Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 48, Number 56, Decatur, Adams County, 8 March 1950 — Page 1

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15 DIE AS AIRLINER CRASHES INTLHOUSE

Worst Storm 01 Winter In Midwest Area <• ws^swaawasmskv-,;:»<»Mi«»»onrtßwwijrnr'. •»*r» > io*.wwß» Mighty Blizzards In Midwest, Dust Ranging Eastward Chicago. March*. fUUi - rhe winter's WMJft-ttsrrm flung might, billiard, across the mid weal today and raised the groateM dull storm clare the IMu'n Prom the Canadlkn border emu a almost to the Rio Grande. high wind, with *IM«h to 1»O mt lee *h hour lasheil cities and farm. The northern anowatorm hurdle I the Mississippi river and plutu-ed <a*twardleavtng the Dakotas. Ne ■ranks. lowa and Minnesota atsf-. Wing under its audden blow _____ p. 8. weather torecaater a* IScago «a*d the xtorm would dim owali aa it pushed toward the Atisotle seaboard. A towering “darter" ranged east ward across Texas and Oklahoma, it fanned prairie tires and earned damage estimated In the hundreds of thousand, of dollar. In the parched Texas panhandle, a newspaper editor said “this might helbe worth diaaster ever to stnl," Hie Texas north plain, ." - . Aa earthquake added variety to the. weather map A sharp. single shock rm ked the San Francisco Hat area lart night Anxious r**l- * dents flooded police and newspaper hoards with calls,.bul there were no’feporia of damage. At Minneapolis. a Northwest Air lines two-engined Martin 2"2 sirHarr, struck a flagpole in .'he hlirx ard and plowed into a house TefT passengers and three <■)«* MR Iters died in the- crash Two small children perished in the flaming wreckage of the honte. and ) man died of a "heart attack a, he rushe 1 to the scene. - '. . . -.. . The blltzafd 'struck fiiwa with such ’fury"'that even srfow plows —^auAcMa&MasuKlbs -high »av 5 I'lie Dakota, were-virtually Isol —a*ed irom+he rest ot ttiw-wuodd. '■|xf» five wude'ntv gridT Amf<itAr“ i«ts? marooned in the storm, spctrf the night in the .school jyiii|iaste,n at Blem-o*. la' " ”■ S hool bus driver Art Brown oi ■ Bromuiw.- la . pul in at lhe. Wool j Purr county poor farm with hi, - « ; pa cii.mi> . I it Sioux t'ity. la an I <■ . rus'ed stray team of horses took shelter -ain.'J. A'., Washtairra's front porv-i. He 'ried to "shod" them away but they refused to budge At lluskervllle. a suburb of Lin - coin.. Neb.. tile wind was so strong that firemen couldn’t open the firehouse door. They answered an alarrn IB private cars and returned •<> find" the garage wall caved in ou the fire trucks Great Northern. Northern Pacific and S«O line railroad traffic was paralyzed in the Dakotas. and conimenial plane travel was at a stand still. — The storm struck so rapidly that I 'Tara To rw, SI,)

,-Neighbor Tells Shocking Tragedy Os Plane Crash

< Editor's not e- John Leighton, a .neighbor. was the first person to reach the.scene when a Northwest • Airlines .plane crashed into the —hiinie of Mr ahd Mrs. Frank Doughty. killing their two children and 13 persons aboard the craft.) BY JOHN LtIOHTON i As Told hr Tnited Press) . Minneapolis. Marek. S.—ftTFl—: Il was shocking- the most terrible ■ Tragedy t have eveT seen I was .on the telephone when the plane roared over our house It was *0 low that the noise seemed to shake the entire kitchen. *■/ A second later there was an awful explosion A blinding flash lighted the whole neighborhood I saw the Doughty house in flames from a window We live practically across the alley from them. I tried to telephone the police and I didn't get an an*wer I turned the phone over to my father to try rhe fire department. L ran toward the fire. I found Mrs Haughty lying in the I snawttr her -yard, She-had a.had: cut on her right arm and blood wbsj gushing from a wound In her hand She saw mg and screamed: My babies, my babies!

