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Disastrous Fire
In President’s
“Home Town”
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. </P> — A
pre-dawn fire in near zero wea
ther raged through a half block I
of business buildings in President
Truman’s hometown this inaugu
ration day.
The downtown fire was only ,
eight blocks from the summer
White House.
Fire chief D. A. Kincade said
damage may run as high as a mil
lion dollars. It was one of the
.worst fires in the more than 100
years of Independence’s history.
No one was reported injured but j
30 persons were evacuated from a |
residential building.
Independence’s 40,000 residents
all prepared to celebrate its fa
mous son’s inauguration as Presi
dent. Yesterday was a holiday. A
big parade and an inaugural ball (
has been scheduled.
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CaRWlM 1949 ~ Hi R* Brev CoRm. iik '
Americans Honor
Truman On His
“Great Day"
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• Continued from Page One*
the nation faithfully in the uncer- i
tain years ahead.
Chief Justice Vinson administer
ed the oath. The scene was the east
front of the Capitol, bathed in the
brilliant sparkle of a bright winter
sun.
Just before Mr. Truman, Alben
W. Barkley, 71 year old veteran
Kentucky Senator, was sworn in
as vice president.
Within immediate range of Mr.
Truman’s voice from the steps of
the Capitol were thousands of
Americans. By radio, millions of
others in this country and abroad
heard him. Television carried the
scene as far west as the Mississip
pi.
Stretching along Pennsylvania
Avenue to see the after-ceremony
parade were an estimated million
people or more.
His farm boy-to-President car
eer brought him his “Great Day”
today: The acclaim of hundreds
of thousands of fellow citizens and
the start of a White House term
won in his own right.
From all over America, his
backers and well-wishers came to
share the excitement and glory of
inauguration day.
They packed along the national
capital's bunting-draped broad
avenues to cheer every glimpse of
the President. They ate hot dogs
and drank pop from stands which
sprouted on corners.
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An air of carnival reigned.
For a few moments, Mr. Truman
turned his back on it all. Two
hours before the oath-taking cere
mony, he went with Mrs. Truman
and their daugh er, Margaret, to
St. John's Episcopal church across
Lafayette park from the White
House.
There, he bowed his head and
heard the Rev*. C. Leslie Glen pray
for him. for the Congress for so
cial justice, for the family of na
tions and for “those we love.”
St. John’s is the same church
where the late Franklin D. Roose
velt used to worship on his inau
guration days.
Mr. Truman was up with the
dawn for this day of days in his
64-year-old life.
He found the skies clear and
the sun breaking out with unu ?ur.l
winter strength, belying the wea
ther man’s prediction of partly
cloudy.
“It looks like old man weather
Anchorage-Florida
Trip Ill-Fated
JUNEAU, <A>) — The b: a luck
that dogged Capt. W. C. r ’ever
almost from the start of hi* flight
from Anchorage to Orlanci j, FI.
has forced the air force eng.nee.
ing officer to leave his light Sea
bee plane at Juneau. It was cri}.
pled in a landing attempt Tue*day
Coming in for a landing, the
plane was hit by a vertical win 1
and blown down into rough watc
in Gastineau Cahnnel. The ship
left wing was sheared and n an
attempt ot keep the plane aflo:4
by dragging the right wing ini'
the waves, the second float wsi
bent into uselessness.
Two Douglas youths in a skiif
towed the plane ashore.
Monday, in a landing at Yaki -
tat, the plane’s tail wheel cracked
and Stevens, his wife, their two
year-old daughter and Dale Let
a passenger were forced to stoj
over for repairs. The wheel crack
ed again on takeoff but the plant
was cleared for a water landing
at Juneau.
Stevens said the party probably
will take a commercial plar.e the
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rest of the way.
is going to be with us again,” the
President commented to reporter.
who i he stepped out o: 31a r
House at 6:50 a.m. to beg.n h
day.
He was up so early for two rea
sons: 1. He likes to get up‘early
and 2. He had a breakfast date
with the surviving men wh(
fought wi.h him in “Battery D” cJ
World War I days.
These old soldiers, sitting down
together at the Mayflower Hotel,
ate Missouri ham and hominy
grits.
And, as old soldiers w..l d' .
they got off some cracks about
their changed physical conditio,
.'ince their fighting days.
Truman looked them over an-i
opined that despite ‘‘the rubbe
tires around the middle" most ci
them would be able to walk tht
mile and one-quarter route of thv
inauguration parade — that is if
they layed off the bottle.
He admonished his old com
rades:
“After one o'clock or 25 minute.
there after. I don’t give a damn
what you do, but I want you P
stay sober until then.”
They grinned and, as a souvenir
of the occasion, gave him a golc
hended walking stick.
Thanking them, Mr. Truman
-aid he hoped some day to pass it
on to a grandson.
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