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TIIIC liuuto uf icpreaeiitollves
o( whom members licivo Ui lacs
tlin volera In Novembcri out bu
ll nil dollars off Uie lCurnpciill Re
covery Program (Mnralmll plunl
yesterday.
A move It on In Uie acuiite UkIuv
to restore U)0 billion.
TT wuiild be fine It we could aav
1 Clio billion by dolnii Uie Job ef
fectively fur Unit muoh leas, Tlmt
would be ood nintiimcmciit.
It l plain foolish to any In ad
vance Umt putting Europe buck on
IU fret mid checking the spread of
coinniuulain over the world would bo
worth (any) live blllloua to ua but
wouldn't be worth alx bllllona. '
If lhal'a Hie way wo reel about it,
we'd better auy out entirely an I
keep our money.
IK Uie tcnaie pitta the billion back
in the pot, It will be 0,1111 all right,
of course, with tho Ikjum'. Aa a mut
ler of hu t, llionl ul Hid house llirin-
tn will bo hnppy. They will llirn
able to ahrim ihrlr ahimlilrra an I
y; "Well, we ttlcd Ui auve the
proplc'a moiiry, but tho amine
wouldn't stand for 11."
Political buncombe lit an rlrcllon
yrui?
Uh, aure. Aa was remarked In this
roluiiiu yesterday, about UU per cent
of our politics In election years la
bunk. We lake tlmt lor .runted.
Olio thing we need to leurn la Unit
we shouldn't mix poluicul bun.
with lurrlun aitalrs. We undrr.
aiuud II. r'urclgnrri don't. It tliuket
their confidence III u.
The commuulal ncwapaprr in
Rome, tor raamplc. aika Una murn
lug latter Uie housct bllllon-dolHir
rut, In HHP tundai: "Who tun lrui
Washington?"
We ought to rcullw that our
childhood d-ya are over and we're
getting to be big girl nuw,
IN Chicago laat nlulit. President
Truman plutera the republican
congress. He ww talking about the
Muudl bill to outlaw tommuiiltm
iwlilch he opposeai mid added:
"Congrraa could crush coiiununlaiii
by providing a greater abundunce."
Tutl Tut I Harry I You don't be
lieve auyUiim like that. You know
that coiigreu runt ClltATt
A1IUNDANCE. Abuiulunte can be
crculrd only by hard work. Uirllt
and gxd management on the pait
ol all of tu.
We've been living fur a drcatH
and halt 111 Uie kind of "iibun
Uniire" that I created by law. We tt
jKetung a bit tired of It. Wed rather
nave lr TALK and more of Uie
thiuga we wain and need.
The only way to have thlnga It to
produce them.
B FURTHER word on Uila law.
crested "abundance."
Suppu-e you and two other xuya
are alranded on a dc.-rt Maud. You
get logeUier and any: "There are
only Uiree ol lu on Uilt ilnnd.
We've gut Uie world by the tall. We 1
can paoa any kind of law we want.
Lel'a paaa law providing Ulut there
mutt be a chicken In every pot."
Pine I You've panned the law.
But befure you can put the chick
en III Uie pot you have to RAISE IT.
WE learn from thla morning's dla
patches Uiat John Roosevelt li
going Into buslneti for hlnuiell.
Most of his brother! prefer politics.
Who will benefit humunlty moat
John or hit polltlcally-mlndcd
kin?
Time will tell, but If tomcbody
didn't go ltiU business far hlmaclf
there would be very Utile employ
ment nnd we act a lot of ttore by
lull employment,
INCIDENTALLY, one of Marxist
communism's basic trueis Is that
no Individual must HIKE anothu.'
Individual. That, according to Murx,
Is EXPLOITATION. Only tho
STATE must be permitted to ex
ploit people by hiring Uiein.
PROM what you know and have
heard, would you ralher live hi
1 asjiln, where only the state can
hire and pay wages, or In America
where, If you want to get married
and need a Job and a paycheck you
can hire out to the first employer
who will take chnnce on you?
