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C-46 Cargo Plane
Explodes in NY
Streets; 5 Dead
Disaster Brings Total
; To 124 Killed in Area
New York 4J.R) A twin-engined
C-46 cargo plane groping
through a gray rainstorm for
landing at Idlewild airport
crashed into a cluster of frame
homes on Long Island Saturday,
killing five persons and injuring
24.
The crash, the fourth major
air disaster in the New York
metropolitan area in , four
months, smashed and burned six
homes and wrecked automobiles.
Scores of persons ran into the
streets fearing that their homes,
too, would go up in flames.
Two Miles Short- of Port
The U. S. airlines cargo plane,
a Curtiss Commando, ended its
flight from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.,
in a burst of flames in the Jam
aica section of Queens, 13 miles
east of Times Square and two
miles short of Idlewild airport.
The Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration said the plane flew off
the course recommended by the
control tower to the runway.
The disaster raised to 124 the
number of persons killed in four
. major airplane crashes in the
metropolitan area since Decem
ber. Three of them were at
Elizabeth, N. J., near Newark
airport, which was closed after
the third wreck.
Want Fields Closed
. The new tragedy raised cries
from residents of Queens for the
closing of La Guardia and Idle
wild airports, which are sur
rounded by densely populated
residential areas on Long Island.
It disrupted a search by local
and federal authorities for ways
to lift the "umbrella of danger"
created by low-flying airplanes.
"These air-rmrrders J must
top," declared State Sen. Sey
mour Helpern.
The pilot and co-pilot of the
C-46 were blown to bits when
their plane dropped out of the
sky with its landing gear down.
Most of the dead and injured
were in the crumpled, burned-
' out buildings!
Homes Burned Out
Some of the injured were not
in serious condition, but had to
remain at hospitals because they
had no place to go. Only the
walls of their charred homes
were left.
A police inspector was killed
while driving down the street.
His automobile was caught by
one of the plane's wings as it
smacked against a fence. A nurse
was hurt by a piece of flying
wreckage as she walked to the
corner to take a bus to work.
One of the planes engines
cracked onto the pavement near
where she was hit.
Plan Explodes
The plane exploded after it
roared into one two-story frame
dwelling and bounced across a
parking lot into another home,
only a short distance from a
main thoroughfare and a busy
Jamaica shopping center.
The blast, heard for. blocks,
showered the intersection of
169th street and 88th avenue
with flaming wreckage and
cargo. Three frame houses on
one corner were burned out.
Diagonally across the street,
two other , frame dwellings sep
arated by the parking lot, were
destroyed. The houses on the
other two corners were almost
'untouched.
; (See Stories Pag 7) . -
Government Units Start
Preparation of
With the deadline for com
pletion of budgests still about
three months away, county, city
and county school officials this
.week start preparation of plans
for the .coming fiscal year.
The county rural school board
has conducted four meetings on
budgets and the county school
office is now required to notify
local district boards of any
changes before April 10. Hear
ings on changes will be held
April IS and 16 and rural boards
will be notified of final changes
on or before April 20.
County Superintendent Alf B.
Mekvold said this morning that
the final budget will exceed the
six per cent limitation on the
county equalized levy. County
wide elections for approval of
exceeding the limitation will be
held on or before the third Mon
I : Op
"GOOD Christian living and a
happy family" are. responsible
for long life says Mrs. Christina
Nelson, 106 - year - old, of Nor
walk, Cal. (International)
Employment Stays
Slow During March
OSES Report Says
While employment picked up
somewhat during March, the
month remained a "winter
month" from the employment
standpoint, it was reported Sat
urday by the Medford office of
the Oregon State Employment
Service.
The greatest gain in the num
ber of jobs available came dur
ing the last week of the month,
the report said, and outside work
generally began to get under
way and some new hires were
being made, but had not yet
reached any considerable vol
ume. Claims Drop
The number of jobless pay
claims dropped 15.3 per cent
from February, and were con
tinuing to drop as the month
ended. The number of unem
ployed on the last day of the
month was estimated at 1,938, a
decline of 23.6 per cent from the
month before. Job placements
were about 40 per cent better
than in February.
