Mian -Believed billed in Flane .Crash'
by SFG3D in PhoenBx, Ariz.
Poscoveired
Phoenix; Ariz.-ffiPD-The in
vestigation of the mysterious
crash of ajr airliner in the
Gulf of Mexico with a loss
of 42 lives was cracked wide
open today with the r arrest
by the FBI of an - ex-convict
listed as one of the victims. '
Robert V. Spears, 64,. a
self-styled doctor wanted in
Los Angeles on an .abortion
charge, was nabbed Ty fed
eral agents late Wednesday"
when he dashed into a wait
ing taxi after, checking out of
a lavish motel : hideout- n.,,.
Link Strengthened
Spear's arrest 'strengthen
ed the possibility' of a link
between the Gulf crash last
Nov. 16 and the Jan. 6 crash
of a New York to Miami air
liner near Bolivia, N.C. with
a loss of 34 lives.
Julian Frank, 32, a New
York attorney is suspected of
carrying a bomb aboard the
Miami flight in an effort to
defraud insurance companies
out of nearly $1 million.
Suspected of Trickery ' -:
Spears is suspected of hav
ing tricked an old acquant
ance, William Allen Taylor,
58, of Tampa, Fla.; into board
ing the ill-fated Tampa to
New Orleans flight in an ef
fort to collect $100,000 in in
surance.
Both men named their
wives as beneficiaries.
" Spears was linked to Frank
by Donald Loomis, 50, Spears
co-defendant in the Los An
geles abortion case. Loomis
told investigators when he
and Spears were arrested last
July that Spears told him
Frank was his attorney. He
quoted Spears as saying: "I
think I?d better call my at
torney in New York, Julian
Frank." ..
Acquaintance ' Admitted '.. -
. Spears also is reported to
have admitted to the FBI at
the time of his arrest: Wed
nesday that he knew Frank,
but only as just another New
York attorney.
Authorities thus far have
been reluctant to link the two
air tragedies but the possi
bility of a tie-in was being in
vestigated. ; The FBI was handling the
possible criminal phases of
both crashes while the Civil
Aeronautics. Board attempted
to determine the cause of the
wrecks. , ,
' Statement Possible
Asked by a reporter if he
; placed a bomb aboard the Na
' tional Airlines flight that
crashed in the Gulf, the white
haired, bespectacled Spears
replied:
"No, but maybe I'll have a
statement sometime tomorrow."
Spears was neld in 535,000
bail on the technical charge
of stealing the car of the man
he may have hypnotized into
taking his place on the air
liner. '-.
Flu Blaimed for
Nine LA. Deaths
Los Angeles - (UPD - The
Asian flu epidemic which has
afflicted an estimated one mil
lion persons here today was
named responsible for nine
deaths in Los Angeles county.
A deputy coroner, however,
said the death toll might rise
when records of the 11-day-old
outbreak are complete.
"Roughly speaking," he said,
"we have only about one-fifth
of the total recorded."
"We have had a number of
premature deaths which have
been due to tardy medical
treatment," said Dr. Reginald
Smart, chairman of the public
health committee of the Coun
ty Medical association.
Dr. Smart said the flu might
go into pneumonia and that
there have been 13 deaths
from pneumonia in the coun
ty this year. Of these, he said,
five were directly attributed
to the flu and flu was a con
tributing cause in four of the
others.
Counties Receive
Highway Revenue
Salem - (UPD -' Secretary of
State Howell Appling Jr., an
nounced today that apportion
ment to Oregon counties of
highway revenue for the three
months ending Dec. 31, was
$3,109,017.
Nineteen per cent of money
collected from motor vehicle
registrations, motor vehicle
fuel taxes, motor carrier fees
and traffic violation fines goes
to the counties.
Multnomah county led the
list in both cars registered
and funds derived from the
apportionment with 250,655
vehicles and receipts totaling
$895,691.
Lane county was second
with 76,153 registrations and
an income of $272,125. Clack
amas county was third, hav
ing 49,070 registrations and
receiving $175,346.
