Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1947 — Page 20
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Breaking a Log-Jam
HE National Labor Relations Board has voted, four to
one, to overrule its general counsel, Robert N. Denham, on the non-Communist affidavit issue raised by the | Taft-Hartley Act,
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LITAXY. OF LAUGHTER
When we walk lnresponsive in the midst of beauty , . . Lord, give us laughter! When we move, unmoved, in the press ence of great joy . .. Lord, give us laughter! When anger gets us in its unreasoning ‘clutches . . . Lord, free us with laughter! When we are paralyzed with fear .., Lord, free us with laughter! When we become obsessed with trivial
things , . . | When we are overwhelmed with sOTIOwW |, , When we languish in failure , , , ’
Mr. Denham, bowing to the board's decision, has an- |
nounced that he will proceed accordingly, He had held
previously that, unless all top officials of the AFL and the |
C10 signed affidavits disavowing communism, no AFL or CIO union could carry cases to the NLRB. Senators Taft and Ball, who ought to know, say that Mr.*Denham'’s interpretation of the Taft-Hartley Act may |
have been literally correct, but that the intent of Congress |
was—as the NLRB majority now rules—-to require. such affidavits only from the national local officers of the unions themselves. So, apparently, a log-jam has heen broken, whose local and national officers sign the required affidavits can now go to the NLRB with applications for collectivebargaining and union-shép elections and with charges of unfair practices against employers. Many AFL unions, and some CIO unions, thus to qualify, For, despite all the union leaders’ shouting about a “slave law,” the fact is that the Taft-Hartley Act offers protections and benefits of great value to unions, which few of them can afford to do without. The NLRB decision may rescue the AFL, current con- | vention at San Francisco from an uncomfortable predicament in which John L. Lewis had placed it. Mr. Lewis is the AFL 11th vice president. He has said that he never | will sign a non-Communist affidavit. And so, under Mr. | Denham’s original Taft-lartley ruling, not only the Lewis coal miners’ union but also every other AFL union had been denied access to the laboy board's services. That situation has changed. The AFL now can, if it go pleases, retain Mr. Lewis as a vice president without handicapping all its unions. Mr. Lewis’ refusal to sign the non-Communist affidavit will deprive his own mine workers of the board's services, but no longer can he exercise a one-man veto over AFL unions that want and need help from the NLRB, This will not please him, but doubtless he will find other ways to indulge his appetite for power and his propensity for making trouble.
are eager
Comintern and United Nations HERE is a lot of crape-hanging around the halls of the United Nations assembly because Russia has revived the comintern. Some of the delegafes fear that, for all practical purposes, this marks the end of the international security organization, That, in our judgment, is a most naive reaction. Tt assumes that Moscow has been co-operating with the United Nations during the past two years. And it assumes there can be no international organization without Russia. The biggest fact in world affairs is that Russia never has co-operated with the United Nations or fulfilled any of her major international agreements since the armistice. She never was willing to accept an international authority. She agreed to joining the United Nations only on condition that she have veto power over its acts and even over amendments to its charter. From the beginning she has used her membership to sabotage it, just as she consistently has violated her Yalta, Moscow, Potsdam and other pacts. .On top of that wrecker’s record, her press and highest officials repeatedly have smeared the United States as guilty of the worst crimes in the international calendar. Vishinsky's opening address to the current assembly meeting was a sample,
How, in the face of all these grim facts, can anyone be |
surprised by Russian realities because of the public an- | nouncement of a “new” comintern—which has been operating more or less openly all the time anyway? Actually most of these surprised delegates deliberately | have been ignoring the Russian record. As for the second assumption, that the United Nations cannot survive Soviet sabotage, it is true of course that |
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~~BASIL MARTIN. °L f % The difference between a city bus and a sardine can Is you can't get ‘another sardine in the ean, o
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IT WAB ENCOURAGING, not to say inspiring, to find in this column the other day-two pleces pertaining to English grammar-—a subject which Is falling into disuse, One dealt with a single word, classed as slang, and defended it, as any
| short expressive, pungent slang word or expression
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genuine Russian co-operation would make that organiza- |
tion a guarantee against world war. But if we cannot attain that objective, it does not follow that there is no need for an international organization of law-abiding nations. On the contrary, the need for such a body is all the greater,
This is no time forus to lose faith in, or to, walk eut
of the United Nations,
than ever. President Truman and Secretary Marshall have
rededicated our government to the United Nations in prin- |
ciple and practice. In that, we believe, they have the overwhelming support of the American people.
