Truman Hopes for
World “Peace
Without War”
(Continued from Page One)
its attempt to force other nations
into its pattern.”
Mr. Truman flew here to ad
dress the diamond jubilee Shrine
convocation, and made it an occa
sion for a major speech on for
eign policy.
He pledged this nation to con
tinue its “great crusade for peace”
with action along two lines:
1. Maintaining a strong and sta
ble American economy “as the
primary source of strength of the
tree world.” He said “we must . . .
make all our plans, private and
public, in such a way as to give
us more jobs ‘and more output.”
2. Take steps to “insure that
the hard-won economic recovery
of other free nations does not re
vert to stagnation and despair.
“One of the most foolish things
we could do right now,” Mr. Tru
man said, “would be to slash our
appropriations lor European re
covery. If we did that, we would
be deliberately throwing away
gains for peace and freedom that
he have painfully made. Only the
communists would profit if we
to >k such a short-sighted course."
Mr. Truman’s address was
broadcast by major networks and
w: s short-waved around t h c
world.
Not once in his prepared text did
he mention Russia by name. But
he ttiled it with repeated clear
references to the men in the
K. emlin.
The President said that those
“who rule by arbitrary power” in
other nations do not understand
the slow processes by which the
United States foreign policy is
formed and do not realize "the
strength” behind it.
It is strong, he said, because
American foreign policy decisions
are the decisions of the people and
not of the government alone.
That was true of the decision to
back the United Nations and to
launch the European recovery
program. Mr. Truman said.
Senate Committee
Attempts To Help
End Hawaii Strike
(Continued from Page One>
ness to end the Hawaiian stale-!
mate. They suggested that the I
meeting be held Friday il Ching
could make it.
Douglas, a labor-management
economic expert from the Uni
versity of Chicago, made his sug
gestion as Bridges and Senator
Taft slugged it out with question
and answer.
Bridges said his ILWU was a
left-wing union, and that meant it
i was interested in civil rights, civil
i liberties and racial equality.
He denied that he or the long
: shoremen’s union wants to "com
munize” the Hawaiian Islands,
j “We only want a wage in
j crease,” he said. “If that means
communism, that’s too bad.”
! Meantime, the Hawaiian legisla
ture’s leaders indicated that seiz
ure and operation of the docks
was under serious consideration.
A special 20-man committee will
report on its study of the strike,
and after that Governor Stainback
has said he would call a special
session of the legislature.
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months-old baby died last night in
General Hospital after juvenile
i officers said she was beaten in
! “rough play” by two three-year
! old boys, one of them her brother.
The baby was Trudy Hayes. Ju
l venile officers, W. H. Clark and
J. R. MacArthur said the baby’s
' father, John Hayes, left her in a
) crib while he stepped out to a
, store. When he returned, Trudy
■ was unconscious on the floor.
The two boys, the other a neigh
bor, told the officers tl\at they
1 took the child from the crib to
< play with her, then beat and hit
• her. The officers said she suffered
a possible fractured skull and su
| perficial bites over her body.
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Air Transport
Crashes Into
Houses; Kills Six
♦ Continued from Page One)
exploded, injuring four city fire
men.
Cutting (if power lines threw
the area into darkness, broken by
the eerie sputtering and flashing
of the dangerously dangling wires.
The C-46 was a two-engine
50-passenger transport of a type
used widely during he war for
troop and cargo carriers.
The 50-passenger plane crashed
seconds aftre it took off from Boe
ing Field in a non-scheduled flight
to Chicago.
Amos E. Heacock, Air Transport
Associates, Inc., president and a
passenger on the plane, said both
engines checked out “without a
sputter” at the end of the runway.
"But soon alter we got into the
air one motor began sputtering
and the pilot evidently thought it
best to continue. A few seconds
later he pulled back on the throt
tle, apparently intending to land,”
Heacock said.
Then he perceived almost im
mediately that he could not land
and pulled throttle again, contin
uing to climb with a sputtering
engine.”
Another witness said the right
motor of the plane sputtered, then
cut out. The plane failed in its
climb and began clipping the tops
of utility poles.
