Board Wants Air
Passengers To
Ride Backwards
W ASH INGTON, (A1)—President
Truman’s air safety board wants
“intensive study” to be given the
idea of having all airline passen
gers ride backwards.
In its fifth report since a series
of crashes in May and June led to
its creation, the special panel ob
served that “on the surface it
seems much can be said” for fac
ing seats toward the rear of
planes.
Among other points of the week
end report, the board:
Recommended that the civil
aeronautics board authorize the
civil aeronautics administrator to
bar commercial planes from air
ports lacking adequate fire-fight
ing equipment or plans to provide
it.
Urged a swift hearing and deci
sion by the CAB on whether an
extra member should be added to
the crew of a four engine plane to
handle flight details.
Proposed that by next July 1 all
pilots and co-pilots be required to
wear shoulder harnesses as an ex
tra precaution in event of crashes.
The shoulder harnesses and the
backwards-riding would both be
aimed at combating the same haz
ard—injuries from being thrown
violently forward when a plane
has an accident.
The safety strap in present use
checks the tendency of the passen
ger’s body to keep moving forward
when the plane itself stops sud
denly.
But the theory is that if the seat
were backward the check would be
distributed more widely over the'
body and the passenger could
Gruening Asks
Truman Interven- 1
lion In Ship Strike
JUNEAU, (iP)—President Tru-I
man’s intervention in the 12-day i
Alaska CIO longshoremen’s strike,
which has closed ' the Juneau,1
Ketchikan and Seward ports, was j
asked Saturday by Terri*, trial
Governor Ernest Gruening.
The governor said he had been
informed that Harry Bridges, head
of the international longshoremen’:
and warehousemen’s union (CIOV
would agree to appointment of a
fact-finding board by Mr. Truman,
and would direct resumption of
steamship service to Alaska if the
board so ordered.
Gruening said Bridges’ stand
was reported by Henry Clark of
the waterfront employers associa
tion in a telephone conversation
from San Francisco.
The ILWU leader made the;
statement at a San Francisco con-1
ference with Alaska Steamship
company representatives and fed-1
eral conciliator Nathan Fainsinge»\
; Gruening said he was told by
Clark.
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I Major point at issue is the
union’s demand for settlement ot
! all disputes outside the framework
J of the Taft-Hartley labor law.
The governor’s appeal for Mr.
Truman to intercede in the strike
was made in a telegram to Oscar
Chapman, acting secretary of the
interior.
Gruening said the shipping tie
up is delaying defense construc
tion and movement of badly-need
ed winter supplies to the Interior.
.
withstand better the shock of the
sudden stop.
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Argentina and U. S.
Clash In American
Security Confab
QUITANDINHA. Brazil, (/P) —
Brazil’s foreign minister told the
20-nation inter-American confer
ence Saturday that if it failed to
set up the machinery to preserve
continental peace, others “less fit
ted to accomplish it will take our j
place."
Raul Fernandes, 69-year-old j
diplomat elected Friday as presi-1
dent of the conference, opened its
second plenary session with an ap
peal to thg delegates for “safe
guards for the defense of individ
ual rights, liberty, justice and well
being."
The conference was called for
formulation of an inter-America'h
defense treaty. A compromise
seemed in the making on the issue j
of the vote needed to invoke trea
ty sanctions against an aggressor.;
Before the delegates assembled,
Ricardo Alfaro, Panama’s foreign;
minister, told a news conference
Panama would never recognize
the present government of Nicara
gua, and said it was “a certainty
that Mexico, Guatemala, Venezue
la and Bolivia will join Panama in
opposing the admission to the con
ference of any representative ex
cept one from the rightful Nica
raguan leader.”
Hope for settlement of the vot
ing issue was raised Friday night
when secretary of state George C. I
Marshall told correspondents the
United States, in response to a!
Mexican compromise proposal,
had modified its stand.
Argentina has insisted that a |
unanimous vote of treaty signa- ■
tories be necessary to put into ef
fect any measure against a nation
attacking any American republic. I
The United States, on the other !
hand, has held that a- two-thirds
majority vote should be sufficient
for all such maesures.
In Friday night’s news confer
ence, however, Marshall said the
U. S., while still recommending
that the two-thirds rule apply on
most varieties of sanctions, had
agreed to except the use of armed
force from this rule.
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General Bradley
On Inspection
—
NEW YORK, UP)—Gen. Omar
N. Bradley, chief of the veterans
administration for the past twoi
years, was enroute to Europe Sat-!
urday for what he termed a “gen-!
eral inspection” of American oc
cupation troops in Germany. Italy
and Austria and to “reorient my
self into the army.”
Sailing aboard the army trans
port, the Gen. Edmund B. Alexan
der, the “Doughboy’s General” of
; the recent war declined comment
when sailing here . Friday when
asked by reporters whether he
, would investigate charges by
Scripps-Howard columnist Robert
C. Ruark that American officers
i in Italy were living lavishly and
that there was general dissatisfac
tion among enlisted personnel.
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PYLE LECTURES BEGIN*
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. <PA> —
First Ernie Pyle lectures, made
possible through a memorial fund
established by the Indiana uni
versity foundation, are to be de
livered here before university jour
nalism students by Hal Boyle, As
sociated Press war correspondent.
Boyle was a close friend of the
late, Indiana-born correspondent
who was killed hy a Japanese
sniper’s bullet on Ie Shima.
Only Fur Seals In
Captivity Placed In
San Diego Zoo
SANDIEGO, Calif. — Four
four-bearing seals, which zoo of
ficials said were the only ones now
know in captivity, were placed in
the San Diego zoo Friday at the
end of a trip from Alaska’s P -ibil
of islands.
The seals, sent to the zoo bv the
federal fish and wildlife service,!
will be observed in connection
with studies being.made by gov
ernment experts.
Ken Stott, curator of mammals,1
said the zoo was selected because
of its previous success in keeping
such animals—for nine years,'
from 1935 to 1944. That is a
world’s record, Stott said.
The seals were brought to Seat
tle on a fish and wildlife service
vessel, and completed the trip by
express in charge of William H.
Sholes, government biologist.
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Guerrillas Renew
Warfare In Greece
(By L. S. Chafles)
ATHENS, I/P)—Greek army an
nouncements and press dispatches
reported Saturday a sharp increase
in guerrilla activity In the north
within the past 48 hours. Hun
dreds of village homes were burn
ed and many casualties were suf
fered by both sides.
These reports followed Friday
night's broadcast of the guerrilla
headquarters radio station that
the headquarters for Gen. Markes
Vifiades, guerrilla chieftain, had
assumed authority for administer
ing a “democratic government”
until “such time as a provisional
government is formed.”
Latest advices on the intensified
guerrilla activity ranged from
western Thrace to western Mace
donia. In Salonika the third army
headquarters said the guerrillas
were using heavy mortars of a
type not available to the Greek
army.
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