The report said the labor sup
ply here appears to be adequate
for the next 60 days, but that
after then the usual increase in
seasonal work may cause short
ages in some occupations, par
ticularly in skilled trades.
This will probably be the case
regardless of what takes place
regarding the reconstruction at
Camp White, the report said, and
it predicted that if the Army
project is carried out, there will
be an even greater shortage
which will extend to many other
occupations.
A considerable number of
high school students will be
available for permanent employ
ment after graduation in June,
and the report said the employ
ment office has been conducting
an extensive aptitude testing
program, which has shown this
year's graduating classes to offer
an excellent source of recruit
ment for new employees. -
The office . invited inquiries
regarding employment of gradu
ates. .
New York (U.R) Newbold
Morris, ousted , federal corrup
tion hunter, said Saturday night
that it would be impossible for
the FBI to handle an investiga
tion such as the one he started
Brussels, Belgium (U.R) An
international jury of film per
sonalities Saturday named the
27-year-old Russian film, "Bat
tleship Potemkin," as the best
film of the past SO years.
Budgets
day in May with the exact date
undecided, he said. .
Departmental estimates of
costs for the 1952-53 fiscal year
are still being received by the
county- court. After estimates
have been received from the
county clerk, the district court
and county welfare commission,
meetings will be scheduled by
the budget committee and the
county court. Public hearings
will also be scheduled.
City officials report that they
are about ready to start meet
ings of the budget committee
and the city council on the-Medford
fiscal program for the com
ing year. Members of the city
budget committee include Chair
man Floyd Watkins, and Jim
Roots, Robert Rector, ' Tony
Manno, Charles Crary,' Lew
Bates, Archie Fries and A. A.
Lausmann.
Collision of Two
Military Planes
Kills 15 Persons
Mother and Child Die
In Crash Over Mobil
Mobile, Ala. AJ.R A mother
and her critically ill baby being
flown to a hospital on a mercy
mission were among IS persons
killed when two big military
planes collided over Mobile,
authorities reported late Satur
day. The bodies of Mrs. Paul E.
Neville and her eight-weeks old
son Robert were among the nine
recovered from the twisted fuse
lage of a C-47 transport which
crashed into a swamp after the
spectacular air collision Friday
night.
Long Starch for Plan
Ground and helicopter teams
which reached the demolished
transport after a long search
Saturday also brought out the
body of Sgt. Paul E. Neville, son
of Mrs. Hallie Buster of Arcadia,
Calif.
Officials of Lawson Air Force
Base near Ft Benning, Ga., said
the Neville's were being rushed
to Walter Reed hospital at
Washington. D. C for an emer
gency operation on the child for
a dangerous tumor.
The collision low over Mobile
suburbs tragically ended an Air
Force effort to save the life of
the son of the youthful trainee
of a Ft.. Benning officer candi
date school. Lawson officials
said.
The transport had been sum
moned from Brookley Field.
Ala., for the mission. '
Another victim was the flight
nurse, officials said.
Try to Cool Wreckage
Other squads worked to cool
off the wreckage of a huge C-124
cargo plane that had plunged in
flames into a railroad yard, but
after 24 hour only five of the
six bodies believed aboard the
craft had been recovered.
Scorching heat still prevented
a complete search of the plane
that had plummeted in flames
into yards of the Gulf. Mobile
and Ohio railroad after the mis
hap low over a Mobile suburb.
Names of the victims aboard
the C-124 could not be released
until after a special disaster
identification squad could be
brought in late Saturday -ty
piane irom Wright Field at Day
ton, O.
Based at Brookley
All crewmen of the C-47 were
said to have been based at near
by Brookley Field, including the
flight nurse reported among the
dead.
A spokesman at Brooklev
Field said the Nevilles were un
derstood to have been en route to
the Walter Reed hospital at
Washington to obtain emergency
medical treatment for the child.
This could not be confirmed
immediately, however.
Communists Claim
Illegal UN Attack
Tokyo. Sunday (UJD Com
munist truce negotiators
submitted a "furious protest"
today at Panmunjom charging
tnat two United Nations planes
attacked Red delegation supply
vehicles yesterday morning.