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Slripkov Sentenced To 15YenrTenn Guilty Os Spying For U.S. Legation Mk Mikhail Hhlpkov. Who told the U. 8. alate department ot the torture methods aaad behind the Iron curtain, today was found guilty of - swt«« for the American iegaHoUShipkov ami four other Dulgar | f iaaa were sentenced to terms of from four Io 15 years. Hblpkov himself drew a 15-year , sentence and was deprived of his civil rights for 18 year, , Shlpkov. 3». a former translal , or In the I’, ft legation, wrote a long (taper made public by the SQfte department last Saturday | It told how communist countries > extorted confessions from, tone cant persons by Torture." Jlkka Tomova Hindova. 3J. for mer telephone operator at the I 8 legation, was wwntenr-rd to 12 years and deprived of civil rights for IS years. Yesterday she testified that she received money, nylons. cigarets and whisky from t' 8. Minister lionaid Heath for "spying for the United Stales " Stephan Kratunkov was sent enced to Id years and loss of civil rights fur 12 years. Nukola Zm-. nov wa, sentenced to six year, and eight mrvuths. and deprived of civil rights for eight yea). Vasal! Male rev-was’ sentemed to four years, five, months and.l.o daf ! . Imprisonment. All five defendants liad pleaded guilty. Their counsel asked tbe court for mercy, claiming extenuating circumstam etc The presiding justice. Stephan Veliihkov. sail! he considered the seiiieitce, •ewee'llUMly k-nleut and light." Defense attorneys, following the pattern of other Iron curtain espionage trial, admitted their clients were kuilty nf serious niineii but heggr-d ' IWinency <m grounds of extenuating. < ircutn ■ stances. .. —. | shlpk’n 3!> - was a translator in; tile Anierh-ini legation in Sekla i ■--•Hu . and his.,< <> detemhibi* .»• ;re accused of espionage In behajf of Th>- I rtlied .'Hcte, ami lirititln. lao-t weekend the V S aiati" department issuml an as iTwrw Tw rwae PSvet Overhaul City Well ‘ln Northwest Area Water tin ; (•♦r ib»‘ »u|>ervlMitH> "■ «*nuinevr lUlph R‘«h> are nunplEiiiijz ih»‘ o' < rhHuling of one of the city water wella located in the northwest pail of bwatur. Th* caning wan removed and several large ‘mb < found in i : e pipes. Completely new fittings hav? ;»een sunk into th? well to a dep:’i »d mor? thaji I*’ l !»*«•< The output WM reiluicd (ruin im>rr than gallons to 63 gallons of waler anu after an examination if was foun L that the-old pipe, had worn out Hoop said the work would be com ? plefed today and th? pumping • a ! I partly would be Iwu-k to normal by j nikht ~ —-c - -—- L

"I just kissed them good night. Then ■it happened Please save ihe in! They can't be gone!" Another fellow came along and helped me carry Mrs. Haughty to a neighbor's house across the alley. By that tlpie a crowd seas gathering Ambulances came along and one took Mrs. Doughty to the hospital - f The Doughty bouse was still standing but flames were shooting out of every window. Then the whole thing collapsed before our eyes. Nobody in the house had a chance The fire was so hot you couldn't get near it. There wasn't a piece of the plane big enough to recognise I couldn't' tell whether It wai a big plane or a little plane It was w» ird how the whole i wreckage well, almost all of It—was confined to the lot of the Doughty house Rut little tiny ; ideces of hot metal fell all over the neighborhood They're still trying to get the bodies out. It'll probably take a ; long time. J It's iotwh to see something like | this hapten to a good friend and 1 neighbor

