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Plucky Boy Only Survivor Os Crash

By ROBERT LILES T’nited Press International NEW YORK Bata, 11, worthed (the snow swirling over New York City from the window of the big plane taking him ,io a family Christmas reunich He didn't know he was ! blessed by fate. Minutes latef he was lying burned and broken in a snow ■ bank cm a Brooklyn street. The > flames from (the burning airliiner ’' lighted his dazed and bleeding ' face. i- ■ :

“Am I going to die.” he murI mured through burned lips. ’ But Stephen was lucky. He was the only survivor of the- -nation’s II worst air Crash. The other 127 [passengers cm two planes died. ' i He, js expected to live. . j Stephen was throw Jrom, the ; broken tail section of the United I Airlines DCB, his clothes flaming J with burning jet fuel. , A policeman heart out the flames ’ and wrapped him in his naiin coat. A woman- called for blankets , which were thrown to her from ’ 1 windows of apartments and another mam held an umbrella over the injured boy to shield him from the snow 'and sleet. “Mommy, Daddy,” he kept saying. “He was in (terrific pain,” Mrs. Dorothy Fletcher ’siatid, "but he had only one complaint.” "My legs are so cold,” she quoted Stephen as saying. He was taken .to Methodist Hospital in a police car and treated for shock. Lt was. found he had ■a broken leg, internal injuries and burns over much of his upper body. He gave his wallet to a doctor ■ and asked him (to call his father. IHe roused again during (treatment ' to. tell doctors his mother was wasting for him at .the airport. j Stephen, of Wilmette, 111., had : been put on the plane Friday ' morning by his father, W. S. jßata, vice president and general 'counsel of the Admiral Corp, ’tiis i sister and mother were -in New i York visiting his .grandparents and 1 were waiting for him at Idlewild . Airport. i Stephen told doctors why he ;never arrived' “I remember looking 'out the plane window at the snow below ; covering the city. Lt looked like a picture out of a fairy book. Then al) of a sudden there was am ex- [ plosion. “The .plane started to fall and people srtarted to scream. 1 held on (to my seat and then the plane crashed. “That's all I remember until I woke up here,” he said.

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Bobby Eichhorn Is Winner Os Bicycle i Bobby Eichhorn, son of Mr. and Mrs. John R. Eichhorn of 275 Park ' Place, got started early on his , Christmas gifts. "This morning, on the “(Jncle Wyn and Ann” shew ' on television station WANE, the young Decatur lad was the recipient of a brand new bicycle. Bobby , had entered a contest by sending in a post card to the show, and < his name was drawn as the lucky winner of the gleaming new bicycle. , Clark Gable Film At Adams Theater The last picture of Clark Cable s now in current release, “It Happened in Naples,” will be seen Sunday and Monday at the Adams theater. Before his recent untimef ly death. Gable had completed the “Misfits,” which will not be released for several months. In “It Happened in Napjes,’’ Gable is seen in a comedy role, the kind that brought him so much popularity. He plays the part of a tough American who goes to Italy to try to adopt his late brother’s child, a cute 9-year-old rascal, portrayed by an amazing Italian lad named Marietto. Sophia Loren is cast as a cabaret singerdancer, who is/rthe boy’s aunt. The Technicolor /photography enhances the beauty/of the gorgeous scdnic backgromuWu — House CoTnmittee Urges Vote Recount WASHINGTON (THPD-, ReptfclP jca>n George O. Chambers today [ appeared to have wan the opening round in his bartitle wiitih Democrat Rep. J. Edward Roush fair Indiana’s sth District House seat in (the 87rtih Congress. Chambers’’ “v i d (tor y” came when a special House elections investigating committee announced Friday it could not determine who won the election—Chambers or Roush—and .urged tbsrt.a recount be made. • Chambers 'holds the certificate of election on the basis of a 12vorte margin. Indiana Secretary of State John Walsh issued the certificate Nov. 15. A congressman who asked, not to be identiified said after the hearing Friday, “possession jte nine-tenths of (the law." Rep. Clifford Davis, D-Term., chairman of ithe committee, said, however, “based upon the vote as taken from the fihal certi&citions filed with the secretary Os state within the period provided by Indiana law, and applying (the correction which the commit tae . staff investigation of the disputed i precincts required. Roush appears i to be (the wjnner.” Davis said he will turn the case’ ‘ over (to (the next House at which 1 time his committee dies. If precedent is followed. Chambers would be asked (to step aside when the new members of the House are sworn in. The House then would receive the report and decide whether to direct (the regular House Administration Committee to investigate. The next step, according to tradition, would be to scat Cham-

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►ere without prejudice to efittier ■ontestent imtjl ithe dispute is ‘ etiUed. The aiegutar committee would | letenmtoe whether an itrevestii®aton was warranted. An aiffiirm®Ive degafan would launch an eximtoafttan which likely would last wo to three months. If the tore i t'giaitian indioajed fraud, the nore than 213,000 -baltota would be waited taiSf'in, >a iproeediKe wthCch rcuJd 'take tour to six weeks, acxrding to estimates there. Dorman Brcithenton, chief clerk ?f the Jay County Cjnoulli Court, ►was subpoenaed to testify and ap teamed after ithe heanung get unierway, but was not called. Staff tavertiga’.ar Rtohaad E. 3’ltere testified that the originail tentStis-toxn of vot’ag in the disfiled Nov. 9, showed a 12-vote vicwry far Chambers. Later, he =aM, cuncuit count clerks subrntoted corrections Which reduced Oharnbens’ lead to $ votes. A .recount of absentee ballots in one precinct of Jefferson Twp. of Snamt County swung the soeie in Roush’s favor and put him two cotes .ahead of Chambers. O’Hare said.

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