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Investigators Seek Cause Of Air Cras

Plane Dives

Into River in New Jersey

By United Press

ELIZABETH, N. J, Dec. 17—Investigators sought to determine today whether a nonscheduled, war surplus airliner was inspected properly before it took off on a cut-rate flight to Florida that ended six minutés later in fiery death for all 56 persons aboard.

Smoke poured from the right motor of the twin-engine. converted Curtiss Commando as it lifted off the runway at Newark Airport at 2:03 p. m., Indianapolis time, yesterday with its 52 passengers and crew of four. Capt. C., A. Lyons of Miami, pilot, tried to bank the ship for an emergency landing when the right wing snapped. The plane burst into flame and plummeted into the shallow Elizabeth River.

Died Screaming Those who were not killed instantly were trapped. They died screaming as rescue crews were held back by the intense heat.

It was the worst aig crash of] worst |

the year. The nation's plane crash occurred -when a| Northwest Airlines DC-4 plunged| into Lake Michigan June 24, 1950, killing 58. { Patrolman Nicholas Bilsky, on| duty near the Elizabeth crash scene, sald the pilot seemed to| be searching for a clear place to] crash land in the heavily popu-

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4 Held Here | In $6000 Safe Thefts *

Four men were held today! after three safe-crackings, one a, double-header, netted more than | $6000 ‘over the week-end. Their arrests followed reports! that a car with Florida license plates had -for two days circled | the Indianapolis Toilet & Apron! Supply Co., 935 E. Maryland St.| Two. safes battered open there| * yielded more than $5000. | of Another sate in the 4-Hour| Laundry, 240 N. Illinois St. gave up $1000 in small bills, and] break-in men really “brought! {home the bacon” when they en/tered a wholesale meat market on | the South Side. | Lionel A. Miller, 18, -of 3044 1Guilford-Ave., was arrested in the! car with a Florida license and {charged with breaking the fire-| arms law. Police said they found la revolver in the car. | The three others, held on pre-| {liminary burglar charges, were | larrested at 2716 N. Meridian St.|

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SEARCH FOR BODIES—Police and firemen carry out ‘a grim hunt for the bodies of 56 persons who died in the crash of a C-46 airliner in Elizabeth, N. J., yesterday. The ill-fated plane's tail assembly (shown at left) lies upside down in the Elizabeth River.

takeoff weight is established for : y HOLDUP VICTIM .. . each type of plane. Dear Santa Claus The passengers, mostly from $ were bound for Tampa and Miami. The dead included two chil-

. [Foltes S410 Pau) Mier, 30. “N a Sid D 1 the New York-New England area, U. S. Presses Hungary al tess ad I ee im or i e rugstore

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Had Checked Building

go and two families of four To Free Fliers by 25th dion haa me sums. “Robbed by Two Bandits

Half Price Deal | A quick-thinking The nonscheduled flight cost]

$39.74, a little more than half the

By United Press not, we will save Christmas ‘til

LONDON, Dec. 17--The U. S. [he tomes,” police he had checked the Mary-|

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.#Druggist Ben Wakefield.

. | druggist, store when he came to open up, Elza West, 4830 E. Terrace rgphhed, tied and gagged by two/at 7:30 a. m. Bigins |Ave., a merchant policeman, told 3 rm e d_ bandits . this morning, |

5800 Workers Strike at Pan American

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UP)— Mechanics, stewards and commis sary employees of Pan American World Airways went on strike across the nation yesterday, hampering the Korean airlift and delaying fighting veterans of Korea on their way home for Christ- © |mas. The 5800 members of the CIO . Transport Workers Union jumped the gun by striking at midnight Saturday, 24 hours ahead of schedule, to back up demands for a wage increase. International Union President Michael Quill took personal command of the strike in Miami, a major plane repair center, indicating the union was prepared for a long siege. Flights to Japan, Alaska, Britain, Italy, Germany, Puerto Rico and South America were {affected, The air line operates {overseas flights only. Pan American supervisory emiployees donned overalls to keep {the planes flying, but many can|cellations and delays were reported.

