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TUESDAY, NOVEMBER ,15. 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THREE Plane Explosion Details Given By Young Murderer DENVER W In dispassionate tones, John Gilbert (Jack) Gra ham related last night how be rigged 25 slicks ol dynamite to ex plode aboard an airliner carrying his mother and 43 other persons. All 44 were killed Nov. 1 when the big United Air Lines DC6B blew up near Longmont, Colo., and crashed 11 minutes after it had left Denver. Graham said In his signed state ment, it was learned, that he had set the mechanism to detonate the bomb 90 minutes after he placed it in his mother's suitcase at 6:53 p.m. The plane was delayed 35 min utes In takeoff from Denver the night of the crash, which occurred about 7:03 p.m. Had the plane left on schedule, officials said, the ex plosion probably would not have come until the liner was over mountain country in Wyoming. William A. Patterson, UAL pres. ldent, told reporters company In vestigators knew "within 10 hours" after the crash that an internal explosion in flight caused the tragedy. He said Investigators kept find ing a film of "gray stuff" on parts of the plane that "indicated dyna mite." Graham, a 23-year-old convicted forger, did not reply when asked whether he felt remorse. . U. S. Atty. Donald E. Kelly said the Denver construction and res taurant worker signed a "written admission" earlier that he killed hfe' mother Mrs. Daisie E. King, 54, to collect her (37,500 air flight insurance. Ironically, the insurance was In valid because his mother had failed to sign It before she left Denver's Stapleton Airfield for Spenard, Alaska, and a visit with her daushlcr Mrs. Helen Ruth Hablutzel. The policies were taken out at the airport by Graham. Graham was also in line to re ceive a fourth of his mother's es tate, estimated at $150,000. Details of Graham's plot were reported by David Stolberg of the Bocky Mountain News. Construction of the bomb was begun Oct. 18 or 10, Graham said. Parts of it included the dynamite 40 per cent explosive and 60 per cent packing, a timing device, a six-volt dry cell "hotshot" battery, and two dynamite caps. Each of the caps was connected to about eight feet of wire. Graham said he unpacked parts of the contents of a large suitcase belonging to his mother and re placed them with the bomb. "I placed this suitcase in the trunk of my car with another smaller suitcase and a briefcase which mj mother had packed to take with her on the trip," he re counted. Graham said he picked up his mother, his wife Gloria and 20- monlh-old son Allen at a Denver garage, where Mrs. King had stored her car, and drove them to the airport. He lei them out nt the terminal and parked his car. Graham, also is the father of a 9-month-old daughter, Susan, said he then bound the large suitcase with web straps while at the park ing site. He carried all the lugKage to his mother in the terminal and waited about 30 feet away while she checked it. "My wife and I went with her to the passengers' gate where we told my mother goodby and watched her board the plane with the other passengers," Graham continued. Then he took his wife and son Into the airport coffee shop. "We were in the coffee shop for approximately one hour, and as we were leaving I heard the cash ier (say) that there had been a wreck of an a I r p 1 a n e about 40 miles out of Denver," he related. Continuing his account of how the bomb was assembled, Graham said he had put the materials in a long cardboard box and concealed it under a blanket in the trunk of his car. He did not remove the bomb until "about 5:15 p.m. on Nov. 1," after he watched his mother, wife and son drive from their home to store Mrs. King's car. ' . As soon as they had left, he transferred the dynamite sticks, caps and wire to a paper sack.. "I then wrapped about three or four feet of binding cord around the sack of dynamite to hold the dynamite sticks In place around the- caps, leaving the wires which were attached to the dynamite caps extending out of the paper sack," he said. "The purpose of the two caps was in case one of the caps failed to function and ignite the dyna mite." He said that when 90 minutes were up the maximum time al lowed him by the timing device, 'I knew- the circuit between the caps and the battery which was broken by the timer would be closed by the timer mechanism and detonate the caps, which would detonate the dynamite." Graham, who has been a student at Denver University, was arrest ed early yesterday at his home, where his mother also lived. . He waived a hearing on a "peacetime sabotage" charge yes terday and was jailed In lieu of $100,000 bond. The charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years in prison and $10,000 fine. A decision is expected within a day or so on further prosecution, Kelley said. The U. S. attorney met with state prosecutors to , consider whether Graham should be turned over to them for prosecution on murder charges, punishable by death 'in Colorado. With his mother, Graham had been operating a drive-in restau rant In South Denver. Officers said he was paying off $4,200 worth of checks he forged against a Denver concern. Mrs. King paid $2,500 of the amount at the time her son received a f 1 v e-year suspend ed sentence on conviction of forg ery In 1951. HS Conservation Talks To Begin The annual High School Conser vation Speaking Contest for Klam ath County will be held at. 8 p.m., Wednesday at Henley High School. Joseph Oolohan. chairman of the board of the Poe Valley Soil Con servation District, said today. . The topic of the talks will be "Wildlife Conservation in My Soil Conservation District." Langell Valley, Poe Valley and Klamath Soil Conservation District entries will compete for the Klam ath