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-BOMBAY, July 12 (UP) A I Dutch Constellation air liner' carrying. 45 persons, including 14 top American newspaper correspondents, crashed into a hill near here during a driving mon- I soon today, killing all aboard. .
Mutilated bodies, among them those of nine women, were j
strewn over uie rain-lashed hillside north of Bombay where the four-engined transport crashed and disintegrated. One wing burst into flames when it hit. The Constellation, returning a Party of American and Dutch correspondents from a tour , of Indonesia as guests of the Dutch government, made four passes at the stormbound Bombay, airport. Then it wheeled away, to destruction on a 300-foot slope of the rocky Ghatkopar Hills. Recover S3 Bodies Late in the day 33 bodies had been recovered from the mud and wreckage. Drenching rains hampered the workers. " The local Royal Dutch Airline (KLM) manager, said 45 persons were on the plane, including 14 American correspondents and two Britons, Among the newsmen flying back from an inspection tour of
.Indonesia were William1 Newton ' of the Scripps Howard Alliance; H. R. Knickerbocker, WOR com- . mentator; S. Burton Heath of Newspaper Enterprise Association; Bertram Hulen of The New York Times, and Nat E. Barrows of The Chicago Daily News. Two stewardesses and an American radio commentator,
i-lsie Dick of the Mutual Broad
House Group
Delays Action On Defense Bill WASHINGTON, July 12 (UP) The House Armed Services Committee today postponed action on a bill giving more power to Defense Secretary Louis Johnson until it has completed an investigation of Air Force purchases of B-36 bombers.
It did so by a 13 to 12 vote. The postponement followed disclosure of orders from Johnson
a central figure in the B-36
inquiryfor his
Two Passengers Fight As Plane Crashes Today ' LOS ANGELES, July 12 (UP) The sheriff's office said today that a sergeant at the scene of the wreck has reported that 12 persons died in the crash of a C-46 passener plane near Chatsworth, Cal., and that all the . rest were injured. The plane was reported carrying 44 persons.
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B-36.
.The -postponement raised serious questions' as to whether the House will act on the bill this
session.
Rep. James E. Van Zandt. R..
Pr., who disclosed the Johnson
orders, said they would put the
defense chief in position to cen
bloody fight crashed and burned
as it prepared to land today, apparently killing all 44 persons aboard. The plane, a non-scheduled twin-engined Curtiss Commando identified by the Civil Aeronautics Administration as belonging to Trans-National Air Lines,
crashed in the foothills of the
4 -H Club Girls
To Take Part In District Contest
Truman's Economic Report May
ring Showdown In Congress n i t -m-wni mi titv j . t t
By L.vle C. Wilson The White House annmmced hp
United Press Staff Correspondent will speak over the four major WASHINGTON, July 12 (U.R) raio networks at 8:30 p.m., CST -President Truman's midyear tomorrow in a "plain understand-
t- o li- ' . ;1Bmi . . , , , able English' discussion of the Nine Sullivan County 4-H Club economic report promised today economic situation. His address
probably will arouse more political controversy than did the mid year economic report submitted to Congress vpctprHav v'
must be cut to avoid disaster. Rep. Joseph W. Martin, Jr., R., : ' Much of the SDecific anti-de- Mass . and nth
flation legislation proposed by the man should have joined the bl-
partisan enort to reduce
lationa
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girls and four adult 4-H leaders t h
will represent Sullivan County in the powerful group of Republic-
uic j-.isun.-i t-a juuging aim ans and Democrats in Congress demonstration contest to be held Whn insist that mvMnmpnt eto
at uanieia mgn a cnooi, n riaay,
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sor testimony and "chaperone" rocky Santa Susanna Mountains witnesses from the military de- near Chatsworth, Cal. partments. . . ) Pilot Roy White ha been givMakes Motion en clearance to land at Lockheed Rep. Dewey Short, R., Mo.,"Air Terminal here and had his made the motion to defer action landing gear down when he on the Senate-s-.pprpved bill. The crashed at 7:50 a.m.
measure would tighten up uni- j . Radioed Of Trouble
casting System, were among the ' fication by giving Johnson com-1 Shortly before getting landing
nine women killed.