VandenbergVSattle
Truman In
Omaha For
Big Reunion
OMAHA. June I M', 1're.ldrnl
Truman arrived In Omaha today
In the mliUt of a rroaa-rountry
apeaklng rampalgn keyed to Ilia
chaniplnmhlp of seven "goala of
abundance."
He moved Into Nebraska with
hi open apieal fur November votes
afier tour plalform tnlka yciOerduy
and a major speech In packed
Chicago atudlum lust night.
Tukeil altogether, the speeches
left no doubt the presidents 8500
mile, IB-state speaking tour Is that
of ail oul-ln-thc-opeii candidate.
Hrrs Hitler
Mr. Truman was reunited here
with his only sister and "buddies"
of Wnrld War I for a round of
31 III division reunion activities to
be ellmased by a major foreign
pulley speech tonight.
Mlsa Mary Jane Truman of
(irandvlcw, Mo., met her presiden
tial brother when his 16-ear spe
cial pulled Into Omaha.
Also there were his cousin, re
tired MaJ. Clen. Ralph E. Truman,
and his wife from Kansas City,
and Edward MrKlm. Omaha In
suianre man and presidential Intimate.
The president last night made !
frequent attacks on the republican
controlled congress, telling the Chi
cago crowd that congress could
crush communism by providing
greater "abundance."
He did not mention the Niton-
Munill bill by name, but he de
clared "you ean prevent commu
nism by belter democracy." I
"You ean not stop the sprrsd I
of an Idea by passing a law
against II," he said.
The president wss Interrupted
II limes by applause In htai stadi
um apeeeh.
He drew his bow on congress
earlier 111 a railroad aide address
at Gary. Ind.. when he accused It
of serving the "men who have all
of the money." Instead of the
"common people."
Lewis To Talk
Contract Term
WASHINGTON. June 6 t'i
Prompted by a sharp prod from
Justice T. Alan Ooldsborough, John
L. Lewis was ready today to re
oien contract negotiations wiUi. Uie
soil coal operators on Monday.
The order to ncgoUate does not
necessarily mean an early agree
ment will be reached. Along with
Uie execled union demand tor
wage Increases, there Is Uie stumbl
ing block of pension funds.
Only four weeks remain to sign
a contract before tho present agree
ment expires June 30.
While the miners customarily do
not work without a contract, the
current one allows a vacation from
June 36 to July 5. Any strike threat
by the 400.000 soft coal miners
might therefore be delayed until
the latter dnte.
Goldsborough, who twice before
has cracked down on Lewis, signed
an Injunction yesterday directing
the UMW and Its president to bar
gain with the Southern Coal Pro
ducers association.
To comply with Ooldsborough's
order, Lewis and Ills union have
agreed to meet with the operators
Monday. Whether Uie UMW chief
would attend In person remained
a question.
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Jeulee Keffeler, Bly high school j
girl, hss won the Klkt scholarship
award. Mir will get 1500 for each
of her first two years In college,
and In addition won a '!00 I'nl
vrrslty of Orrgon mothers' scholarship.
Bly Student
Wins Elks
Scholarship
Jcsalee Keffeler. Bly high school
girl, today was announced as first
winner of the Klks scholsrshlp.
richest award offered strictly to 1 g minority member on Tsndrn
regional nign scnool seniors 10 neip 1 berg's foreign relations committee.
Foreign Aid
Fund Slash
Causes Row
WANIIINGTON, June S 1rWien
alor Vandenberg IR-.MIch.l today
asked the senate appropriations
committee for permission to teatlfy
personally In the fight to restore
SI.OOO.OOO.MO slash in foreign aid
funds made by the house yesterday.
"I am requesting the earliest pos
sible opM)rtun!ty to appear before
the committee," Vandenberg told a
rciMirter.
