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Wednesday, February 1. 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE F1VB Search River For AF Plane Which Ran Out Of Fuel; Two Killed Pittsburgh (U.P.) The police river patrol searched the swift moving Monongahela River here today for a twin-engine B25 Air Force bomber which ran out of fuel, crashed and sank with the loss of two lives. The plane hit the water Tues day afternoon about five miles southeast of Pittsburgh's Golden Triangle, where the Mononga hela and Allegheny rivers join to form the Ohio River. Four Air Force men aboard were res cued, but two were missing and presumed dead. The crash site was about eight miles downstream from where a transport ditched Dec. 22, 1954, with a loss of 10 lives. Nine of the dead were holiday bound servicemen. That plane also ran out of fuel. Inadequate Fuel Supply The Air Force launched an Immediate investigation to learn why the bomber, en route from Las Vegas, Nev., to Washing ton, D.C., apparently left Self ridge Air Force Base, Mich., its last stop before crashing, with an inadequate fuel supply. The Air Force identified the missing as Capt. Jean P. In ghram, 29, of South Charleston, W. Va., and S-Sgt. Walter E. Soocey, 32, of Alaska. The survivors were listed as the pilot, Maj. William L. Dod son, commander of the Neliis AFB Weather Office; Co-pilot Capt. John Jamieson, of Mechan icsburg, Pa.; M-Sgt. Alfred J. Al leman, 38, Neliis AFB, and Air man 2-c Charles L. Smith, 19, of Philadelphia. (The survivors had time to Boy Crushed To Death Under Family Car Eugene (U.R) Robert . Jude Smith, 14, was crushed to death Monday evening when the fam ily car slipped off blocks as he was working underneath it. The Lane county sheriff's of fice reported that the boy was working with his father, George Smith, and a neighbor, James Viner, installing a new battery In the car. i The car had been propped up on wooden blocks and rocks placed to hold the wheels in place on the hillside where it was parked. The boy crawled under the car to hold up the battery sup port, reached forward and took hold of the bumper to move him self forward when the car slip ped off the supports crushing him beneath the front axle. ' Talent School Gets New Library Books4 Talent Some 200 new books have been added to the Talent Elementary school central li brary, which opened for the first time this year. The central library serves chil dren in grades four through eight. Students in grades one through three are served from room libraries, for which teach ers receive books from the cen tral library. - School officials hope that next th library may have tables, chairs and bookcases. scramble; onto a wing of .the plane after it hit the swollen river and started moving swiftly downstream. But the wings buckled a few minutes later and the fuselage began nosing down into the water. Three of the men leaped into the river and the two others clung desperately to the tail sec tion to await the arrival of river patrol boats and the tugboat "Titan," which put out from the nearby Jones & Laughlin steel plant dock immediately after the crash. The Monongahela was swol len by a recent thaw and run ning faster than normal when the plane crashed. PAYS FOR FUNERAL Los Angeles U.R) Abraham Rapoport,- 63, complained to a domestic relations court comis sion that his estranged wife, Sophie, 58, threatened him so much that he paid $1,800 for his own burial crypt and funeral. 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