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132. (81st Year) ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 13, 1959-80 PAGES PRICE CENTS. I FaTC AIRLINER BLOWS APART MASKS HERTER CALLS ON RUSSIA TO NEGOTIATE CONCRETE ACCORDS TO EASE TENSION INFLIGHT, 31 BODIES FALL IN FIELD NEAR BALTIMORE of Turboprop Airliner pJ CAUGHJ EISENHOWER DEPLORES RUSSIANS' PROPAGANDA Hopes They Will Abandon Any Such Tactics and Get Down to Real Business at Parley. Remains a 'ds kT Geneva, Mr.

Eisenhower said, seems have some of that propaganda in it. No one has been in touch with him, Mr. Eisenhower said, regarding the possibility of a visit to the United States by Soviet Premier Khrushchev. A reporter noted that Vice President Nixon will visit Moscow this summer to open a United States trade fair. The newsman asked whether the President would be favorable to the idea of Khrushchev'a coming to this country to open the Soviet fair to be held In New York later this year.

And, the reporter went on, would that open the door to the possibility of Khrushchev'a attending a summit conference in the United States. After saying no one has talked to him about such a possibility, Mr. Eisenhower remarked that it is up to the Big Four foreign ministers to pick a site for any summit session. As to whether he would welcome the Kremlin's No. 1 man to the United States If Khrushchev requested an In-Continued on Page 8.

Col. I. 'ws. i hihi r.w' in i im ii i i i Wing tection of Cipiul Airlines Viscount turboprop tirtintr thtt crashed in field near Baltimore yesterday killing all Jl persons aboard. GASOLINE TAX Special Message to Congress Also Calls for Increase in FHA Home Loan Insurance Authority.

By GEORGE H. HALL A Washington Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, May 13 President Eisenhower asked Congress today for quick action in Increasing the gasoline tax, providing more money for home mortgage Insurance and solving the problem of costly wheat surpluses. He said there was an "impending disaster" In wheat and asked for legislation to avert "serious disruption" in housing and highway construction. The White House sent a special message to the Capitol few minutes after Mr.

Eisenhower announced at his regular press conference that he was appealing for speed In the three areas. The President told Congress that problems In the fields he singled out had grown more critical In the four months since he proposed the legislation. He requested a temporary Increase in the federal gasoline tax from three cents a gallon to four and a half centa to prevent an anticipated deficit In the highway trust fund which could halt the interstate highway building program. FHA Increase. He asked for an Increase of six billion dollars in the authorization of the Federal Housing Administration to Insure home mortgage loans.

He sought "corrective legislation" revising the wheat program which, he said, has failed utterly to prevent mounting surpluses. He told reporters that by July 19(10. the Government would have S3.500.000.-000 invested in surplus and carry-over wheat. All the money spent on wheat supports has made the problem worse, Mr. Eisenhower said.

The situation In wheat, Mr, Elsenhower said in his message, Is the most critical of the three because It threatens to "crash of Its own weight" and destroy the whole farm program. "Because the Secretary of Agriculture Is required by law to announce a continuation of this thoroughly discredited program by the fifteenth of May." he said, "in January I urgently recommended corrective legislation. The deadline set by taw is now only two days away. No such legislation has been passed." No Ready Solution. It is unlikely there will be any Immediate response to the presidential appeal on wheat.

Congress has no ready solution. Nothing has been done about the gasoline tax Increase. Pro-vision for Increasing FHA lending authority is Incorporated in an omnibus housing bill passed by the Senate and awaiting House action. In answer to a question, Mr. Elsenhower aaid emphatically he was not Indorsing the Senate measure.

"You are not particularly sympathetic to the Senate a reporter asked. "You don't have to say Mr. Elsenhower replied sharply. Mr. Elsenhower, modifying his earlier position, came out for the present against a proposal to repeal the Twenty-second Amendment to the Constitution.