This unusual course Indicated the
chairman of the Semite foreign re
lations committee will take per
sonal command of efforts In the
senate to put back funds struck
from the Europe-Asia aid money
bill passed by Uie house yesterday,
righting Mad
Vandenberg did not elaborate on
his statement but he was described
by friends as "fighting mad" ever
the blow dealt the foreign aid pro
gram which was piloted through
congress largrlv by his efforts.
The pending bill carries the funds
to pay for this program.
The Michigan senstor Is not a
member of Uie appropriations com
mittee and previously has declined
to take any part In Its action In pro
viding the funds to carry out various
International Drotn-ams which con
gress has authorized.
By voice vote the house ls.it night
approved a t3.o80.710.228 tots! to be
spread out over 15 months. The ad
ministration had set 16,5.13.710 218
as the minimum for a 12-month
period.
Kenstor Connallr (D-Tex.l. rank-
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them further their education
Miss Keffeler will recelvo 500 for
two years from the Klamath Palls
Klks lodge.
The lodge established Uie scholar
ship program this yar, and plans
annual awards of 81000 to outstand
ing aenlors. This year, seniors of
high schools In Klamath county
comiieted, but members of the com
I mltlre said consideration will be
j given to extending the offer to
' seniors of Butte Valley and Tule
I lake highs, which are In the Juris
dictional area of the lodge.
Miss Keffeler was selected by a
Judging committee composed of
Prank Jenkins. County School Su
perintendent Harold Ashley and
Henry Perkins. L. Orth Sisemore was
chairman of the lodge scholarship
committee.
The Illy girl also won the Petron
ells O Peets scholarship of $200
offered through the University of
Oregon Mothers clubs scholarship
committee, she thus will receive a
total of 11200 In the two-year period.
Miss Keffeler was president of the
Bly student body tins year, editor of
Uie school paper last year, editor of
Uie year-book last year, and was
active In many other school affairs.
She had high scholastic marks, with
g grade average of 1.09 placing her
at the top of her class. She was In
the upper 10 per cent of all students
who took the Pepsi-Cola scholar
ship examination.
Her teachers highly recommended
her for the Elks scholarship.
predicted flatly that the house ac
tion would be reversed by the senate.
Senator Bridges (R-N. H.l, chair
man of the senate anproorlatlont
Midshipman Frederick I Nelson of Petersburg, Alaska, commander
of the company that won the privilege to be color guard for the year at
the Lr. n. naval academy at Annapolis, MtL, la rewarded with a kiss
from color girl, Mrs. Kalherine VYainwright, of North Andover, Mass.,
widow of a deceased war veteran, after the color preaentaUon.
.SEA telephou.
27 Men, Four Women Tabbed
For Jury Duty On June 21
Names of 27 men and 4 women
have been drawn tor circuit court
Jury servica beginning cn June 21,
which Is the day for Uie start of
the murder trial of Homer Valen
Une Frarknn.
Seven of Uie Jurors on the list
rntn
DULUTH. Minn.. June 5 i.TI
Fire swept through sections of two
retail business blocks 111 the heart
of Uuhiih early today causing dam
age estimated by police at "sev
eral million dollars."
A four-story retail furniture store
and the nine-story Dtilulh Board
of Trade building housing the Grain
Exchnnge and Grain Commission
offices, were swept by the blaze.
Nearly a score of small retail stores
burned.
Down New Orleans Way They Want Taxes Yet
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Tart of delegation from New Orlrant mareliei on the slate capital at Baton Rouge, I.a., to protest
cut In the clly'a aalea tax. Despite demonstration, the state house committee voted favorablr on the bill,
NEA telrphoto.
Shanghai Rocked
By Blast Today
SHANGHAI, June S (A') A ter
rific explosion rocked downtown
Shanghai today.
Ono fireman was killed and an
other Injured In controlling fires
which broke out In three buildings.
Many were cut by flying glass noin
windows shattered for several blocks.
