The Cincinnati Enquirer from Cincinnati, Ohio • Page 21

Friday, July 14, 1 30 THE CINCINNATI ENQUIRER 1 1 I 1 1 it 1 i ri i If 1 7 if M- Ptkr 4 f. v. Irr-ri rf mm1 TMM IK lJMM iti JrJ.i.I.Tnr ti, TrT- .1 r. .5, Plane Crash Is Worst To Hit Cincinnati Area; p4w VX Fire Lasts Four Hours mmm'M x. TiAa, At least two Greater Cincin-natians saw the big bomber crash.

Clarence Anstaett, Cincinnati, who waa driving on U. S. 42, not far from the scene of the accident, said he noticed the plane "flying low and turning over and over." He added: "It suddenly shot downward into a field. There was a terrific explosion and flames shot into the natian, th, big bomb.r cra.h Clarence Anstaett, Cincinnati, who wai driving on U. S.

42, not far from the Ln. of th. said he noticed the plan, "flying low and turning ov.r and 'V JKs' 7 i 1 i i kV'fel, AX-fWLA (S tTV jWl; 1 All I ''V 4 1 1 accidentJBl4 i 1 'Xi 1 I tH 1 4 Another motori.t, Howard Mdf 7 Roudebuh, Covington, BlifeSc4 I 1 V' "Q' "I waa driving along when I Li tZfm Wi 81 I air." Another motorist, Howard Roudebush, Covington, said: "I was driving along when I The crash of th Army B-50 komber yesterday, near Lebanon, Ohio, in which at least 11 men wera killed waa the worst air disaster ever recorded in the Cincinnati area. Corp. 0.

J. Simmons, head cf the Middletown Station of the State Highway Patrol, said that although the patrol was, on the arena less then 20 minutea after the trash, roads and highwaya were blocked for more then an hour. Coiporal Simmons added that the blocked highways hampered firemen and investigators. Throughout the afternoon approximately 6,000 persona sopped to view the crash acene. rrck-1 go waa atiU burning four hours after the crash.

Air Force officials from Wright-Patterson Field In Dayton, who wera conducting an of the crash, said the total number ef dead might reach 12 or more. Nine bodies had been recovered; from the wreckage late yesterday. Investigators believed the bodies of at least three more men were still; in the wreckage. The Mason Fire Department was the first rescue unit to reach the eene of the crash, followed shortly afterward by the Lebanon Fira Department. The Intense heat of tne burning bomber hampered attempts of the firefighters to spray chemi cals on the burning plane.

IT The exoloslon. which followed the saw this plane go into a spin. It disappeared behind a clump of trees several hundred yards from the roadway. Instantly there was a blinding nd 1 V1" A Beiuiiu 1ICI iriillli. mask nuu roar shook my car, An added hazard at the scene of the crash waa the fact that dozens of SO caliber machine gun car tridges were strewn on the ground and Inside the burning wreckage, These exploded without warning from time to time.

At. one time during the afternoon, three news- men and two photographers were standing together when one of the cartridges went off and the bullet whizzed near their heads. They all "hit the dirt" like World War combat veterans. Officials at Bigga Air Force base El Paso, said last night Ithey were unable to report wheth- 1 1 i-i km i ml .1. ier ine d-ou type aircro.ii nrai crashed near Lebanon.

Ohio, was tion numbers of the huge four-engine bomber. He said he was informed the wreckage was scattered over a wide area, making identification difficult. Anthony Van Halle, Mason, and Ralph Melampy, Lebanon, both witnesses to the crash, gave the following report: The plane first attracted their attention when its motors were gunned. The two aaid the' plane was about 500 feet in the air when they saw it. The motors of the plane were gunned a second time but this time the plane fell straight downward.

Approximately 50 feet above the ground, a sheet of flame came from the plane and hovered in the air several seconds after the crash. Everett Cornell, Lebanon, who was about three miles from the crash scene, looked into the air when he heard the engines roaring. "The plane fell about 300 feet, leveled off, and then fell straight Sk. s4XX- 'vr p' l- crash, broke all the windows out of stationed at the Texas base, ene farm house three-quarters of a The Deputy Commander at Biggs mile from the scene and broke sev-(Sid he was awaiting word from eral windows in another farm housejWright-Patterson Field, Dayton, ne and a quarter miles away, wit- which would reveal the identiflca- hnqulrer (WelUnKeri Fhotw. HUNDREDS AT BOMBER CRASH NEAR LEBANON.

just before it crashed. Bottom row, right: This is a photograph of a B-50 bomber, similar to the one that crashed yesterday. It has a top speed of 400 miles ah hour, can fly 6,000 miles. Lower center: Two State Highway Patrolmen and a guard from Wright-Patterson Field, Dayton, Ohio, center, look over a part of the plane's wreckage. It shows one of the bomber's propellers and one of its motors.

