dcalh | T esday night. It was learned today his Nome plane hangar burned, with dam- | age estimated at $50,000. Explesion of gas fumes from an cverturned firepot spread the fire ugh the hangar. Munz escaped smashing a rear window. He was changing a battery in a nson airplane when the explosion Munz, a bush pilot for ten years, figured in the headlines two years go with Frank Whaley in the res- ue of survivors of the Nome. STEAMER MOVEMENTS Baranof scheduled to sail from Seattle Saturday. Denali schedu southbound | sund'\y Princess Norah scheduled to ar- rive at 7 o'clock tomorrow morning ~pi seils south one hour later at 8 o’clock. be- | 16— | Clobbered | Turkey, a B-29 which crashed near | past two years with non-scheduled | they won't work without & contract Lewis and the operators are en | saged in new bargaining talks by | order of a federal court. Thus far| | there have been no concrete reports | | of progress. But the rising Mississippi re- i s mained a potential danger along a | e ¢ « v » ® o ® & »|;00-mile stretch from Cairo, Ill, t e |the Gulf. | WEATHER REPORT ¢| BSix persons died in the storm | In Juneau—Maximum 16; e |which swept the New Englanc minimum 11, e area. Sncw falls measured up U | At Airport—Maximum 17; ¢ |15 inches in Western Massachusetts. minimum 6. FORECAST (Junesu and inity) Partly Cloudy with occa- sional snow flurries and gusty northeast winds to- night and Friday, Lowest temperature tonight near 10 in toyn and zero in outly- ing arears. Highest temper- ature Friday 20. PRECIPITATION (Past 24 nours ending 7:30 a m._toduny City of June—01 inches; since Feb. 1—1.61 inches; since July 1-—-56.72 inches At Airport—.04 inch oeo-.-o.o-o-o-.-o-o;o . . ° ° ° . . . . o . . ° ° . . ° . . ELKS ENJOY JIGGS' DINNER LAST NIGHT It tasted mighty good and how. That is what over 100 Elks claimed last night after fillin: with a hot Jigg’s dinner, top; off with delicious apple pie cheese. The dinner was something ! for the Elks and will undoubt be repeated as it sure was a ¢ together for the fraternal org |zation members who sat dow {tables and enjoyed the corn and cabbage prior to the 1o | ) d d beef r ledge session, since Feb. 1—1.48 inches; cast stations yesterday: since July —37.19 inches Aurora Broadcasters, Inc., at Ju- R eceia & 8.0 o 0 © neau, Alaska, 580 kilocycles, one | kilowatt power, unlimited hours; also, at Ketchikan, Alaska, 630 bring them home. At that time the war in the Pa- fic had been over for about three onths and there was a great po- cal hullabaloo, much of it pur- portedly inspired by the Communist to “bring the boys home.” aim—as some did when the Pie-|opiaining more food and other all. | pridges testified that soldiers sident - deliversd his £iate-of-the| = praqnwhite, coal shortages plagued |y qte him that ships were not avail- %‘x.:‘;x; message to Congress last { many a city across the nation. ‘mulr-. ] i i a1 20 SEAGEDIERY IR C at the. pe 70 longshore union leader k5 > Thaicatuns. are thut e Oakland Civic and Medical Cen<| .,iq shipping had been transterred ' R e s i M 5 "€ | ter had to be curtailed because the |, tho more lucrative “luxury” pas- vill issue another call for enact joint boiler plant supplying the area | -anoer trade ment of his entire legislative pro- | i3 0 on s e e e sram. White House visitors 2ddl ™ <.y R Miller, assistant sup-l s Mr. Tiuman plans to deliver| .., iengent of the Denver schools, speeches in key states that are THOUSANDS HOMELESS BY FLOODS (By Associated Press) Thousands were driven from their homes in flooded areas in East Louistana and winter's worst storm raged across the New England States toda; Flocd waters from the swollen Misgissippi and other surging rivers spilled out over more than a mil- on acres of lowlands in Louisiana {2nd Mississippi. Some 8,000 per- other thou- sands were threatened with evac- uation, Skies cleared and temperatures dropped over the southern shed. Fair weather also was report- ed in the Ohio and upper Missis- sippi valleys, easing temporarily the serious flood threats in many river ‘areas. water The snowfall in Boston was follow~ ed by sleet and drizzle, leaving {ive inches of slush. APPlI(AIION MADE | FOR SECOND RADIO STATION IN JUNEAU WASHINGTON, Feb. 16—(M—The Communications Commission re- ceived these applications for con- struction of new standard broad- kilocycles, one_ kilowatt power, un- | limited hours. President Says Pay Loss Claim WASHINGTON, Feb. President Truman has apvroved legislation to pay the Puget Sound Eridge and Dredging Co., of Seattle $9,789 for the loss of supplies and | a scow enroute to Alaska. The loss occurred at the time the government was building defenses 113, Anaconda 29%, Curtiss-Wright | 16 — (A — | 2 in Alaska during the way. WORK HALTED Pilot Tells How (rew Hit 10 "GET BOYS The Silk; Pair Rescue Man Hung Up in Tree Over Cliff SEVENTEEN PARACHUTE | TO SAFETY Escape from Plunging | Bomber, Land on Rugged| and Wooded B. C. Islands McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, TACOMA, Wash,, Feb. 16—#—All 17 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 norihern British Columbia coast about 500 miles northwest of here. Ten of the men were flown here in a C-82 flying boxcar last mght. The other seven, including one in serious condition, were to be brought off ' the 1404-square mile Princes: Royal Island today. S /8Sgt. Vitale Trippodi of Brook- lyn, N.Y., was the survivor in the most serious conditicn. Hangs Head Downward His parachute landed him in a ‘ree on a cliff, where he hung head- downward for 10 hours before Capt. Hearold L. Barry, of Hillsboro, Il pilot of the ill-fated bomber, and 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 C. Smith, Command- ng Officer of Flight C Fourth Res-| cue Sguadron, 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 a tree. Lands in Tree S/Sgt. Dick Thrasher, 29-year- old gunner from Chilton, Tex., told interviewers last night