Authorities said Uie blast was
caused by stored sulphur in an
abandoned match factory which
caught fire.
81'RVEY
OGDEN, Utah, June 5 t,p) Ex
tent of flood damage to Columbia
river watershed will be surveyed by
six forest service experts who left
here last night for an emergency
meeting In Spokane.
The session will be attended by
forest service representatives from
regional offices In Ogden, Missoula,
Mont., Portland, and Berkeley, Calif.
Beaver State
Applications
Filed By Boys
commltue which will contderUie4 'ai 06 Wawn for tin grand Jtir,
Din Dcrore uie senate rotes on It.
did not comment
Hens paasage eame after a bi
partisan groun led br Reps. Dlrksen
(R-Ill.l and Rayburn (D-Tex.) lost
a spirited fleht to nut the trimmed
fund on a 12-month basis and that
lessen the essh reduction. This more
was defeated 148 to 113.
They argued that for congress to
run out on a nrevlous commitment
would shske the faith of Furooean
democracies In the United States
and strengthen Russia's campaign
to communlze Western Europe.
Benefit To
Aid Flood
Victim Fund
Monday's benefit matinee where
admission will be a bundle of cloth
ing for PorUand relief, will be Uie
picture. "The Last of Uie Redmen,"
with selected shorts shown at the
Pelican theatre at 2 o'clock, it was
announced today by Fred . Fleet,
chairman of Uie Salvation Army
disaster committee sponsoring the
show in cooperation with KlamaUl
theatres.
Clothing may be left at Uie Sal
vation Army hall, 4th and Klamath,
up until 2 o'clock Monday. Tickets
will be exchanged for each bundle.
Kcports this morning show that
84 cartons of. clothing have been
delivered to PorUana irom Uie Kla
math Falls Salvation Army unit,
and given ire. transportation north
by Consolidated Frcightways.
More Uian Uiree-fourUis of a ton
in 71 packages oi doming nave Been
taken north through the Marino
Corps league, Fleet said today.
hcporia irom schools snow Uiat a
generous response was made
through clothing, foodstutfs and
money. Collection was made Friday.
Sam Rltchcy, chairman of Uie
advisory board, has provided' two
trucks with drivers all day Friday
and one truck and driver today, to
pick up donations.
and the others will be on the panel
In the Franklin ca&e and other cir
cuit court trials. Franklin is ac
cused ol Uie gunshot murder of his
wife.
Names of Uie jurors:
Wally Thompson, farmer; Wally
Moss, clerk; Angus Newton, painter;
Cecil Haley, farmer; Don Kenyon,
blacksmith; J. D. McNeill, fanner;
James Ottoman, farmer; Hugh O'
Connor, farmer; Rudolph jacoos,
merchant; Joe MaUick, merchant.
James O'Keefe. sheep man; James
Lear, clerk; L. A. Drager, warehouse
man: Jack L. Estes, steel worker,
J. M. Lepley, manager; John A.
Schubert, oil man; John E. Ather
ton, railroad agent: Ernest Mullis,
gas comnanv monaffer: Stanley
Eighteen Klamath county boys j Johnson, larmer; Harvey C. Martin,
have signified their desire to at- merchant.
tend Beavers Boys State, sponsored
by the American Legion at Oregon
State college. Corvallls. June 26 to
July 3, and Klamath Post. No. 8
Is offering any person or organi
zation Uie opportunity to sponsor
a boy for Uils worthwhile project.
Post Commander Lynn Roycroft
announced today that the following
have offered sponsorship of one
hoy each, American Legion, Legion
club. Kiwanls club. Rotary club.
Chtloqutn Masonic lodge, Chlloqutn
City store, Fort Klamath grange,
J. C. Penney company and Metier
brothers.
The boys are under the age of
17 years. Juniors or seniors of any
Klamath county high school.