Senate Group Hears McCarthy On Red Charges Senator Declares Woman Delegate To UN l> Communist Wshrlngton. March (UP) — Sen Joseph R McCarthy. R.. Win.. testified today that a U. ft woman representative to the United Nations has been affiliated with 2k communist front organisations McCarthy, first witness before a senate foreign relations sub-com mittee Investigating his <-harges of communists in the state department. identified the woman aa Dorothy Kenyon. He said she is Hated In thw government registry as U. 8. member of the commission on the status of women and of the UN commis akmefs of the economic and social council He also promised to discuss later what he described as U ft ambaasadoost.larger Philip Jessup’s "unusual affinity "T’y". for cornmuaisl causes.” The hearing began with a heated verbal battle Chairman Millard R Tydings. 11. Md. challenged McCarthy to bring formal charftes .. .nil.-; a ’high ranking state department officer who, McCarthy •.Mid tampered with personnel record, to shield a "flagrant homosexual" front discharge ' McCarthy had made the charges In a senate, speech. After g fivmlnute argument, the dispute was resolved when Tydlags asked McCarthy to tell the subconvmUl ee at the. next hearing whether the high st.|fe department official Is to tee made the subset of a special <-a\<- ’ and can be Identified at a. closed session.’ McCartlfy has charged that there are at least 57 communists on the -tjite departineht'd payroll. - He listed among those organisa j t ion, tlt. ngnonsr council of A meri-. i. an-Soviet friendship, the Aniert- < an. Ru«,ian institute, the confer-i-Hee of pan-Ainerican -demooracy. t-)te (Hdilical. prisoners' bail fund . omm;-!.tin- con-umers' union and the congress .of American wm mej) F . M.t'artb) (.stifled that Mrs. Dean Ai b.-tn Was listed In records of the houo- unAnierhan activities eOtumUlee as a sponsor of the con gr< ,s of American women. And he said that I' S. ambassador at large Philip Jesaup ‘was also a sponsor of the American Russian institute " McCarthy told the committee that the congress of American women ■ Twrp T« I'aue Blai Christina Werling Dies This Morning Funeral Services Friday Afternoon ■ Mrs Christina Werling. SS. a l lifelong resident of Adams county, [and widid, of August Werling-, died i suddenly al 8:311 o'clock thia morn ■ Ing at her home, 333 North Thirteenth street. She had not been HI and death was attributed to a heart attack. # Horn in Preble township Nov 2. 1867. she was a daughter of John and Catherine Schmitt. She Was married Oct. 18. 1483. to August Werling. who died Oct. 23. I*4*. The family moved to Decatur Hi I*2*. --' ■ She was a member of the Zion Lutheran church. Surviving are two daughters. Mrs. Herman Dlerkee of Decatur and Mrs. Paul Germann of Preble, and two grandchildren. One brother and three sisters preceded her in death. ” " Funeral services'will be held at 1:30 p m Friday at the home and at 2 o’clock al the Zion Lutheran church, the Rev. Edgar P; Schmidt officiating Buriat will be In the Decatur cemetery The body will be removed from the Zwlck funeral home to the residence, where Mends may call after 2 p m Tbura-1 day The casket will not be opened) at the church WEATHER Cl* Arm* aaH maar* I* t ~ tonight except ” anew flurrloa continuing near Lake Michigan. Thursday fair and rather cold. Low tonight *l2 above north. 12-1* south. High Thue* day 202 S north to near SO south.