The ill-fated transport, "making a special flight to return the journalists after the tour of Indonesia, left New Delhi earlj this morning. , List Others KiBed . The' other Americans aboarc were Charles Gratke, Christian Science, Monitor; Vincent, Majhpney, San Francisco Chrbnicle; John Werkley, Tims Magazine; "Thomas Falco, Business Week; George Moorad, Portland Oregonian; Fred Colvic, Denver Post; Lyon C. Mahan, New York Public Relations Representative, and James Branyan, Houston Post.; The U. S. correspondents, whose by-lines were among the best-known in American journalism, were wined and dined at the American embassy in New Delhi last night. ' Branyan of the Houston Post, laughingly remarked that he was glad the Indian government had allowed the Diane to Dass
over India rather, than forcing it to fly over the Indian Ocean to Mauritius. "If a plane went down out there, you'd be out of luck," he said. ' Dutch planes have been barred from India since last December because of the Indian government's disapproval of the Dutch "police action" against the Indonesian republic. The Indian government had lifted the ban for fhis one flight.
pletg direction , authority and clearance White radioed that he
control over the Army, Navy had "trouble" aboard. and Air Force. He told the control tower that
two men were fighting and one
Short said that if the bill were passed, Johnson could muzzle the committee's witnesses. Hp
I said Johnson, a former director
ot the firm that makes the B-36, is "the man most concerned" With the B-36 probe. "The B-36 inquiry was ordered by the House after Van Zandt said he had heard "ugly reports" about the Air Force decision to buy the big six-engined bomber, built by Consolidated - Vultee Aircraft Corporation. Van Zandt said the reports involved Johnson and Air Force Secretary 'W. Stuart Symington. Both have said the reports are ridiculous. , Some sources said the decision may mean the s death of the unification bill at this session of Congress.
July 15
in the various contests are as fol
lows:
Clothing Jacaueline Crew.
Fairbanks Township, and Peggy Knight, Haddon Township. Food Preservation Sara Sue
Phegley, Haddon Township, and Wanda Rose Bosstick, Curry
'Township.
Baking Patty Allsman, Haddon Township, and Mary Ellen Alig, Hamilton Township. Food Preparation Mary Frances Allen, Hamilton Township, and Marilyn Sproatt, Haddon
Township.
Miss Dorothy Jean ' Lathrop, Curry Township, will eive her !
demonstration, "Care of Utensils."
Leaders accompanying the girls will be Miss Margaret Hancock.
Haddon Township 4-H Leader:
Mrs. Ruth Turner, Currv Town
ship 4-H Club Leader: Miss Jean
Godfrey, assistant home demonstration agent, and Mrs. Faye Spiece, home -demonstration agent. -
President was given a good
chance to obtain favorable Congressional action. But Mr. Truman stuck by his big - spending program for the 1950 fiscal year. Deficit Spending : The President said he would Continue with deficit financing. In plain English that means to continue to spend more than the government's income and to make
up the difference by borrowing. His abandonment of the $4,000,000,000 tax increase proposal of
last January got Congressional cheers almost all around. TVTt TyiimOM mill U
Aiuiiiau will Lflll V Hid
battle to the people.
war
time excise taxes on jewelry, admissions, communications and such. I Plan Economic Bill I Sen. James E. Murray, (D., Mont., and Rep. Wright Patman.
D., Tex., said they would introduce this week an "economic expansion bill of 1949" to carry out
xne resident s program.
NEW YORKJuly 12. (UP) The starting lineups and batting orders for the All-Star game with the current record of the players in parentheses: ' , ' '
American Leaague D. DiMaggio, Boston, rf (.339) Kell, Detroit, 3b (345) Williams, Boston, If (.326) J. DiMatfeio. New York C350
Joost, Philadelphia, ss (.293) E. Robinson, Wash., lb (.297) Michaels, Chicago, 2b (.298) Tebbetts, Boston, c (.315) Parnell, Boston, p (11-5)
Umpires Barlick (N.L.)
National League , Reese, Brooklyn, ss (.306) J. Robinson, Brooklyn, 2b (362) Musial, St. Louis, cf (.292) Kiner, Pittsburgh, If (.333)
Mize, New York, lb (.290) Marshall, New York, rf (.328) Kazak, St. Louis, 3b (.302) Seminick, Philadelphia, c ' ' .2-74) Spahn, Boston, p ((9-8)
plate; Hubbard (A.L.) first; Gore
j (N.L.), second; Summers (A.L.) third; Ballanfant (N.L.) right field
Senate Republican Leader Ken j foul line; Grieve (A.L.) left field foul line
Kitchen spending
Wherry, Neb., said the President overlooked "the most imrortant
thing, cutting Federal costs." Sen. Harry F. Byrd, D., Va., said: "Just the same old pump priming fixed up in a new dress."
