Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 5 December 1940 — Page 5

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Bad Weather Is Blamed in WAP PLEA FOR Airliner Crash Killing Eight) TAR EXTENSION

| Commissioners to Demand March 1 Deadline;

| % di > id x 1 Jong iyo ff were xOV tc e TE \v 3 J . & : oy = ; «| P. Schricker, Senators er Phil-jman. ;

: He arin wd : J 2p ! lips of New Albany, minority floor] They will vioet if i Democrats Back 'Hatch Act’

the next leader; Mark Sunderland of Mun-|{S¥ Weeks to draft details of thelr cie, minority caucus chairman:|. To Relieve Is 10/$100,000-2-Year Limit to ~ Be Asked for Hoosier

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Lawyers Wonder Who ‘Name Bi-Partisan State

Charles Bedwell of Sullivan; Walter noe Chamber of New Castle; Walter Misery of COLDS gw‘ UQUID A 4 4 8

VeFmillion of Anderson; Reps. Winfield K. Denton of Bvansville, mi- TS nority floor leader in the lower NOE, hors,

Official Inquiry Awaited in Chicago Tragedy; Stew-

se COUGH DROPS °

. are on their way to Britain.

- maximum of 3200 horsepower, more

* Mr. Haizlip said they are the best

‘ pressed his views while discussing

Takes Time Out to Chat With Turner While FerryIng Britain-Bound Craft, (Continued from Page One)

yestreday afternoon, had the homber refueled and rushed around to check the weather preparatory to a quick take-off. Then the weather ~ closed in. ‘So he put up at a downtown hotel. This is Mr. Haizlip’s third trip through Indianapolis and it won’t he the last, he said. His job, along with a group of other pilots, including the famous test pilot Benny Howard, is to ferry the $100,000 w €s across the country, and to check their performance en route. The planes, twin-engined Doug+ las DB-7-A attack bombers, roll oft the production lines at the Santa Monica plant and. two hours later

‘Check, Palnes Two Hours

“We take them up and check them for two hours, make any minor adjustments and then take-

off,” Mr. Haizlip said. In New York the bombers are shipped by boat to England: “The planes are powered by two Wright Cyclone engines with a

than a third again as much horsepower necessary to drive the average airliner. The speed flier said he came into Indianapolis from Kansas City at 275 miles an hour “using only 50 per cent of the throttle.” = “They are so fast and so little airplane, that we all take care never to let them drop below 140 niles an hour,” he said. the country has to offer now and that earlier models sent to France, before its fall, were used as pursuit planes, - "Prefers Defense Job

- Mr. Haizlip flies from California to New York, catches an airliner back, then catches some sleep and is usually off at 4:30 a. m. the next morning on the next shuttle. Four months ago, he was in the Philippines helping to develop a commercial airline. “I thought I would be more useful back in the United States working on defense,” he said. He is -scheduled to assume an executive position ‘in the delivery end of the business for the Douglas. Co. shortly.

FORD FAVORS GIVING BRITISH MONEY AID

DEARBORN, Mich, Dee. 5 (U. P.) —Henry Ford believes the United States should grant Great Britain financial aid if she needs it. The motor manufacturer explans to estab:ish a naval training station on grounds of his River Rouge plant. ’ “If England wants money, I say

ardess Near Death.

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tured arm and face lacerations. RICHARD PETTIT, 26, Bostonian, Cal, War Department attor-

niey, spinal fracture. PAUL RYAN, 40, Cleveland, president of the National Refining Co. arm and leg fractures. THEODORE F. PAULSON, Wilmett, Ill, skull and leg fractures. LEO .WOLINS, 37, Chicago, building contractor, fractured collar bone. i R. G. WOODBURY, 41, New

‘Textile Bank, scalp wounds, fractured leg. Mr. Frederick and Mr. Ryan were not considered seriously injured. The last rites of the Catholic Church were given Miss Little. vl

Wreckage Guarded

United Air Lines and the : Civil Aeronautics Authority today ordered investigators to the crash scene. Police guarded the wreckage pending their arrival. Frank Caldwell, chief of the CAA’s accident investigating section, left Washington last night by train. Air line officials said the investigation was scheduled for 2 p. m. today. It was she second fatal accident on the line's ClevelandChicago run. A United Air Lines spokesman said the crash could have been caused only by “bad flying conditions—a low ceiling and stormy weather.” = ) The temperature was 32 degrees— freezing—and the dew point was 31, heavy enough to - form ice, when the craft began to land. Ice was form- . ing fast at 600 feet, pilots said, and probably gathered. on the transport when it came below 1000 feet. “After the ship had lost altitude,” a pilot said, “there 4 was nothing . the =e—————— pilot could do to Mr, Manville save it.” An air line official, however, said he “doubted” that ice had caused the crash. He said motor difficulty was indicated by the report of flickering lights and a spuftering motor. J. F. Herlihy, vice president of United Air Lines, said “a thorough investigation” would be undertaken. Capt. Scott insisted on an exchange of ships before taking off from the airport in Cleveland, company officials disclosed today. Capt. Scott taxied from the first plane‘on to the field after the control tower gave permission to take off, but according to officials, noticed that the ship’s motors were “a little rough” and transferred the passengers and mail to the other plane which the company seid was “in perfect shape.” Scott was a veteran pilot with eight years’ experience with the company. Young had been flying for United about a year. * The 21-passenger plane had made

give it to her,” he said, “That's what it's for.” 3

8 slow trip from New York, where it

York City, vice president of the .