Col. Chang Chun San, senior
Communist liason officer, hand
ed the protest to Col. Andrew J.
Kinney, the U. N.'s senior liason
officer, this morning.
The protest was the only con
crete development of the day as
sub-delegates held one of the
shortest truce supervision meet
ings in a three-minute parley
that wound up with an agree
ment again to disagree.
High-ranking officers from
both sides participating in the
debate have met for three. 20
and 11 minutes in the three
sessions since the issues were
passed up to the sub-delegate
level. I
Truce strategy was being map
ped at United Nations and
Communist headquarters while
the negotiators met at Panmun
jom.
The greatest secrecy of the
nearly 10-month-old truce talks
cloaked separate high-level
conferences in. Munsan and
Kaesong.
Meknes, French Morocco U.fc
Five Moroccans were killed and
several persona were wounded
in a clash between soldiers and
demonstrators Saturday at Mrirt
a village SO miles south of
Keknes, police reports said. Two
European soldiers of the French
Army were among the wounded,
it was reported.
ueiore Headline
On Phone Dispute
Negotiators Plan
Meetings Today
New York 0J to Company
and union negotiators seeking
to avert a nationwide telephone
strike Monday recessed negotia
tions Saturday with no agree
ment in sight.
Representatives of the CIO
Communications Workers of
America and the Western Dee
trie company were brought to
gether by federal mediators,
who threatened to keep them
in round-the-clock sessions. The
meeting recessed shortly after
S p.m., however, and will be
resumed at 1p m. today.
Sales and distribution em
ployee represenUUves met after
a brief recess in the only ses
sion resumed late Saturday, but
a spokesman said "no over-all
decision could be made by the
N Progress
The mediators reported "no
progress had been made on the
10 main contract items at issue,
but the "slight progress' had
been made on minor matters.
The principle issues are wages,
seniority, a strike clause and
a union shop.
The union threatened to throw
picket lines around major tele
phone exchanges in 43 states
and the District of Columbia at
6 a.m. Monday if the company
still refused to meet its wsge
demands by then.
Refus to Pass Pickets
Other telephone workers al
so members of the CWA-have
refused to cross picket lines in
the past, and the strike could tie
up telephone service around the
nation at a time when it already
is overtaxed because of a tele
graph strike.
The only states not sffected
would be Maine. New Hamp
shire. Vermont. Rhode Island
and Montana.
Increases Offered
The Western Electric em
ployes install and distribute
telephone equipment. The com
pany has offered the 10.000 in
stallers wsge Increases of 10 to
12 cents an hour and the dis
tributors 10 to 16 cents an hour.
The union ' has not made a
specific wage demand.
Jack Creaier, manager of the
Pacific Telephone and Telegraph
company here,- said Saturday
that he is unable to tell what
effect a strike of Western Elec
tric employees will have on
telephone service in Medford.
Creager pointed out that Ore
gon workers are not involved
in a dispute and that the pending
strike involves Western Electric
company employees, of which
about 200 are in Oregon. There
are a few Western Electric em
ployees ' in Medford. Creager
srid. and the' local situation de
pends on whether they put out
a picket line here, and if they
do. how many telephone workers
will vross it
SPORTS BULLETINS
Medford track and field
teams scored triumphs over
Klamath Falls teams in compe
tition there Saturday. Tb
Medford Junior high school
fMat tipped tb Klamath jun
iors 72 to 32 and th Medford
Froth gained a 77-44 victory
ever th Klamath Froth.
Sacrament. Calif. U.R)
Ed Chandler, stingy Los An
gelas righthander, pitched
his second straight shutout
victory of i h young PCL
campaign tonight, as th An
gels nipped Sacramento. 1-0.
on his four hitter.
General's Son Missing on Patrol
In Korea; Portland Man on Plane
Seoul. Korea UP First Lt.
James A. Van Fleet Jr.. only son
of the 8th. Army commander,
disappeared in enemy territory
during his fourth night combat
mission in a B-28 Invader light
bomber early Friday.