To protect Uie spoasor and facil
itate handling of details, nil checks
should be made out to American
Legion . Post No. 8 and marked
"sponsorship. Beaver Boys State."
Cost this year will be $30 per
boy, covering everything necessary
to attendance.
Myrtle E. Ackerman, housewife;
F. D. Everhart. farmer; Viola
Hanger, housewife; Noah Nyhan,
farmer; F. C. Markwardt, garage
operator: Frieda G. Lucas, house
wife; Casey Burkes, merchant;
Kathleen Thompson, housewile;
John B. Cashin. real estate man;
W. A. Van Buskirk, garage fore
man; Buton C. Asher, power com
pany employe.
Reds Assail
ERP Fund Cut
LONDON, June 5 Western
Europe's communist press made hay
today out of the house of repre
sentatives' votes to slash European
recovery funds.
Rome's communist Units asked In
a headline -"Who can trust Wash
ington?" and the pro-commuiiisl
socialist Avantl asserted "ERP has
become a game of International
politics." The London Daily Worker
said tho house vote brought "near
panic" to Wall Street,
In Vienna, the Russian army pa
p r Ooaterrelchlsche Zeltung head
lined: "European aid cut twenty
five per cent but budget for re
armament ten times greater than
1941." , ,
The communist Volkstlmme called
yesterday "a black day for the
Marshall satellites."
Fight Looms
On Draft Bill
WASHINGTON, June S (ff) Ad
odd combination of republicans and
souUicrn and northern democrats
formed today to fight Senator
Langer's drive to tack Uie contro
versial civil rights program onto tne
droit bill.
Langer, who held the senate floor
more Uian Uireo hours yesterday
with a desi-U umplng speech, said,
"I've Just begun to fight and I'll
have plenty to say about each of my
amendments." The North Dakota
republican added: "This is no fili
buster." ' '
Chairman Gurney (R-S. D.l. of
Uie armed services committee which
worked out Uie draft measure, plans
to ask the senate "to table" Uie
Langer amendments when it re
sumes debate Monday.
"I have no desire to cut oft actual
debate," Gurney said, "But this Is a
major defense measure, and time Is
short."
' Pending as the senate quit for the
week-end was the first of seven
amendments Langer has - Intro
duced. It would prohibit segregation
or discrimination in the armed
forces because of race, color or re
ligion. A violation could bring five
years In prison and a $10,000 fine.
QUITS
' WASHINGTON, June 5 W
William A. Brophy of Albuquerque,
N. M., has resigned as commis
sioner of Indian affairs. President
Truman has accepted the resigna
tion, effective as of June 3.
Brophy Informed the president
some time ago that his health would
not permit him to continue In the
commisslonershlp. He will be as
signed later to a field position where
his duties will be less taxing on his
physical energies.
Ford Ups Price
On 194Y Models
DETROIT, June 5 WV-The Ford
Motor company today announced a
price Increase of from 889 to $133
on Us new 1949 Ford.
Henry Ford II said the Increase
will average 8.7 per cent.
The new Ford goes on public dis
play June IB,
Ford announced the increase In a
circular which he termed "a per
sonal message to all employes of
the Ford Motor Co." '
It was Uie first boost In Ford
prices since August 34, 1947, when
they went up from $20 to $97, Pre
viously, on January IS, 1947, Fori
reduced his prices from $15 to $90.
Dikes Plugged
In Face Of New
Crest Threat
By WILLIAM PIIIPPS
PORTLAND, Ore., June S WV
The water-ravaged Pacific North
west got more bad news today. The
new Columbia river erest abullding
In the headquarters would be the
highest of the yar. The old one
claimed more lives.
Weary defenders of the soggy.
crumbling dikes In the lower valley
Braced, tnemselves lor the great
river's new D-day. The big push
starts Tuesday, a week to the day
after they were hit by the first
crest the worst In history.
. On that day. said Veteran V. 8.
