The Nome nugget. [volume], June 27, 1947, Page 5, Image 5

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Nicola Re-Elected
Overwhelmingly
t ROME, (£*)—Provisional presi
dent Enrico de Nicola was over
whelmingly re-elected by the con
stituent assembly yesterday and
announced he would continue in
the office he resigned from Wed
nesday because of po >r rifedUi.
He received 405 of the 431 vot*»s
cast. Nineteen ballots were blank
and one was void. Two votes each
were cast for Pietro Nenni, pro
Communist leader of the Socialist
party; Cipriano Faccinetti, Milan
Republican; and Guiseppe Bell
usci, Naples Republican. Some 124
deputies were absent
Prolonged applause ran"
---—
(through the assembly after the
j vote for the 69-year-old head of
the year-old republic.
Tall Story Of
“Flying Objects”
PENDLETON, Ore. —A tale
of nine mysterious objects—big as
airplanes—whizzing over western
Washington at 1200 mlies an hour
got skepticism yesterday from the
army and air experts.
The man who reported the ob
jects, Kenneth Arnold, a flying
Boise, Idaho, businessman, clung
however, to his story of the shiny,
flat objects, each as big as a DC-4
passenger plane, racing over
Washington’s Cascade mountains
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U.S.A. Now—by Pan American Clipper—it is possible
* for anyone to fly round the world in less than a week . . .
in 96 flight hours.
It is more than chance that Pan American World Airways,
the world’s most experienced airline, should be first to
establish a round-the-world air route. This achievement in
world air transport has a background of over half-a-billion
miles of overseas flight — the equivalent of more than
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of progress — in the years to come.
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Pah American World Airways
‘-'lie System ef /ie^Ftyiay Clippers
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with a peculiar weaving motion
"like the tail of a kite.”
An army spokesman in Wash
ington, D. C., commented, "as far
as we know, nothing flies that
fast except a V-2 rocket, which
travels at about 3500 miles an
hour—and that’s too fast to be
seen.”
The spokesman added that the
V-2 rockets would not resemble
the objects reported by Arnold,
and that no high-speed experimen
tal tests were being made in the
area where Arnold said the objects
were.
A civil aeronautics administra
tion inspector in Portland, Ore.,
added, "I rather doubt that any
thing would be travelling that
fast.”
Arnold rescribed the objects as
"flat like a pie-pan,” and so shiny
that they reflected the sun like a
; mirror.
He said he was flying east at
! 2:59 p.m. two days ago toward
Mt. Ranier when they appeared
J directly in front of him 25-30
miles away at 10,000 feet altitude.
By his plane’s clock he timed
them at 1:42 minutes for the 47
miles from Mt. Rainier to Mt.
Adams, Arnold said, adding that
he later figured by triangulation
that their speed was 1200 miles an
hour.
<By The Associated press)
The mystery of the “flying
discs” deepened today as more
Washington and Oregon residents
stepped forward to back reports
of the eerie saucerlike objects
first reported Wednesday by an
Idaho flier to have been flying in
formation over the Cascade moun
tains.
One witness, E. H. Sprinkle of
Eugene, Ore., produced a photo
graph last night of “flying ob
jects” which he said he sighted
.from a Eugene hill June 18. En
largements showed seven dots in
! the sky in what could be military
formation.
Still in another version, • this
time of a night flight, was report
ed by Archie Edes of Wenatchee.
While driving on the Moses Lake
highway last Friday night with
1 his father%and family, Edes said he
saw a “speeding object” descend
in a long slant ... It looked like
a long, oval blue-white flame.
“As he watched, it*neared the
ground and when it was about
200 feet high it exploded. There
was no blinding flash, but there
were great showers of sparks and
piles of flame seemed to hurtle to
the ground,” he said.
A “very bright, shiny object”
was reported by Mrs. Dennie
i Howell of Salem, Ore., to have
been seen “tumbling” through the
I air last Tuesday. A week before,
according to Mrs. Howard K.
i wheeler of Bremerton, she and her
husband sighted three of the ob
jects flying west about six o’clock
J in the evening.
A Yakima woman, Mrs. Ethel
Wheelhouse, also reported sight
| ing the “whatzits” Tuesday after
noon. They sped so fast she could
' not count them and abruptly dis
i appeared, she said.
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WALLA WALLA, i/P) — R. V.
“Nig” Borleske, dean of Pacific
| Northwest coaches, is “out” as
; coach and athletic director of
, Whitman college.
Confirmation of the ouster was
given last night by D. F. Baker,
president of the board of trustees.
He said simply that Korleske’s
‘'appointment had not been re
newed,” and added, “the college
has nothing further to announce
concerning Mr. Borleske.”
Find Parents Of
Abandoned Girl
—
GRANTS PASS, Ore. i/P)—'The
I mystery of little “Miss X,” the
i abandoned girl found in Weed,
Calif., June 15, was solved yester
day, State police said, by the con
fessions on an unmarried couple
who decided they had “too many
kids around/
They identified the badly beaten
i girl—eyes blackened, body bruis
ed and left arm temporarily use
less when found in a clump of
bushes—as Mary Jane Meddlin.
2Vfe, Selma, Ore.
Sgt. C. R. Borgman of the stat
police said she was a daughter of
Mrs. Lucille Meddlin, Selma, who
; signed a confession that with
Hugh Gilreath, 25, sawmill work
er, she beat the child severely
i June 14, one night before enter
I ing the hospital here as “Mrs. Lu
[ cille Gilreath” to have her third
baby. The woman was separated
from her husband, Borgman said.
The seargeant said California
i authorities have served a warrant
' charging assault with intent to
| kill on Gilreath and that the saw
mill worked * had waived extradi
tion.
i Inquire Into
Boxer’s Death
I
CLEVELAND, t/P)—The Cleve
land boxing commission reported
yesterday that Jimmy Doyle was
physically fit and ready when he
entered the ring against Ray Rob
inson in the welterweight cham
pionship bout that resulted in
Doyle’s death.
The report was prepared at the
request of Mayor Thomas Burke
at a special meeting called by
commission the chairman.
j
Dr. A. F. Hagedorn, commis
sion physician, gave his own tes
timony and that of other physi
cians that the 22-year-old Califor
nian showed no injury of any
kind before he entered the ring
with Robinson.
Meanwhile, coroner Samuel R.
Gerber said he was determined to
learn if Doyle had recovered suf
ficiently from a concussion receiv
ed in a fight with Artie Levine
March 11, 1946, to go through with
the title bout.
He reported he would question
Paul Dayble, manager of the late
boxer, yesterday and matchmaker
i Larry Atkins and Dr. Hagedorn
' Saturday.
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