Tall, handsome "Young Jim,
26. had been In Korea just three
weeks and last saw his father
on March 19. the general's 60th
birthday. His plane, with two
other crew members aboard,
failed to return from a bombing
mission east of Sunchon, 80
miles south of the Yalu in north
west Korea.
The general himself reported
to newsmen that "My boy, Jim,
is missing in action."
Lt Van Fleet recently wrote
his mother that he wanted no
tears spilled because be was go-
ing into combat The general
took the news with outward -
calm and made hardly a break
in the rigid routine of his mili
tary duties.
But he spent an hour la his
Ike Delieved Set
To Resign NATO
Post This Week
Iowa Showing Termed
"Clear Call to Duty"
Paris -41 K Close associates
of Gen. Dwighl D. Eisenhower
Saturday described his powerful
showing in Iowa where the GOP
elected 14 convention delegates
favorable to the general as "an
other clear call to political
duty."
They predicted he may answer
early next week with his formal
resignation as NATO supreme
commander so he may return to
the United Stales to open an
all-out personal campaign for the
Republican presidential nomina
tion. Significant Development
His national campaign man
sger. Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge
Jr. described the endorsement
given Eisenhower by the Iowa
state convention as -"a very sig
nificant development"
Lodge said the Iowa results
proved Eisenhower's "great ap
peal" to political workers as well
as to the voters.
"Iowa is an important state in
the heart of the middle west" he
said. "It had been claimed 100
per cent by the opposition daft)
and we thought we'd be lucky
to break even.
"Proves Appeal"
"For Eisenhower to get the
majority of Iowa delegates
proves that he has great appeal
for Republican political workers
as well as for the general pub
lic." the Massachusetts senator
said.
The senator and Eisenhower
campaign manager saw the gen
eral for more than six hours
later and it was widely reported
her the two put into final form
Eisenhower'a letter of resigna
tion from his present military
post
Telegraph Strike
Reported Easing
Washington AJ.R) Western
Union officials Saturday night
reported that strike-ridden tele
graph service was being "rapid
ly - restored, but AFL Union
leaders immediately countered
that the three-day-old walkout bv
some 30.000 employees was "still
extremely effective."
The company said that tele
graph service has been "made
available" in 63 cities handling
nearly 60 per cent of its normal
volume of business.
In addition, the company said.
a "back to work movement" had
started in six more cities four
of them in' Louisiana.
George Hageman. Pacific re
gional director for the Western
Union division of the AFL Com
mercial Telegraphers' Union.
charged that the company claim
was "entirely false."
He said reports from union lo
cals across the country show "our
unes are holding solid. The
strike is extremely effective."
The company said a "rapid
restoration of service" had been
made possible because of "re
cently completed vast mechan
ization" of Western Union oper
ations. This makes it possible
to transmit messages automat
ically, the statement said.
Washington (U.R) The
Polish embassy bowed to State
department's orders Saturday
and ordered a stop to its publica
tion of the Polish bulletin.
office, looking at the big map
hung between flags of the United
States and the United Nations
He drew a finger along routes
his pilot son might have taken
after radioing at 3:15 a. m. that
he was in heavy weather and low
on fuel.
"I can see him now," the gen
eral said softly, "with guns load
ed, socked in. He was not about
to drop his bombs in the Yellow
sea."
Portland Man Along
With Lt Van FleeJ were Lt
John A. McCallister, Portland,
Ore., th navigator-bombardier,
and Airman 1st Class Ralph L.
Phelps, engineer-gunner of Bern
idju, Minn.
Hundreds of planes searched
for the missing B-26 but the
hunt was called off Saturday
apparently on personal orders of
Gen. Van Fleet A spokesman
said UN planes "could not af
ford to carry on such an inten
sive search" and still fly neces
sary combat missions
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"RYIXG TO AVOID nationwide strike, union and industry repre
entatives meet in New York amid gloomy talk of no compromise,
ohn A. Stephens tleft), vice president of TJ. S. Steel Corp. and
hilip Murray. Steelworkers' union chief are spokesmen for oppos
ng Interests. Strike is scheduled for Tuesday. (International)
Steel Industry and Union
Agree to Meeting Today
New York (U.R) Steel indus
try and union leaders agreed
Saturday to meet face to face
today to try to avert a nation
wide strike scheduled for mid
night Tuesday.