River Forecaster Elmer Fisher, the
bloated Columbia will be 3M feet
deep at Vancouver, Wash., I5J feet
above flood level and it A feet
acroaa the river at Portland, Ore.
That would top the old crest about
tlx Inches.
It may go even higher. Fisher
said, but he can't see beyond Tues
day on the strength of information
available now. .
There is no way of knowing what
new destruction may be added to
the toll already taken by savage
blows of Uie Columbia and Fraser
rivers in the United States and Can
ada this spring.
Bodies Found
L Twenty-til dead. The city of
Vanport, drowned by the blowout
of a Columbia dike Memorial Day,
ipewed its first bodies last night
both children torn by the boiling
waters from the arms of their flee
ing parents.
3. An estimated $140,000,000 dam
age In Oregon, Washington, Idaho
and British Columbia. Fertile farms
flooded, homes of almost 60,000
persons Inundated or Isolated, lndus
tries stopped, communications
snarled, transporuton crippled.
The first flood down only inches
from its peak still hammers con
stantly at erer-tofteninr dikes. The
pounding will go en every minute,
every boor nntil the new erest
crashes down the Columbia's lzOO
milea to the Pacific If the levees
hold that long.
Now it is a batUe against time.
Build up the dikes. Plug up the
holes. And pray.
No one knows if the barriers will
hold until the next hour, until to
morrow, until next week.
Situation CriUcal
The aituaUoh in the lower valley
from. Portland to the sea la this
critical:
Three breakthroughs as dike tops
crumbled along the Oregon shore. In
the C'latskanie area yesterday. A
blowout that blasted a secUon of a
small dike on the Washington side
near the twin ciUes of Longview
and Kelso. A bad leak that only
a diver could patch.
With earth, sandbags, mats and
a porous rock material called ben
tonite that swells in water, weary
troops and civilian volunteers 're
paired the breaches.
But lor how long?
And how long would it be before
Uie submerged war bousing project
of Vanport gave up more bodies of
its 18,700 residents?
Victims Identified
Its first two victims were iden
tified as Michael and Sally Butcher,
two-year-old son and 11-months-old
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Nor
man Butcher.
The Red Cross sad it hat not
been able to locate 13 others in
the six days after the disaster.
The thousands of survivors are
being sheltered and fed by publie
or private relief agencies or have
been taken into the homes of rela
tives or friends.
Efforts in Uie refugees' behalf
progressed. The PorUand housing
authority asked congress for $50,-
000,000 tor the public housing ad
ministration. Tlus would be for
grants and loans so refugees can
rent or buy permanent homes. Ear
lier, Uie Portland agency had re
quested $10,000,000 for trailers and
other emergency housing.
Money Added
Senator Magnuson tD-Wash.)
yesterday added a $10,000,000 emer
gency appropriation to a previous
request to congress by members of
Its Northwest delegation for $75,
000,000 to restore damaged public
works in Uie flood area.
Meanwhile, the battle continued
with what was already here con
tributions of money, clothing, food,
tired but willinc hands.
Men and machines were stationed
at critical dike area along the
test 300 miles of the swollen river
from the rocky mid-Columbia gorge
to the ocean.
Upriver the fight has been going
on for more than two weeks, and
the business district of The Dalles,
Ore., still Is In danger.
Down near Portland, levees pro
tecting Uie $43,000,000 Reynold
aluminum plant at Troutdale are
soft and getting softer. The plant
has shut down. All its men are on
Uie dikes.
Farther toward the river's mouth
dikes still are endangered In addition
Deer and Puget Islands In addition
to the Clatskanie and Longvlew
Kelso areas.
It's the same along the Fraser
In British Columbia. The flood
level is down but Uie dikes threaten
to give way as they did Thursday
at Bamston and Hatsiz islands east
of Vancouver, B. C.
Bill Would
Boost Pay To
Aged, Blind .