Bottom right: Capt. James G. Kuntz, Crash Inspector from Wright-Patterson Field, center, left, discusses with Corp. H. E.

Voelker, State Highway Patrol, papers and documents taken from the bomber wreckage. Top row, left: General scene of yesterday's B-50 bomber crash on a farm near Lebanon, Ohio, taken two hours after the accident. Hundreds of persons stood around the edge of the scene, watching rescue efforts. Top row, center: Abe Sparks, farm worker, stands in window at Mattie Bishop farm, where 20 windows were shattered by Top row, right: Mason firemen pour water on blazing wreckage. Demolished nose of plane can be seen at left Bottom row, left: One of the bomber's landing gears was blown into a tree, 50 yards from crash scene (see circle).

Bottom row, upper center: Ralph Melampy, Lebanon, saw the big bomber in distress i 1, 1 Bank Robbed By Boy With Iron Curtain Is Mixed Up In Suit Filed In Cincinnati; Noisy Storm Hits Queen City, But Fair Day May Be Result; Lightning Damage Is Small Youth Caught Immediately $1 1 ,394 Sought In Argentina Of $32,200 Stunted Mind; Baltimore branch, of which he is manager. Kemp had stopped at the main' office downtown and picked up a large canvas bag con talning the $32,239 payroll money, The boy pointed a .38 revolver at Kemp, slugged him in the back of his grabbed the heavv hn? and ran, Kemp fired a shot. It went wild. Emmitt Pleasant was ulnnHinir down. I could ee flame.

anAiiFVel involving iron curtain coun- smoke from where I was anJ Cincinnatian, has been Approximately 20 pair of nylon inS Judgment from the Cincinnati stockings and several packages ofman- cigarettes were strewn near the Julius Szasz, 637 Forest wreckage. Also fosind were tin-i 'Md nd several brief cases. in front of his garage near was injured at 2642 Hnr-bank and saw the bov flerimr. "I Ave- red 74, 3821 knew doggone well something was wrong," Pleasant said. He showed a squad car crew where he City Still Has Relief Problem, Kellogg Says After Hearing WATCH RESCUE EFFORTS ii B4 rfir.r,ti ptvvnvua from the sale of property in Hungary.

The plaintiffs are Julius Ehren- feld and hie wife, Selma, formerly vi Duaapesi, Hungary, and pres ently of Buenos Aires, Argentina. They declared in the locally filed petition that Mr. Szasz entered into a written agreement with them February 14, 1848, to liquidate their SO per cent interest in a Hungarian corporation known as the Bela Utca 3 Corp. i The principal assets of the or ganization was real estate in Buda pest, The petition maintained that Mr. Szasz waa to receive a percentage of the sale, but turned over to the South Americans only $5,672 of the $21,333.33 Harold K.

Goldstein, counsel for Mr. Ehrenfeld, formerly director of a Budapest bank, disclosed that the disputed real estate had been sold to the'Hungarlan Government and nltimately fell into the hands of the U. S. Government for embassy purposes. Mr.

Szasz, who hag been a Cincinnatian since 1938, Journeyed to his native country in 1938 at the request of a Cincinnati couple and the plaintiffs to untangle the negotiations, his attornles, Philip Cohen and Harold M. Baron, related. The defendant is a graduate lawyer. The Clncinnatians, Mr. and Mrs.

Bela Hoffman, also former Hungarians, owned the other 50 per cent of the property, since died. After completing the liquidation, Mr. Szasz returned to Cincinnati. The Hoffmans, Mr. Baron said, were satisfied with the outcome of the sale, out the jShrenfeids "ap parently were not.

AIDS CONVENTION PLANS. Dr. David H. Ross, Executive Di rector of the Jewish Hospital As soclatlon, left yesterday for Columbus as the only Cincinnati membar of tin Ohio State Hospital Associa tion Committee for the 1851 con ivention. He and colleagues from Jewish Hospital tomorrow.

Mr. Hoffman Yesterday's noon-hour thunder- jstorm, which poured down more than half an Inch of rain In a few minutea, caused scattered damage in Cincinnati but helped to prepare the way for pleasant weather to day. Police said the storm caused a Iruck-streetosr accident In which a Applegaf lost several teeth Bnd suffered back Injuries when nis seat on a wesi- wood car as it was hit by a skid ding brewery truck driven by Ven-ton Woodall, 6920 River Rd. Seventeen other passengers were shaken. Mr.

