Two Crashes Kill
Three Airmen
MOSES LAKE, Wash. OP) —
Three airmen were killed in two
separate air force plane mishaps
here late Wednesday.
The pilot of a 600-mi!e-an-hour
Boeing XB-47 stratojet bomber
was killed when struck by the
loosened plexiglas canopy of the
plane while on a test flight.
A few hours later, an F-82 twin
Mustang fighter crashed about
five miles from the base. Two men
were aboard.
Officials of the 325th fighter
wing identified the two crash vic
tims as Lt. Jesse J., Gilliam, pilot,
of Tallahassee, Fla., and Capt.
James A. Montgomery, radar ob
server, of Gainesboro, Tenn. Mont
gomery arrived at the base only
a few days ago.
Officials said the F-82 crashed
and burned at 7 p.m., just after
taking off on a training flight.
At Seattle, Boeing officials iden
tified the dead pilot of the bomber
as Edward Scott Osier, 30, of
Bellevue. Also in the plane, but
uninjured, were James A. Fraser
of Seattle, co-pilot, and John For
nasera, also of Seattle, chief of
flight tests for the Boeing engin
eering division.
The Midnight Sun Rebekah
Lodge met Wednesday evening for
business and a social hour. Chris
tie Waldheim and Mabel Jonish
were hostesses for the evening
with Ruby Walker, Coris Wilkey
and Alice Miller the winners of
the card games prizes for the eve
ning.
Cause of the loosened canopy
was not determined. Osier was
checking the automatic pilot in
making a descent when struck by
the overhead glass.
The XB-47 is one of two built
for the air force and turned back
to the company under contract for
continued flight test work.
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the House ways and means com
mittee. Doughton said after a con
ference with the President Wed
nesday that he < Doughton* favored
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Mr. Truman said he completely
agreed with Doughton about econ
omy and that he had practiced
this in making his January budget
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recommendations.
! He added the subject of their
talk was social security and tla
two were agreed on that.
He declined to comment on re
ports that his economic advisory
council had reported to him that it
would be desirable to avoid a big
tax increase if it could be done
without deficit financing. He did
describe the report as not pes;. •
mistic.
On other subjects, the President
said:
He had no reason to comment
on report quoting him as telling
a veterans committee that “then
are too many Byrds ‘meaning Sen
ator Byrd-D, Va.) in Congress"
He said the conversation he had
with a delegation of the American
veterans committee was confiden
tial.
1 Asked if this indicated a purge
of Democrats oppposed to some of
his program, Mr. Truman said he
is not interested in a purge. He
added the people take care of that
He hopes to fill the vacancies in
the position of secretaries of the
army and navy within a few clays
He referred reporters to Jonathan
Daniels, Raleigh, N. C., editor,
, when asked why Daniels had
i turned down the navy secretary
ship.
He is happy over the lifting of
the Berlin blockade and agrees
with a reporter that it is a source
! of encouragement in the world
| situation.
He would not elaborate on sec
retary of state Acheron’s statement
Wednesday that Franco Spain is
still a dictatorship which denies
i
its citizens the fundamental nu
man rights. He said Acheson ans
wered the question, concerning
which there has been recent con
troversy, as to whether the United
States should resume fuller diplo
matic relations with Spain.
Asked how his personal physi
cian. Brig. Gen. Wallace Graham,
stands on his compulsory health
insurance plan. Mr. Truman smil
ed and told the reporter he should
know or Graham wouldn’t be in
his job.
Immediately after the news
conference, the President walked
across from the White House to
the old state department building
to talk to a large group of busi
i
nessmen.
The speech, the White House
said, was completely “off the rec
ord.”
The businessmen are members
of the committee for economic de
i velopment, a private organization
made up of executives of various
businesses.
' He has decided to sign a resolu
tion providing funds for salaries
of thousands of government em
ployees which he has been holding
up because of objection to one
provision.
j The resolution contains a provi
sion withholding pay from Michael
Straus, reclamation commissioner,
and Richard L. Boke. regional
reclamation director at Sacramen
to, Calif.
The President said he will issue
a statement in connection with the
signing. He said he will sign the
bill so that from 15,000 to 20,000
government employees can get
paid. The President himself is one
of those whose pay is held up.
The resolution, passed by the
House April 14 and by the Senate
May 5, would continue the pay of
federal workers while Congress
finishes with a deficiency appro
priation bill.
Congressional critics of the re
clamation officials have argued
that they are not trained engin
I eers and hence not qualified for
t the posts they hold.