FACES CHARGE Dr. Robert Spears, head down and wear
ing a cap, follows an FBI agent out of, the FBI office at
Phoenix, Ariz., to be arraigned on a- stolen car charge.
Spears was the missing man who was listed as a passenger on
an ill-fated National Airlines plane which crashed in the
Gulf of Mexico Nov. 16 (UPI Telephoto)
Asian Flu Epidemic
Expected to Spread
Washington-fUPB-The Asian
flu epidemic now rampaging
in 13 states and the District
of Columbia will spread to
other parts of the country
during the next few weeks.
That is the forecast of U.S.
Public Health Service offic
ials who are closely following
the epidemic's progress.
They said today the flu
virus is so widely "seeded"
across the nation that further
outbreaks are inevitable.
Large Number Expected
"We look for a large num
ber of flu cases in the next
month or so," said one official.
"But the incidence probably
won't be as great as it was in
the 1957 flu epidemic."
At the peak of the 1957
epidemic, more than seven
million Americans were down
with the flu at one time.
Texas and California have
been hard hit, with outbreaks
centered around San Antonio,
Corpus Christi, Houston, Aus
tin and Brownsville in Texas
and Los Angeles in California.
More than 35 per cent of the
school population is on the
absentee list in Brownsville.
Detroit has reported ab
sentee rates up to 30 per cent
in schools and industr' ;1
plants. Several other Michi
gan cities have been' hit.
Other areas with sizable
outbreaks include Hawaii,
Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi,
Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Utah, West Vir
ginia and the District of Co
lumbia. Shots Advised for Some
Although the public health
service is not recommending
mass - vaccination programs
for the general population, it
does strongly advise flu shots
for two groups:
1. Persons for whom an at
tack of flu would be an "add
ed health hazard." This cate
gory includes those with heart
and lung diseases, pregnant
women, and all people over
55 who have any kind of
chronic disease.
2. Those engaged in "essen
tial tasks" such as caring for
the sick, fire protection, law
enforcement, transportation
and communications. ; -
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Stock Market in
Irregular Advance
New York (UPD The stock
market staged an irregular
advance during the first hour
today.
Firmness came into such
groups as steels, chemicals,
autos and electronics. Buyers
focused- on the blue chips to
some extent and put the industrial-stock
average a bit
more than a point above the
previous close.
. In the steels, Republic,
Bethlehem and U.S. Steel
tacked on major fractions.
Ford, Chrysler, American
Motors and GM were all firm
in . their section.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES ,
New York-fllPD-Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 in
dustrials 643.69, off 1.38; 20
railroads 155.13, up 0.07; 15
utilities 86.12, off 0.31, and
65 stocks 211.86. off 0.40.
Sales Wednesday wert
about 2,720,000 shares com
pared with 3.100.000 shares
Tuesday.
Wednesday's prices on selected
stocks:
Allied Chemical ., 109.
Alum Co. Am. 95 i
American Can . . 42 3,i
American Motors 86
AT&T .............
Anaconda Copper
Armco steel
8 Hi
68 3S
69
Bendix Aviation
Bethlehem Steel 51 2
Boeing Air ; 30 Vg
Caterpillar Corp 30 Vi
Chrysler Corp. i 62 Vi
Continental Can 43?.8
Crown Zellerbach 49 V4
Curtiss Wright 28 Vi
Dow Chemical 92 Vs
Du Pont 244
Eastman Kodak 100 Vi
Firestone 130 'i
General Electric 90 Vi
General Foods . ,-102
General Motors 50 Vi
Georgia Pacific 48
Graham Paige ..: 3
Greyhound 20
Gulf Oil , - 33V4
Homestake Mining 413,i
Idaho Power : 47 Vi
I. B. M 423
Int. Paper 123
Johns Manville : 46 Vi
Katy 6
Kennecott Copper 94 3a
Lockheed Aircraft 281'2
Montana Power Co . 22 'i
Montgomery Ward 49 Vi
Nat'l Biscuit 55
New York Central . 29
Pac' Gas & Elec ... 63i
Penney. J. C . 120
Penn RR '.- 16
Radio Corporation . . 62
President Would
Like To Include
Washington -(UPD- President
Eisenhower told : Sen. Hiram
Fong (R-Hawaii) today .that
he would like to visit Hawaii
on his way home from Russia
and Japan in June.