The amendment bars a President from running for a third term. A reporter noted that Mr. Eisenhower's position on the Issue had varied. If a member of Congress asked the President's advice, the reporter Inquired, how would he suggest that the Congressman vote? Arinments on Both Sides. Mr.

Eisenhower replied that there were very plausible arg-umenta on both sides. His view at thla moment, he said, was that he would not make the mistake of hurriedly amending the Constitution. "Let'a let It lay on the ahelf for a while and see how It works," he said. The President had hinted last week at a change In his view of the matter, saying he did not "feel too strongly about it." Last January, he had told a news conference he did not believe passage of the amendment was "a particularly wise decision." He added that he "would rather se it repealed tnan kept." He had appeared to be even more strongly for repeal in 1958. when he said the United States "ought to be sble to choose for it President anybody that It wants, regardless of the number of terms he has served." Truman's Testimony.

Former President Harry S. Truman testified last week at Senate hearings on a proposed repeal amendment. He attributed the third-term bar to "Roosevelt haters" and said the two-term limit makes the President a lame duck when he enters his second term. Mr. Continued on Page 4, Col, 4.

ISE REVISION OF we SUPPORTS WASHINGTON, May 13 (AP) President Eisenhower said today the Soviet Union seems to be pushing a propaganda drive In aeeklng admittance of Red satellite nations to the Geneva foreign ministers' conference. He told a press conference he is very hopeful the Russians will abandon any such propaganda tactics so the conference can get down to fruitful negotiations. The President had been asked to evaluate the Soviet efforts thus far to win seats at Geneva for Communist East Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. Those efforts have kept the foreign ministers' conference from getting, to discussion of real problems. Mr.

Eisenhower replied It is very difficult to find out what is going on behind someone else's forehead. The United States Government, he continued, has always been for fruitful negotiations, and against using such conferences as propaganda platforms. But the situation in FIVE -DAY FORECAST: COOL, THEN WARMING AND POSSIBLE SHOWERS COOL weather is expected tomorrow and Friday, with a warming trend and possible showers over the weekend, the Weather Bureau said today in its extended forecast. The five-day forecast: Cool weather at the begin-nlng of the period, with a warming trend and a chance of showers over -the weekend and then cooler again by the end of the period; temperatures will average 3 to 8 degrees below normal; normal highs are in the middle 70s; normal lows In middle 90s. PRESIDENT'S TALK TOMORROW TO BE ON SCIENCE NEEDS WASHINGTON, May 13 AP The theme of President Eisenhower's speech in New York tomorrow evening will be the need for expansion of American scientific activity, the White House said yesterday.

Mr. Elsenhower will address a dinner meeting sponsored by the National Academy of Science and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Hla 30-mlnute talk is expected to start some time between 8:30 and 9 p.m., St. Louis time. Press Secretary James C.

Hagerty aaid the President will discuss "American aclence. the need for It. and for its expansion generally." In New York, Mr. Elsenhower will take part in groundbreaking ceremonies for the new Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and visit the World Trade Fair. JET FLEW WITHIN SO FEET, AIRLINER CREWMEN REPORT SAN FRANCISCO.

May 13 (AP) An Air Force Jet streaked within 90 feel of an airliner with 92 aboard yesterday, the passenger craft's crew reported. "It looked like a barn didn't miss us bv (more than) 45 or 90 feet," said Dale Shimon, co-pilot of the American Airlines plane. He said the near miss occurred at feet 90 miles west of Bakersfleld, Calif. "These Incidents happen all the time," Shimon added. Capt.

Ralph McPhee. pilot of the airliner, said the jet fighter, either an F-88 or F-100, passed directly in front of his plane. He aaid he had no time for evasive action but Immediately radioed a report of the Incident to air traffic control authorities. The passenger plane waa en route from Houston, to San Francisco. There was no Immediate comment from the military.

