Salt Lake Telegram | 1949-05-21 | Page 2 | Planes Blast Ice J an to Free Alaska Flood

Planes Blast Ice JaTo Jai Ja To Free Alas Alaska a FI I F FAIRBANKS KS Alaska f UP Air UP Air force planes 1 1 ice jams in Alaskan rivers river day as floods isolated or di several communities The Alaska air comm comma comm dered planes to try to bias blas' an ice jam that was 1 floodwaters of the Ku Kusi river into the tiny town of ot The C A A intercepted message from Harry Flarry Cree Creel ager of the Northern Co Corn Co store in Ophir who s sa dents tried to dynamite t wi with th no success ss Mustang fighters of tb Ui squadron were making roi roo roi clock bombing runs of an an that dammed the Yukon ri flooded Fort Yukon Cargo planes dropped to marooned persons w signals were sighted Fort Yukon was vas d da heavily hea One store was d dand dej de and all power in the villa cut off Water Vater was as three fe feon feon feon on the first floor of the hand hand h and reached the second s at some buildings Natives in the town lo loi homes and were trapped ground where the air to for fo I dropping them supplies