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AIRMEN RESCUED IN ALASKA—This picture shows the rescue of six men from a crash-landed C-47 transport. It was taken from an Air Force C-54 which dropped and picked up a glider Tuesday on Stewart River near Fairbanks, Alaska. The glider, with the rescued aboard, has just been snatched from the frozen river. Circled is the C-47 which made a belly landing. A similar maneuver is planned to rescue nine American flyers stranded in Newfoundland.
—AP Wirephoto from U.S. Air Force.

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ously,officials of the institution had acknowledged publicly that a previous secretary had made a mistake when he gave prior credit to the Langley flying machine.
The Wrights had defended their basic patents successfully in many suits at home and abroad, and the surviving brother felt the former Smithsonian official had been unfair.
Among invited guests today was an old friend of the Wrights and a fellow pilot in the early days of aviation—Glenn L. Martin, whose great Baltimore plant turned out thousands of bombers, fighters and flying boats in the last war.
Orville Wright told his friends that, as far back as 1910, Mr. Martin came to him and explained he had incorporated some of the Wrights' idas in the airplane he had built.

Bill Never Sent.

Mr. Martin said his early exhibition flights had not earned enough to pay large royalties but that he was ready to pay what he could. Orville Wright told his fellow pilot to go ahead and maybe he would get a bill some day. The bill was never sent.
"No one can doubt," Mr. Martin told the newsmen here, "that the Wrights invented basic aircraft controls still in use today." He referred to the ailerons and rudder which enabled the Wrights to maneuver their first airplane accuartely.
One of the first women flyers in America, known to millions in the early days as Ruth Law, was to be among those in attendance at the acceptance. She is now Mrs. Charles H. Oliver, and came here from her home on the West Coast to pay tribute to the men who built her first airplane.
Other guests were to be members of the "Early Birds," composed of men and women who were among the first to fly in the United States. Among them are a few who received their instruction from the Wright Brothers.

Label for "Kitty Hawk."

Smithsonian officials announced the once-controversial "Kitty Hawk" will be labeled as follows:
THE ORIGINAL WRIGHT BROTHERS' AEROPLANE
The world's first power-driven Heavier-Than-Air Machine in which man made free, controlled, and sustained flight
Invented and built by Wilbur and Orville Wright, flown by them at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, December 17, 1903
By Original scientific research the Wright Brothers discovered the principles of human flight. As inventors, builders, and flyers they further developed the aeroplane, taught man to fly, and opened the era of aviation.
Deposited by the Estate of Orville Wright
Another ceremony was being held today at Kitty Hawk, where military and civilian dignitaries assembled to honor the Wright brothers.
These ceremonies called for the placing a wreath at the Wright Memorial by four Coast Guardsmen who assisted the Wrights in their first flight and the unveiling of a painting entitled "The First Flight."
About 200 Navy carrier and Marine shore-based planes were scheduled for an air salute over the monument during the day's ceremonies. A ring of helicopters and blimps were to form a memorial wreath above the monument.
Assistant Secretary of the Navy Mark E. Andrews was listed as the principal speaker at a luncheon following the ceremonies.
After the program, the painting will be flown to Washington and placed with the 'Kitty Hawk" in tre [[the]] Smithsonian.

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Weather Bogs Rescue Of Airmen on Ice Cap
By the Associated Press
ST JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Dec. 17.—Efforts to rescue nine American airmen, stranded on a wind-swept Greenland ice cap, were bogged down today by bad weather, but the men remained in good spirits.
"We're okay," the group messaged over its portable radio transmitter. 
The men aked [[asked]] that food and fuel for their small heater be parachuted to them.
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Symington Implies New Plane Was Fitted on Truman Request
By the Associated Press
That super de luxe airliner was built for presidential use all right, Air Force Secretary
Symington says, but not for "President" Dewey.
  The plane in question is a million-dollar Lockheed Constellation specially outfitted with office, galley and other equipment a busy executive might need.
  According to a New York newspaper story Wednesday, the Air Force had prepared it for use of Gov. Thomas E. Dewey in the expectation the Republican nominee would cop the presidential prize.
  But Symington said yesterday the report was not true and "has hurt the Air Force very badly." He gave this account to a group of 50 aviation industry officials:
  In the summer of 1947, the Air Force had only one modern transport pressurized for high-flying comfort-the mew presidential plane, the Independence, a Douglas DC-6.
  Mr. Symington said he discussed the plane's performance with President Truman after the DC-6s began having serious trouble. He quoted Mr. Truman as saying there was "something in the back"of the DC-6s he didn't like.
  These planes subsequently were grounded in Noveember, 1947, to make structural changes after two serious fires had occurred while in flight.
  The Secretary said the Air Force then decided to convert into an executive plane one of the 10 cargo-type Constellations it had ordered.
  Some months ago, he said, he again took up the matter with Mr. Truman, who then expressed satisfaction with the Independence. Mr. Syminton said the President told him, however, that he would like the new Constellation as an [[cut off page]]  nate.
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