America is determined to make the United Nations |
work—with Russia if possible, but without her if necesgary. One aggressive nation can jeopardize world peace, but she cannot prevent the majority from standing together for mutual sec uray and decency,
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Things Could Be Worse IN 1919 they said war had been abolished. In 1929 they said poverty had been abolished. In 1941 they said Russia wouldn't last three months. In 1945 they said Stalin was, ‘dt heart, a believer in
democracy and would play a good fellows part in an orderly |
peace settlement, In 1947 they say war with Russia is just around the corner. Who are “they”? =~ That word “they” mors, guesses, theories and hunches which crystallize into a fondly expected or desperately feared certainty of things to come. It probably is because of this high emotional content that “they” are almost always wrong. 2 If we get into war again, it won't be by the same route. If we have another depression, its causes will be different. Our present situation, it's true, has many deplorable as-
; pects.
Our fidelity ‘tor it must be: firmer |
Well, we can make a shrewd guess. | stands for an accumulation of ru- |
should be defended. I think good slang is okay (spelled, not initialed), That American English is being despoiled of {ts exactness is not so much due to Brooklynese or hillbilly provinciallsm as to the wider influences of presumably cultured speaking and writing. The example of the ‘mountaineer lawyer in a court, grilling a witness (“If you'd a did what you sald you done, you couldn't a saw what you sald you seen”) is, not so corrupting to the
language as the Roosevelt-Churchill lingo. A dialect is a natural growth, but only affectation and arduous practice can produce the OxfohdHawfahd jibberish. Applied, it gives with this: “Lost yeah-uh we hoped soon to be making a more
| roppid odvonce toward peace on aluth.”
An absurdity ¢éming into alarming use in newspapers and on the radio is “different than” Something ought to be done about it. An avalanche of ridiculing letters to the perpetrators might help somewhat, It is not necessary that anyone worry himself into a fever over grammatical rules, but he should at least obtain a basic knowledge before he attempts to write or speak in public. Maybe the
~SMILEY FOWLER. > ¢ & Sounds like government inefficiency: The mints continuing to make more nickels and dimes when what we need is more dollars, “> db S
CHIEF NIPANTUCK'S DIARY
Ten million braves, squaws and papooses of Red Man's uninvaded Garden of Eden, are plenicking and feasting on barbecued buffalo, baked yams, roasting ears with trimmings and plenty of fresh spring water, I have proclaimed the first two weeks of October for my braves and teen agers to feast, sing, dance and engage in sports. Old Bucks will smokum lobelia and reminiss of big hunts. Squaws will busy um selves with preparing lotsa eats. For the bounteous harvest, all will offer up thanks to Manitou for the abundant life, free from work,
worry, fear and want, October 25, 1402--My people are filled with curiosity and apprehension. Big sea-birds with
great white wings makum appearance. We behold white men with assorted colored hair on um head, and face too. White man make strange talk we no comprehend. White man act heap crazy—with um_big tomahawk, cut um down big trees, and build funny tepees, White man bring Old World civilization, water, fire-arms and double-crossing. White man heap loco—work like h-1l, and fight among um selves, and by and by make Indian work and fight Ugh! No good! Heap Nuts! Buffalo all gone! Wild Turkey Wilder! Takum heap wampum now to buy meat and fish, Our squaws fuss at us ‘cause we come home late from Manhattan cock tail parties. White man heap mixed nuts! ~BERT PERSELL.
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IN WASHINGTON . . . By
WASHINGTON, Oct.’9.—Pity poor young rich man Charles Luckman, As head of the President's Citi—zen's Food Committee, he 1s the newest wonder boy + to be brought to Washington, His job is to show the country how to save 100 million or 500 million or some such impossible number of bushels of wheat so that Europe will have enough to eat next winter, If he does, it’s a miracle, There have been other wonder men -before the luckless Mr, Luckman, They have all been licked before they started. .
