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gage 22 Fire-Scarred Ship Tells Tragic Tale SAN DIEGO, Calif. (AP) After 10 sflsmc the freighter Sandanger has begunj members through "blind spots" Proposes Flight Pilot Offers to Show Radar Gaps THE.SUNDAY NEWS AND TRIBUNE, JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI (Chicago Tribune Press Service) POMPANO BEACH, Fla. A pilot who flew a mercy mission into Cuba last Monday morning offered Friday to fly Defense Department officials or any congressional committee to tell its tragic story of a fire at sea. Ten persons died or disappeared May 18 when fire swept through the trim, gray Norwegian freighter off the Mexican coast. Forty-five others aboard were rescued.

Towed here still burning, the Sandanger was purposely run aground a sloping beach. Navy firemen put out the fire. As the ashes smouldered, crews worked their way aboard -the blackened found: Find Fortune A fortune in silver and other bodies of four persons and some hint of how they died. in the United States radar network in South Florida. The flyer, who asked to remain unidentified, said that if the government would supply the plane and promise him immunity he would reveal every spot in South Florida where flights can enter and leave this from-Bqca Raton to Homestead, country without being detected.

It could create havoc in the United States radar net- ulous areas. work is vast but like a long rope "Or ene.my nation might of needles there are many open parachute saboteurs into this eyes," he said. "Once congress- area tor cripple vital.comrmini- meu or Defense Department rep- transportation fac- resentatives have been shown exactly where each loophole in the radar system is located then the sectet flight lanes to and they will be able to sew up the from-Cuba, the flyer said: "It eyes in the needle. is highly unlikely that the Cas- Entry Simple tro government would attempt "Under the present radar de- such ah, attack but it is possible tection system it is fairly sim- that "some; pro-Castro fanatic pie for a lone bomber to enter could -obtain a plane, outfit it the United States along the coast with bombs; and them in Headlines Ahead Baker Talks of Telling 'AH' About Senate Sin Chicago Tribune Press Service The United States is facing Bobby Baker a hard fi ht lf keep the friend- AU were between the captain's talking to friends again about ship Ja an the Philippines, quarters and the galley, where Wix Lulling au iu firemen said the the Senate may have started. There werej seven passengers quartered on all" he knows about sin terior passageway led to the open deck.

No one got to it. In the quarters of Captain John Kellmer, above the passes ger deck, San Diego County Coroner Robert Creason found charred skeletal remains of a man. It wasn't far from the ship's which a skipper might turn for ship's papers if he had to abandon ship. Remains Identified In the cabin of George W. Huntgren, 66, of Stockton, a body was found be- After a long look oy Congress the still secret consular reaty with Russia, you will hear strong objection to the negatiations and the President Johnson now favors uvuj.

Wil 5 louna oe- Jen Eu en McCarthy (Minn.) tween the bed and the door. as a runnin mate but he From a ring and dental work', speak out until he is sure Dr. Creasoa was able to identi- of avoi in a public battle fy the remains as those of Hult- Bobby Kennedy, who is "ighting hard for the nomina- gren. Another body was found in the doorway of a passenger cabin. A.

fourth was in.the passageway itself. one reached the deck from this area," said Dr. Creason. would say the heat and smoke probably rendered them unconscious and then the fire got tion. to 'them, jumped." Some may have of one woman passenger was recovered from the sea near the burning ship by a rescue vessel, shortly after the fire engulfed the vessel.

In the cabin of another woman, 28- year-old Joyce Elaine Wilson, a La dental hygienist, Dr. Creason found no remains but a porthole was open. Silver Removed Crews working by searchlight farly Friday secretly removed the $26,000 in silver ingots, taking it ashore to an undisclosed vault, pending litigation decide who gets it: owners, insurers, salvagers or the gov- whose firemen extinguished the blaze. Plans went ahead to remove lome $750,000 in copper and aluminum ingots from the ship before she is towed for wrecking 100 miles north to Long port she left, bounc -for Le Havre, France, ea May J.O* Listen for rumbles in Congress presaging a storm over the Area Redevelopment Administration, -hailed by some as a spearhead of the "poverty war" and condemned by others as a slush fund for vote buying. The Food and Drug Administration's new powers will be pushed to their utmost.

The clue: Recently stepped-up seizures of so-called "misbranded" items. A blow-off is coming in Con- fress over government em- ployes who are being required by their bosses to kick in to another memorial to President Kennedy. Enough is enough, df- Tear Gas Grenade Ends Day of School KANSAS CITY 1,740 students at Southeast High School were sent home after a tear gas grenade was exploded in.a corridor Friday. Police said the son of a police captain took the grenade to school and gave it to another boy. A thirl boy tossed it into the crowded hallway.

The boy who threw it was booked on a juvenile charge and was released to his. par ents. The other two were sus pended from school. gas made two students ttiUcI slightly ill. and spoiled food the cafeteria.