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Coplon, Gubitctev 5 To Appeal Verdict Fair Scheduled Far SaatMca Thursday New York. March (oP|— Valenttn (tobltrhev—this eutMHry** first convicted Russian spy—gtoodo Uy nursed a toothache la jail today while Ms attorney planned aa appeal WoMtehev. M. who eatoeed thia country to I*4* to serve the Ualted Nations and who continued to draw his tag-free UN salary of **.«* a year until his eonvietioa aa a spy. was In the federal house of detention. His codefendant, government girl Judith Coplon. was held temporarily In the eity hoase of detention They will be sentenced tomorrow by federal judge Sylvester Ryan on the guilty verdict returned fegr ft jury of six men and six housewives yesterday Gubilchev faces a maximum iektehce of Tt years tn arteon—the same sentence given Robert Vogeler. American business man. In Hungary ou a spy cbarge-r---and *20.000 tine Mias Coplon fatwa a maximum of 2.’. years In prists and *IO.OOO fine. Abraham L Pomeraats. attorney for Gubltchey. and Samuel Newburger. Mina Cuploa'a chief defease t-onnsel. said they would set the bull rotting Immediately for aa appeal of the verdict They will seek the release of their clients on ball. The jury convicted both tlwbftcbev and Mi-- Coplon on a conspiracy count. It further convicted her on a count charging that she actually attempted to pass document, to Gubltchev. and convicted him on another count of actually attempting to receive U. 8. secrets. The *(4 question whs why the ; jufy convicted Mt«a Coplon on the ; fourth count of the Indictment , charging her with attempting to pass government secrets to Gublt chev on or about March 4. I*4B, but acquitted her on the second count, which slab accused her of attempting to pass the same secrets to the same man on the same date? A woman juror told, the United Press.JJtuft thir tfe* which occupied most of tfee_rix hour- and M minutes the Jury spent tn actual deliberation of the ease She said the time was spent in harmonious consideration of the precise "legal aspects" of the- case and that the jury never disagreed on guilt or Innocence. U S. atioriey, said they believed (Tuva Ts Fa<e Mai Auto License Bureau Closed At Noon Hour Mrs. Charles Lose manager of the Decatur auto license bureau, stated today that, effective at odfe. the bureau will be closed during lhe niHin hour dally, from 11:30 a. m until 1 p.m. Easier Sell Drive Will Open Thursday Adams County Goal Is Set At $1,200 The goal for the 17th annual Easter Seal campaign, which gets underway in Adams coanty and in the- Mate Thursday, ts *1.200. according to Carl Gerber, chairmaa of the drive, who made the announcement today, following the first meeting of hie committee chairmen and officials of the Adams county Society for Crippled Children. Gerber declared that a higher goal waa sM for thia year’s campaign than ever before because of the constantly Increasing need for assistance to crippled children and adults. - He pointed up the number ad requests which are. annually increasing foe the service of the . organisation, and It la only possible to carry on the program "with more and more money" , needed for these services and facilities | The Adame county chapter is an I affiliate of the Indiana Society for Crippled Childrea and Adults. lac., one of the more than 2.000 member units of the National Society for Crippled Children and Adults Easter Seals help finance not only’ the aervicee of the local and slate wletles but also national programs to benefit the cerebral palsied aad other neglected disabled groups