Friction Now Spoiling Relations, He Says Soviet Effort to Ad-mit Poles, Czechs Is Stalled. By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER GENEVA, May 13 (AP) Secretary of State Christian A. Herter called on the Soviet Union today to negotiate "con-trete self -enforcing agreements' to ease tension "now (polling the relations between the free world and the Soviet Union." He announced the West will introduce proposals to that end in the foreign ministers' conference. Herter spoke to the meeting after the West stalled, temporarily at least, a drive to bring Red Poland and Czecho-alovakia into the sessions.

The Soviet fight to expand Red membership had delayed opening of the debate on German problems for two days. Gromyko Critical of Bases. Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko in a 25-minute apeech attacked "dangerous new rearmament" In European apparent reference to NATO nuclear missiles bases. He said it created a bad atmosphere for this conference. It is important, he declared, for the foreign ministers to make progress on a peace treaty for Germany, a solution to the problem of Berlin and the time, place and agenda for a summit conference.

Herter said a summit session can follow the meeting of ministers "if we can make satisfactory progress." "My Government Is anxious to make the necessary progress here." Herter said, "but the Western powers cannot make it alone." llnprs of 19SS Dashed. Herter said that most of the hopes raised by the Big Four summit conference here in 1953 have been dashed. He said Germany, the major subject of the present meeting, remains split with "it division a grave injustice bearing the seeds of future troubles." Yet he said there have been recently a few hopeful signs of Improving East-West relations. He specified some progress in talks on suspending nuclear tests and developing contacts between Soviet and western peoples. Herter said, however, the present conference is not being held because any change in the world political aituatlnn makes agreement more likely but because of Russia's announced Intention "to liquidate the relationship under which the four powers have been discharging their war-originated responsibilities for Berlin and for reunifying Germany." He declared the Big Four tannot now abdicate a responsibility for uniting Germany which the heads of all four governments acknowledged at the summit meeting four years ago.

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DECLARES IS 1 INTRODUCE PACTS FOR THAT GOAL AT GENEVA JSi ii IN SQUALL; TWO DIE IN SECOND IN Turboprop' Weather Radar Not Working. Second Craft Goes Over Embankment After Landing. BALTIMORE, May 13 (AP) A Capital Viscount turbo prop airliner blew apart on i. non-stop flight from New York to Atlanta late yesterday afternoon, acatterlng wreckage" and the bodies ot all 31 aboard over freshly plowed fields. The Civil Aeronautics Board.

had a large crew of Investl gators at the scene 13 miles east of here today to try to determine the cause of the tragedy, which occurred in the turbulence of a thunder-squall. (Capital Airlines told Investl gators that the weather radar of the airliner was not operat Ing at the time It crashed. United Press International re ported. A Capital official said the radar equipment, whlrtt warns pilots of storm turbulence as far as 150 mites ahead, was "inoperative" because of Mechanical trouble.) Investigators' Report. CAB investigators said at noon that the four-engine plant had been blown apart by an explosion, but whether the ex plosion was inside the fuselage or outside, possibly In a wing, had not been determined.

Several factors were said to Indicate possibility of an ex plosion within, the fuselage: The engines showed comparatively little damage, there was little mass evidence of burning; (he clothing was completely blown off one body. Flight engineers and others thought the stress and strain from the turbulent weather could have started the plane breaking up, with ruptured fuel lines causing an explosion of kerosene from the fuel tanks. lUnltcd Press International said it had been told by a CAB spokesman there was evidence of "an explosive force" possibly sudden decompression, but not necesrlly an explosion in the usually arcepted sense. It quoted him as saying, "an explosive force could have resulted from structural failure of a wing that could pierce the pressurized cabin. There la no longer any doubt that the plane came apart In the air for reasons as yet The plane was Capital's flight 73.

It carried 27 passengers and four crew membera. It was the second tragedy on the airline In less than an hour. A Capital-operated Constellation, also bound for Atlanta, skidded and crashed on landing at Charleston. W. 43 minutes earlier, killing two of the 44 persons aboard.

