Stenographers Transcribing
Words of Tower Men, Pilots
New York-OM-The Federal
Aviation Agency today
rushed to complete the trans
script of the last recorded
words between the airport
lowers and the pilots ot two
airliners which collided over
New York, killing 134
persons.
A FAA spokesman said the
transcript, which may shed
additional light on the cause
of the world's worst air dis
aster, should be ready for re
lease sometime during the
afternoon.
Still Transcribing
The agency originally
planned to release the records
at 7 a.m. (PST) but the
spokesman said stenographers
were still transcribing the
tape recordings made in the
planes prior to their crash.
The 60-page transcript of
the conversations was expect
ed to provide clues in the
mystery of how the Trans
World Airlines Super Constel
lation and the United Air
Lines DC8 jet collided Friday
in a snowstorm while under
ground radar observation and
instrument flying rules.
The jetliner crashed into
Brooklyn after the collision,
setting fire to four blocks of
apartment houses, shops and
a church. The TWA plane
smashed down in Slaten Is
land in a field. There were no
survivors in either crash,
FAA Administrator Elwood
Quesada has said the UAL jet
was off course from a pre
landing holding pattern by at
least seven miles. But the
statement was criticized Tues
day by United and brought a
rebuff slap from the Civil
Aeronautics Board which is
charged by law with the in
vestigation. Objects To Impression
W. A. Patterson, president
of United, said it was "out of
order to make public state
ments until the facts are made
known." He said Quesada's
statement left the impression
that United's flight was care
lessly operated.
"We cannot permit such an
impression to exist," Patter
son said.
G. Joseph Minettl, a mem
ber of the CAB, warned in
Washington that only his
agency was authorized to in
vestigate air crashes. He said
he spoke out because of
"complaints that statements
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concerning the probable cause
of the mid-air collision have
been issued."
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Clash Expected
In Inquiry Info
Fire on Carrier
New York -IUPH- A formal
inquiry today into the disas
trous 12-hour fire that swept
the super-aircraft carrier Con
stellation Monday was ex
pected to produce a clash be
tween city fire officials and
the Navy over safety meas
ures. ;
Fire officials, who sent more
than 60 pieces of equipment
into the Brooklyn Navy Yard
to fight the $75 million fire
and rescue scores of the 4,000
civilian workers aboard, were
critical of the flammable con
dition of the ship.
The death loll in the fire
rose to 49 Tuesday night, the
Navy said. Of the bodies re
covered, thirty -eight have
been identified and 11 remain
unidentified.
Commissioner Critical
Fire Commissioner Edward
Cavanagh, who will testify be
fore the Navy Board of In
quiry headed by three admir
als, has been openly critical of
wooden staging and plat
forms used by workmen to in
stall wires and pipe.
"There is just no excuse for
these things that go on hap
pening," Cavanagh said in dis
cussing the Constellation and
fire safety. .
The Navy said the fire
started when a 500-gallon
drum of kerosene-type fuel
was cracked open in an acci
dent and the fuel was ignited
by a welder's arc. Flames
feeding on a river of fuel
spread the length of the ship
setting afire the staging and
platforms.
Metal Staging Required
Cavanagh had pointed out
that civilian shipyards in the
city are required to use metal
staging.
Navy Secretary William B.
Franke, who inspected the
blackened interior and trod
the heat twisted deck of the
carrier Tuesday, questioned
Cavanagh s criticism.
He said as far as he could
tell, neither carelessness, poor
housekeping nor economy
measures could be blamed for
the fire.
The Navy secretary said the
Constellation would be
paired. The fire will delay
commissioning, scheduled for
March, by a year.
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CAPSULE RECOVERED The U. S. Marine Corps helicopter
which recovered the unmanned space capsule fired 135 miles
high and 235 miles out over the Atlantic Ocean is shown
as it approached the USS Valley Forge. The capsule was
washed down aboard the aircraft carrier and then returned
to Cape Canaveral, Fla. The U.S. hopes to put a man into
orbit in one of these capsule's early next year.
(UPI Telephoto)
Strong Oil Group
Stimulates Market
New York - (UPI) - Stocks
were mostly higher at the
close today stimulated by soar
ing prices for American Tele
phone and a strong oil group.
AT&T, which announced a
rights offering to shareholders
and plans for a dividend boost
next year, vaulted nearly 7V4
points to an all-time high be
fore receding to close up
around 6V2. Jersey Standard
rose- a large 1V among the
oils most of which added a
point or more.
DOW-JONES AVERAGES
New York-flJI'll-Dow-Jones
final stock averages: 30 in
dustrials 615.42. up 0.60; 20
railroads 128.08, up 0.12; 15
utilities 98.47, up 0.09, and
65 stocks 204.2, up 0.19,
Sales today were about 4.06
million shares compared
with 3.34 million shares
Tuesday.
Discoverer XIX
Circling Globe
Vandenberg Air Force Base,
Calif. -IIIPII- A 25 - foot long
Discoverer satellite whizzed
around the world every 93
minutes today, soaking up in
formation vital to develop
ment of a method to detect
Instantly enemy missile at
tacks. Aboard the Discovered XIX
satellite was equipment to
measure the amount of infra
red radiation given off by the
earth. This information was
being gathered in support of
the Midns (missile defense
alarm system) that is designed
to give instant warning when
ever a hostile missile is fired.
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General Foods
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Washington - IIIPD - Minne
sota Gov. Orville L. Freeman,
who will be secretary of ag
riculture in the Kennedy ad
ministration, spent 75 minutes
conferring with outgoing Sec
retary Ezra Taft Benson Tues
day and looking over his new
office.
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Kennedy Selects,
Aide for Defense
Palm Beach, Fla. - (UPI) -President
- elect John F. Ken
nedy today selected Roswell
Gilpatric, 54, a New York at
torney and member of the
former' Truman administra
tion, as deputy secretary of de
fense. Gilpatric, who served as
undersecretary of the Air
Force from 1951 to 1953 un
der Secretary Thomas K. Fin
letter, was expected to confer
in Washington today with
Kennedy's defense secretary,
Robert S. McNamara.
American Tanker
Capsizes at Sea
Norfolk, Va. - IUPD - The
American tanker Pine Ridge
broke in two and capsized in
a bitter gale 100 miles off
Cape llattcras today and loss
of life was feared, the Coast
Guard reported.
A Coast Guard plane ra
dioed from the scene near the
legendary "graveyard of the
Atlantic" that it spotted crew
men "in the water and on the
stern half of the ship."
The 10,417-ton Pine Ridge
was in ballast en route from
New York to Corpus Christi,
Tex., when it ran into a gale
with "monstrous waves" 109
miles off the North Carolina
coast.
New Verbal Blast
Directed at Castro
Washington -fUPD- The State
Department aimed a new
verbal volley today at Cuban
Prime Minister Fidel Castro,
charging that he has made
life unbearable for the Cuban
people and they are turning
against him.
The bluntly worded state
ment was a reply to Castro's
charge that the United States
was implicated in sabotage'of
Havana's electric power. Stale
Department Spokesman Lin
coln White flatly denied the
charge.
Portland - (UPI) - Three men
held up a service station
about 2:15 a.m. today and es
caped with about $80, police
reported. It was Portland's
17th holdup this month.
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