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McGPvATH, ALASKA. DEC. 10. 1921
Airship Roma Is Al
most Ready for Flight
Washington.— The army airship
Roma, recently purchased from Italy,
is now praciically SO percent assem
bled at Langley Field, Va., and is ex
pected to be ready for its first Amer
ican flight, within a few days, it was
announced yesterday.
Although less than half the volume
of the late ZR-2, the Roma measures
410 feet from nose to stern, is 82 feet in
width, and at present is the largest
airship in this country. Like the ZR 2.
she is a hydrogen airship, but of the
semi-rigid type, having a stiff heel.
Driver, by six 400-horsepower Ansaldo
engines, she is rated as having a good
cruising speed for distances up to 8,000
miles with a load of about 19 tons.
Under favorable conditions tbe Roma
is capable of rnakiog a non stop flight
across the continent, and soon after her
preliminary tests are made, the army
air service plans some long-distance
reconnoisance flights over the country.
Louis Gorman returned Thursday
from a trip out Peluk way.
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Chicago Police Force
‘50 Per Cent Bootleg
gers,’ Says Police Head
Chicago.—Chicago's police depart
ment, the subject of many shakeups
during the past few months, and said
recently by Chief of Police Fitzmorris
to be “50 per cent bootleggers.” Mon
day night was in another turmoil as
the result of an attack bv Robert E.
Crowe, state’s attorney. Mr. Crowe—
after conducting a series of vice raids—
announced that he “expected to inves
tigate the police department.”
A statement by the state’s attorney
charged the police with making Chi
cago the “rottenest citv in the coun
try” by giving protection to organized
vice._L
To these charges, Chief Fitzmorris
replied that “the police could stand in
vestigation better than the state’s at
torney’s office” and that what vine
there was in Chicago existed primarily
through failure of the state’s attorney
to properly prosecute cases.”
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Aviator Crashes Trying
to Save Second Airman
San Diego. — Risking his life in tha
air by diving with his own aeroplane
under a falling machine, in a futile ef
furt to a-oid disaster to a brother air
man, n naval birdman from North
Island naval air statiou crashed hun
dreds of feet to earth Monday, the two
planes spinning over and over before
horrified spectators.
Lieut. Eric Blackwell was killed in
the crash. Lieut. Dan Tomlinson suf
fered a broken leg and other injuries.
Which flyer fell first and which came
to the rescue may never be known.
Ooe plane started down out of con
trol. The other dived under him. A
second later two wrecked machiees
fell. Lieut. Tomlinson may Dot re
cover
Arctic Oil r ield&
A late edition of the Nome Nugget
oontains a long account of ihe expedi
tion into the Point Barrow oil fields
during the summer. The expedition,
headed by Bob Adams, a .pioneer resi
dent of Nome. included geologists and
other technical assistants. They re
! turned with samples of oil from the
various seepages they visited. This is
the oil field to which Dr. Alfred H
Brooks referred, in his testimony be
fore the House committee Terri
tories last May, as having promising
indications. The result of the explora
tions by the Adams party more than
bore out the predicticns of Dr. Brooks
that the Arctic coasts of Alaska, here
tofore considered a harren and unpro
ductive section of tba Territory, may
become one of the richest producing
areas. _
Anchorage, as Seen By Seward.
Seward Gateway: “If there was
ever another town in Alaska that could
boast of more bootleggers, drunks and
holdup men, we would l'ke to hear of
it. That has been the condition in An
chorage for some time, and that is the
condition it is in today, until finally
the name of Anchorage became a by
word for all that’s wrong.”
London.—An arrangement has been
made to begin paying interest on the
debt owed by Great Britain to the
United States at the rate of £50,000,000
yearly, it was announced m the House
of Commons today.
The chancellor said.: "Any reader of
the American press would discover
that much harm has been done already
by discussion of the debt.”
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