The plane went over a 200-foot embankment and burned. Twenty-eight occupants escaped injury. This was believed to have been the first time that a com-mercial air carrier suffered two fatal crashes In the same day. Eyewitnesses to the Baltimore crash told how the airliner broke up at 14.000 feet altitude in a "ball of flame" and fragments fell to the ground. Seventy-year-old Walter Bev ans, who had been driven from the yard to the porch by the thundershower, related: "1 started Inside the houwf.

and then 1 saw this terrible light and smoke. I saw on big piece of the plane burning; In the air, and there was amok from two other parta which sort of drifted off and away." Not far away, a group of youngsters had been playlna ball. Suddenly debria and bodies began falling all around them. Fireman Describee Crash. (Edgar Amos, a member of the Hyde Park volunteer ftrt department, told United Press International: was driving a truck about 315 m.

when I was stopped by traffic. I glanced out of the window and I aaw huge ball of flame. I thought: Holy smok-s. look at that airplane blowing up. Aa I looked up could see the main body of the piane ana two tirettv Bond.

sized pieces falling. mere was a lot of smoke and there were several smaller pieces that appeared to flutter down and burn out on the way. The wreckage then dropped out of sight behind a tree. guess I was about five miles from the crash aite. I drove to the fire house and waited until we wert called to the scene.

When 1 first got there 1 found 18 bodlea piled up by the roadside. yrt tteredall Continued Pa'te 4, Cel I. CRASH PRESIDENT TO FLY TO DENVER, WILL SEE AIR ACADEMY WASHINGTON. May 13 (AP) President Elsenhower will fly to Denver this weekend and visit the Air Force Academy in nearby Coloradp Springs. The White House announced today that Mr.

Eisenhower would leave here early Saturday, Inspect the academy grounds and buildings that day, spend the night at the Brown Palace Hote.1 In Denver, and return to Washington Sunday. Mrs. Eisenhower, who arrived in Denver today on the eighty-first birthday ot her mother, Mrs. John Doud, also will return on the presidential plane. Press Secretary James C.

Hagerty said Mr. Elsenhower was going to the Air Force Academy now because he could not accept an invitation to attend the academy's graduation exercises June 4. WEEVIL COUNTING 'OLD fashioned; KHRUSHCHEV SAYS LONDON, May 13 (UPn Premier Khrushchev has chldcd the Soviet ministry of agriculture for taking an "old-fashioned" approach to his favorite subject: farming. In a speech Monday to the Joint party-government Presidium meeting he opened verbal fire on the ministry, the Moscow radio said. "This ministry is In many ways falling to meet the Increased requirements of agriculture and has an old-fashioned approach to the situation In collective and atate farms," said the Premier.

"Obviously they (the ministry) liked the time when they used to go about counting how many weevils had been des- iroyea every nay in this or that collective farm." He said that today many agricultural publications engage In the practice of counting weevils because "one can write In one's report whatever one likes aa long as the superiors are pleased. The broadcast aaid this crack provoked laughter. $3,000,000 FIRE SWEEPS ROLLS jnfCE FACTORY Top Secret Jet Engines Bound for V.S. Are Destroyed. MOUNT SORREL, England.

May 13 (L'PD A fire causing damage estimated at swept through five acres of tlie Rolls Royce plant here today, destroying top secret Jet engines being developed for the United States Mount Soi.rl Is near Leicester In mid-England. Fire engines from all parts of Leicestershire fought the blare. Nearly 1000 persons are employed at the factory. All workera were evacuated and no Injuries were reported. Lebanese-Arabian Romance.

BEIRUT. May 13 (AP) Lamia Solh, 23-year-old Paris-educated daughter of the late Lebanese Premier Riad Solh, became engaged yesterday to Prince Mohammed, 26-year-old son of Arabia's King Saud. AMocttt4 Piw Wtrtphoto. STATE SENATE PASSES 21 PCT. SALESJAX BILL Increase Would Be Submitted to Voters House Hikes Cigarette Levy 1 Cent.