Airlift in ‘Jeopardy’

Pan American reported in San {Francisco that its Korean airlift {was in “jeopardy” but that two yesterday would reach {their destinations on schedule. “They followed right behind The planes recently have been

lated area. lembassy in Budapest is pressing| With Capt. Henderson when he

sawed himself free to give a quick me. Before I could say a word,

carrying mostly Christmas pack-

“The plane suddenly dipped and Price of a seat aboard a regularly|

zoomed to the ground, shearingischeduled airline. “The plane was off the roof of an unoccupied due to take off at 10 a. m., but three-story frame dwelling and y.,< delayed five hours while rehit the Elizabethtown water 3

works,” Officer Bilsky said |pairs were made to its heating

system, airline officials said.

{left the morning of Nov. 19 were Communist Hungary to Felease, capt. John J. Swift, co-pilot, of by Christmas four

American Glens Falls, N. Y.; Sgt. Jess A. |fliers forced down there by So- Duff of Spokane, Wash. crew |viet fighter planes four weeks|chief; and Sgt. James A. Elam of

{ \ago, it was learned today. | Kingeland, Ark.

land St. building at 1 a. m. and found nothing wrong. An hour later, he found the driveway door! open. | Police found two safes in the| place with the doors pounded| open, evidently with'sledge ham-|

alarm to police. An undetermined they stuck a gun in my back and amount of cash was taken. ordered me into the back room, [Ee 20d Tal o Be Soap. be Ben Wakefield, 47, was left tied] “There they tied my hands be- | ox a he he ays oo hand and foot in the back room hind my back with a rope and P pe :

A but that it could keep operating of the drug store at 1534 Central used telephone cord to t Of the drug [used 1elep © He mYifor 15 to 20 days despite the

| ® ion said But the bandits didn't notice a! “They strike. The union it expected

Capt. R. W. Duff, president of} , ican officials in Frank-| mers and chisels.

started rummaging (, keep all planes grounded by

Heard Cries “I heard cries from Inside the. the line, said the plane was pur- ” v iso, chased as surplus from the Afr plane,” Bill Kapio of Union City, porce after World War ‘II and N. J, said, “but I didn’t know had logged 4000 hours when it

what to do.” | took off. Joseph O. Fluet, chief of the The crew members, all of Mi-

New York regional office of the 2mi. were Capt. Lyons, copilots Civil Aeronautics Board, said: “It x R. Su ason and aE uy 2 is self evident that the plane] eas 2 ele Sima. Staried fo bleak = miles 2WaY the start of its trip. Instructions : {to crash landing crews from the The airliner was operated bY control tower as the plane took Miami Airlines, Inc, a nonsched-| ors sent them into action. uled carrier operating five planes “Get out on the fleld. Stay off between New York and Miami. runway,” the orders said. “Craft The crash was the line's first|taping off to west with smoking since it started operating in 1946, right engine. He's coming in on a company spokesman sald. six. He's on fire.” Safety regulations for scheduled| “He's crashed,” the final order and nonscheduled airlines are|said. ’ “almost identical,” the CAB said.| Attempts wil be made today to A specific limit on -the number of|identify the bodies of the 56 vicpassengers and crew members is|tims taken from the twisted not set, it said, but a maximum| wreckage.

|. KINGSLAND, Ark. Dec. 17 furt, Belgrade and Vienna—the = wo o'r mom” mother of embassies ringing the Jon Cur set Elam, said today that “I can tain—confirmed nego hardly think about anything

lin progress but declined to elab-| cer Her husband said that he and]

orate. * U. S. officials doubt that the h four fliers will be tried, although | Mrs. Elam would go through officials are convinced the air-|With our original Christmas plan men are being subjected to in- and try to make it as pleasant tensive questioning. {as possible for our 12-year-old

| ii” | It was exactly four weeks ago 20, ‘Sidney

today that Capt. David Hender- |

SPOKANE, Wash, Dec. 17| his wife and three children gay she believed her son, sgt.| goodby at the Erding Air Force pyrf was married secretly e-| Base, near Munich, Germany, and fore he was forced down in Hunleft on a routine flight to Bel-

grade carrying supplies for the “Things are doubly hard with

U. 8. embassy. my husband to care for,” Mrs. Mrs. Henderson, of Harrah, pus gaiq. “He has been in bed) Okla., says “I have to go ahead {yg years following a stroke.” | {with Christmas plans for the) {children’s sake. If he is home! iby then, it will be wonderful. If)

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Claus for her two children if her husband is not Christmas.

| en , = \p A ZA old that anything prevents ihe : arrival of Santa Claus,” Mrs.

