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to make the flight. Two Armv i ' 'r ' " "
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month earlier in a powerful f 1 Vv1.
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18. 1962
By LYLE C. WILSON
United Preu International
WashinKton-IUPII-The Inves
tor s Union of America, Inc.,
(1UA) is one week old and
ii. mi ii mm aire any lias
tS- C 1 o b t ained ag-
terested mem
ber! in 17
slates. 1UA or
ganizers con
fidently pre
dict that mem
bership will
expand quick
ly to all SO
outfit could be
come a political powerhouse,
comparable in congressional
and election day muscle to
the AFL-CIO.
IUA was chartered last
week bv the state of Okla
homa. It is a non-partisan,
non-profit organization with
out membership dues, assess
ments or salaried officers.
Membership is limited to
American citizens with an in
vestment in the nation's eco
nomic system in the form of
life insurance, savings ac
counts, stocks or bonds.
Steve Stahl of Oklahoma
City, who is one of the or
ganizers, estimates that about
60 million citizens could
qualify.
War on Inflation
The IUA objective is to ob
tain a better return on their
money for the savers of the
United States. IUA proposes
to get off a barrage of letters,
telegrams and petitions to
President Kennedy and mem
bers of Congress. IUA's initial
announcement explained:
"Members must pledge to
write and to keep on writing,
demanding an end to unwar
ranted federal interference
and government competition
with America'i traditional
free enterprise system. Mem
bers also are requested to sup
port Congressional candidates,
without regard to party affili
ation, who believed in limit
ed, constitutional government
and free enterprise."
More specifically, IUA
hopes to direct its mail bar
rage against all government
policies likely to continue the
currency inflation which in
20 years has rotted the U.S.
dollar from 100 cents to a pur
chasing power of 46. IUA is
against current proposals for
a tax reduction on grounds
that it would Increase the fed
eral deficit and, therefore, be
acutely inflationary.
Stahl said that the IUA ob
jectives would benefit all sav
ers but that its primary con
cern was the small investor,
especially those who have
been retired or who are near
retirement.
"These are the thrifty,
hard-working people," he
said, "who have scrimped
and saved in order to be able
to take care of themselves in
their old age. These people
have lost more than half of
the purchasing power of their
retirement dollars through in-
Neuberger Asks
Revision of Law
Washington -HOT- Sen. Mau
rine B. Neuberger (D-Orc.)
called Tuesday for revision of
a shipping law which she said
gives Canadian lumber a com
petitive advantage over U.S.
west coast lumber.
Mrs. Neuberger said the
Jones Act., which requires
that water-borne shipments
between the U.S. west and
east coasts be carried in U.S.
vessels, lets Canadians save
S8 to $10 per thousand board
feet in transportation charges
to east coast markets.
She called for "limited re
peal" of the Jones Act to
make western lumber compe
titive with Canadian Lumber
by reducing marketing costs.
Unusual Vase Shapes
Needn't Sfoo Washing
New York-IOT-The design
of some vases and flower con
tainers makes it rather hard
to get rid of the decaying
leaves or steins that often
stick to the sides.
Hercs an easy way out: fill
th container half full of
warm, soapy water. Add a
handful of carpet tacks, and
then shake the vase vigorous
ly. Rinse it out and the prob
lem is solved.
INSIDE JOB
Raleigh, N.C.-WPP-Five pris
on inmates and two outside
"contact" men were charged
Tuesday with counterfeiting
and selling driver licenses.
Authorities said the phony li
censes were made on a prison
duplicating machine.
flation caused primarily by
fiscal irresponsibility in the
management of our federal
government."
Savers United
If IUA spreads, as predict
ed, to all SO states, it is likely
to attract some political at
tention. This is an effort to
organize on the basis of mu
tual pocketbook interests mil
lions of citizens who now are
divided in their allegianca
among various political pres
sure groups and, therefore,
often are working politically
against each other.
For example: Millions of
these savers are enlisted in
big labor, the AFL-CIO; oth
er millions are in nianage
ment. The hope of IUA Is that
the common interest in pre
venting further rotting of
their hoarded dollars will
bring these divergent groups
together for mutual protec
tion. That would appear to be
unlikely, the dividing lines
being almost insurmountable.