By HERBFRT A. TRASK State Politic-si Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, May 13 A bill to submit to Missouri voters a proposed Increase In the state's sales tax to 2' a per cent from 2 per cent was passed today by the Senate. The House yesterday ap proved a bill to Increase the state cigarette tax to 3 cents a package from 2 cents. The sales tax measure now goes to the House and the cigarette tax bill to the Senate.

By a vote of 21 to 12. the Senate approved submitting the proposed sales tax increase to the voters at the general election Nov. 8, lfHiO. If approved, it would bring in an estimated $26,000,000 a year additional revenue. Although the measure was Intended to Increase stale aid to public schools from a year to $101.

0(H) .000. under an upgraded Public School Foundation Program, the money was not earmarked for this purpose in the bill and could be used for other pur-poses. The bill had been sponsored Initially by an Interim committee which studied the Foundation Program. Brarkrl System. Under the proposal as approved by the Senate, sales tax tokens would be eliminated officially and a bracket system set up for collecting the tax on Items under $1 20.

The tax would be as follows: Sales of 20 cents or less, none; sales of 21 to ftO cents. 1 cent; sales of SI to RH cents, 2 cents: sales of 90 cents to $1 20, 3 cents. Senator Floyd R. Gibson (Dem.i. Independence, president pro tern of the Senate, opposed the bill, saying a sales tax increase was not included In the Governor's fiscal program.

He also charged that the proposal contradicted campaign pledges by Senators they would vote only for tax increases that were absolutely neressary. Slnre the sales tax Incresse, if approved by the voters, could not go Into effect until late next year, It would be of no benefit In helping the state solve Its present fiscal problems. Senator John P. Barrett 'Dem i. St.

Louis, and the three St. Louis county Senators Hartwell G. Crain and E. Gary Davidson "Reps and Raymond B. Ilopflnger (Dcm.) voted for the bill.

The six other Senators from Continued on Page 8, Col. 4. South America to Indicate there were sighting of strange objects," Wlllla.nson said. "We can't prove It but I think spare ships did exist then and do now" Williamson said ancient carvings in Latin America indicate the work had to be supervised from the air In order to he so symmetrically perfect. Other evidence he cited was a 5000 year-old map showing mountain ranges no longer In existence "this work could not have been done except from Uje air." MOTORIST-SHOT 2-STATE CHASE Pursuit That Started in Dupo Ends in Mehl-ville When Auto Goes Into Ditch.

William K. Baker, an Insur ance salesman, was shot and seriously wounded by police today after he led seven police cars In two stales on a wild, 45-minute chase. The pursuit ended when he lost control of his bullet -punctured car and crashed into a ditch in Mehl vllle. Baker, who had been discharged from Jefferson Bar racks Veterans Administration Hospital yesterday following three days of treatment for epilepsy, was thrown from the car in the 7700 block of South Lindbergh boulevard. He suffered fractures of the Jaw and ribs and had two bullet wounds of the chest and one of the Jaw.

He was to undergo chest surgery at St. Louis County Hospital. In the 30-mile chase. Raker drove through five roadblocks in St. Louis county, put a police cruiser out of commission and damaged several other vehicles.

He lives at 3944 Chippewa street." The chase started at 5:15 a.m. In Dupo where Illinois State Trooper Clarence J. Trankle stopped Baker on Illinois Highway 3. Trankle said Baker's car "was weaving all over the road" and waa in the wrong lane when the officer stopped tt. While Trankle was examining the driver's papers.

Baker suddenly put his car, a 1948 Plymouth, into gear and sped south, the trooper said. Trankle pursued him south and then west toward Jefferson Barracks Bridge over the Mississippi river, meanwhile radioing to St. Louis county police. Traveling at speeds up to 90 miles an hour, Trankle was able to pull alongside Raker's car several times, but had to drop back when the other driver swerved toward him, threatening to force the trooper off the left shoulder of the highway. Baker sped across the bridge 'Continued on Page 7, Col.

