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PROBE WRECKAGE—Rescue workers probe through wreckage of house sirack by cargo plane at Queens section of New York.

'Death-From-Sky' Plane Kills 5, Hurts 21 in Crowded N. Y. Area orm: wom

The FBI has jurisdiction to in- ; vestigate wrong-doing in every evidently knew they were about/of the houses into which thelother agency and department in

By United Press NEW YORK, Apr. 5—A twoengine cargo plane fell out of a murky, rainy sky into a crowded residential section of New York Suy today, killing five persons and injuring 21, seven seriously. Two of the dead were thé pilot and co-pilot of the plane. The other dead and. the injured. were) citizen victims of the fourth “death-from-the-sky’ disaster in the metropolitan area since December, It resulted immediately in renewed protests against planes flying low over city areas, particularly in bad weather, and

scmipps —wowardl 63d YEAR—NUMBER 24

to die. zoom down out of the murk as

though it was about to land and|jingerie and dainty feminine garthen heard the engines roar and/ments scattered in trees and in the nose jerk upward as the man|the gutters gave strange confrast at the controls tried to extricate/to mangled bodies, the raging himself from disaster at the last flames, and the tangle of fire {hoses and sweating firemen.

The plane barely missed a five-

second—and failed.

_But Deputy Police Inspector, Thomas Boylan, commander of story apartment house in which

Witnesses saw the planeiplane crashed. Part of the plane's cargo was empted the Treasury Department, however, after Mr. Snyder Treasury's investigators should have sole power to run down. charges of bribery of other criminal ac-

the 22d Police Division, had no| 250 persons live.

inkling that death was at hand.| He was being driven from his home to his command post.

Wing Hits Auto The plane approached from be-

against busy airports being lo- hind. Its landing wheels were|

cated close to cities.

‘down. Desperately the pilot/everything to keep o

The C-46 cargo plane operated banked and the lowered wing) by the U. 8. Alr Lines crashed smashed into the back of the Were so loud and so close that Iiwii call on FBI director J. Edgar Then Hoover to “furnish me with all [the information he has” on “par- the state gathered here today to

After striking the police car, ticular wrong-doers” in the Zov-(talk politics, but it looked more

into 169th St., near Hillside Ave. Plymouth of the Jamaica section of Queens Boylan instantly. His chauffeur, Borough, 13 miles from Times policeman Square and 25 miles from Eliza-\thrown from behind the wheel/the plane ripped apart a two-lernment. ntum| Mr.

beth, N. J. Scene of the three previous disasters in which 119 persons died, including Robert!

cruiser, killing Mr. 8

Walter Shea, was!

“That pilot was givin

Kresel said.

ammed on my brakes,

came the crash.”

into the street, injured but alive. Story frame house. Its mome

The other dead were occupants hardly - |smashed two other houses’ and able to sweep out corruption in

Patterson, former Secretary of]

War, Those planes either were try-| ing to land on or had just taken off from Newark Airport which| adjoins Elizabeth. Today's plane was coming in to Idlewild Air-| port—and crashed two miles) short of its goal. Idlewild de-| scribed flying conditions at the time of the crash, as ‘visibility two miles—ceiling 400 feet, varia-

Hits Police Car

the street where the plane struck| According to their rear-view desjthe little people, is filled with school busses and scription, he's about 27 and of'said,

boys and girls at the hour of the crash, i The pilot and co-pilot, William |

B. Crockett and John Woeder-|it stolen from one of its drivers Ing. “This time it is a diffierent field planation of the Soviet move,

hoff, of Ft. «Lauderdale, Fla.,

diminished, it

SATURDAY, APRIL 5, 1952

“Indianapolis. Indiana,

‘If | Reached Out | Coulda Touched Him'—

Bandit Caught As Girl, 7,

ho FORECAST: Mostly cloudy tonight. Partly cloudy, warmer tomorrow. Low tonight 32; high tomorrow 16. .e Entered as Second-Class Matter at Postoffice .e oe

Issued Daily.