The break came shortly after
Nathan P. Feinsinger announced
that he has the power to revise
wage increases his wage stabili
zation board recommended for
the CIO steelworkers.
Negotiations were broken off
Economy Forces
Chop $6 Billion
From New Budget
Washington (U.R) Biparti
House economy forces claimed
Saturday to have chopped $6,
000,000.000 from President Tru
man's "rock bottom" spending
requests for next year, and they
promised more cuts.
Rep. John Taber (R-, N. Y.),
ranking minority member of the
appropriations committee, fore
cast a total'reduction of around
$10,000,000,000.
This would bring the presi
dent's budget for fiscal 1953,
starting July 1, down to about
$75,000,000,000. Mr. Truman
asked for $85,000,000,000.
More Cuts Slated
Appropriations committee
Chairman Clarence Cannon CD.,
Mo.), agreed that more cuts will
be made. He set no special goal.
Cannon said the House so far
this year has made a "very satis
factory" economy record.
Republican Leader Joseph W.
Martin Jr. (Mass.), fixed as the
next target a $46,680,384,270
military spending bill that comes
up in the House Monday. The
appropriations committee al
ready has trimmed it $4,240,
638,500 below President Tru
man's request for $50,921,022,
770. .
Hous Will Go Further
Martin said the House "un
doubtedly" will want to go
further in slashing this measure.
He predicted the House will trim
it by an additional $1,500,000,
000. Cannon tried in committee to
deepen the defense cut by about
$1,300,000,000. However, he said
he will not propose the addi
tional cuts on the House floor.
He will support the bill as it
came from committee. Cannon
said.
Red Cross Reports
Progress in Drive
Collections in the 1952 drive
for funds of the American Red
Cross chapter here climbed to
48.8 per cent of its $27,500 goal
by the end of the week, officers
here said Saturday.
A total of $13,421 has so far
been collected.
The drive will continue
throughout April, or until the
goal is reached, they said.
Chapter officers also reported
that the Red Cross' communica
tions system is still operating
from key . cities to the armed
forces centers, despite the West
ern Union strike, and that emer
gency mes-aces to men in serv
ice can still be handled, -
Thursday when the company re
fused to pay the Steelworkers
the recommended 26 cents an
hour increase, offering a 16-cent
boost.
Feinsinger Announces Meeting
Feinsinger, who flew here Fri
day for emergency meetings with
the disputants, announced the
calling of the joint meeting for
today.
"It should be definitely under,
stood that this is not to be a
negotiating meeting," he said.
"Nor should the holding of this
meeting be interpreted to indi
cate that either side has changed
its position.
- "Acceptance of the invitation
by both sides simply indicates
a spirit of cooperation which I
hope will be furthered as a re
sult of the meetings." '
He said the meetings would
be "informal" with attendance
limited to one representative of
each of the "big six" steel com
panies, Philip Murray, president
of the steelworkers, and two
other union officials.
Settlement Reached in Portland
In Portland, Ore., meantime,
the union and Oregon steel mills
announced agreement on a con
tract which called for a wage in
crease less than that recommend
ed by the WSB.
The agreement calls for
immediate wage increases of
12V& cents an hour to take effect
July 1 of this year and Jan. 1,
1953.
Six paid holidays and a more
liberal vacation clause also are
called for in the contract.
BULLETIN
Sacramento (U.R) Opera
tions at McClellan Air Fore
Bate said an aircraft was down
in the Antelope area north of
Sacramento. No information
on th plan was available.
Th Civil Aeronautics Admin
istration in Oakland, Calif,
said it had heard a report that
a B-29 was seen to hav ex
ploded northeast of th air
fore base. -
Montana Town Gets Breath
As Flood Threats Slacken
BY VERN MCINTYRE
United Press Correspondent
Chinook, Mont. (U.R) An
"ill wind" blew good for Chi
nook late Saturday and hopes
soared that a "major disaster"
had been averted at least until
today.