3. GROMYKO SPORTS HOMBURG, HERTER WEARS BOW TIE fur TMnM fcurt RrrvlM GENEVA, May 13 Andrei A. Gromyko, never much of a clothes horse In his United Nations days, has blossomed out suddenly as the most clothes-conscious of the foreign ministers In Geneva. The homburg is the test Once the sartorial symbol of the diplomatic trade, the hom burg hus been abandoned by the western foreign ministers and adopted by their Russian colleague. The western foreign ministers arrive at the conference doors hatless.

But Gromyko has yet to be seen outdoors without his gray hnmburg, on his head or in hand to be waved at photographers. The most informally dressed of the diplomats Is Christian A. Herter of the United States, who favors bow ties and single breasted suits. All his colleagues stick to lull length ties and douhlcbreastrd suits. Cut Is a matter of taste and not everybody the Russian style but Gromyko, by con sensus, gets the over-all prize.

hi homburg does It. BY POLICE AFTER 10 PCT. OF CITY'S STREETLIGHTS OUT OF SERVICE Failures in Old Cables Blamed Repairs Can't Keep Up With Breaks. More than 10 per cent of St. Louis's street lights were out of service today because of failures in old underground cables.

Director of Public Utilities Walter Malloy reported. Additional failures are occurring faster than lighting crews can make repairs, he added. More than 100 of the approximately 1000 major circuits are out of order at thia time, he estimated. The estimate was based on 230 calls received yesterday, reporting that lights were out at various places. "The problem is particularly bad at this time," he said.

"We have to contend with a terrible situation. We Just don't have the money or the manpower we need to handle the situa tion." Mght Repairs Abandoned. Because of repeated failures of circuits on which temporary repalra were made at night, the lighting division has abandoned attempts to make nighttime repairs, he said. All trouble crews have been placed on day shifts In an attempt to achieve more permanent repair of damaged circuits, he reported. The more lasting type of repair takes longer, and municipal crews are able to place only 10 to 12 circuits a day bark In service.

"Often when a repair of this type Is made, trouble will break out Immediately In some other section of the same circuit." he said. The 30-year-old underground rabies have been damaged over the years by construction and excavation work of various types, he said. This permits moisture or water to seep into the cables, causing short circuits. Overhead Wiring Halted. Temporary repairs which were formerly made by atringlng wires overhead from pole to pole until repalra could be made to underground rubles have been stopped, he said.

The wiring carries about 2300 volts and it was felt the hazard was too great to continue stringing It between poles. He said he had directed a complete survey to be made to assess accurately the condition of the lighting system and what mlgh be necessary to correct its faults. Some new lighting facilities are being installed on major Continued on Page Col. 1. excise taxes.

He said these taxes now impose "ridiculous ludicrous willy-nilly discrimination on consumers." He said 24-Inch power mowers are tax-exempt while a 5 jer cent tax is levied on mowers with a narrower cutting width. Homeowners, he said, are turning increasingly toward the king-size, tax-free types. Visits by Spacemen Old Stuff; Sightings Hinted 5000 Years Ago Homeowners Using Big Mowers, Cutting Lawns and Taxes, Too DENVER. May 13 fUPD Dr. George Hunt Williamson thinks spacemen have been dropping in on earth people for the pasl 5000 years and on a recular basis.

The archaeolo told a re cent meeting of the Denver Society for Unidentified Flying Objects Investigation, of Indications hat ancient civili zations made UFO sightings similar to those reported today. "There is evidence from an cient Egypt, Rome and Greece and Indiana both North and WASHINGTON, May 13 1 (UPI Homeowners arc beating the tax collector by mowing wirier swaths in their lawns. The Treasury is trying to figure out what to do about it. Representative Charles E. Chamberlain cited this yesterday as evidence of need for wholetale revision of federal.