Roll Call of Wonder Workers WITH GREAT BALLYHOO, they are brought to Washington, full of hope and enthusiasm and high ideals. They are right in what they want to try to do. But it: doesn't take long for the pressure boys and the special interest groups to go to work on them. Then—bang!—busts the bubble, And the wonder men go back where they came from, selling
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soap or practicing law or running a business, sadder men but not much wiser, Anybody who tackles one of these impossible Washington jobs is something of a sucker, Wilson Wyatt was the last of the wonder men to go, before Luckman came. Everything Wyatt wanted to do about increasing housing was right. But the selfish people in Washington saw to it he failed. Chester Bowles was another. If they had just let
him go on with his program of holding down prices.
until the inflationary boom was over, think how much better off everybody would be today. Ed Stettinius, John D, Biggers, Big Bill Knudsen;~ Lou Holland, Robert Wood Johnson, Philip Reed, Donald Nelson, Nelson Rockefeller, “We're all expendable,” as Leon Henderson, who was one of them, once remarked, “like paper clips and rubber bands.” It's the exception who can beat the rap. W. Stuart Symington was brought in as the young genius who could solve the surplus property disposal program. When he saw it was hopeless, he liquidated his agency, but he, himself, landed right side up. Two men had to give up on the hopeless War Food Administrator's job—Chester Davis and Judge Marvin Jones, Fortunately for them, they had other federal jobs they could go back to.
Peter Edson
Newest Wonder Man in Capital
You have to give all these men credit for having
the guts to tackle these impossible jobs. Like Eric Johnston, for instance, ‘who did his darndest to pull off a successful post-war labor-management conference. It would have avoided all the big strikes of 1946, if it had worked. The participants didn't want it to work. ; Charles Luckman, in his first week in town, has run into much the same sort of a situation. His committee was unanimous in paying lip service to the desirability of a voluntary food saving campaign. Everyone thought it ghastly that people should starve. But, when it came to pinning down the various representatives ‘of the special interests, and saying, you give up this and you give gip that, the selfishness
in the whole milk of human kindness came to the .
surface like sour cream. But the farmers had all this livestock on the hoof, and why should they starve those animals and sell them lean, just to provide more grain for Europe? And the food processors say why should they be put out of business? And the baking industry says why should we bake only whole wheat bread when people prefer white bread? And the retailers say people won't buy the cheaper foods, And the restaurateurs say people complain if there is no bread, no butter, tough meat and no gravy. And the housewife says what do they mean—save food—when prices are so high they can’t buy enough to eat, let alone waste it. And the guy at the table, food says, “Who! Me?”
Start With the Other Fellow THEN THE COMMUNISTS and the leftwing press that doesn't want the Marshall Plan to succeed anyway, throw cold water on the whole idea of saving food to feed western Europe. And the first thing you know the voluntary food saving program is pretty well sabotaged before it gets started. That's why you should show a little sympathy for Wonder Boy Luckman, His plan may not work, but it deserves a chance,
when asked to save
‘Hoosier Forum
Sah x . ‘Be Critical of Both Parties’ By a Republican Can these things be counted as Republican economies? ONE: A parking space constructed behind the Courthouse with lavish care over a period of about 60 days, for the use of the taxpayer's employees who drive to work in the morning and home in the evening, while many taxpayers themselves confront the no-parking ordinances and search vainly for a place to leave their cars long’ enough to visit their offices and prepare itineraries for the day's work ‘whereby to earn the money for higher taxes? TWO: An expenditure of $70,000 for a west entrance to the basement of the Statehouse, when, lo, these many years, all traffic into the building has been adequately handled through a few small storm doors built into the Mammo north, south and east portals? THREE: Three-quarters of a million dollars appropriated for the decorating and altering of the State Legislative chambers, when a moral furbishing of the legislators, especially those who are so ambitious as to be on government payrolls at two or more posts simultaneously, would be more in order? Such expenditures place a new me: on the Indiana General Assembly's joint resollition which starts out, “Indiana needs no (Federal) guardian and intends to have none, and winds up, “We want government to come home.” It apparently means we are to have another herd with both feet in the trough. What can be done? Well, it helps a little if the taxpayers by twos and threes walk in and ask questions. And it helps even more to shun the special-interest political organizations that regiment votes ahd make a mockery of efficient, economical government.