Law May Bar FBI Probe of Tax Bureau

Treasury Exempted By Statute

By United Press WASHINGTON, Apr. 5— Federal Judge James P. MecGranery, President Truman's

new attorney general, faced

a possible legal roadblock today in his plan to turn over the corruption hunt to the FBI Judge McGranery, already under attack by Republicans as a “white wash expert,” announced he will junk the special investigator post formerly held by Newbold Morris. Instead, he said, he will rout out “wrong-doers” in government himself, with the aid of the FBI. But legal barriers may stop Judge McGranery from seeking corruption in the Internal Revenue Bureau, focal point of current government scandals.

at the request of Secretary of Treasury John,K W. Snyder, the FBI is barred from investigating criminal charges in the Treasury |Department, including tax scan-

dals in the Internal Revenue Bu-

, {the government.

contended that the own

{OY ties by Treasury employees.

Judge McGranery told report {ers-of his cleanup. plans. after a 'visit with President Truman at {the White House yesterday. He , Nat Kresel, 36, witnessed the gaijq the President promised to |disaster from his car and he saw|«giye me all the support possible” [Mr. Crockett trying to retrieve

|his plane from disaster at the ,,i» the Justice Department “if very last second. oe

there is anything wrong there.” it] The first step in his campaign,

ut of danger,” he said, will be to find out “if and The motors where corruption is.”

then|that Judge McGranery would be

{they too were wrecked. It then| federal agencies before the end

Taxicab Thief |swerved diagonally “and buried of the Truman administration. . itself into three houses on inter-|The strapping New York attorney Eludes Police |secting 88th Ave, was fired by J. Howard McGrath

Indianapolis police early today.

; Meanwhile it had been spewing| Thursday. Behind a wheel or on foot, 8|gag0line-fed flames taxicab thief was just too fast for instant of impact with the police

| wit seconds a huge { jear ana Bin second 58 lone of its rip-roaring afternoons. 80V

They fired one shot at him as fire was raging. The plane shed fragments ofa. Morris said that with the

he sprinted from the stolen cab

at Fall Creek Pkwy. and Boule- Wreckage as it went. The Rev. Maurice P. Lenihan, pave finished his inquiry before

The thief, who had showed leader of Queens Borough resins end of the year. -

vard Place.

squad car patrolmen Harvey Harrison and John Cox how he could drive in a chase

long. { Then he jumped to his feet and| showed them how he could run. As far as Policemen Harrison and Cox know, he’s still running.

slender build. The taxi was returned to the City Cab Co., which had reported

in the 2400 block of Hillside Ave.|

Young and

To Aid Traffic Victim

Housewives set-aside dinner to metropolitan make emergency calls for help. two major "airports, LaGuardia Just after the crash, a tall, land Idlewild. Recently commerslim, middle-aged man stopped aticjal air lines have moved for a| to ald a woman hurt in an accl:| the scene and jumped out of his reopening of Newark despite the| | car. Quietly, he gave orders, to opposition of citizen groups of

that Elizabeth which adjoins it.

Story of accidents, Page 2 By OPAL CROCKETT

Children and grownups took time in last night's chilling rain

dent. Without thought of acclaim they gave a hand to Mrs. Margaret Foreman, critically injured in a crash at'52d and Illinois Sts. Thrown from her car by the impact, the wheels of the vehicle stopped on her body. : > Heroes in the Train ‘ificluded about 12 men who lifted the car from her body. At the scene appeared a Boy Scout, carryifig his first aid kit in a plastic box. He worked without a word. When his job was finished, he left quietly, without giving his name.

her name. ?

from the injured woman.

At the Scout's side stood a small girl. Her hair and clothes all they could for the were drenched as she held an woman. umbrella over the woman in pain. Mrs. She left without anyone learning

A dozen men from the neighporhood and passersby, rushing home from work, lifted the car

Old Stop

| people don

but the weather was

protect us.”

