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PAGE FOUR ALASKA'S AIRMEN BLAZE PATH FOR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. AUGUST 8, 1940. Many Problems Faced by Army and Navy Solved by Air Pioneers of North Bf Devon Francis (AP Aviation Editor) Fairbanks Alaska. (JP) In an area where airplanes are a more familiar aieht than any where else in the world, pioneer plloti braving burning heat and irigia com ior years nave been paving the way for territorial air rearmament A good many of the problems which otherwise would have faced the army and the navy In constructing new bases to buttress the nation's air defense -were solved in advance by coterie of airmen to whom fly ing was only a workaday task. A sizeable book on Alaskan flying, both imong the fog and rain-drenched seacoast and in the. vast, formidable reaches of the Interior, already had been mim nll.H when cnnffreaa a few months ago began turning its attention to the necessity ior territorial air defense. Started In 182 Alaska adopted the airplane In 1BZ4 because of the terri tory's great distances, its moun tains and the rigorous winter of the interior ana t airoanxs, iocat point of Alaska flying, today ,1 aft. U naa mors man uv piauca uu t Its port one for every 79 persons living wiinin mi cuy But in spite of the tremend ous amount of commercial fly ing in Alaska in the last IS years, the territory as yet lacks even one first-class airport. There are about 120 "fields" of one character or another. Radio aids to navigation are few. Men fly over desolate hundreds of miles, under low "ceilings" and tkMHiak H-lif(na ralna hv nrMlu navigation and an intimate Knowicage u uia terrain. Knew Country elflc Alaska Airways pilot dur ing a mgnt irom wnue norse, "about 25 miles is settlement of three white men and a nana 4nl nl Tnilianf " In the direction he pointed the terrain to the horizon look ed exactly nxe mat ine piane naa Deen passing over ior au minutes range upon range of low mountains apparently with out a distinguishing lanamaric. A landing there would have meant a broken plane, possibly Injury to personnel and passen gers, because most of the green. Inviting ground actually was treacherous moss overlaying pools of water. Here at Fairbanks, a recent ly installed radio "beam" sta tion has developed split or mul tiple courses so that an unprac ticed pilot can get an "on course" signal over an area of IS miles. This Is due to the high mineralization of this soil. Radio signals bounce and scatter on Impact with it. Record Remarkable So much more remarkable then, is the safety record of the scheduled and "for hire" pilots whose operations radiate to points as far away as Aklavik. Northwest Territory. Alaska Diane, on erhediileH and non-scheduled runs, carried more than 30,000 passengers in 1939 in a country with only 63.000 inhabitant anrearf nv.r 890,000 square miles. That com pares with about 4.000.000 pas sengers in scheduled and non scheduled operations in the states in the same period out of a population of more than 130,000,000. DRY ROAD AHEAD FOR ITALIANS IN AFRICA CAMPAIGN 400 Miles of Blazing Desert Separate Italian Positions and British at Mersa BLITZKRIEG DEFENSE IN WASHINGTON CAMP Yelm. Wash, Aug. 7 National guardsmen from the western states learned about modern warfare methods to day as their training in the fourth arm v miniivM .. derway on the southwest Wash ington prairies. Wasline nn time th began nine-hour daily (raining yesterday as soon as the 40,000 man army reached it. lemn. ary camps, from which another war of the Nisqually," bigger and more serious than anv pre vious maneuvers in this' area will begin in mid-month. Defense against "blitzkrieg" attacks was the theme of the (raining peine eiven the m.rA men under tutelage of regular rmy members. How to stop na to checkmate dive bombers were imnu the courses of instruction. TO EE 'TERRIFYING FEARS' Oakland. Pal a Mrs. Estelle Sllversteln! wife of prominent Oakland attorney, shot and killed her 31-year-old son today to free him from the lerniymg tears" suffered night ly and then killed herself, Po lice Lieutenant Leon Carroll reported. The son by a former mar riage, Phillip Loney, had been mentally sick. Mrs. Silverstein wrote her husband. Rm.j uiaw mis la In tha n.. . '""' V( mercy. Everv nlaht pkiih- .... on his knees and begs me not iu icave mm alone, lit Is so terrified It is horrible. I, his mother, cannot permit it. 'The law should relieve helpless lufferern Tha hnni should not be on me." The note was signed "Mom my, on the back of tha iw. she wrote: "Sorry to snail tha of Edith and Sydney but time ana noe wait for no man." Sydney Is PhilllD'a hrnther and Edith is Sydney's wife. WHEN a ot1 rar ruttnmrrt tendi hU friends and rrlatWet In to buy from ut, t frrl a ytry aerlnu obligation in srtnr that .hty, too, g-t good, sound buys. CookseyMotorCo. Vied Car Lot. nth t, Hartlett Dial 3S1S CONVENIENT COMFOITAIU ECONOMIC! V REACH CAMP MURRAY EAGER FOR PRACTICE By Private P. W. Hughes . (Company Reporter) Camp Murray, Wash. (Spec ial Correspondence) Company A 188th infantrv detrained here at 8.13 a. m. Monday morning for an unknown period of field training. The companv. enn.l.tine nl three officers and 79 men, ar- nvea intact and camp was es tablished before James Thurston wu aoioneH n the 186th infantry band and pri vate urimer wright was assign ed to the radio sertlnn r,f ml. mental headquarters. lhe spirit and morals of the command is exceedinalv hiah inspired by the wonderful