Play hard to get. Keep silence as to how you intend to vote. Draw out definite promises from candidates. Be as critical of your own party as you are of the opposing party. + oC 9
‘Bring State Police In’ By R. 1. P., City State police need to turn their investigative talents, revitalized under the indomitable Col, Robert Rossow, to certain Indianapolis areas that have become shameful in their corruption and criminality. : Apparently these areas are too hot far local bluecoats to handle, especially in a mayoralty election year when police hands are weil-tied. Arrest records show that a marauding erop of youthful hoodlums who prefer to loaf and obtain spending money from a variety of flourishing rackets is springing from these areas.
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during the day—these vicious 1947 brand gangsters roar through the city's streets at nights, bottles in hand and a curse on their lips for pedestrians and motorists in peaceful, respectable sections. Occasionally, they stoop to brutal hssault, Often the innocent victim is maimed for life. This goe on day after day. ’ Police brutality is distasteful.’ to have it—and this appears to be the case from
toward others who live by brutal means. The ‘affinity of these negatives might bring a positive gain to society. > o>
‘Consider Public Decency’ By Mrs. F. R. V., City I want to congratulate The Times for nos
using: the name of the girl who was criminally assaulted by six men Tuesday. I do not know
of) a picture of a woman involved in a criminal
decency is something that must be considered and I've noticed that The Times’ policy comes closer in that respect than any other newspaper. Thanks again. * % 9
‘Play Politics Clean’ By Suburbanite
do ro are iho rd tat you a. bt |
To relieve their nocturnal boredom—they sleep
Yet, if we are
recent disclosures—let police direct their slugging’
what purpose would Be served by disclosing the" identity of any woman involved in such a case,” And I do not have to tell you that publication
attack is utterly beyond my comprehension, Publi
Recently I moved outside the city Hits; Now *
I'm sorry I didn’t wait until after the mayoralty election.
Feeney deals his punches off the shoulder
while some of his Opposition apparently feels it necessary to dig in alley dirt. Politics is a game. So is football. Dirty players on the field either get their team penalized or are thrown out.
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Marshall plan or any other recovery programs.
Officials of the various governments are just as much concerned as thé average man about how to get enough food to avert severe if not actual starvation, between now and the next harvest. Millions of Europeans are facing suffering from cold as well as
want,
hunger next winter,
Only by providing food and fuel can complete collapse of economic and governmental structure of a number of nations be averted. A month of obserying conditions in Europe and the British Isfes | leads to the conclusion that failure to provide relief could have severé |
repercussions on democracies. There isn't any chance of preventing hunger,
Plenty of folks are going to bed hungry right now. 'Thelr hope.
Is that the bread ration Will nigh be ce further.
recently from 250 to 200 grams,
The German ration is at about the same level, while England, | Belgium and Holland are now on-a basis of around 300 grams daily. | The total amount of Yood varies somewhat and so does the nutritional value because of the variation in rationing of potatoes and |
other vegetables and the availability of fish,
It takes 454 grams to make a pound so the 200-gram French | bread ration is actually somewhat less than a half a pound.
that bread--
Hunger Shapes Political Actions
HOW WELL EUROPE EATS-and probably how well European governments survive the next six months—will depend largely on the |
United States.
This nation has done a grand job already of supplying needed
food, The bumper wheat crop in the
however,
Towa and the corn belt,
This news was delayed because the government crop reporting Service failed promptly to reflect full weather damage to the corn crop. Gen, Clay admits the American prestige—prestige of the western democracies—would suffer a severe blow if it should become necessary to reduce the bread ration in western Germany, administered by the United States, United Kingdom and France, below that in the RusIn other words, this would be an invitation to
sian or eastern zone, the Germans to turn Communist and eat better.