Jasper was taken to St. Francia Hospital. Officers Investigated 13 other traffic accidents during the downpour. Damage estimated at more than K00 waa caused by a short circuit In wiring on a second-floor electric panel box at the Alms Doepke store, 1100 Main St. Acting Fire Marshal Irvln Martin said the short evidently resulted when lightning struck close to the building.

Lightning struck the southwest corner of the 10-story Caatelllnl Co. warehouse at 11 Water dislodg ing bricks and part of the cornice. One brick pierced an automobile top. Bolts slammed into radio towers and installations in the area, bu' interrupted broadcasting only on WCKY, for a few minutes. Light nessea reported.

Alex Fields, who Jives near the acene of the accident, told Harold B. Harrison, Cincinnati editor for the Associated Press, the big bomber sounded as though It was in trouble when he first heard It. "It sounded like at least one ngine was out," he said. "The plane seemed to circle about two or three times, there was a noise like the pilot was trying to gun the engines. Then the plane just nosed 4own and dived into the field." Mr.

Fields said the plane caught fire after it struck the ground, but other persons declared they saw fire before It crashed. Th bodies taken from the wreckage were removed to Wright-Patter-on Field in Dayton, it was understood. Frank Weikel, Enquirer reporter, who went to the scene, quoted Air Force officials as saying that names of the dead would not ba for some time. They will be made public either from El Paso, or from Washington, after next of kin have been notified, it was said. 1 A farmer who lives near the: cene picked up a wrap of PP near me piane wim Flight Commander" written on it.

The remainder of the slip of paper was either torn off or burned off. It could not be learned whether the name on the paper was connected with any of the personnel in the wrecked bomber. Thousands of persons drove to (he, scene where the big bomber burned, and blocked traffic for miles on Ohio 741, Ohio 63 and U. S. 42, state highway patrol officers reported.

Some officials at the scene estimated that more than 5,000 persons, arrived within the first two hours after the crash. The B-50 Superfortress bombers, similar to the one which crashed yesterday, have a flying range of .000 miles. The addition of two 700-gallon external fuel tanks, carried under the wings, has given this Boeing-built bomber such a ranee, the Department of Defense announced last November. Devel-oned from the war-proved B-29, the B-50 has a speed of more than 400 miles an hour and a total bomb capacity of 28,000 -pounds. Its normal crew is 10 men.

Romanian Mother Arrives To LiveWith Clifton Son Susanna Welsgerber, t- 'ytar-old former resident of Bucha rest. Romania, sat down to her first American home-cooked meal in 37 years yesterday at the noma or ner on, Carl Welsgerber, at 2321 Rohs Clifton Heights. Mrs. Welsgerber arrived in Cincinnati Wednesday evening by plant from Bucharest. She last visited the United States In 1913 tnd had not seen her son since 1923 The Citizenship Council of Cincinnati prepared the documents for bringing Mrs.

Welsgerber to Cincinnati and her son, an employee of the Randall provided the funda for her flight She will live ith her aon and daughter-in-law It thi Rohs Street address. Baltimore, July 13 (AP) A 17 year-old boy with a stunted mind held up the manager of a branch bank today and got $32,239. Apparently, Charles W. Johnson didn't know anything to do then but run. An alert garage mechanic put police on his trail, and two patrolmen caught him in a few minutea with the money.

Charges of assault, robbery and carrying a deadly weapon wer; placed agaifist him. "Charles has never been able to learn since he fell off the garage when he was In the second grade," his mother told police. The boy io one of eight children. Three years ago he was sent for a year to the state's Rosewood Training School for the mentally retarded. That was after his neigh borhood gang got in trouble for stealing.

A young blond wearing khaki trousers, a blue shirt and a green baseball cap confronted Simon E.1 Kemp when he parked this morn ing behind the Calvert Bank's West Witness Cites Drive To Create Dissension AmongWar Draftees Washington. Julv 13 (SDeclall Some part the Communist nartv played in creating dissention amone draftees in the armed forces before American entered World War II were described here today by John J. Edmlston and his wife. In referring tn the Smitn.rn A petition on the international filed in Common Pleas Court, ask- formerly of Hungary, which now Is a Russian satellite state, Is accused 'of refusing to pay the plaintiffs Hanrahan, Cleveland Finance Director; John Currie, Akron Finance Director, and R. T.