Only In Dixie Is It Hot, Says Weatherman . (By United Press) Partly cloudy skies held temperatures to bearable levels over most of the country today except in Dixie. 1 High humidity and temperatures approaching 100 degrees were forecast for the South. A blanket of sticky heat extended all the way from the Ohio Valley to the Gulf of Mexico. For the rest of the country, the weather bureau saw mostly normal temperatures. But even they could be unconifortable if there was much humidity, the weather bureau at Chicago said.. And there was expected to be lots of moisture in the air. Fair and warm weather was forecast for the ' annual All-Star baseball game in Brooklyn's Ebtets Field between top players of the American League and the best of the National League. Dry weather which has parched the area from Maine to New Jersey for weeks apparently is still on. Weather forecasters in the Northeast said several days of steady rain were needed.
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was "badly beaten".
"They say they're going to finish it as soon as we land," he reported. i Burbank police had been asked to stand by and arrest the two. A pilot who flew over the area soon after the crash said he did not see how any of the occupants could have lived. . He said both wings were severed and the wreckage was "burning fiercely." An unidentified boy spotted the crash and ran a mile down a canyon to the Box Canyon Ranger station to report it. In Isolated Spot The crash was in a hard to
r.Pnph snnt annrnvimntblw itrr
i miles from a main highway in i
the foothills o the Santa Susan-' na Mountains. ! ! A spokesman for the Standard Airlines in New York said the'
plane left La Guardia Airport at
5:40 p.m. CST yesterday. At Chicago, the operations tow
er at Municipal Airport sa& the
plane arrived from New York with 31 passengers and three crew members and left Chicago about 10 p.m. with 34 passengers and the crew. Some of the Dass-
engers may have disembarked at stops en route and others picked
up, the tower spokesman said
Soldier Bonus Blanks Available
!(. H. Landis
Hoosier Lawyer,
Dies In Chicag
Miss Jean Godfrey, former 4-H Club member of Turman Township, assumed her duties as assistant home demonstration agent of Sullivan County, Mon day, July 11. Miss Godfrey will be in the county until she returns te- Indiana State Teachers
College, where she will be
senior this fall.
Plan DDT Spraying Demonstration Friday
It was announced today by the County Extension Office that
there will be a DDT spraying demonstration, held on the J. Kerr Coulson Parm in Gill Town
ship, Friday afternoon, July 15
beginning at 1:30 P.M. Henrv
Mayo of the Animal Husbandry
Department of Purdue University will be in charge of the demonstration. A barn will be sprayed with
the recommended solution of DDT as well as a flock of sheep
and herd of beef cows. This should be a very worth
while demonstration for farmerf
of the county to see.
Victor C. Brown Rites Wednesday
a Funeral services for Victor C. Rrnwn aero fiQ urhn AaA C,,J..
Jean was an outstanding '4-H at F.vnnsviiiA m k v,i
Club member, having represent- 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morned Sullivan County at the 4-H ing at the Farmersburg MethoClub Round-Up, State Fair, dist Church. Burial will be in School, Chicago trip, and Na- West Lawn Cemetery, tional 4-H Club Congress. She 1 Surviving are three' sons, Lee was the state winner in the 4-H Brown of Brownwood, Texas clothing achievement contest in Ray Brown of Dupo, Illinois and 1946 which warranted her trip Kenneth Brown of Farmersburgto the National Congress. ' a daughter, Mrs. Irene Cummins Miss Godfrey is the daughter of Shelburn; a brother, Carl of Mr. and Mrs. Basil Godfrey of Brown of East Glenn, and twelve Sullivan, R. 2. : "- grandchildren. '
CHICAGO, July 12 (UP) Kenesaw M. Landis II, columnist
for The Chicago Sun-Times, died today in Billings Memorial Hospital.