Gen. Clay's real problem is to maintain the calorie count in the American and British zones—they are administered as a single unit— Fhis has been promised the German people, but recently commitments haven't been kept too well. Here again failure would damage the prestige of the United States
at the level of 1550 a day.
| in a land where the stars and stripes flies.
But, compared to any other spot in the world, the USA |
is a land of milk and honey. Possibly we should take another look and cheer up.
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Gen, Clay is optimistic that the German potato crop will relieve the situation. However, early harvesting reports were disappointing. The reduction in the corn crop in the United States was directly by the French undersecretary of agriculture for the latest
reduction in the French bread ration.
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THE MAN ON THE STREET in Europe today is far more concerned about where he will get his next meal than he is about the
Bread riots broke out in France when the day ration was cut |
the main item in the dally food of most Europeans— is | not avaiable for more than one or two meals a day,
United States this year has been the salvation of millions of persons who otherwise would have starved. The below-average corn crop offset the advantage of the wheat | | crop to a certain extent, Gen. Lucius Clay told me in Berlin that hopes for inereasing or even maintaining the current bread ration in the American occupied zone, which he commands as military governor, were dashed when news reached Germany of what was happening to the corn crop in
pe’s No. 1 Problem Is Enough to Eat
in Europe.
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“IL it- should become"
France or England.
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stand adversity.
larger number.
U. S. Has More to Do
is coming from,” he said.
Fitzgerald feels that the fate
miscellaneous group of countries. 1 | tempt 10
of grain Piageraid says Is neousary.
Editor's Note: As President Truman moves to save food for Europe and the plight of the world’s hungry comes close to all Americans, The Indianapolis Times and The Chicago Daily News Foreign Service has sought to learn just what is the food situation
This is the first of several articles by J. 8. Russell, farm editor of the Des Moines Register and Tribune, who has just returned from a month's tour of Europe with a group of Iowa farmers. Mr. Russell will give his observations on Europe's food problems,
Thirty pe per r cent of the, Paris population is estimated to be Communist and Red support in France includes the powerful GCT, the
Communists make up 10 per cent of the Belgian parliament and currently their numbers are on the wane. te
may expect communism to register gains,” told by reliable’ Belgian sources in Brussels, = - Conditions are about the same in the Netherlands. conditions in these two low countries are lar superior to those in
Germany is in a state of almost complete collapse: with little or | no industrial activity in most of western Germany and only the feeblest efforts at economic recovery under the allied occupation. England has been on short rations for eight vears and the strain | is beginning to tell even on a people noted for their ability to with-
Continued lack of proteins, fats and sugar is having its effect on the people not only of England but also of all Europe. Malnutrition is taking its toll of children and older people. Tuberculosis is on the increase in Germany, for instance, and health offi- | | clals expect that it will become more prevalent as scanty diets, composed mostly of bread and potatoes, continue, | While it is natural to look to the United States for help in meet- | | ing this acute food shortage, it should be pointed out that this nation | has done an excellent job in providing food to avert starvation and is continuing to supply large amounts of grain, |- from the United States have not been lacking, although poor planning and “too little and too late” policies have characterized much of our handling of the food problem both at home and. abroad. The world needs between 32 and 33 million long tons of grain (a long ton is 2240 pounds) to avert actual starvation of large numbers of people throughout the world and acute hunger among an even
DR. A. FITZGERALD, SECRETARY general of the International Emergency Food Council, squirmed in his chair in the American Embassy in Paris just a few weeks ago and told the visiting Iowans that he could see only 28 million tons in sight to fill this need, “And as I sit here I'm darned if I can see where the remainder
This total of 28 million tons was to be made up of 13 million tons from the United States, five eath from Canada and Argentina, two each from Australia and Russia and one million tons from a
making available additional IR most of which probably would have to come from the United States. The current food saving program in the United States is an at- | to make available for export this 100 to 125 million bushels The Truman adminis
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Economic | tributing factors.