Anderson, Toledo Finance Director. Most cities have cut relief below state standards, Mr. Hagerman said. Cleveland and Toledo have not. "It looks as though the cities will have to find some other money for the last six months of the year," Mr.

Hagerman said, explaining that the state's stepped-up matching will not solve the problem. Hamilton County will submit a 1 mill welfare levy to voters in November. If this doesn't pass, the problem "still will be acute," Mr. Kellogg aald. Mr.

Bryer estimated that 1 mill would raise $1,400,000. "Failure of the levy would mean there would be no relief from the Welfare Department to city finance in handling of indigent hospital cases," Mr. Kellogg added. line Recalls 144 Pilots To Aid Far East Airlift New York, July 13(INS) Pan-American World Airways an nounced today that it is recalling 144 furloughed pilots to active duty because of the Increased tempo of Its operations especially In the Pacific. Pan-American said that It has now 918 men on its pilot roster, some of whom are already flying clippers in the special Pacific air lift set up by the Defense to ferry men and supplies to the Far East.

Pilots recalled to duly were notl falr and pleasant, with a high of 77 and low of 60 degrees. Yt-ster day's rain helped to lower the temperature and the humidity, they noted. CINCINNATI GENERAL PRODUCE MARKETS B'lttfr Crtamerr butttr, to icort, lb 64c. Rutterfnt Should bt r'nnn. inund and of firm quiHty.

tee frcm any lorlfn odorf to rtaltze quoipd prlct. Inffrmr afils -at a dluvunt. Prrmlum BOc, regular 47c. EjlKa Wholwalfri wera payim thf Iolloin prior for a-hola xrade, cam Included; Inedible ta not MlaUe. U.

8. eitra large government graded minimum 00 per cent A quality, whit none; e-xiraa largt so per cent A quality wtittt S.V4'3c, brown and mixed 35r37c. Current receipts 3S30c. Comumer egn U. S.

A larta white 38(4 5'jc, brown and mlied U. 8. A medium wnlte 93940c, brown and mined U. S. lug white.

SS 38'4c, brown and miied 3c. Hena Colored and Heavy typa JutiSle, moatly II 23c: llcht and Leghorn 1517e: old rowtera ll14c: brnller heavy colored. 2S Ihs. and over. lb.

3032c. irjen. lb. 30g32c. AIr AND fOLLTBY SCI MARKET.

Prkrs paid FOB Cincinnati I run Included). on giaded eegi: CUNSUMER GRADES: tuovt, Graded.) Brown and White. Mixed Colors. U. S.

A Large 47VjC V. S. A Medium 3 Ji41c 33(i41 Extru Large 283c 33Sc Range. MosUr. CURRENT RECEIPTS: iCaae Exchanged) Market firm.

U. S. Gradn unchanged to ona to two centa higher, balance unchanged. Purchase of U. S.

Grades from local Crao.nf StntlLma by regular recelveri: TJ. 8. A large White 47V, centi. Brown 46 centa. Medium 41 '5 cenli, few U.

S. Extras, larxer Brown 4 94 cents. large 4 Hi cents, V. 8. A Urge from Western shippers 404 centa, and purchases lrom Producers shipper? candled and graded tn Cincinnati at lower figures of range.

Storage uied freely to obtain supply. LIVE POULTRY: Prices paid FOB Cincinnati for No. 1 quality, undergrade heavily discounted: Range. Brollera, heavy type (under 3 Its) ..3333 Fryers, heavy type lover 3 lbs 32tV33c Roasters, hesvy type 14 lbs and up) 23e Hens, heavy type Hens, light 13140 Market firm, prices uncnantea. runt Buying situation as supply about ample.

Unsettled undertone. NEARBY PRODUCE WHOLESALE PBICES. Apples Bushel basket, no trade or sit mark: Transparent, medium S3 ROK3, small Duchess, medium smau II. so. Beans Bushel baskets: Tgreena iisi.si, Beets Per doxen bunches 40ie50c.

Cabbage Domestic round type: 80 lb. sack! 1191.35, bushel baskets 15c, 40 lb, crate SI: fair condition 7 3c Celery Baskets 1 dosen stalk. Pascal. 7 Sc. Corn Sacks 5 doien ears, yellow I3.TS, poorer low as $1.75.

cucumbers Busnei msteta J.ou; ordinary quality 2.35. Greens Bushel bankets: cabbage sprouts. kale, collards. mustard and tumlp tops 75e 51, poorer lower. Green Onions Per doaen Sflif35c, Kohlrabi Per doxen hunches 50c.