aen.t. off which they received at the hands of Medford rttlen ah are looking forward with eager anticipation to the maneuver. The Medford unit's mail ad dress here is: Co. A. 186th Infantry, APO 41. Camp Murray, Wash. The Indian population of Arizona is increasing at about twice the rate of the white population. By Larry Allen Cairo. Esvrit. Au. ft The African war. atirlrieniv flar. Ing into a more decisive phase or me axis-urttlsh conflict, may be decided as much by water as by bullets and bombs. Britain's most powerful nat ural defences aenln.t the Irnnn. assembled by Mussolini in the LiDyan desert are thirst and heat. There (a a wafeHe. etretM, of blazing desert of almost 400 miles between the Italian posi tions and the British base at Mersa Matruh, on the Mediter ranean coast. Temneraturea rf 111 anrl l in aegrees are usual in the nw ... - j time. Must Haul Water. Marshal Rodnlfn r.mlirl Mussolini's commander In Lib ya, will have to transport all nis water over dusty trails al most devoid of cover and sub ject to the attacks of the Royal air force and motorized British land units. The British forces are composed of harriv fiihtin men, some of the empire's most famous regiments, v. ho have been trained for years in the aesert warfare. The British would have a line of oases to fall back upon. The naval hlnrlrerte l 41... Libyan coast is asserted by the unusn already to have pre vented much neerleri ships from getting through from Italy, while the Royal air force iias Deen subjecting Grazlani's bases at Tnhmi-h n..i. i Derna to almost daily attacks. Alone In New York New York (P) A police pa trol wagon chauffeur blithely drove four miles tnrough mid town traffic while, unknown to him. an officer ent . .i - - . .... I'l 1CI locked In the compartment be hind fought a furious battle. A second prisoner in the van re mained neutral until gunplay was threatened. Then be went to the officer s rescue. EXPOSITION REMOVES I ART San Francisco, Aug. flJ.B Paul Cidmui' controversial painting. "Sailors and Floozies." was removed today from the palace of fine arts at the Golden Gate International exposition, reportedly because the navy didn't like it. Another Cadmus painting, "Seeing the New Year In." was, removed, but a third Cad mus work, "Venus and Adonis," remained. Dr. Walter Heil. head of the European and Ameri can aeetirtn of the palace, said "Sailors and Floozies" was removed because "there was too much smell about ii. PEAR STANDARD OKEH BY STALE .a TOM WRAY of Hubbard-Wray T r "CararaWar" tWer HUBBARD WRAY CO. Dial 4011 III 10S DDCEIES 1 I I omntoiun Confucius Say "Faith Will Be Cures" Henry Lee Herb Co. D"T " m - ' "P "0y- 0 S. Cftitr.1. Boon,, ,.B 5 5 comfortable, quiet rooms all with baths a Prom I so. Doublt rroa w S 50. Nw lnnr-ipnof ""'""" It I p-oumpllri4 beOil Nrw ecirt-neli n.,,4 phonn uiwrsi BArr of ANY riHST CLA.SR HO ill N THE CITYI t m'.nutM from InlOB R R lrm!nlS min. ul (mm HOtxvuooo. r a n un. 3S Daalhlui Dan Portland. Auo. r up, pnw. t M iana passea a new r a r n r A 'deathless davs" nerlnH at night last night 33 dava with. out a traffic fatality. The long est previous period without a traffic death was 33 days from April IS to May 19 this year. Blackbeard the pirate was a former prominent denizen of the Bahamas. Salem. Aug. 8. (JP Oregon pear standards have been changed to conform to new U. S. standards, the state department or agriculture said today. Two sets of standarda are es tablished one for winter nun ana ine other for summer and fall varieties. The six grades of winter pears are: U. S. extra No. 1 or Oregon extra fancy, U. S. No. 1. U. S. No. 2 or Oregon fancy, U. S. com bination grade. Oregon commer cial, and Oregon unclassified. The commercial grade is a com bination of extra fancy and fancy. The U. S. combination grade is half U. S. No. 1 and half U. S. No. 2 pears. For summer and fall pears, the standards include four grades: Extra fancy, fancy, unclassified and combination grades. long ago. Routine hearings on the proposed state change to ef fect conformity were held in va rious, parts of Oregon, one hav ing been held here July IS. ALL'S WELL WITH EX-OREGON CO-ED Pnrtlant Ann a tm a if - well at the Berlin residence of a vivacious University of Ore gon co-ea whose love for a Ger man journalist took her to the heart of Europe's war troubles. A luftpost (airmail) letter, de leted in sections by censor, reached Mrs. Sophie Rasmussen this week from her daughter, Mrs. Werner Assendorf, the for mer Siffne Rjffflumn rjt. land. The letter was dated from Berlin on July 2S. Signe. 28 years old. is the wife of a newspaperman high in the press propaganda depart ment of the nazi ministry. She met him while he studied as an exchange student at the Univer sity of Oregon. Some male spiders are only 100th the size-of the females. Closing uma for Too Late to Cite lrjr Ads la 1 0 p. m. MALONE'S FOOD SHOPPE lor That Lunch Boi and Men let Sand li Dm, Cake. IK, kalad. Etc. 419,. E. Main Phone 31IS JOIN THE FUN! This action ffivea nffiinl linn. tlon to conformity of Oregon and unura siaies grades, a step that had been taken for granted, pear men here said. The new tt e . standards were established not I MEN WANTED California Aircraft waats to men for aircraft factory train In'. Muat be IS to 45 vra. of a(e. rood health, white ract. I'. 8. eltl7.cn. ror thai who quali fy stead work, food par. as sured future. Applr Mr. Klbbre. Jackson Hotel. Bed, Thura.. Frl. and Sat. 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