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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.
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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
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out a traffic fatality. The long
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April IS to May 19 this year.
Blackbeard the pirate was a
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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.
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had been taken for granted, pear
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