European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 18, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Saturday february 18, 1950 the stars and stripes Page 7 fies Cuc team sets out to Hunt ?47 missing in Yukon o s a men from exercise Sweetbriar set oat at Whitehorse Yukon territory Over the Frozen Tundra to search for the 10 aboard it c47 which crashed while Hunting for the missing c54 with 44 aboard. All 19 were later found alive. The exercise a a joint game. Acme b36 Pilot tells of ordeal Rescue in the fallowing eyewitness Story Gap Harold a Barry 30, of Hillsboro iii., Pilot of the b36 abandoned by it Crew off the British Columbia coast last tues Day tells of his fight through the Brush tangled Island to Shore safety and eventual Rescue by capt Harold l. Barr Mcchord of base Wash feb. 17 up we were losing Altitude fast when the plane iced up and then fire broke out in the no. 1 engine and flames shot above the tried to climb but could t. We were dropping at about 300 feet a minute when no. 5 engine no. 3 engine stopped with a plugged Gas Jine. We were really losing Altitude then. The radar operator 1st it Paul Gerhart 26," of Germar town a got us Overland and we bailed out. We leaped within 10 seconds of each other. It was really dark As i floated Down the plane came Back Over once. I Don t know where it lauded in the Middle of a Lake with a lot of slush on iop of the ice. I waded to Shore and tried to build a fire but the Wood was too wet. My Chute was so wet it did t do any Good morning came i took a couple of pot shots at a ground Squirrel with my .45 and 1st it Raymond a Whitnel answered with his whistle. We got together and started plodding through the Snow an underbrush. It was rough. Then we heard sgt Vitale Trippodi. We looked up and there he hanging from a tree and Yelling. The tree was on the Edge of a Cliff overlooking the Lake. We got up there and finally got Trippodi was in pretty bad shape. We built a tent for him out of a Parachute and did what we could to make him comfortable. Then we thought we d better leave for the coast to see if we could get some help. That trip was a mess. The Island is Hilly and nothing but Brus Trees and More Brush. Snow too. We did t make much Progress. Sos in Snow that night Whitnel and i built a Parachute tent and a fire but the Wood was wet. It went out. Some time the next morning we finally reached the found a Clearing and tramped out a big sos in the Snow and covered it with Green boughs. Just about that time we heard a plane but the weather was so Lousy we could t see it and pretty soon it disappeared. After a while Jive More Guys came along. We All talked it Over and then built a fire. It was t Solon afterwards that the boat came and picked us up. Life in the . Truman gets new limousine Washington. Feb. 17 up president Truman has received the first of his 10 new custom built Lincoln limousines. The automobile constructed by the Ford motor co., is equipped with Gold plated door handles. The Toof is High enough to permit or. Truman to Wear a lop hat while in route to official receptions. The car which is larger than the regular Lincoln has a 145-Inch wheelbase and a running Board for secret service men. It also is equipped with red warning lights along the sides and front. The lincolns Are rented to the while House by Ford under a Spe Cial arrangement other car manufacturers will Lurriah limousines in later years. Helicopter bus service sought for n. Y. Area hew York feb. 17 a psychiatrist testified at the sanity hearing of air Force pvt Stanley. Edelbaum 20-year-old accused Strangler that persons with a wet Loose Clammy handshake Are no necessarily insane. Edelbaum who played a Saxo phone in an of band overseas is accused of slaying a girl nicknamed Lily the hungarian in a hotel room in the Montmartre Section of Paris last May 8. Or. Seymour j. Rosenberg of Washington civilian medical consultant to the army said in response to a defense question that shaking hands with Edelbaum is like shaking a dead but he said that does t mean Ede Baumis insane. Testifying before a 10-Man court martial which is conducting the sanity probe Rosenberg agree with two army psychiatrists that Edelbaum is Able to Tell right from wrong and to cooperate intelligently in his own defense. All three of the medical expert agreed however that Edelbaum has a schizoid personality meaning he is somewhat unsociable quiet reclusive and introverted. Hollywood gossips link Sinatra Ava Gardner Hollywood feb. 17 api there was talk today of a new Hollywood Romance Frank Sinatra and Ava Gardner but none of the talk came from the an announcement from the crooner s wife Nancy that they had split up for the final time in their 11-year marriage the gossips speculated Over a new heart throb. As one put it his fondness for miss Gardner sex wife of Mickey Rooney and Arti Shaw has been one of the town s Best known . Sinatra made it Plain How Ever that she does t intend to seek a divorce. Read. Quick Magazine