Lettuce 10 lb, basket, leaf SOc. Onion 50 lb sacks, Bermuda, small to medium SI. 73. Parsley Per doren bunches, curly 804. Rhubarb Per doxen bunches 60e.

Squash Bushel baskets, whit Tomatoes Hothouse, I )h, baskets, medluia to large (a, amall to medium 11.90; lleut, ,10 lb. basket 13, seen the running boy. They picked up the trail In an alley. Calls Upon Moscow To Help End War In Korea, Win Peace Ridicules Red Inspired Bomb Appeal. Stockholm, Sweden, July 13 (AP) Premier Ellnar Gerhardsen of Norway tonight called on the Soviet Union to help stop the war Korea and Induce the North Korean forces to withdraw behind the 38th Parallel.

Gerhardsen, addressing an international Socialist Youth Conference, ridieuled the Communist- sponsored "Stockholm appeal" to ban the atom bomb. He urged the 20,000 participants in the meeting to Issue another sort of "Stockholm appeal" for peace. "The Soviet Union should be pre vailed upon to cooperate In putting an end to the war in Korea and In lnlucing the North Koreans to withdraw behind the 38th Par allel, to resume participation in the work of the United Nations, to agree to efficient control of atomic energy, and to cooperate in the concluding of peace treaties with Austria, Germany and other countries that still have got no peace," he aaid. "If the Soviet Union nays any at tention to the views of the peoples of the world, it should know that NORWEGIAN ring hit several other homes Columbus, Ohio, July IS (Sps-cial) The state's stepped-up poor rel'ef policy will not solve Cincinnati's problem of handling indigents at General Hospital, City Manager W. R.

Kellogg declared here today after a conference with Governor Leusche. The County Welfare Department owes the city nearly million for hospital treatment of indigents and is increasing that debt at the rate of $100,000 a month, Mr. Kellogg asserted. Mr. Kellogg and Frederick Brey-er, County Welfare Director, accompanied a committee representing the Association of Ohio Municipalities which discussed municipal relief problems with the Governor.

Earl Hagerman, Dayton Finance Director and chairman of the committee, reported that "the Governor told us he was sympathetic with the problem and would do all within his power, within the fund? available." The state has $10 million available for poor relief. It has stepped up use of this at a rate which would exhaust the fund in slightly more than eight months, leaving the Leg-irlature to deal with any deficiency Mr. Hagerman said that relic," funds of most cities were depleted because of failure by the state to match local spending at a 80-per cent rate in 1949-50. The law per mits the state to match up to 50 per cent. A $10 million appropria tion permitted a 37Mr-per-cent rate, according to John A.

Lamneck, County Welfare Director. Mr. Kellogg represented Mayor Albert D. Cash, now on a European trip, on the committee. Other mem bers are Mr, Hagerman, frank hasc-hio conference of the American buildings, but caused no damage.

A tree was blown down in the 5900 block on Wayside Mt. Washington. Trolley wires were snapped at Spring Grove and Colcrain Aves. Police Station received a number of reports of flooded cellars and sewers. Weathermen said today would be to make the peoples of the world happy and contended, that state ought to pay regard to such an appeal.

If the Soviet Union wants it, the world will have peace, today and in times to come. 'Communists all over the world want us to believe that South Korea started the war. This re us of the j-olinl wanted us fact that Mus- to believe that Germany Mas threatened by Au- Youth Congress at Wllberforce College April 19 and 20, 1941, Mr. Edmlston said the purpose of the meeting principally was to keep America out of the war. In an effort to break down morale among draftees, members were to write to draftees and solicit replies which would complain of poor food, improper housing, im morality, brutality of officers, segregation of Negroes and other changes.

Mr. described the ef-i'ort as the "boldest step ever taken oy any communist-sponsored or- ganizatlon. It was brought out at the meet Ing that the. American Youth Con- cresa urtta nVMarat aiihuAralt, anH Communistic bv Attorney General iTom Clark in 1947. fled by telegram and asked to re- other sections of the state will disport for work at once.

Among the cuss plans for the meeting to he group now working on the Pacific held In Cincinnati, April 3-5. Dr. the. common man In all countrleiEthlopla threatened Italy and that will back such an appeal 100 perl Hitler wanted us to believe tha: lift are several 20-year veterans ofiRoss la to be back at his desk at cent. PAA eervice, "And If the Soviet Union wanlsltiia, Czechoslovakia and Poland.".