{after the third of t

Blames CAA

from the

{dents protesting the presence of| LaGuardia Field trom 30th St residential district, was "embit-

and Manlove Ave., sprawled head- tered.

in a crowded

" Father Lenihan “We prayed them to do

His ouster and Mr. McGrath's dismissal as Attorney General by President Truman a few hours later gave the Capital

{ Returning home to New York,

[right kind of support he coul

Berlin Red Police ‘Slow Road Check

BERLIN, Apr. 5 (UP)—S8oviet

Germany today. 2 Within a few hours, more than

Congress ex-

and ordered him to “straighten

He said he,

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Under a law passed last year| |

and-television corr the first hop of a whirlwind

Slips Away, Gi

A QUEEN EATS—Queen Juliana of The Ne shown as she lunched in Washington as the guest of press, radio | 5. She flew to Philadelphia today on | tour of the U, S.

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therlands

PRICE FIVE CENTS

By HEZE

kitchen wall of a home next door and missed a housewife’s head by inches. Heroine of the capture was little Gail Strohm, 1420 Hoyt Ave, She ran home and told her mother, Mrs. Ann- Strohm, “THe

. |store is held up.”

Mrs, Strohm phoned police, Every police car in the district was on an assignment, Patrolmen Roy Bennett and Maurice Fitzpatrick were on Deloss St, five blocks from Brun's market, 1501 Hoyt, the holdup scene,’

CLARK

While an armed bandit was holding up seven persons in a Southeast Side grocery today, a T-year-old girl slipped out the back door ahd gave the alarm. As a result, police captured the bandit in the act after “_Ifiring one shot—which pierced the - nt

into the kitchen of Mr, and Mrs, Welby Canada, 1503 Hoyt, as they were eating breakfast, “It came a few inches from my head,” Mrs. Canada, 37, said. The bandit crouched there, pistol leveled at the officer, when radar car Patrolman Edward H, Berry came in the side door. He pointed his revolver at the holdup man, who surrendered meekly. = g

My Conscience Hurt

He identified himself to police as Karl Madison, 36, of 1338%

Call Interrupted

vestigate a ‘property-damage ac-

They were on the way to in-

Hoyt Ave. se “My conscience hurt—I didn’t

have the heart” to shoot Officer

cident in 200 block 8, State Ave. Desk Lt. Francis Gootee radioed

‘ [them to forget it and get to the

store. Patrolman Fitzpatrick burst in first. This 18 what he saw: A man, head covered by a Navy hood with only a slit for his eyes, was training a 22-caliber target pistol on seven men and women. Some money was on the counter. ‘Police later sald the had looted the cash drawer of $138, Then he told the customers to put all their money on the counter, threatening to kill anyone who “held out

coughd up $47. the bandit,

ers ‘bullet

bandit H

They

Patrolman Fitzpatrick fired at who ducked behind

Fitzpatrick, the suspect said, He was taken to tl detective bureau for questioning. = - Menaced by the bandit's pistol

were: - Edward Brun, 64, of 1441 N, Emerson Ave, the market's owner; his son, Atha, N. Drexel Ave.; son, 28, of 741 Spruce Bt.; Mrs, el Habig, 57, of, 1617 Hoyt; Mrs, Viola Tressler, 40, of 1449

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oyt; Howard Sprunger, 44, of 1519 Fletcher Ave, and Meuel Sutton, 42, of 1506 Hoyt.

I Seen the

By IRVING LEIBOWITZ

{like race day at the Kentucky Morris said he doubted Derby.

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Republican editors from all over

Candidates galore’ through the Claypool Hotel almost as if they were strutting while the editors selected one to bet on. Even the hotel lobby took on a holiday atmosphere with red, white and blue bunting unfurled over posters suggesting Samuel Harrell, Leland Smith, Harold Handley and George Craig for ernor. Ake the race track, the meeting attracted its share of hangersThey cluttered up the lobby and mingied with the newsmen. Upstairs, in the smoke-filled rooms where politicians operate best, the peliticos were making “deals” and “double-deals” to

{bring their candidates home a

winner.