Prosecution Fib Right To jiuoy tvioence .-. vy~-v*e-tm(3vh.-w..-.Jww«wt»uWwraSCTw».-»w.w»aro«.-M».» <w ---1 ’ To ExomiM Medical * - Evidence Used For i Sande/s 1 Manchester. N.H.. March «. — ' (I’Pl- The proeecntloa today won k the right to examine medical evl • donee on,which Dr. Hermann N. Sanders's defease bases Ito claim that his patient waa dead when air was injected In her arm After a courtroom clash between prosecution and defense defense ■ counsel agreed to surrender a dls- , aected section of Mrs. Abbie C. . Zbrroto's arm voto. It was Into [ IMa vein that Dr. gander aUeged- . ly pumped 40 cubic centimeters , to aa effort to speed Utt i death of the cancer-doomed ,woi aapn. Reperior judge Harold E. Wes ( eott roceasud court to give defense counsel Robert P. Booth time to bring the veto section to court The Mate’s demand for the evidence came as prooeculor, tried to shake the story of Harvard rathologtst Richard Ford, the *tar defense medical witneu. Dr Ford testified prevtously -that his ex amination of the Mrs. Borroto did not die of the air Injectlo*. He Mood thto ou puncture ' woaads aad discovery of a blood 1 elot to the vela. ' Atty.-Goa. William L. Phinney ‘ dom.aaded to know hie two pro- ’ eecatkm medical experts were not arm a chance to examine lhe vMn, and Dr. Ford said be hadn't agreed to give the state everything , he discovered when, he performed j a belated autopsy for lhe defense r Chief defense Atty. Loul, E Wyman rose and said the state had , made no request tor lhe vein which had been left at the home pf his associate. Booth "There's a request for It right , now. ’ Ftilnfiey snapped; atid BtoiUi' ■greed to produce the vein at court aa soon aa poasible ao state ex iTwro Ts Paes Mat City Council In Session Tuesday Discussion Is Held Here On Two Fairs Membera of the city council Tuesday were in a carnival spirit, for the business of the evening in eluded discussions on two fairs, pins a movie shown by a Fort Wayne firm trying to sell the couucilmen on the idea of buying a street sweeper, and a Fort Wayne contractor, trying to sell the coun ctlmen on the idea of the ad van tags of a new housing project in the city of Decatur. All represent.) Uvea were favorably received City flrb chief Cedric Fisher wa* granted permission to tiring to a carnival the flrM week In June to augment the state volunteer fltesmen’s association convention, which la being held in Decatur June j aad I*. Though the convention lasts but those two days, permis- _ sion was granted to hold the ear-' ' nival on Liberty Way for the eu ►.tire week The council also reached agree 1 ment with the newly-formed Decatur fair board pertaining to holding the fair on the downtown ' .rtreeto and in Hanna-Nuttman 1 park. . ........... Elmer Korte, of Korte Bros. a- ' lout with other representatives ot the firm, a Fort Wayne firm selling Mghwny and street equipment.-pre- ’ sented a movie to the inemß»rs de 1 scribing the advantages of the ' “model 4t>" a weeper which, mem- ‘ bers agreed, does everything U'nittog his talk to but a few minutes following the movie Korte pointed np the savings gained through the decrease In msnual labor, rental, and minimum operating and main tenance -laEST HAROD IL Nl O tainlng costa No action waa taken by the council _ — - Ralph Shtrmeyer and his aaeocJatee presented the members of the connctl. rtty engineer Ralph Roop and city light and power sup 1 ertotendent L. C Pettibone with blueprints of the proposed Grant tTWvw Ts Pane gtat

Airliner Hits Flagpole During Blizzard; Kills Tm Children In Home

Amnhl Street Em - I* Two LoatioM . Carnival Features On City's Streets i If the 10M rendos of the Dec|lur street fair suffers some from a split personality, ft is nothing t,<> become alarmed about. There will be no need for psychoanalysing the situation: patience is an that will be required. For ft was agreed Tuesday by Mayor John Doan, members of the city council and members ot the Decatur Street Fair and Agriculture Show, Inc., that the carnival features of the street fair would be held on the downtown streets ot Decatur and the agricultural exhibits would be held at Hanna-Nutt-man park. The newly created fair board had sought, through cgpperatlon with the eity. to erect permanent buildings' Jn Hanna-Nuttman park and move, the fair to that bK-stlou A propoewi. drawn by rtty altori hey Robert 8. Anderson, upon the recommendation ot tbe board of i public work* and safety, was agreed | to by the fair board when presented to them at Tuesday', council meet y h The proposal states that the city I would furnish the land, the fall & board win canM’irtftt tiw bußditigg t kbun turn them over to the city who will furnish and maintain utlll . ties, sewerage and drainage R W i'ruden. Glenn Hill and Carl .'Gerber, representing the fair board. 'were present at the meetihg. the_j>rojecL with [ the council member. It. was agreed that the erection of the buildings on the proposed fair site would en * n ,hr ll '“ n four months Dtaafning before fair ritm-T air ir -wax ’ suggesredr “Bird agreed to. to have lhe fair in two sections. H 'SAS&es.iphaslzed that thia would be only for Utl, year the fair hoard w® arrange future book • Ing, for the larger site for" the future fine aspect of the proposal was that the fair board gets first call on the use of the buildings: other organisations will be able to ar range time allotments with the city wh- n the Jalr board is not using the buildings Airto Workers Union Rejects lewis' Loan Any Outright Gifts Will Be Accepted '.. Detroit. March V. <UPi - The C!l> i'nite-1 Auto Workers today •urned down John L. Lewis' ofteof a Ji.tWn.Oou loan to help tinante. the Chrysler strike but said that any outright gifts would be accepted. —- ; UAW president Walter j*. Retx’ber rejected the official loan with thanks tn a letter to the United Mine Workers chief. ■‘Because rtf the general con!y—buttons oC UAW members In plants other than. Chrysler aad of organisations outside tbe UAW.". Reuther wrote. "Yve have not found it necessary to borrow money to sup-: port the Mrike and we do not anticipate that we shall " However. Reuther told Ijewis that "we would be happy of course -wr accept on behalf - -of Chry-to* striker* in our union any outrtgat contribution you or your organization may wish to make” Reuther slid any contributions would go for "direct relief of Chrysler striker* and their famines “We take this occasion to salute •he miner* on their splendid victory.'' Reuther wrote Lewi*. _ The CAWa answer to the mine worker*' offer came aa the Chrysler Mrike went into Its **v«a'b week The UAW threatened to mcrease their demands “week by week” utrrtt <- rtmtrkrt' ft slgifed Heather told a mass, meeting ot 20 one striker* yemerdav thM,th*' union would'"build brick-by brick" »TWvw Te Pwei Mat