But the pocketbook is the
powerhouse of American poli
tical issues. IUA might bring
it off. If so, there will be a
new trend in national politic
- a conservative trend.
First Civilian Made
California-Hawaii
rip 35 Years Ago
San Francisco (UPIl Thirty-
five years ago this month Pi
lot Ernie Smith made one of
the most outstanding crash
-landings in aviation history.
Smith's crash landing; on
Molokai in the Hawaiian Is
lands, went into the record
' books for one reason-he was
the first civilian to fly from
California to Hawaii.
Smith made his flight in
slightly more than 25 and a
half hours from Oakland,
' Calif. He ran out of gas over
'Hawaii, and Smith, his navi
' gator and the plane piled into
San Queniin Guards
; Said Suspended
San Francisco IUPIi Two
. Alcatraz guards have been
" suspended for 30 days as a re
sult of last month's escape of
, three bank robbers from the
federal penitentiary in San
Francisco Bay, it ha3 been
' reported.
However, prison officials at
Alcatraz and in Washington
refused to confirm or deny
"the report, published in the
.San Francisco News-Call Bul
. letin.
The convicts who escaped
the night of June 11-12 were
John William Anglin, 32, and
his brother, Clarence, 31,
both of Montgomery, Ala.,
and Frank Lee Morris, 35,
New Orleans.
Authorities believe they
drowned
reach the
the treacherous waters of the
bay, but no bodies have been
found.
Police Round Up
Kennedys' Horses
West Barnstable, Mass.-ttPP-
As it. was, Smith was the
first civilian to make this trip,
and the first man to fly it in
a single-engined plane. Smith
says tile plane was second
hand, and hardly in first-class
condition.
He might have beaten the
Air Corps if it hadn't been
for a reluctant navigator.
Smith planned to leave a day
before the Air Corps team,
and he was in the air over the
Golden Gate when the naviga
tor decided he wanted out.
He said that the man held a
monkey wrench over his head
and threatened to "knock my
brains out" if he didn't turn
around and go home. In the
face of such obstacles, Smith
headed back.
Thorny Mishap
But the pilot was determin
ed to press on regardless, and
a month later he enlisted the
aid of Emory Bronte, cur
rently a sugar company exec
utive in Honolulu. In July,
1927 the pair rumbled down
a rutted little airstrip in Oak
land and aimed west.
Twenty-five hours and 36
minutes later they ran out of
gas in a dense rainstorm over
Hawaii. When they crashed
on Molokai the plane was de-
their efforts to monshod, but smith and
mainland through : Bronte walked away unin
jured.
"The only injury," Smith
relates, "occurred when Em
ory backed Into a thorn
bush."
Smith holds a citation In
the name of the President of
the United States, awarding
him the Distinguished Flying
Cross in commemoration of
hie flitfh! H rptirpH from
The New Frontier merged , Trans WorId Airwavs as an
with the old for three hours account executive in 1958
Tuesday as policemen play
ed cowboy to round up four
horses belonging to the fam
ily of President Kennedy.
It took police and stable
hands three hours to find and
capture a mare and three
ponies and return them to the
stable here where they are
kept for use by the Kennedy
family during summer vaca
tions at nearby Hyannis Port.
The mare is owned by form
er Ambassador Joseph P. Ken
nedy, the President's father.
The ponies belong to Atty.
Gen. Robert F. Kennedy.
IDENTIFIES VANDALS
Washinnton- ilIPli Rep. Adam
Clayton Powell said Tuesday
the vandals who stoned his
villa in Puerto Rico Monday
were members of the same
"croup of fanatics" who one
tried to assassinate former
President Harry S. Truman.
The New York Democrat said
he was sure it was also the
same group whose members
loosed a volley of bullets in
the House of Representatives
in 1954. wounding several
congressmen.
FIRST FLIGHT Ernie Smith, the first civilian to fly the
Pacific Ocean from the mainland to Hawaii, is shown in the
upper photo in the cockpit of his plane at Oakland, Calif.,
prior to the historic flight on July 14, 1927. Smith, 69, a
retired airline executive, is shown in the lower photo ex
amining the compass he used. He was accompanied on the
trip by navigator Emory Bronte. The 25-hour flight came
to an end when they ran out of gas over Hawaii and crashed
into a tree on Molokai Island. (UPI)
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