By J. S. Russell
has set its goal at 570 million bushels of grain for export to Europe. It says 470 million Its program for obtaining the additional 100 million bushels calls for less waste by the American people, less feeding of grain to live- | stock and other measures such as using less grain for making alcohol. Meeting the quota ‘will rot mean that the people of Europe have enough to eat this winter. will continue to be hungry, but they won't starve. away from the danger line of starvation now. It isn't that the United States isn't doing much. It's it is necessary to have more if the job is to be done. All of the European countries with the possible exceptions of Belgium and Switzerland are running out of dollars to buy grain.’ The food shortage in Europe is due to a variety of reasons, The fajlure to recover from the ravages of war is one of the prime causes of the shortage. | Lack; of fertilizer, of machinery, of parts for tractors and farm | implements, of proper sted, of proper manpower—all these are con-
bushels is in sight for export.
Even if the goal is reacHed, they probably Many are not far
Pha current: edly (a Europe is another.”
| | The increased ' population in the United States and British
| occupation zones in Germany has increased the feeding problem.
areas. Add the
Long-Range
Europe.
Exports of grain
situdWon.
The increase comes largely from refugees who preferred the allied zone of Germany to remaining behind the “iron curtain™ when ° Russia took over a part of the Polish Ukraine. Some Germans are leaving the Russian-occupied zone to come into the allied occupied
Baltic and Jewish displaced persons and some
natural increase in population and you have a total of 43,250,000 persons in the western zones or 25 per cent more than when Germany? marched on Poland in 1939.
Problem
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. England probably does the fairest. and most equitable job of
rationing.
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distributing a meager food supply. It isn't possible to get a very good meal in England regardless of how much you pay. In Paris and’ Brussels you can eat quite “well if you are willing td pay for it. In Holland you can eat well in the cities if you pay for it, but on the whole the Dutch do a fair and strict job of
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In the British Isles, slaughtering of livestock is in full swing as farmers lack feed to winter their livestock. . Food conditions vary throughout Europe and even within the same country. Folks nearest the source of food supply always have eaten better than those in the cities in times of food scarcity. That is what is happening in Europe. Farmers and those living in rural communities are eating better than those in cities like London, Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt and Berlin, Breakdown of distribution machinery, black mammoth scale in Germany and France, and instability of the currency in Germany and Franoe have created a very critical food
Recovery of both agriculture and industry should be kept on the ‘i docket for prompt consideration, but as of today the problem that has No. 3 phiority is having enough to eat 16 keep body and soul tagetisersis until another harvest. ‘The next harvest won't solve the problem by any means. It will - be years bors the food uation wil be sirwighiened out in Burope. Much will depend on the supply of ‘next season, but it is certain that food will be critically short for
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motored airliner 1 up flying upside d Capt. Charles explanation for th , The plane, an / flagship, was en r Tex. to Los Ange scheduled flight. Capt. Sisto said went out of co climbing rapidly. struggling to rig! said, it nosed over first half of an ot On outside loop | difficult aerobatic: ecuted successful after the airplane though many pilof ing the maneuvi seldom have been
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" Away Fro In an ordinary pilot starts the m ing upward so the toward the center outside loop is s the plane into a d head is pointed loop's center. Few of the 4¢ fastened their s when the plane be felt themselves tc their seats and | roof of the airshi After the incide ed the plane at where civil aer planned to inspec Miss Kreinheid Moscow, Russia, 1 in broken English “My legs went 1 went downstairs”, None Hur None of the | five members of jured seriously mained in El Pas ical treatment. As passenger: “bounced about compartment, Ca pilot, Capt. Mel I dent observer,”
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plane. .They finally ri ibbout 400 feet abc a few minutes I scheduled landin,
airport. _Capt. Sisto sal flying at 8000 fe its strange acrob adjusted the aut failed to halt th began struggling controls as the a dive. ~ "Everyone ] Charles H. Col D. C., a member man’s air polic among the passe He declined to e on the cause of Lt. W. M. McC
engines stalled, t] speed and then back.” Mrs. W. E. Dal Cal, described passenger cabin were struggling sontrols, “When this h seemed to jun actually they wt she said. “I thot see my husband Clyde Miller, employee at Oak! the passengers w their seats in a as if the world end. People and were flying thro the people we
[2 between the ro torn loose, curtal came down and hinged. “Only a few had their safety saw one boy .ha from his safety
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