familyolß Die In Flash Fire In Cabin L - Four Children Die As Home Destroyed By Exploding Stove Sandy. Ore. March (UP)— ’ A family of eight perished early ’ i today In a flash fire that destroyed itiietr cabin st Wilsoa MM. 11 1 ' miles south of here I I Burned to deet-h before they had f a chance to escape Were Leroy A. ' I-udwig. 34; his wife. Wands, about ' 32. and their six children. Rebecca. 15: Jerry. 13; Janice. 10; Michael. 1 7; Ronnie. 2. and ' Cathie, five 1 months r CaH Wilson, owner nt the-mill . 1 told authorities he noticed the fire at 115 ix.ni when he was awakened r ' by the barking af.kfat Aof. He said * he looked out a window of bls home ,f to see the Ludwig cabin In flames ■ lie said the entire interior seemed ** to be afire with flames shooting out *’ the windows After a vain attempt to "rescue y . the family Wil-on summoned the r | Sandy fire department, and shots *•’ iff, deputies ? ' , "it all happened so fast there was 1 ino chance to do a thing toward [rescue.' Wilson said II I Wilson said an overheated stove r apparently caused the'fire. Ludwig had been eiujrtoyed at the ■' mtit: The Ludwig cabtn wax TOle or ' 14 scattered around the mill for ’- workers and their families' Four Children Dis L. ...Nuw*rk. .D*L.. Max..»»—( UP C. ; J»O’. U r JHMii .chJldretL. wore Juinisd. to death in their bed, last night ' when an exphxllng oil stove art J fire to their frame home J Bernard Coursey, one. his broth(Turn T» Page Three) I: — j Moose Lodge Home | Robbed Os $1,300 Report Cash Stolen From Cash Drawer For the second ttme in a little J more than two months a burglary' of the Moose lodge home was reported to eity police The’ burglary , which occut-red’ during lhe business meeting of the lodge members Tuesday evening, netted approximately *l,ion taken from the cash drawer in the barroom 7' I The door had been locked prior | 40 Xll£— '. stairs for their meeting When they I returned to the har the door wax' still locked: but once inside of '- -f+clals of the lodge discovered the 1 theft -from the cash drawer. A similar robbery took place during the night of January 2 ot this year when 3837. J!? 1 w®r=rMmrts 1 tfre investigating ’the I latest thvft are disclosing no fur-p ther details concerning Taesday night’* burglary. but state they i are "tracking down" several leads .