. Another warm day with brisk
westerly winds was the forecast.
A feared west surface wind
came in high and reversed itself,
aiding the town's populace man
ning dikes on the west side. A
few minutes later, a dead calm
lay over the city. It appeared
Chinook had weathered what
city officials termed a "crisis."
Crest Blivd Past
County Surveyor William Ol
sen said he believed the crest of
the Milk river that has run
rampant down a 200-mile-long
valley had passed on down
stream. "However, there's an
enormous amount of water head
ing this way down the north
fork. Everything north of us is
brimming, so w can't by any
means get too optimistic."'
It was State Flood Authority
Richard Dightman of the Helena
Weather bureau who" earlier
Michigan Selects
41 Uninstrucfed
GOP Delegates
Taft Gets Idaho
Delegates as Unit
Washington (U.R) Taft and
Eisenhower bids for the Repub
lican presidential nomination
Saturday appeared to be a neck-and-neck
race although the lat
est tabulation of delegates voted
read 130 for Taft and 65 for
Eisenhower.
The race gathered new speed
as three states -picked 62 more
delegates to the GOP national
convention.
Ik Boosters Claim Win
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's
boosters claimed a victory on the
grounds that the general picked
up a majority of the 46-vote Mi
chigan delegation, and three
delegates in the fifth district of
Kansas.
Sen. Robert A. Taft's backers
pointed to the fact that Idaho
instructed its 14 delegates for the
Ohio senator and claimed as
good a chance as the opposition
camp to split the Michigan group
on a 50-50 basis.
Michigan's big block of votes,
chosen in state convention at
Detroit, was the question mark.
Only three of them actually
were instructed to vote for Eis
enhower and two of them for
Taft. The remaining 41 were
not instructed to support any
candidate for the GOP presiden
tial nomination and can swing
any direction when the national
convention meets at Chicago in
July. An informal poll indicated
they were split evenly at this
time between the Taft and
Eisenhower forces
There was no question about
the others.
Idaho Delegates Ar Unit
Idaho, a Taft stronghold, put
its 14 delegates under a "unit"
rule, requiring them to itick to
gether in convention balloting.
The Fifth District of Kansas,
Eisenhower's home state, picked
two district delegates favorable
to the general and a third whose
selection must be confirmed by
the state convention at Topeka
next Thursday.
Discounting . the conflicting
claims between the rival camps,
today's selections appeared to
leave Taft still out in front on
the number of openly pledged
delegates chosen so far this year.
ihe latest tabulation gave:
Taft 130; Eisenhower 65: Gov.
Earl Warren of California 6;
Harold E. Stassen of Minnesota
21; Gen. Douglas A. MacArthur
2; and uncommitted 67.
Favorable Vote Given
$195,000 Bond Issue
Central Point Pa
Consolidated School District 6
voted 130 to 65 here and in Gold
Hill Saturday favoring a $195,
000 bond issue.
The bond issue was askerl to
complete a classroom wing at the
new Crater high school and shop
building and to build four new
rooms at the junior high school.
Architects will meet with the
school board Monday, it was
stated, and plans are expected
to be completed in a week Fol
lowing completion of plans, bids
will be called. -
warned of a wave-making west
erly wind, but he explained
Saturday night that apparently
a different density of air over
the city forced the current aloft
It then doubled back. -Livestock
Doomed
A hundred head of livestock
in small groups were , marooned
on specks of land around Chi
nook. They were doomed. It was
impossible to get feed to them,"
even by air because a pilot
would need a bomb sight
An estimated 1,000 head of
lambs and ewes have drowned
around here alone. Bodies of
hundreds of animals dotted the
water as I flew over the scene. .
It was strange, there was a brisk
westerly wind up there while
chimney smoke was streaming
the other direction. That was the
Godsend Chinook prayed for.
"Operation Haylift" plane
personnel shot drowning animals
this afternoon as Dightman re
leased the forecast' that flood
weary residents had hoped
they'd never hear: "A 20-mile-an-hour
wind from the west"
and arrival of the river's crest
by sunset
(S Story Pag 5)