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Drastic changes are ahead for the military retirement program. Within a few years, service men will have to contribute to hospitalize tion and retirement funds. sspionage openings tive the reds. it would 'enders of the employe? say. It's being kept quiet, but there is pressure on Catholic organizations to endorse one or more of the Johnson administration's major legislative programs as just one more campaign Members of Congress will offer plans to deal with the "wolf packs" in the nation's capital whose murders, and robberies have made "the city a jungle.

Constituents who fear to send their children here on tours are demanding action; Gardner Ackley appears to be the administration choice to succeed Walter Heller as chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers. Heller is expected to resign soon. Expect Gov. William 'Scran- fan of Pennsylvania to make a more positive statement about accepting the Eepublican Presidential nomination if Sen. Barry loses in the primary next Tuesday.

JFK Birthday (Chicago Tribune Press Service) WASHINGTON Jacqueline, I rs Kenlled went then to her amiinn anH husband's grave in Arlington reveal Caroline, and John Kennedy rave in Arlington day mourned the late President No Cemetery. Before a of the United-States a man tourists, the widow and they knew and fath-, chlldrcn entered the low er-on his 47th birthday. whlte P' cket enclosure which ucwa CtflJlt: liuill Ufilias OI mw iicuutr the assassination of the Presi- wnic on Mrs. Kennedy's in- the heart of. Miami.

'As much. as-I -want to see Castro the protection of this also is vital. is possible -that we could move our entire-Castro 'operations to another- location not as heavily populated the South Florida area." Questioned as to why it was necessary that the blind spots go under actual flying tests instead of being located on flight charts, the pilot said: "For the amount' of impact it would have. It is necessary- for representatives, of -this country in charge of the defense system to' see for themselves how easily these flights are Not Spotted Navy and Air Force officials admitted Tuesday that their radar failed to pick up the pilot' low-flying aircraft either before 'or after its three-man Smathers Fla.) 'called for monumental work a "full of what achieved in his service." certainly appears to be a congregation in singing the national anthem. Then, as the Kennedys left their pews, the choir sang the sailor's hymn, "Eternal Father Strong to favorite of the late President which was sung at his funeral service in the same cathedral.

To Arlington Joining her son, John 3, Sunday, May 31,. 1964 It was brisk and sunny in the surro the grave, apital, very like last Nov. 22 Thev prayed briefly Capital, very like last Nov. 22 when news came from Dallas of dent. It would have been perfect weather for a gay and joyous family day if he had lived.

Instead, the widowed Mrs. Kennedy, her two children, and other members of the Kennedy family spent a day reminiscent of the bleak and tragic events in late November. It. began when Mrs. Kennedy and'her daughter Caroline, 6, went-'to Washington's -Roman Catholic' Matthew's Cathedral.

Memorial Mass Wearing a black tailored suit and a veil, the widow sat with her daughter, her brother-in- law, Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, and his wife, as Bishop Phillip Hannan conducted a memorial mass and eulogized the late President. The bishop recalled Kennedy's "vibrant personab'ty" and spoke of humility: "Although President Kennedy crew a. field hospital abominated any pretense of a and supplies to anti-Castro guer- superiority of virtue, his life gave evidence He.can At.th;e;same time, Sen. George surely expect God's reward for he me -DJSnOP shod; security on our faced the -high altar and led the a few feet from the eternal flame structions, burns John, with the Help of his mother and sister, took from his coat lapel one of the PT boat tie clasps which were his father's trade mark, and placed it below a small American flag which fluttered in the breeze.

As they left, thousands of tourists began again to file by the grave. Cemetery authorities, who have kept only an estimated count, said that the weekend pilgrims would bring to about 3,000,000 the number who have visited the spot since the funeral. In the afternoon, the Kennedys went to Hyannis Port, their family home, where Mrs. Kennedy took part in a live television broadcast to Europe via the Telstar relay satellite. Jewish Mothers Killed Babies HANOVER, Germany, (Reut-i ers) Hundreds of desperate: Jewish mothers trampled their; babies to death when they learn ed they were being transported to an extermination camp, a defendant at a war crimes trial testified here Friday.

Josef Schmidt, 65, one of five former Nazi police officials charged with the murder of 7,000 Jesvs and Russians in Wlodawa, Poland, during World War II, said the women acted in fear and desperation they knew they were going to remember such a mass depcrta-jTrans World Airlines Boeing jet tion. Flo wont PARIS, (Heuters) eight passengers aboard plane leaving Orly airport for New York escaped unhurt Friday when a tire burst. The plane Eighty (came to rest a few yards beyond a (the end of the runway. die. Schmidt admitted having taken part in, the arrest of-two Polish Jews who were later shot as.

conspirators but said he had done so under orders and had! not taken part in the shooting. Former police chief Fuhrmann told the court that Richard' Nitschke, a fellow ordered him to report to I him for instructions on the mass deportation of 3,000 to 5,000 Jews to an extermination camp. Nitschke has said he could not Fleet in Finland HELSINKI, Finland, British navy destroyers arrived Friday at Turku, Finland, for a visit after being escorted through the Baltic Sea by ships of the Russian! navy. Capt. N.

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