No Settlement In
Costly Strikes
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create the impression that there is
a basis for optimism.”
Ching’s hint of hope, coupled
■with a warning against optimism.
Followed earlier comment by
President Truman that he has no
present plans for intervening in
steel or coal strikes or for seizing
either industry.
Ching’s statement came as the
continuing steel-coal tieups chop- j
ped off much of the nation’s in
dustrial activity and made idle
more than a million workers.
Ching and other top mediation
officials planned to meet again to
day with representatives of “big!
steel.” They hope to get the steel
companies and CIO united steel
workers to resume negotiations
and attempt to settle their dispute
over free pensions.
There was some progress m the
coal strike, insofar as the southern
operators meeting at Bluefield, W.
Va., were concerned, bbut north
ern and western operators ap
peared hopelessly deadlocked with
John L. Lewis.
Hospital News
Katherine Trowbridge of Nome
has been adimited to the hospital.
Electric Workers
File Affidavits
WASHINGTON. (Ah—1The left
wing united electrical workers,
biggest CIO holdout against Taft
Hartley act rules, gave in today
and filed non-communist oaths
from its officers.
The affidavits are required by
the labor law before a union can
have access to national labor rela
tions board machinery for such
things as collective bargaining
elections. They must state that the
union officers are not communists
and are not sympathetic to com
munism.
The United Electrical workers
has been described in hearings of
the House un-American activities
committee as a hotbed of commun
ist activity.
Officers who submitted the anti
Red oaths included President Al
bert J. Fitzgerald, secretary
treasurer Julius Emspak, and di
rector of organization James J.
Matles. The ten vice presidents
also signed.
The NLRB has no discretion
about accepting the affidavits.
The authenticity of the oaths is a
matter for the justice department
to check on.
The thrust of an architectural
arch is the pressure it exerts from
side to side: the weight is the
pressure downward.
Catholic Information
Confessions of a stupid man
_^
I read the Bible frequently be
cause my Church urges me to do
so and because I like to do so. Yet
with all my reading I cannot learn,
from the inspired words alone, ex
actly how God means me to wor
ship and to live in order to save
my soul. But maybe that’s because
I’m just a stupid man.
Some people claim that the
Scriptures contain all of God’s
truths which are made clear to the
individual by the Holy Ghost. But
this is all beyond my understand
ing, for why then is there so much
conflict about texts so vital that
salvation itself depends upon
them? And, being a stupid man. I
want to be very, very sure about
such things.
Scholars there are who claim to
have studied the Bible so long that
they have finally reached the con
clusion that the sacrad wrords are
not sacred—that the:-e is no God—
or that at least it does not matter
much one way or the other.
I’m rather glad to be dubbed a
stupid man. for then you see no
one expects me to solve the com
plexities and seeming contradic
tions of biblical texts—no one asks
me to decide w’hich of the disa
! greeing religious leaders is right
j or wrong or nearly right of mostly
wrong—no ane asks my opinion of
the atheistic scientist who, in or
der to rout out the religious dogma
1 of a creative God, must first rout
out the scientific dogma of a first
cause.
Yes. I am of simple mind, and
• so it satisfies me to believe that
Christ, who is God, builded a
Church ,as He, Himself, stated—
j that He left the Will of His Father
with this Church which, under the
direction of the Holy Ghost, was
| to safeguard His Truths for all
ages, teach them to the world in
all their completeness, and inter
pret them so definitely that they
might be acted upon with certain
ty bv any man.
Simple? Divinely simple. |Stu
pid? Some will claim so! But then
God knows how stupid all men
are. That’s why, I think. He made
His way so simple, clear, and logi
cal to men who know that they
are stupid.
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Johnson Runs
Defense Dept. For
Best Interest of AH
WASHINGTON, <>P)—Secretary
Louis Johnson declared today he
is running the defense department
in the interests of the American
people and world peace.
He said he intends to hew to
that line despite “straw’ men” and
“false rumors” which he attrib
uted to the navy.
Johnson wra sthe climax witness
before the House armed services
committee which has heard navy
charges that present defense poli
cies are wrong and are hurting
national security.
Johnson said all he is trying
to do is see that the money of the
taxpayers is put into ih? mos*
modern and efficient delense
equipment so that they get a hun
dred cents worth of defense for
every dollar spent.
And, throwing his “whole-heart
ed support behind unification of
the armed forces, the secretary
said that there is “an essential and
U. S. Soldier Fells
Of Hiroshima
Atomic Bombing
FT. LEWIS, Wash. (/P)—There’s
a private in the army here who
lived through the Hiroshima atom
ic bomb explosion.
He’s Private Kelly Nakashita,
21.
He could tell his mates in khaki
how it feels to go through an
atomic bombing but he says no
body’s asked him as yet. Recall
ing 9:15 a.m.. Aug. 6, 1945, he
says:
“I was studying on the second
floor of the Hiroshima engineering
college. I heard a dull explosion
and looked out the window. The
tops of the buildings and houses 1
were being pulled pu in the air.
“I saw the bomb wind coming
toward the building and I ducked
honorable role” for each of them
to fulfill under present strategy
i plans.
[SHRINE CLUB
TO HOLD PARTY
I
The Shrine Club is having their
first party of the season in the re
cently completed Recreation Room
of the Wallace Hotel Saturday
evening.
In charge of the party are Joe
Wallace, chairman; Don Lyle, Bob
Long, William Angell and Charles
Lewis. A good time is planned for
members and their guests.
under a desk. After the ceil ng
caved in, those of us who were
left crawled to a bomb shelter.
Five minutes later, 11 of us out of
a class of 56 were alive.
“We were covered with the
blood of our classmates.”
Nakashita was bom in San Jose,
Calif., and taken to Hiroshima by
his parents at the age of 10. He
returned to the United States this
year and enlisted in the army.
“I don’t give lectures on the
subject. I just happened to be
there when it hit and I was one
of the lucky ones who got out.”
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