“ b { At noon, Congressman Charles Tragedy has struck again be-,,,, police at the Babelsberg Halleck delivered a Republican

something about runway 4 at La- 200 trucks were lined up along]

Newark airport was

Guardia Field and they did noth-

the highway awaiting Inspection, They stretched for three miles. There was no immediate ex-

disasters Feb, 11 and has re- | Hunt Your Home {mained closed since, throwing a| heavy added burden on the This Week area's remaining|

the - excited crowd. With done, he stepped to the middle of the street and unsnarled traf- | file. He was never identified,

Did All They Could He wore a dark brown suit and (hat and a green sweater, onlook|ers said. After the ambulance {arrived and Mrs. Foreman was

{rushed to General Hospital, the| 31e said it'll be cloudy, windy| {man walked to his car, brushed land—brrrr—colder today with a| mixture. of rain and snow. Winds warm Will average 25 mph, but gusts

|off the rain, and drove or } .. Neighbors went home td, up dinners. Passersby went home for dry clothes. They had done

Foreman, of Sarasota, !

critical condition today with a

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prove

Spring Here, Just Hard to Realize

Spring is ‘here, but you can't at the| ge, He cdlled for |

it by the weather bureau. more of the same old winte

man

will reach 40 mph. Tonight

will stop.

Tomorrow's forecast is for fair Fla. was here for a visit with weather and less winds. But don't] her daughter, Mrs. Lloyd Rice, get your hopes up, the tempera-| 5653 Haverford Ave. 8he was in|ture will hover in the middle 40's. inches of rain ster-

. Nearly . two

broken left leg, possible internal drenched central Indiana ye

day and early todayy

Tr.

the mercury will drop) injured to about 30, but the rain and snow |

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|cause the government aeronautics| check point on the outskirts of gpeech that lambasted the. Tru't care two whoops for Berlin slowed down their Inspec-iman administration. The Renstion of trucks bound for Western /gajaer Congressman said Presi-| Indiana's Young Scientists , . . dent Truman's decision against

Lujack to Coach

Irish Backfield

terrible. but the Reds periodically indulge | We're going to have to start alilin such slowdowns for no more

rer i et some action to apparent reason than to irritate over again to g |West Germans and Anglo-Amer-|ica quarterback of Notre Dame's

closed |lcan occupation authorities. |1946-47 National Champion foothe Elizabeth

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midnight’ tonight and your |

SOUTH BEND, Apr.'5 (UP)— Johnny Lujack, famed All-Amer-

[ball team who recently retired from’ professional football after

[four seasons with the Chicago (Bears, will join the Notre Dame

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GOP Editors Look Over Election ‘Racing Form’

re-election does not mean the end of radicalism in the Democrat Party. »0 “The Truman solo may be ending, ‘but the malady Is going to linger on,” he declared. “And the

paraded understudy who takes his place

will be singing the same tune and he will have the same old supporting chorus back of him. He will be nominated and dominated by the same crowd of spendthrift, seif-seeking, socialist schemers.” The two big guns in the Republican Party--8ens. Homer E. Capehart and William E. Jenner —were on hand for the occasion. Tonight, Sen. Jenner will make the keynote address to the editors. More than 1700 tickets have been sold to the dinner,

Today's News In The Times

Editorials

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{Tall That Wags the Donkey

« + +» an editorial cartoon by Talburt A question of leadership , , , by Ludwell Denny $92,000 because he could read . , . by Frederick » C. Othman «..seeess ssnsas 3 U. 8. Marine officer brands American boys “nearly Blatkers” ...cccovssinnsanse

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lcoaching staff, it was announced Park department head is well

[today | Coach Frank Leahy said that [Lujack will work with the Irish

|backfield, particularly the quar-|

| | |

{next Monday and Tuesday for

{the spring practice sessions prior ito the start of the Easter vaca-

— |tion, Leahy said.

Lujack sald that he would con-

liked , . . Hoosier Profile.. 3

National

dynamiting body: «.vevvas’ss 8

Foreign Page

[tinue in the insurance business Gen. Van Fleet's son missing

|and maintain a Chicago suburban iresidence.

Gold Star Mother Gives Boy Scouts a Boost

in combat flight in Korea.. - 2

Women's Page Four bridge tournaments listed 3 N. Y. Times writer advises BRB sess eseee Vesna nanns 3

te VEVAY, Ind, Apr:.5 (UP)— Brides-to-be announce plans.. 3

Mrs, Jeanette B. Smith, "Aurora;

who lost a son in World war 11, Other Features:

today won the affection of an

|entire troop of boys. Mrs. Smith gave the Vevay Boy Bcouts a log cabin and sevjeral acres of ground.