County championship. All high school students of Klam ath County have been invited to parlicipate. Prizes will be award ed first and second place winners. These two winners will have the opportunity to compete with Lake County winners for the two coun ty championships at Bly on No vember 1, District board member Paul Brelthaupt will be in charge of Ihe Kiamath County program. Mo doc To&stmaster Club members will grade the contestants and judge the winners. The public is invited to attend. As if,- h I Y M i Hit : 1 . mi) - - AMONG THE TWENTY nationally known entertainerso who make up the cast of Spike Jones Musical Insanities of 1957 none outranks in popularity Little Bill Barty, pint-sized imper sonator of Pianist Liberace. The talented midget works with miniature piano and candelabra. The Jones show will play two performances Friday at the Pelican Theater under auspices of the Klamath Falls Lions Club. Tickets are on sale at Derby's Music Store. SP Manager To Retire Retiiement of Joseph H. Grid ley, San Francisco, as manager of system 'dining car operations for Southern Pacific wa3 announced today by the railroad. Succeeding him is Herbert E. Lynch, former assistant manager. - Gridley. who had been connected with the dining-car department for the 33 years since he first Joined SP in 1922, has worked as buyer, supervisor of dining-car supplies, superintendent of the news serv ice. He was appointed assistant manager in 1932, holding this post New Farm Legislation May Result From Senate Tour WASHINGTON W A tour of major producing areas by the Sen ate Agriculture Oommittee may lead to a basis of agreement on new farm legislation. That word came Tuesday from Sen. Young (R-ND), a member of the committee which began its grass roots hearings at Worthing ton, Minn., Oct. 24. and was at Pendleton, Ore., for the only North west hearing. The committee moves to Montpelier, Vt., Friday and winds up at Utica, N. Y., Sat urday. "I believe that a majority of Uie committee, working on a non politlcnl. bipartisan basis, will agree on certnin things as a result of the healings." Young said in an Interview. The form Issue could well be come the major political issue in 1956. Young said. "However," he said, "Congress and the administration can avoid such a situation by making neces sary changes in the farm program early In the next session of Con gress." The North Dakota senator has been opposed to the administra tion's flexible price support pro gram. This went into effect with this year's crops. Young has long advocated the 90 per cent supports for the basic crops. Although there was great diver gence of opinion by farmers and farm organizations during the hearings in the major farm areas. Young said, there were several things that hnd "somewhat general approval." He listed Uiese as: 1. Restoration of an average 90 per cent support rate for the bas ics, with producers of top quality crops receiving 90 per cent or more and those producing poorer quality crops less than 90 per cent. "This is flexibility, but it is not the kind in the present act," Young said. 2. A program to take 20 to 40 million acres of land out of produc tion as a soil conserving measure with the farmers being paid an incentive to do so. "There was more support for this than for any other one pro posal and it came from farmers belonging to all farm organiza tions," he said. "Most felt that in creating sur passes there was little difference between high or flexible supports and that neither was the complete answer towards solving the problem." 3. A program to give small pro ducers who seek only relatively small support loans the top price supports with declining ratio of supports provided as the size of the support loans increased. "The hearings Indicated that the plight of the small farmer was steadllv getting ' worse," Young said. ': 4. A stepped up program of dls nnsinv nf th hno-A fi-nvemment. owned surpluses at home and abroad and additional euros oa im ports. ' Young said there was consider able testimony in almost every state visited for basing controls on production by Individual quotas in stead of acreage allotments. 1921 the He anil until 1949 when he rose to mana ger. - Lynch started with SP In as a stenographer-clerk tn transportation department, transferred to the El Paso Southwestern in 1923. returning to SP as secretary in the freight de partment the following year. In 1925, he entered the dining depart ment as secretary to the manager and subsequently has been head checker of news service, assistant superintendent of commissary store, purchasing agent, supervisor of supplies and equipment. He became assistant manager In 1941, with headquarters at Los An geles. He remained there until his appointment as assistant manager at the San Francisco headquar ters in 1949. Wild Girls No More Geo. ?. .'layiui t Two by two, these young African women in training there at the Mis sion hospital, are dropped off the truck. See the black boys and girls, come run ning from - the jungle. Some have no clothes but a loin-cloth. Come choruses. Bible stories and the Bible Lesson from a flannel board, as in America. Four teen raise their hands as willing to stay for prayer. Later five boys are seen at the hospital grounds, reciting their verses, to win some reward. Only yesterday these young women, now in training as nurses, were wild natives out in the Jungle, having the vile speech and ways of their tribe. Now, being born Into God's eternal family, they have converts away beyond the mission aries who direct the work, for they know the ways and speech of the Jungle. And you? Accept Jesus Christ as God the Saviour who died for your sins and eternal life is your also. This space is sponsored by a Portland family. Adv. 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