Blanks for the Indiana snlHierc ' . 'T annic ,-n f-
u .U..u.J, uu, uau Ltll' 111 XWL bonus; have -arrived, the -Rev.Tom'i&v6ral ---vfm-s'- H- wp-h.. t
Jennings, veterans affairs offi- rest at his home at Pottawotomie
cer, announced today. The blanks Point, Logansport, Ind., at freare available at his office on the Iquent intervals. He entered Billthird floor of the Court House. ' ings for surgery a week ago. "
However, the Rev. Mr. Jen- He was born at Logansport, nings pointed out that time will where he had continued his pracbe set aside for assistance in fill- tice of law since he began writing mg out the forms, and all vet- : his column in 1941. erans who wish assistance should ; . Landis was a member of a diswatch for announcements as ,to iinguished family. He was named when and where such assistance ; for his 'great uncle, Judge Kenwill be available. - jesaw Mountain Landis, the first On Thursday night, from 7 o'- . high commissioner of baseball
ciock to a o clock there will be and former Federal jurist, clerks in the auditorium of the i Landis father, Frederick, was Court House to assist, in filling, a Congressman as was an uncle, out the applications. ' j Charles. Another uncle, Walter, Dates for the towns in the j was the first postmaster in Puerto county will be announced after 'Rico and another uncle, John, a meeting of the Legion Countv
..... " t .iv.Mii.il tuiuijiwaiuuci AJi U1i Council tonight at Carlisle. Icinnati.
The blanks will be forwarded j Landis took his bachelor's deto Indianapolis when comoleted
twnere they will be Drocessed ' in 1Q9Q hr etri;a i, tj
Veterans have until Jan. 1, 1951 iana University and the Univerto fill out and file the blanks, isity of Southern California, and there will not be a priority He began practicing law in on payment. In other words, an Denver in 1937 and returned to early filing of an application will j Logansport in 1939, serving there not mean "a quicker navment'ae
when the mnoey is collected. He entered the newspaper field
-...., as a columnist with The Chicago TODAY'S TEMPERATURES Sun and stayed with it when it The unofficial temDeratures
--- ( w. &wv j. lie x mica. AvicdiiSullivan today were: i while, he continued to practice at 7:30 a.m. 72 degrees law in Logansport with his broat noons fl5 HpjroB th
acf-Findin
oard Plannedln
Steel Dispute
WASHINGTON. Jul v 12ttp
President Truman announced today he is creating a fact-find-in? board in an effort to stave off the threatened steel strike. The President asked steel management' and - the' United Steelworkers of America (CIO) to continue work and operations for 60 days after the July 18 date, while the board examines the dispute. , The White Hous said members of the investigating board will be named in a day or twu. The proposal would spare Mr. Truman the political embarrassment of resorting to, the TaftHartley act which he reDeatedlv
has asked .Congress to scrap.
Part of the proposal was said to include a Presidential request to CIO President Philip Murray to delay the scheduled walkout 30 to 60 days to give the board a chance to hold hearings and make recommendations. The recommendations would not be binding on either side. Murray postponed a steel strike for one week in January, 1946. at tho President's request. Meanwhile, Presidential Press Secretary Charles G. Ross said the White House may make a statement later today on steel situation. He said "the entire steel matter is under consideration at the White House" but he could not say whether Mr. Truman would appoint an emergency board.
The American League took an
early lead by scoring four runs
in the first inning against . Warren Spahn. An error by Kazak
opened the way for the scorins.
with Joe DiMaggio singling home
the first run with two out. Be
fore Spahn could retire the. side three other runners had crossed
the plate.
Tn thA hnttom half rf tho inn
i-kuwin fuiNL, tnd., July 12 ing, Stan Musial hit one over the (UP) Mrs. Leona Wollert, ' scoreboard to bring in Jackie
Laforte, said today she will re- Robinson who had doubled. Thov file her suit against the "Big added a run in the bottom of the
nouse, an Indiana Harbor gam- second, and then took a 5 to 4
blmg casino, for recovery of the lead in the third by scoring two money she claims her husband1 more runs with Kazak's inc!
lOSl xnere Deiore ne committer) (inv no aprnso tho fifth run
Woman Will Refile Suit On Gambling Loss
suicide.