5 4 {Smith said. {17 (UP)—Mrs. Dave Henderson Sr. said “It won't be Christmas | knowing he (Dave Jr.) is in dan{ger.” { | She said her other son, Sgt. Henry Henderson, is stationed in| > the Philippines.

“Stretch Like Cat’ 'To Get Curves, & Actress Advises

i HOLLYWOOD,=Dec. 17 (UP) 8 -——Corinne Calvet, the imported ! French cutie, says the best way to get those glamour girl

OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Dec. Come in today and

“Like a cat,” streamlined Parisienne. “Eet gives ze bodee tone . . . but no bulgeeng biceps.” Muscles may mak a modern maid look at home on a tennis court, Corinne contends, but they don’t do her any good in the main event . . . the “love

match.” ®# 8

“DEED YOU evalre see a cat that looked muscle-bound?” she asked. “Zey are always een pairfect treem-—and izey do eet ze easy way. ’ “Stretching ees so good” as poosh-ups . . . and lots more fun.” a | Look, she added, at the classy chassis of Betty Grable and Marilyn Monroe. No muscles there just eye-popping

(UP)—Capt. Smith's wife said today she would have to play Santa!

| “You can’t just teil a five-year-

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curves is to s-t-r-e-t-c-h. f purred the |

saw in the back room. {through the drawers and found Mrs. Emma Zinsmeister, one of| Mr Wakefield did. He squirmed the cash—change from the weekthe owners of the firm, estimated | gver and worked his bound wrists end. there was more than $5000 in the|against the saw, freeing himself “Then they gagged me with a two safes. after about 15 minutes. His call/handkerchief and left. An employee of the 4-Hour|to police started an immediate Tried to Yell Laundry came to work to check hunt for the two bandits. x e “At first I tried to yell through

the boilers yesterday morning and| y found the safe pried open. Waiting at Door the gag, hoping to make someone Prv Oven Door Mr. Wakefeld said the two hear in the restaurant next door. ¥ Ype men were waiting at the drug But it didn’t do any good.

The safe was taken into a | “Then I spied the saw hanging washroom, the dial knocked off Shelby St., found the lock broken from the counter about 12 feet

son, 32, of Shawnee, Okla., kissed| (1p) Mrs. James Duff said to- 20d tools found in the laundryoff the door when he came to away. I squirmed across the floor Mediation Service the

were used to pry open the door.\work yesterday morning. land backed up to the saw and The owner, Mrs. Kathryn Smith,|' More than 100 pounds of meat worked the rope around my wrists 3527 Evergreen St. said there|were missing, including 45 pounds|against the saw.” yas Short $1000 in the safe. of smoked ham, 23 pounds of e safe.

| Tuesday. Ask 18-Cent Boost

| Most of the employees striking are mechanics, the others flight |stewards, pursers and commis{sary employees. The mechanics, who now earn an average of $1.75 an hour, demanded an 18cent hourly wage increase. In negotiating sessions with representatives of the Federal company 'had offered the union a nine-cent hourly increase.

The company and union were

Mr. Wakefield, who lives at/scheduled to meet in Washingpork loin, one box dried beef, 12|5851 Carvel Ave. said the only/ton Tuesday with federal media-

Charles J. Wagner, 1542 Pleas-|pounds bacon, 12 pounds rolled|other time he was held up was|tors before the strike but it was ant St., who operates a wholesale(ham, 12 pounds fresh ham, and when the store opened 15 to 20|not certain now that the meeting

meat market in the rear of 1153|two boxes of wieners. years ago.

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