Crashed Seattle
Plane Covered
By Insurance
(Continued from Page One>
lines and into five southside
homes.
Peanut, ice cream and popcorn
vendors had a bonanza.
Meanwhile, the death toll stood
at seven. Five of the victims were
residents of houses struck by the
plane. One was a plane passenger
and the seventh body, still uni
dentified, is presumed to be that
of a plane passenger not account
ed for. The latest death was that
of Pete Chumos, 66, of Seattle.
Thirty-one persons were in
jured.
Ameos E. Heacock, president of
Air Transport Associates, Inc.,
owners of the ill-fated plane, said
Wednesday night the company
had been cleared by civil aeronau
tics administration authorities for
continued operations.
‘•Full operations of all aircraft
in our fleet has been resumed,” he
said. The company has four other
C-46’s in its fleet.
Heacock said he had mailed a
check for $20,000 in premiums on
a renewed -aviation insurance pol
icy just before the crash.
He said the line had up to one
million dollars protection for pas
sengers in the tragic crash, and
up to $500,000 public liability and
property damage coverage.
The plane crashed at 10:03 p.m.
‘Tuesday when its left engine sput
tered, then failed, during a take
off from Boeing Field. It was en
route to Chicago.
Truman “Not
Interested In”
Sen. Wherry*s Fear
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considered when the arms-for-Eu
rope program is taken up by Con- ,
gress.
When the Senate convened to- ‘
day, Wherry brought the matter
up again.
“I ask the question,” Wherry
said, “are we to share the atomic
bomb, its secrets, and the know
how? Will they (the other pact
members* have the right to them?
Is there a moral or legal commit
ment to do that very thing?"
Wherry pleaded that the Senate
, »
adopt a reservation he and Sen
ators sTaft (R.-Ohio* and Watkins
<R.-Utah> are sponsoring. It would
say that the treaty does not com
mit the United States to give mil:
tary aid to pact nations.
By adopting it. Wherry declar
ed “the door is tightly, firmly
closed against any moral or legal
obligations upon the Uniter! States
to furnish the atomic bomb or any
of the materials or know-how ip
the making of it.”
The administration plans to
submit a $1,450,000,000 arms aid
program to Congress later. At the
President’s news conference, a re
porter asked when it would go to
i the Capitol. Mr. Truman said as
soon as it is ready. He gave no
clue when that would be.
The program is generally ex
; pected to go up soon after the
treaty is ratified—perhaps tomor
row. The Senate vote on the treaty
is ratified,
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Truman Gives
Maj. Gen. Vaughan
Mock Decoration
NEW YORK, (/P)—News Week
Magazine says that President Tru
man gave a mock decoration to his
military aide, Maj. Gen. Harry A.
Vaughan, for his recent brush
with newsmen who questioned
him about “five percenters” who
allegedly used influence to, obtain
government contracts.
The incident occurred July (i
when Vaughan returned with his
family from a three-week vaca
tion trip to Guatemala. Vaughan
decliried to comment on a coming
Con gressional investigation of
“five percenters,” and expressed
anger when one reporter ques
tioned him about the financing
of his vacation trip. He said each
participant paid his own fare.
Vaughan reported for duty latei
in the day. News Week said the
President, looking severe, fished t
pink-ribboned package out of hit
desk and commanded the genera!
front and center.
“In recognition of your courage
and intrepedity over and beyond
the call of duty,” News Week said
the President intoned, “1 herebj
decorate you with the medal Op
eration Union Station.”
The President then pinned th<
medal on Vaughan's uniform.
It consisted of a bar inscribeo
“Operation Union Station, July 6
1949, Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaug
ban, U. E. A., from Presiden
Harry S. Truman.” Suspender
from the bar was a disc bearing ;
picture of a desolate stretch o
railroad tracks.
News Week said Vaughan wa:
relieved to get off so easily.
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House Defeats
Farm Subsidy Plan
(By Edwin B. Haakinson)
WASHINGTON, UP) — A crush
ing House defeat of its controver
sial farm plan set the administra
tion to work today on salvage op
erations in the Senate.
With a powerful combination
of Democrats and Republicans in
control, the House late yesterday
voted 239 to 170 to kill a proposed
1 “trial run” of the farm subsidy
j plan of secretary of agriculture
| Brannan on eggs, potatoes and
j wool. The coalition was led by
| Rep. Gore <D.-Tenn.>, normally an
j administration follower. It tri
j umphed despite a plea from
J Speaker Rayburn <D.-Texas' to
i give the Brannar! plan -a try.
Instead, the House voted 383 to
25 to continue for another year the
rigid wartime farm price supports
at 90 per cent of parity. Parity is
a computed price intended to give
farmers a purchasing power in
fair relationship to the cost of
things they must buy.
Today Senator Elmer Thomas
• D.-Oklad, chairman of the Sen
I ate agriculture committee, indi
cated he hoped to turn the tide in
the Senate or* at least gain a com
i promise.
I
POLICE ON THE HONEYMOON
PARIS, (/P) — The newspaper
: , “Espoir de Nice” tells how a
I honeymoon couple at Saint-Marc,
i | near Brest, were rudely disturbed
• | by police who broke open their
door and dashed in with tommv
; ' guns. Apologies followed. It seem
! ed that in putting out the light,
! they had accidentally sounded a
i ! burglar alarm connected with the
. | local police station.
NEWS IN BRIEF
'Continued from Page One'
pany checks last week and forged
and cashed three of them for
SI 18.25 each, wrote the general
manager:
-Thank you for a pleasant vaca
tion. I had to hunt around quite a
bit before I found a place that left
things so handy. Windows open
and such. If I get up this way
again I will stop in again. In
haste. H. H. Adams.”
PITTSBURGH, (P) — A casket
killed 55-year-old Nicholas Radick
early today. It fell from an eleva
tor in a funeral home where Rad
ick worked, inflicting a head in
jury.
LONDON. (Pi—The Moscow ra
dio charged today that Roman
Catholic excommunication of com
munists was a Vatican contribu
tion to “the cold war that Anglo
American reactionaries are wag
, ing against the camp of peace and
democracy.”
It said the ban was intended “to
' split the united front of people
fighting for peace against the An
glo-American war-mongers,” and
added that it was bound to fail.
The English-language broadcast
by commentator Boris Isakov was
the first public Russian reaction
to the excommunication decree of
July 13.
WASHINGTON, (P) — Legisla
tion to authorize the interior de
partment to transfer to the Alaska
Native Brotherhood or the Alaska
Sisterhood a small building in
Juneau no longer used by the de
partment has been passed by the
, House. It now goes to the Senate.
—
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