<Rev I) B Gehres. Pleasant Mills Baptist Church) r i - ' - - ~ ... - "What Men Need Most” 1 c .. .. • ■-. .... ■ -a=—- ' ■•. •- ■'Wisdom is the principal thing: therefore get wisdom and with all tliy getting get. understanding ' Proverbs I True wisdom Is a gift of Rod to man yer We are commanded to get it liecause God gives it to theme who labor for it We mar not he able to be great masters of it but we should he true Rivers of ft The greatest of all wisdom is the fear of God We need to pray for thia wisdom and give diligence tn the use of all appointed mean* to attain it The Apostle Peter said we should ' grow ir, grace and fa the knowledge of our Lord and Kavteer Jeeas Christ » The God of our salvation hath_J>erf<-ctgd the plan wherebv He purposes Tor Us to be reconciled unto Himself ignorance of God s plan will not avail, and is Inexcusable tor us hi thia land of oppor tunltles We are held accountable before Him tor our willingness te team and know Hie plan Paul tn tmrtrwcrtng Ms son In the faith. Timothy, said. "For this is good and acceptable In the sight j of God our Savtoar. Who will have all men te he saved; and to come unto the knowledge of truth." il Tim ’ 3.41

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Bccow*as Funafo I Pyro For 13 On Board tig Plane Miuuuapolis. Miaa.. Mar. *-—• (UP> — A twia-uugUtod air Um ~ enwhad Into a house aad killed 1* persona abort ly after it Mrnck a flagpole while trying .to toad to a rmritiK blitiard An 2-yaar-old boy and his 10-year-old sinter died to their crib) as the plane exploded, igulttoc their twowtory frame home into a funeral pyre for them and tbe 13 ■ IX-M—. -1 Mi maaal nai kttMß*Wg~lFft. ~t tWlTil the ship The children burned to death as thejr mother screamed for help and their father tried to hoist a ladder to their room The desperate attempt to save them tailed when the house collapsed onto the wreck of the plane A l«th victim of tb«. accident was counted when an elderly man dlext while rushing toward ths burning house The plane buried itself In the earth beneath the ■jtoufc'. emrrmr- ~- tng those aboard even as they burned, I Early today, only one complete l and badly-chirred body had been, recovered. A crane was biought t np to lift the gable of the house from where It liad fallen onio the “J. plane... "We'rw finding only bit* ot flesh • down there.* a worker said. "It 1 doesn’t look like well find anything big enough to be ro-ogniie-t aa being pari of a human body " The plane crashed at 8:62 p m . as lashed the eity. Flaming fragment, from the < sash igni.ed the two houses - i either side Hundreds of volunteer* jotiyed police and ftremet. t, vfirhttmr the ftanrrs Despity—the—-neir-zero void and raging rtortn. .3.000 persoh, jammed lhe streets of the upper-middle <lasa neighborhood to watch The plane Northwest Airiiner-’ [ flight 307" from Washington to • Winnepeg. had made <fhe“attemj>t I to land at Wohl-Chamberlain ait- ; port hero but. the swirling snow l auaed pilot Donald B. Jones. Minneapolis. to lose the landing pattern." oVicials said_ The control tower ordered him to swing around for another part at the field i As he pulled up for a new try. I the plane's wing struck the flag- ' pole at the Fort Snelling military cemetery about a mile from the? airport . _r._„.. . Tbe Ito-fool pole tore two-thirds of the way through the wing between. the outboard engine art.l " the ,wing tip The pole was hem. ) almost double Chief inspector Dal Benham pf ‘ Northwest Airlines said Jone, CTwro Ts Peas Twa) Form Banquet Ticket Deadline Is Friday Tire deadline fps sale of th-kets for the annual farm achievemen t Imnquet has been for Fridi-v [evening The banquet and m«etin.: will be held at the Decatur nigh sr-hooi Monday evening at *:3e.Jt’ ctock