Shuts could have her farm on

The Gold Star mother said tha

Plum Creek near here to use for

recreation and camping.

Bridge ........00s. issn 33 : Churches ...iassvvueeisd, B Crossword .vaessesssses 12 Editorials ..coasensanens 8

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Donna Mikels of The Indianapolis Times won two first-place awards in the fifth annual Hoosler Headliners Contest concluded today. Miss Mikels received the awards at the Matrix Table luncheon of Indianapolis Alumnae Chapter of Theta Sigma Phi, national honorary professional sorority for women in journalism. Miss Mikels won awards for her straight news series on “Tenants Housing Service” and her feature story on “Whisky

WINNER-Donna Mikels

Ann.” Miss Mikels also won first

1948 and 1950,

Theta Sigma Phi,

tor of publicati

journalism. Writer of a number |

lof scholarly articles, Miss Sengenberger was the first presidedt of the Indiana Journalistic Teachers Association, Mrs, Oscar A. Ahigren, Whiting, received the Indiana Woman of the Year Award. She is first {vice president-elect of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs, |, Miss Barbara Fark of the In|dianapolis Star took second place for woman's page features, Other winners were: Lois Me[Near Canright, South Bend, first land second places’ for straight news stories; Pearl E. Hafstrom, {South Bend Tribune, second place, |straight news series, and second place for feature; Harriet Patterson, Michigan City News-Dis-patch, first, woman's page fea-

‘|ture; Eloise Kelly Small, Wil-

llamsport Pioneer, first and sec-

ond places for editorials,

Awards Won by 555 358 EEE Times Staffer

The contest is sponsored annually by Hoosier newspapers and downed: craft in a thick swamp

8 | A Y.year-old girl, Gail

| Stet, was the hat ing i cape ure of & ndi . Gail, a Aoife Patrick's school, t

to tell her mother, Gail's story.

As Told to The Times to get five pounds of sugar and

a bottle of milk. I was sort of in the back of the store when he came in the front. He had a hat on, I didn’t see his face. : But I seen the gun, ; The people just stood there, —I-didn’t cry, ot au He came close and told us all to come to the front of the store,

‘I Just Stood There’ T just stood there. I watched him come right by me. He

walked right past. : If IT reached out a lttle' I coulda touched him, ac The people moved to the front, just like he said, but I just stood there. Toward the back. Maybe he didn’t notice me much ‘cause’ I'm a little girl. He walked clear to the front with the other people. ‘I Snuck- Out’ Then I snuck out the back door. I ran home, real hard, I told mother ‘the store is held up.’ Then I said, ‘don’t give me the devil 'cause I didn’t get the milk.’ But now I guess it's Okay,

Sight Wrecked C-47 in Swamp

MOBILE, Ala, Apr. 5 (UP)~— The wreckage of a C-47, one of two military planes involved in a spectacular air collision, that ap«

place in news series events in Parently killed 15 persons, was

{sighted in a swamp today. The crew of a PBY spotted the

about one-half mile rom the spot

at Technical 124 trafsport, crashed in flames [High School, réceived the.Fanny on the Mabile, Gulf & Ohio Rail.

‘ Pago Wri . térbacks. Lujack will be on hand g,y 16 admits killing tothor right Memorial Award as out

Miss Ella tigi at To direc- where the other plane, a giant C-

road tracks yesterday. Six bodies were found in the wreckage. | Ground crews immediately started into the swamp in search of nine persons who were aboard the C-47 when it collided with the transport less than a mile [from a thickly-populated area of | Mobile. ‘

HCL Dips in Canada

OTTAWA, Ontario, Apr. 5 (UP)—~Canada’s cost of living index today showed its first appreciable drop in nearly two years, The Dominion Bureau of {Statistics reported it fell 1.7 points, ‘the fitst drop of more than one point since prices started rising in 1950. 3

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Victims Captured After Officers Fire One Shot