The , chief executive ex
pressed his sentiments after
a White House breakfast giv
en by the President for 14
Republican senators and con
gressmen who are newcom
ers to Washington.
Fong asked the President
to include Hawaii on his June
itinerary.
Would Be Fun
Reporters heard the Presi
dent tell the new senator "it
would be fun."
If Eisenhower visits Hawaii
on the way home from the
Orient, he seemed virtually
certain to pay a call on
Alaska, the nation's 49th
state. Itinerary details have
not been worked out, how
ever.
The President is also ex
pected to include stops in
South Korea, Formosa and
The Philippines in his Far
East travels.
Other Visits Required
The White House announc
ed Wednesday the President
would visit Japan about June
20 on his way home from
Russia. A stop in Japan would
require visits to other major
U.S. allies in Asia to prevent
hurt feelings.
Diplomats said arrange
ments were being made for
Eisenhower to go to Seoul,
Taipei, and Manila. Other
possible stops in the Orient
included South Viet Nam,
Thailand and neutralist Indo
nesia. At home, the President's
round the world trip-starting
with the June 10-19 visit to
the Soviet Union-seemed des
tined to cause some discom
fort in Democratic, circles
from a political viewpoint.
Seen Tough on Democrats
A key, Democratic leader,
who preferred to remain
anonymous, expressed - fear
that Eisenhower'3 trav.els
would make it difficult for
Democratic dark-horse candi
dates to get maximum publi
city just before the party
nominating convention at Los
Angeles in July.
Eisenhower's trip, marking
the first visit by an American
chief executive to Russia and
theOrient, undoubtedly will
dominate the news during the
final weeks of June. 7
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Safeway
Sears ....
Shell Oil
Socony Mobil Oil
Southern Co.
Southern Pacific ....
Standard California
Standard Indiana
Standard N J.
Sun Mines .
Texas Co 77
77 Vi
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47i
40'g
39i
39
22
46
40Vi
47
6Vi
Texas Gulf Sulfur
Tex Pac Land Trust
Transamerica
Trans World Air
Tri-Continental
Union Carbide
Union Pacific
United Aircraft
17
26
16 Vi
37
142
29
39
United Air Lines .. 30
U. S. Rubber 58
U. S. Steel L 92
Youngstown S & T 123 Vi
Russian President's Visit to
India Lacks Ike's Reception
New Delhi (UPD Soviet
President Kliment Voroshilov
was on an "Ike-like" visit to
India today but he had a long
way to go if he expected In
dians to give him the rousing
reception they gave President
Eisenhower last month.
Voroshilov's arrival Wed
nesday was termed "correct"
by Indian officials, who esti
mated that 200,000 persons
greeted the Russian President
at the airport and along his
route into the capital.
The figure seemed to reflect
more wishful thinking than
accuracy. The crowds were
thin and in some spots non
existent along the 11 - mile
route into the city, in marked
contrast to the day Eisenhow
er arrived.
That's when a million wild
ly enthusiastic Indians surged
through the streets and even
Prime Minister Jawaharlal
Nehru had to jump out of
Eisenhower's car and help po
lice beat off jubilant wel
comers. Although Voroshilov will
be here 11 days, compared to
the U.S. President's crowded
four-day visit, already he has
seen more of India than Ike
did. . .
About all Ike saw was
people - millions of them
along his entry route and at
a fantastic public meeting
where he could see nothing
but an ocean of more than a
million faces.
Indian officials refused to
attach particular significance
to the differences between the
two public receptions, point
ing out that after all, Soviet
Premier Nikita Khrushchev,
the real symbol of Russian
power, is due here next
month and Voroshilov's visit
is just a forerunner.
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