Tragic Crash of Neu York PlanG
Shatters Quiet Saturday horning
New York (UJO It was a
quiet Saturday morning like
hundreds of others familiar to
the folks who live on 169th
street a block from the subway
terminal in Jamiaca. Some were
still asleep. Others were having
breakfast or reading the paper.
That was at 8:30 a.m. but a
minute later the intersection of
169th St and 88th avenue was
in flames. Some of those who
had been, preparing for the day
were dead. Others were fight
ing to escape the flames touch
ed off by the crash of. a cargo
plane in their neighborhood, the
fourth such crash in the metro
politan area in four months.
Tell of Disaster
The people who live around
169th St. and 88th avenue told
how disaster strikes.
"When we heard this one go
over low, I held the baby up
to the window to look at it,"
said Mrs. Dorothy Levy. "My
baby is very plane conscious.
Johnny looked at it. I could see
that it was in trouble. None of
the planes ever flew that low
around here." -
Her voice still quavered.
"Right after that I saw a flash
of fire and I heard the crash,"
she said.
Out in the street, Sam von
Nostrand was at. work in his
parking lot, just across the street
from his home.
Glanced Off House
"The plane came in from the
south and glanced off the house
Angry Home Owners Want
Closure of Two Air Fields
New York U.R) Angry Newark airport after three plane
home owners near La Guardia
and Idlewood airports demand
ed Saturday that the $147,000,
000 fields be closed immediately
before any more planes crash
in the heavily populated area.
Their demands were made as
five investigations into the
crash got underway. Some civic
leaders said they would not sup
port the move to shut down the
fields but insisted that new safer
regulations be issued promptly.
Closing of the fields which
handle more than 800 plane
movements . daily would shut
down the nation's biggest air
center almost completely. Air
traffic already has been hard
hit by a ban placed against
crashes in Elizabeth, N. J., kill
ed 119 persons.
. The investigations into Sat
urday's crash were begun swift
ly by the Civil Aeronautical Ad
ministration, Civil Aeronautics
Board, the Queens Borough
president, Queens district attor
ney and a special industry union
government committee headed
by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker
Peter Donoghue, assistant
Queens county district attorney,
said "We already are lining up
witnesses and we will question
them Saturday and Sunday."
But many Queens residents
were not satisfied with the in
vestigations and demanded that
the airport be closed.
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next to mine," he said. "Then
it jammed into my house, setting
it afire.
Van Nostrand, whose hand
was cut by flying debris, watch
ed as the ship cut a swath 200
yards wide and reduced the in
tersection by his parking lot to
ruin.
Nat Kresel was driving ' to
work today when the plane
roarde out of the sky above him.
Pilot Gave It Everything
"That pilot was giving it ev
erything to keep out of danger,"
Kresel said. "It was so loud and
so close that I jammed on my
brakes. Then I heard the crash.
It was awful.
"When the firemen arrived I
jumped out and tried to help
out the best I could. One engine
had fallen in the street There
was fire everyplace.
"One body was in the -street.
It must have been thrown 200
feet mangled like it was put
through a meat grinder."
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Administration
Clean-Up-Drive
Termed Failure
Washington (U.R) An admin
istration critic said Saturday
President Truman's "great
drive" to clean up government
corruption has ended in com
plete failure.
Rep. Kenneth B. Keating (R
N. Y.), senior GOP member of
a House Subcommittee investi
gating the Justice Department,
renewed his demand for presi
dential cooperation with "out
side agencies, such as the vari
ous congressional committees, in
bringing out the facts."
Then, if the move to throw
out wrong-doers is to succeed.
Keating said, Mr. Truman should
appoint a special prosecutor
responsible only to the President
: to take the cases to court.
! , Keating recalled that Presi
! dent Coolidge used a similar plan
in dealing with the persons in-
volved in the Teapot Dome scan
!dal. Keating said a change of faces
; in the Attorney General's office
I would not restore "public con
i fidence in the integrity of the
administration.
Neither he nor Rep. Patrick
J. Hillins (R-Cal.), another mem
ber of the same committee, held
out much hope for a change of
pace in the clean-up campaign
under the Attorney General
Designate, Judge James Patrick
McGranery of Pennsylvania.
President Truman appointed
McGranery on Thursday to suc
ceed J. Howard McGrath, who
was fired in an explosive sequel
to McGrath's summary dismissal
of corruption hunter Newbold
Morris.
Morris, a special assistant at
torney general, and ' McGrath,
nominally his boss, fell into a
wrangle over searching financial
Questionnaires which were de
signed to give Morris some leads
"on wrong-doers. McGrath balk
ed at answering his and refused
to distribute others to the top
members of his staff.
McGranery, after a hurry-up
trip here Friday from Philadel
phia to confer with Mr. Truman,
said he would rely on the FBI
and its director, J. Edgar Hoo
ver, to rout corrupt public officials.
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Highway Contracts
Awarded in Oregon
Salem (UJO The Oregon
State Highway commission said
Saturday it has awarded a Sher
man county job to E. H. Itscbner
company of Molalla on low bid
of $62,121.65.
The state project is the West
Cottonwood grade section of the
Wasco-Heppner secondary high
way about 13 miles east of
Wasco. It involves 1.97 miles of
grading and 5.46 miles of rock
surfacing. '
Salem Bypass Job
The commission awarded a
Marion county job to Roy L.
Houck and Son of Salem on low
bid of $190,687.50. The federal
aid project involves the Hayes
ville school-State street unit of
the Salem bypass section of the
Pacific highway just east of Sa
lem. The project entails 3.54
miles of grading of the main
highway, 2.23 miles of frontage
roads, 2.70 miles of rock base
and oif mat wearing surface on
frontage roads.
uadar. April t. 1932
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN
UN Hando Red Planes
Second Uorst Defeat
CALIFORNIA WEATHER north coast; continued warm;
North California: Fair through variable winds 8-18 MPH -off
Sunday except for local fog coast.
Seoul, Korea 4J JO The 5th
Air Force said Saturday two
F-66 Sabre jets were shot down
by Russian-built MIG-15's in the
week ended Friday.
The Sabres, however, handed
the Red fighters their second
worst licking of the war with
40 listed as destroyed, probably
destroyed or damaged during the
week.
Higher Bag Last October
The only higher MIG bag was
last October, when 49 of the
enemy jets were hit but the
Sabres had the help of B-29 Su
perfortress gunners that week.
Air Force authorities also an
nounced only one Allied fighter
bomber was shot down by Com
munist ground fire during the
past week, the lowest loss in
more than a year. The plane was
a twin-jet, British-built and Australian-flown
Meteor.
However, the U.N. lost two
B-26 light bombers and one F4U
shore-based Marine plane to un
known causes.
Type 15 Jet Downed
The 5th Air Force's toll of
enemy jets comprised 15 destroy
ed, four probably destroyed and
21 damaged. These included one
"Type-15" Red jet probably de
stroyed and another damaged.
On the ground. Communist
foot soldiers launched a series
of probing attacks all along the
Korean front following several
heavier-than usual actions Fri
day in which the Reds lost 43
dead and 25 wounded.
DOCTOR NAMED
Topeka. Kan. (U.PJ Dr. J.
Cotter Hirschberg, now associ
ated with the University of Colo
rado medical center, will become
director of the Menninger Foun
dation's department of child psy
chiatry July 1, it was announced
at Topeka Friday,
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