By FRANCIS M. LC MAT
WASHINGTON, June 5 UP) A
mnlU-milllon dollar boost in social
security payments to dependent
children, the aged and the Mind
today needed only President Tru
man't signature to become law.
A bill adding $184,000,000 annual
ly to Uie benefits received by 3.
500.000 needy persons in those three
categories was sw if 1 1 y shouted
through the house yesterday after
the senate had approved it by
lopsided 74 to 8 vote.
The legislation would increase the
federal social security contribution
to the states by $5 a month for
the aged and blind, and 13 a month
for dependent children.
A maximum of $50 a month
would be set for each aged and
blind person and $27 for a de
I pendent child.
I Th, Iww. nam ta.tr.r1 nnl. . I.
oiocaing uie extension oi social
security insurance to an estimated
500.000 to 750.000 persons chiefly
salesmen over whom no employer
exercises direct control.
The increased benefits amend
ment may prevent a veto for the
bilL Mr. Truman hat criticised
congress for what he said In a
tendency to narrow social security
coverage instead of expanding It. '
Direct relief for needy aged and
blind persons and for dependent
children is separate from Uie part
of the social security program pro
viding old age and survivors Insur
ance. The Insurance program Is paid
for by special taxes on employes
and employers. The relief is pro
vided by direct federal and state
grants.
All Networks To '
Carry HT Speech
OMAHA, June 6 (IP) All major
radio networks plan to carry Pres
ident Truman's address at the 35th
division association reunion to
night, local network stations re
ported today.
Mutual, NBC and ABC networks
will carry the address at 10 p. m.
tESTi, Uie time of delivery.
The Columbia Broadcasting Sys
tem will feed the address to all
stations east of the Mississippi
river at 10 p. m. (EST). CBS sta
tions west of the Mississippi will
carry the speech transcribed an
hour later, at 11 p. m. (EST).
SYMPATHY
VIENNA, June J(fl - Chancellor
Leopold Figl today sent a message
of sympathy to Richard MacKlnney
of Portland, Ore., on Oregon floods.
MacKinney accompanied Uie North
west Friendship train to Vienna
earlier this year.
Five Killed When Flying Wing
Crashes. Burns Near Muroc
MUROC AIR BASE. Calif., June
5 (,Pj The entire crew of five was
killed when a great elght-engined
YB-49, Northrop Aircraft's Flying
Wing, crashed and burned near
this testing field early today.
An army spokesman said the
crash occurred during a routine
test flight between Muroc and Mo
Jave. It crashed only a short time
after taking off from this desert
field.
Cause of the disaster was not
Immediately determined, the
spokesman said, and an investiga
tion of the smouldering wreckage
was . started as soon as it cooled
sufficiently.
An eye-witness, Dale C. Wilson,
of Elton, 111., told the Kern county
sheriff's office that the plane
seemed to explode In the air, then
came down and cut a wide swath
for some distance through the
sagebrush and greasewood which
covers this desolate region.
The report would Indicate that
the tragedy occurred close to a
highway.
Names of the victims were with
held until the relatives could be
notified. It was not known Imme
diately whether a military or civil
ian pilot was at the controls of tht
huge bat-like craft.
Several of the eight-Jet bomben
have been undergoing almost con
tinuous tests here since the first
one was given its maiden flight
last October. -
Disaster almost attended its first
hop, from Hawthorne, near Lot
Angeles, where it was built, to Mu
roc. Although the Flying Wliuj
made the trip without Incident,
P-61 Black Widow fighter escort
ing it crashed near Lancaster, but
its four occupants balled out suc
cessfully. The YB-49 Is a 44-ton monster
with Ita Jet engines developing
thrust equivalent to about 33,001
horsepower. Northrop hog described
it aa the most powerful craft yet
announced.
It has a wlngspread of 173 feet
and weighs 100 tons fully laden
with bombs. It Is designed to oper
ate at altitudes in excess of 30,001
feet and to carry a crew of 13.