that he landed in a big tree and “had to| :ut my shroud lines with a knife. I was hanging next to the trunk. After | I cut the lines I slid down the trunk ind slept until morning.” That night Thrasher, Lt. Col. Danield V. Medonald of Arlington, Va., an obServer but not a crew member; 8/Sgt. James Ford, 28 radio operator from Holdenville, Okla.; and Lt. Paul Gerhart, 26, radar, observer from German’own, P!fl made a tent out of a parachut -nd slept there until yesterday morning. Groups on Shore | The party which arrived here last | night had grouped on shore and | was picked up by a Canadian fish- ing beat. A Coast Guard PBY flew them to Port Hardy, on the north- | ern shore of Vancouver Island, (EDITOR'S NOTE: — Capt. Harold L. Barry, 30, of Hillsboro, 1L, 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 McChord Air Force Base last night. Follow- ing is his story.' By CAPT. HAROLD L. BARRY | (As told to The Associated Press) McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, TACOMA, Feb. 16—M—When we started to lose altitude at around 15,000 feet, I told the radar operator to direct us over land. | We dropped to 5,000 feet in 10 fninutes. I 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 I landed in a little lake on Prin- cess Royal island. It was covered with slush and ice. I 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 a 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 souirrel and shot at it a couple of times with my .38 service revolver, but I didn’t hit it. Then I heard Whitetield (First Lieut. Raymond P. Whitefield, Jr., 25, of San Antonio, Tex.) blowing on his whistle. He was about a mile away. It was about noon. He Wwas 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 a mile per hour on foot. Then we heard S-Sgt. Vitale Trippodi (of Brooklyn, N.Y.) yeiiing for help. Hung in Tree He was hung up in his chute on a 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, Whitetield and T 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. ' Big Dow Chemical Structure Blows Up Killing 8 Workers MIDLAND, Mich, Feb. 16—#—A violent explosion ripped apart a big building at the Dow Chemical Com- pany today, killing at least eight workers. whence the C-82 picked them up. ‘Three more were reported missing The B-36 crash was not without rin the smouldering ruins of the 100 its tragic aspects. A B-20 bomber, | taking off from Great Falls, Mont., to join in the search yesterds v.| crashed two miles south of its base Eight men were killed. | STOCK QUOTATIONS NEW YORK, Feb. 16—Closing quotation of Alaska Juneau mine stock today is 3, American Can 9, International Harvester 28, Ken- necott 55%, New York Central 12% Northern Pacific 14%, U. 8. Steel :, Pound $2.80%. | iles today were- 1,920,000 shares Averages today are as follows: | industrials 201.69, rails 54.41, util-| ities 42.58. The United States produced ap- proximately 60 percent of the world's | corn in 1948 and 1949, | scor by 400-foot building in which Dow processed rubber base paint. At least 15 workers, and possibly | were injured when the blast shattered the building and shook | this entire city of 12,000. Rescue crews probed through its hulk seeking more casualties. The explosion, occurring at 11:25 am., shot the roof of the building known as “Number 414, into the sky. A side wall was blasted out by its force. Inside were 40 workers in a pipe maintenance crew, repairing equip- ! ment used in manufacture of paint. FROM SEATTLE Seattleites at the Baranof Hotel) include G. E. Munger and Norman C. Stines. FROM YAKUTAT Laura Spencer of Yakutat is re- | n gistered at the Baranof Hotel. TWO ARE REPORTED RESCUED Infensified Land Search Is Being Made-Shouts and Shots Reported Heard McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash,, Feb. 16—(P--Two more sur- vivors of the B-36 bomber. from which 17 men parachuted off the British Columbia coast early Tues- day morning have been found today, the 4th Rescue Squadron reports. R.CAF. headquarters at Van- couver, B.C., said, however, that only one more crew member had been found today. Meanwhile, Canadian Naval offi- cials said they are certain other men survived. Four men were still miss- ing. “The searchers heard shouts,” said a 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, whiie 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.CAF. had a group of para-rescue men standing by. Skilled Mountaineers The™ ‘a0 tricluded tive skilled mountaineers of the Alpine Club of Canada who were taken to the remote island by an R.CAF. search plane. They were under (he leadeyship 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 a broken ankle. Four Canadiah and American ground parties were fanned out over the rugged island in the desperate race against time and weather. . Planes continually criss-crossed the area in pressing the search irom the air. A Coast Guard report last night that all 17 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, said a 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 atter they had endured miserable cold and wet and hunger for more than 30 hours. One was picked up later by a rescue team from a Ca- nadian destroyer after he had hung with head down for 10 hours, with legs broken, after he had landed in a tree on a cliff side. He suffered for additional hours in an improvised shelter after other survivors freed him but couldn’t gef him to the beach. Still Accounted McCHORD AIR FORCE BASE, Wash.. Feb. 16—(»—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, navigator, Garber, Okla. Lt. Charles G. Pooler, 36, engineer, Beloit, Kans. Lt. Holiel Ascol, 37, bombardier, Fort Worth, Texas. S/Sgt. Neal A. Straley, 30, gun- ner, Cushing, Okla. S/Sgt. Elbert W. Pollard, 28, gun- er, Bowie, Texas. 30, FROM PORTLAND Eldora Leonard Perkins of Port- land, Ore., is & guest at the Bar- anof Hotel. Mrs. D. Dale of St. Louis, Mo, is registered at the Baranof Hotel.