Power lines and telephone wires
were clipped, plunging the area
; into darkness and disrupting com
munications.
Its wide wings cutting swaths
through frame houses, the plane
ripped through five Georgetown
homes. It buried its nose in one
structure.
About two minutes later it ex
ploded.
During that short interval, pas
sengers jumped or were thrown
from the tail of the plane which
had been sheared off in the crash.
Heacock said he personally
checked all seats of the plane and
all passengers had gotten out be
fore the blast. The airline presi
dent said he found his wife, acting
as stewardess, struggling with her
head between two seats and threw
her “bodily” off the plane.
“Then I went through the pi
lot’s comparment, which was torn
off the craft. I found two pilots
struggling and a third pilot ap
parently dazed or unconscious.
“All three were entangled in
safety belts and wreckage. One
man, James Adams, the co-pilot,
was pleading with me to get him
out. I pulled the wreckage off him
and picked him up and threw him
clear of the flames.”
Two hundred national guards
men formed lines to hold back a
crowd of thousands engandered by
writhing electric wires. Flames
were visible for miles.
OAKLAND, Calif. I/P)—Anthony
H. Gjessing, injured survivor of
the Air Transport Associates
plane crash in Seattle last night,
was making his first flight with
the company, his wife Jelinek
said today.
Mrs. Gjessing said a Seattle
hospital informed her that her
husband suffered severe burns on
the hands, face and neck, but was
in a “satisfactory” condition early
today.
Gjessing, she said, was making
his first flight with the company
in the navigator’s seat to study
the company’s route to New York.
He previously had been flying
for Alaska Airlines to points in
Japan and Asia, she said. \
Savoonga News
<By Miss Alice Green*
On June 10th Mr. and Mrs. L.
B. Williams, Alaska Native Serv
ice teachers here for srten years
left on the North Star for their
home in the States. Mr. William
after a short visit at home will
return to his new duties as princi
pal at Barrow, while Mrs. Wil
liams will spend a year at home
on leave. All of the people here
are missing them very much. No
j new teacher has as yet reached
Savoonga.
Rev. and Mrs. Elmer Pi. Parker
of Gambell arrived in Savoonga
on June 30th to begin work on the
new Presbyterian Church. The
Coastal Rambler arrived on July
11th with materials for the build
ing and work is now beginning.
We are all looking forward to the
completion of the building. Th -
will be the first church building
in Savoonga. Services have been
held at various times in the homes
and schoolhouse.
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Nupowha
tuk became the parents of an 111z
pound girl on May 12th. She has
been named Dora. They moved to
Gambcll to make their home on
June 16th.
Mr. and Mrs. John Wagh v; are
| the parents of an 11 pound girl
j named Marion, born May 15th.
Walrus hunting was fairly good
' this winter, but not many seal
| have been found as yet. Many fish
j have been caught recently to the
east of the village. Snow has been
slow about melting this spring. We
i still have a large bank of snow
| along the beach. In lightering the
North Star on June 10th, it was
Fairbanks PIuiiiIh
ers “Vacation” On
Construction Jobs
^Continued from Page One)
short,” Slatburg said.
Construction jobs at Ladd Field,
Eielson F'ield, University of Alas
ka and for the Alaska Railroad
were hit by the “vacations.”
S. L. Davis, plumbing contrac
tor, said representatives of seven
companies met last week and de
cided to reduce the work week
“because they believ w can finish
the work on schedule with the
shortened schedule."
James D. Bush, superintendent
of Mcrrison-Knudsen Construc
tion company, said all plumbing
and steamfitting on the Alaska
Railroad terminal has been halted.
The stoppage there now affects
but JO men, Bush said, but could
affect the whole job if it contin
ues. He said plumbers and steam
litters were the only men not al
ready working the nine-hour day
; when the new order became effec
uve.
BULLETIN
' JUNEAU, i/Pi—The Territorial
board ol administration “unfroze”
. S 10.000 yesterday to pay interest
on money borrowed by various
school boards which had run be
j hind expenses during the 1947-48
i biennium.
Still frozen is $5,500,000 which
has been allocated, but for which
• there is no money on hand.
necessary to use dogteams over
the shore ice.
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