Circuit Judge Felix A. Kaul
yesterday sustained a defense motion that the LaPorte County
deputy prosecutor had no juris
Eddie Joost's single in the
fourth scored Kell and . Ted
Williams after' the Tieer . third
sacker had singled and William3
had walked: They were put - in
diction to file suit for Mrsr Wol-" scoring -positipn on' Joe, DiMag
lert in Lake County, where the casino is located. Mrs. Wollert's husband, Eldo, a salesman, was found in a Michigan City hotel on May 20, 1948. Shortly before, he allegedly lost
$4,390 on horse-betting and at the dice tables in the "Big House." Mrs. Wollert said today she'll ask Ben Schwartz, Lake County prosecutor, to refile her claim. She filed the original suit in October, 1948, under an old Indiana law which permits recovery of gambling losses. Named as defendants were William "Peck" Gardner, one of the three operators of the casino, and Ray Bruno, an employe. Mrs. Wollert has been working in a LaPorte hospital to support her three children.
both ' the by a
Texas Governor Found Dead On Train
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Mrs. Mary Hamm Dies At Carlisle Mrs. Mary E. Hamm, age 81, died at the family residence in Carlisle this morning at 7 o'clock. She is survived by two sons, Rollie Hamm of Howard, 111, and Alvis Hamm of OaVtown: four daughters. Mrs. Dora Hamilton. Mrs. Ida Griffith, and Mrs. Nelle Houpt, all of Carlisle, and Mrs. Ethel Fouelette of Farmington, Mich.; twelve grandchildren and ten . great-grand
children. The body was taken to the
c"hui7o Fimoral Home in Carlisle and will be removed to the residence Wednesday morning. Funeral services will be held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock nt te residence with the Rev. A. W. Stoneburner officiating. Burial will be in the Carlisle Town Cemetery.
gio's ground out. That put the
Americans in front again 6 to 5.
In the sixth inning with Vern
Bickford of the Boston Braves
pitching. Dom DiMaggio ODened
with a double to left. After Kell had walked, Joe DiMaggio dou
bled to left driving across baserunners and putting American League ahead score of 8 to 5.
With the National League at bat in the bottom of the sixth
inning rain forced suspension of
play, when play was resumed
the National Leaguers put together two hits to score two runs and cut the American Lpague
lead to 8 to 7.
The American Leaguers "added
three runs in the top of the seventh against Howie Pollet, of thft St. Louis Cards. Dom DiMag'6
drove in Joe Gordon from second
base, and then he scored on
single by Bob Dillinger of the
Browns. Dale- Mitchell hit a long
double to drive in Dillinger" -.o give the American League team
its 11th run and a 11 to 7 lead.
There was no scoring after that, with the totals on the game
being 11 runs, 13 hits and one error for the Americans, and seven runs, 11 hits and five errors for the Nationals, Trucks was the
winner and Newcombe was the
loser.
his
GOV. BEAUFORD H. JESTER
- j r - j - - v vv jluuiiu ucau in in berth aboard a train on which he was journeying to Houston for a physical checkup. Death was at 4JU..iA J A A 1 . . . ...
unuu 10 natural causes ai an inquest held shortly after his body was removed (left) from the train in Houston. (International Soundphotos.)
Countv Wheat Loan Rates Announced The wheat loan rate has been
announced at $2.08 for Sullivan I County. I Farme-s wishing to get a loan I must have their wheat farm
stored or get a warehouse receipt. If the wheat is farm stored Vi of r muni v.nii'f U I m ! . A
v inuot iixjuLy men inpie i ' n Office to get a samole for test, i BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENT v
If a warehouse receipt is ob-' Mr. and Mrs. Jack Rader of tained it may be presented to 301 West Washington Street, are the AAA Office for the comple- the parents of a daughter born tion of a loan. 'July 11 at the Mary Sherman . The deadline date for . obtain- Hospital. The infant has not ing a loan is December 31, 1949. been named as yet.
Texas Honors Its
! Dead Governor
AUSTIN, Tex., July 12.. (UP) The body of Gov. Beauford H. Jester lay in state today beneath the Lone Star flag of Texas. Flown here from Houston, where the 56-year-old administrator was found dead of a heart ailment in his sleeping car. berth, the body rested overnight in the executive mansion and then
laid out in state in the chambers of the Texas Senate.
A brief service was olannftd
this afternoon. Then ,the- body will be flown to Jester's h
town of Corsicana for burial tJ
morrow. J
State officials said the povp
nor's death undoubtedly was dJ
to nis "devotion to duty" durii the recent legislative session, tJ
longest m the state's history.