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Marine Memorial for Virginia Sculptor Felix Weihs de
Weldon on ladder works on Marine corps memorial based on
noted wartime AP picture of Iwo Jima flag-raising taken by
Joe Rosenthal. The bronze group will stand on a hill between
Washington and Mount Vernon.
Farm Laborer I
Held for Murder
Colfax, Wash., Jan. 4 (P) A
27-year-old farm laborer was
charged with first degree mur
der yesterday for the shotgun
claying of his former employer.
Sheriff Clarence Davis said
the charge was filed after Grant
E. Rio of Spokane told him:
"I must have been the man
who did it. But I was drinking
heavily and don't remember
anything about it."
James Beckner, 20, the farm
er, and a hired hand, Joseph Ro
berge, 25, were killed early last
Saturday morning at the Beck
ner farm near Riparia. Rio was
arrested later the same day
while driving Beckner's pickup
truck.
An exchange of goods with a
total value of $25,000,000 is
provided for in a one year trade
arrangement to expire Aug. 1,
1950, between Occupied-Japan
md Western Germany.
Former Wac Shoots
Husband on Dare
Pittsburgh, Jan. 4 VP) A
plump former WAC told police
she shot and killed her husband
of six months after he told her
"women are too dumb to use a
gun."
Police said they found John
Howrylchak, 35-year-old steel
worker, dying on the kitchen
floor of his father-in-law's butt
galow yesterday after Mrs. Dor
othy Ziegler Howrylchak, 29, tel
ephoned them "I just shot my
husband. 1
Howrylchak died as he was
being carried from the house.
1949 Biggest Year in Air
Traffic of United States
Nlnteen hundred and forty-nine was the biggest year the air
lines of the United States have ever had, according to a report
of the civil aeronautics administration
Airlines attracted an estimated 16,500,000 passengers during
the year and flew a total of about 460,000,000 miles. Their
planes completed more trips due-
to the increasing use of the
CAA's instrument landing sys
tem at 87 sites in the United
States.
The combined safety rate of
U.S. domestic and international
airlines is 1.0 passenger fatali
ties per 100,000,000 passenger
miles flown, the lowest in his
tory.
On international routes, there
were no passenger fatalities. Al
though 93 passengers were killed
in four domestic accidents, com
pared with 83 in five accidents
during 1948, the rate in terms of
passenger miles flown equalled
last year's 1.3, close to the all
time low of 1.2.
Manufacture of personal
planes was down an estimated
52 per cent with 3,525 units
made in 1949 as compared to
7,302 last year. Total number of
U.S. aircraft registered dropped
from 95,997 in 1948 to 92,700.
This was due partially to the
fact that the CAA audited its
records to eliminate planes that
had been put out of use.
At the year's end an esti
mated 510,000 certified pilots
were recorded while in 1948
there wore 491,306. New pri
vate pilot licenses and student
pilot certificates showed reduc
tions.
Only 45,000 student permits
were issued in 1949 compared
with 117,725 in 1948 and the pri
vate pilot certificate issuances
were 30,000 as against 86,838.
Commercial pilot certificates
dropped from 8,151 to 7,300 and
air transport pilot certificates
from 1,100 to 1,000.
A count of women pilots was
made for the first time in four
years and showed an increase
from 5.122 in 1945, to 9,678 in
1049. The inventory also showed
1.811 women rated as air traf
fic control operators and 400 as
parachute technicians, about 20
per cent of the total ratings in
these specialties.
The number of airports in
operation held about even with
an estimated 6,100 at year's end
compared to 6,016 at the end of
1948. An estimated 475 airports
were closed during the year.
Accidents in non-air carrier
flying indicated a poorer saftey
record for the year than in 1948,
with 4,000 of the estimated
6,000 accidents analyzed.
Of the 4,000 accidents ana
lyzed 421 were fatal, while in
1948 there were 392 fatal acci
dents in the first 4,000. In
structional flying, which drop
ped sharply in 1949, accounted
for 26.4 per cent of the 4.000 ac
cidents in 1949, and in 1948 it
was 40.4 per cent. The percent
age of non - commercial acci
dents, i.e., private flying, rose
from 53 per cent in 1948 to 58.5
per cent in 1949.
Texas Millionaire
In Assault Suit
Beverly Hills, Cal., Jan. 4 (U.R)
Texas millionaire Glenn Mc
Carthy has been served with a
summons in connection with a
$210,000 damage suit in which
a sports promoter accused him
of assault, he said today.
"A man telephoned me Sat
urday and said he had the pa
pers, so I told him to come
around and serve them," Mc
Carthy said through a spokesman.
The suit was filed Oct. 1 by
Larry Rummans, 39, who ac
cused McCarthy of beating him
and falsely imprisoning him in
McCarthy's Shamrock hotel at
Houston, Tex., from Sept. 22
to Sept. 24.
Rummans contended the al
leged beating followed an ar
gument over his promotion, for
McCarthy, of a professional foot
ball game between the Ail-
American conference champions
and an AAC All-Star team.
0. B. Robertson,
Ex-Senator, Dies
Portland, Jan. 4 MP) Former
State Senator O. B. Robertson,
70, retired banker and wool
merchant widely known in north
central Oregon, died at a hospi
tal here yesterday after a long
illness. He had been living in re
cent years at Agate Beach.
A native of Turner, he first
entered business at Fossil after
attending the University of Ore
gon. Later he moved to Portland
and then was in banking at Con
don and Mitchell. In 1920 he op
erated a large Gilliam county
sheep ranch and managed the
Columbia basin wool warehouse
in that county.
He was a state senator from
Gilliam, Sherman and Wheeler
counties during the 1921-23 re
gular and special sessions.
His widow, Helen, of Agate
Beach, and a daughter, Mrs. Ber
nadine R. Richards, Yamhill, and
a son, Jack L., San Francisco,
survive.
Tiny Sheila, Cancer-Stricken,
In N. Y. in Fight on Blindness
New York, Jan. 4 (U.R) Eleven-months-old Sheila Reno, with
cancer in both her eyes, grinned and laughed at reporters and
photographers at Newark airport Tuesday as she arrived with
her mother for treatment they hope may aid her fight against
oiinancss ana death.
Mrs. Louis Reno, 37, who
brought her baby here from El
Monte, Calif., where she was
born with tumors in her eyes,
was smiling, too.
'At last," she said as she
stepped off the plane. "At last
we're here. I never knew people
could be so wonderful."
The child's flight to a New
York specialist was financed
through contributions from a
service club, a newspaper and
the Reno family's friends and
neighbors. Sheila's father and
older brother, Gary, 9, remain
ed at home.
Mrs. Reno and Sheila were
taken to New York by an Amer-
Juveniles Are Nabbed
Shoplifting Charges
Lebanon In a growing wave
of shoplifting, two more were
apprehended Saturday, both
juvenile boys. Merchandise
taken was recovered, although
state police were summoned to
arrest the lads who had left
town. They appeared before po
lice over the week-end. Both
were released after police held
a conference with their parents.
Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Jan. 4, 19503
ican Airlines official to meet
Mrs. Reno's brother, Robert E.
Miles of Forest Hills, with whose
family they will stay.
Mrs. Reno said she did not
know whether Sheila would be
placed in a hospital or would
be treated in the office of the
specialist who has agreed to try
to save the child. She said the
physician who treated the child
in Los Angeles had given up
hope of saving her from the
cancer which he said was the
rarest case he had encountered
in 35 years of practice.
The El Monte Lions club and
the Pasadena Independent help
ed finance the trip here.
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