Wilbert J. Austin . . , his firm built Allison plant here. s

Most of the passengers boarded the plane at its last stop, Cleveland.

Airport radio operators were in communication with the plane when it approached the field from the south. Seconds before the crash, the control tower saw its lights “flicker” as it circled the field and then the ship was lost.

Flying by Instruments | ‘The pilot had been flying by instruments because of the low ceiling. The plane again was sighted as it broke through the mist preparatory to land. Then a motor began missing, a witness said, and the plane

slipped rapidly toward ground. tore through power lines. A crash was heard as it smashed the corner from the top of a two-story frame house. Its left wing and both motors were pulled free by the impact. The motorless plane, with fuselage and one wing intact, plum-

| meted to the ground in an alley-

way and bounced over on its topside. Flames ate at the nose o the ship, but did not reach the fuselage and none of the occupants was burned. . Persons in the neighborhood who heard the crash rushed to the plane. They pulled the bodies of the pilot

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Seek: Liquor Rule. . (Continued from Page One) State House “as soon .as we can get a listening ear.” The (Governor

is out of the city today, but will return tomorrow.

Mr. Biery said he would try to

{appoint a bi-partisan committee

composed of six Republicans and six Democrats, : The demand was decided upon because the Commissioners felt the present deadline would result in “thousands of automobiles being taken off the highway after the first of the year.”

They said this would nrean a reduction in gasoline taxes, the main source of revenue for county roads, and a resultant “unfair demand upon property owners’ taxes to make up the difference.” - : Meanwhile, 1941 license plates were placed on sale at the State House and at branch offices throughout the City and State. =~ : The committee appointed by Mr.

‘Biery will be of a permanent nature,

throughout the Legislature, he sajd, and will be used to support and work for various bills the Commissioners propose. Commissioners also voted yesterday to support the present 4-cent gasoline tax instead of the 3-cent tax proposed by Republicans. They proposed return of the

liquor licensing administration to

the counties, with ultimate abolition

of the Alcoholic Beverages Commis-

sion, on the grounds that local officials were more familiar with con-

. Boards.

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Republican Steering Commtitees of both Houses, urged that the “merit system be so designed. that it will not retain in positions politically minded , persons now in some of these institutions.” 7h, The Republicans say they plan to put some “teeth” in the laws to free state departments from politics by,

event employees of institutions engage in political ‘activity.

Predict Confusion

Attorneys for both Democrats and Republicans are predicting that considerable legal confusion will arise from legislative attempts of the Republican majority to reorganize the State government to give the G. O. P. its share of control and still leave Democratic Gov-ernor-elect Henry ‘F. Schricker the chief executive in fact as well as. in name, “Republican majority lead ordered bills drafted to ta control and State institutio of politics: with penalties to prevent liquor dealers from participation in polities. pt They now are discussing details of another bill to do the same thing with the State Highway Department, the biggest political “plum” in the whole State government; But many students of government are skeptical about the procedure

providing héavy penalties in the

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ing for the State's returning $700 to each teaching unit with a new pro-

vision

money must be spent for teachers’ salaries. : 10.| Simplification © of all truck license fees, consolidating them under one license. : 11./Indiana’s co-operation in na-

tional

12. Expansion of ] program for rehabilitation of crippled children and the program for vocational education. :

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hope to enact any of their bills into law without tHe aid of a bi-partisan coalition with . large blocs of Republicans in both Houses .of the Legislature.

Chairman Bays, however, pressed confidence that Democratic minority leaders would get sufficient

0 e bills, . The bill to limit .campaign expenditures would put Republican leaders “on the spot” since opposition| to the bill would mean sanction of heavy spending in campaigns. Some of the Democratic proposals match those of Republicahs

who

sponsor bills to amend the Gross Income Tax, for free textbooks and

and are convinced that such laws would ‘be misnomers in actual operation.

for ‘repeal of the Two Per Cent Club law,

Campaigns.

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and co-pilot from the cabin, and at- ;

tendants from the airport assisted in moving the others. Four were dead and Miss Selby and Mr. Moore died upon arrival at the hospital. Mr. Melton and Mr. Manville died several hours after the crash. 2 Witnesses described the wreckage as a “terrifying sight.” The front of the plane had been pushed back into the fuselage, one wing—the left—was forn away and the right wing twisted.

104 BELOW—ABOVE DENVER DENVER, Dec; 5 (U. P.).—A temperature of 104 degrees below zero was recorded nine miles above Denver today by Government meteorologists. A radio sonde, a device raised in a balloon for measuring atmospheric temperature, recorded the temperature at 52,492 feet ahove sea level. The ground temperature

took off at 10 a. m, Wednesday.

was 33 degrees above zero.

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