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5ANSPOKi 'UiJLiU The Weather INDIANA: Mostly cloudy and colder tonight, with Hurries iii north portion, Sunday partly cloudy and colder, snow flurries continuing near Lake Michigan. Temperature 12 noon, 4S degrees. Sunset 5:50 p. sunrise Sunday 5:59 a. m.

"YOUR HOME TOWN KEWSPAPER In The Service Of The Community For Over One Hundred Years HOME EDITION Founded Year nKfd Unlled Press Wirem Day and Night LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1954. For All Department! Phone 414J Price Per Cents Thirty-Two Perish In Singapore Airliner Crash Two Americans And Canadians Among Victims Passengers and Crew Trapped in Fuselage WhHe Rescuers Vainly Try to Reach Them. SINGAPORE, Malaya (UP) Thirty-two persons including three Americans and one Canadian died today in the flaming fuselage of a British airliner that crashed on landing at Singapore's Kal'laag Airport. Eight crew members escaped. But the big plane's 31 passengers Ult planes rl1 and one crew member died in the louth Says He Is Willing to Maroney Asks Lawyer to Drop Plans flames, the doors of the fuselage jammed, while rescue workers tried frantically to hack a way inside.

The Americans were listed as Serve 92 Days in Jail for Reckless Homicide. Larry Maroney, 19, Metea high school student, serving his second Mr and Mrs. Alexander J. Wood, week-end in the Cass county jail on a world tour which they started I for reckless homicide as the result at New York, and Michael Shathin. Far Eastern representative Warner Brothers motion picture company.

Shathin was a Russian born naturalized American, friends said. He has maintained headquarters here for about, seven years. The Canadian was not immediately identified. An Australian Anne Marie Stafford Steen, wife of a Perth flown here to meet a daughter who is due here by plane Monday from the United States. Plane Bound For London The gleaming British Overseas of the death of David Miller, local of tailor, said today that he has asked his attorney to drop plans for appealing the case.

The youth, ordered by Judge William B. Smith of Delphi to serve a total of 92 days in jail as a condition for suspension of a six months penal farm term, slated, "I am terribly sorry the ac- AUTOMOBILE IN WHICH DRIVER DIED cident that took Mr. Miller's life ever happened. Maybe I am des- 1 tined to pay society for my ne- gleet. This I'm willing to do.

"Ninety-two days is a long time when I know of many cases, since I can remember, where the negligent person suffered no fine, imprisonment, or censorship for his recklessness. I am the first young Glen Crawford Dies in Crash Of Two Autos Rites for Former Cass Legion Commander to Be Held Sunday at Fowler. Glen W. Crawford, 59, of Oak .59, Lawn, 111., former commander of the Cass county American Legion post, was killed in an auto collision Friday at 4:30 p. m.

at a street intersection near Bedford Park, a suburb of Chicago, HI. Crawford was traveling west, apparently enroute to his home at 9206 South 49th Court, Oak Lawn, when his car collided with the northbound auto operated by Wilfred McGowan, 26. Both men were thrown out of their cars. Crawford was killed and McGowan was seriously injur- John Henry Seward, 63, Meets Death; Two Hurt James Kochel and His Son Are Injured as Automobiles Collide on County Line Road Northwest of Royal Center. John Henry Seward.

63. of Royal Center, rural route, a Pulaski county milk truck driver, was killed instantly and two other persons were injured in an auto collision at 10:25 o'clock Saturday morning. The crash occurred on the Cass-Pulaski county line road at the first crossroad west of U. S. highway 35, northwest of Royal Center.

The injured are James Franklin Kochel, 37, of route Royal Center, driver of the other car involved, and his son, John Franklin Kochel, 9 years old, who were taken to Memorial hospital for treatment. Neither appeared to be serious condition, it was reported. James suifered lacerations on his head and shock, and his son suffered a. chipped bone in his left ankle. Both were to be released from the hospital.

Seward was headed south on a county gravel road i his 1954 model sedan when it struck the Kochel auto at tho i left front door as it was traveling east on the county line Crawford was a plumber and roa( pu ning a two-wheel trailer, according to investigating steam fitter here for the Graf pany for years and resided at 1411 Market street before leaving here 12 years ago. He was a service shown the damaged automobile, a 1954 model sedan, in which John Henry man for the nn ea polis Honey- Airways Corp. Constellation was on person to be tried in Cass county a flight from Sydney, Australia, or this sort accident. But may- to London. It was coming I be I'm the chosen one to take pun into Kallang ishment for all of the other young Airport from Djakarta, Indonesia, fellows," the youth stated, skimming over the waters of the Singapore Strait.

AbOVC is Sflfvvn trie uaui a uiwi ntfffufff' fi'- residing near Royal Center in Pulaski county, was killed Saturday morning. Two other persons were hurt in the two-car crash. (Pharos-Tribune Photo-Engraving) "Be that as it may, I'm going to serve the ninety-two days in the i The plane with the triple-finned spjrit that know now i It's tricycle want to a goo citizen, and tail dipped too low. landing gear nicked the sea wall which raises the runway above the The' airliner rose on- its nose, somersaulted and crashed on its back. A sheet of orange-colored flame shot through the passenger cabin, and a black plume of smoke spouted into the clear sky.

Eight crew members including Pilot Capt. Trevor W. Hoyle fought their way out of the nose compartment. The doors of the main compartment jammed. Firemen, despite the intensifying flames, managed to hack a hole in the fuselage.

Two of those inside were pulled male passenger, who died on the way to a hospital, and a stewardess whose clothing was aflame. Most of the bodies were burned beyond recognition. Seven or eight were jammed against a door. They had died as they battled in vain to open it. Robin Rendle, spookesman for the civil aviation department, said the airliner crashed at the downwind end of the runway while land- rag from an easterly direction.

Eyewitnesses said the plane approached the field at high speed and nosed over and burned after the front wheels hit the airstrip. Dr. R. De Souza, airport physician, said he treated five or six crewmen on the scene before they were taken to the hospital in ambulances. maybe this isn't too great a price to pay for the many other free- doms we enjoy." Maroney expressed his appreciation to members of his family, his many friends, and his attorney, Charles Anderson, for the comfort and encouragement they bad given him.

The youth's attorney previously had challenged the judge's decision in the case, asserting that he could not legally impose a jail sentence as a condition for suspension of a penal farm term. The youth, who pleaded guilty reckless homicide charge, must serve eight week-ends in jail during the remainder of the school year and then must serve 75 days after the school year ends. He also must pay a S500 fine. The charge was filed after the i The AEC had no comment on car driven by Maroney struck and the report and Cole said- the in- fatally injured Millar on June 20, vestiga-tion was ordered at PeJly's Rumor Highly Secret Atomic Files Missing Congressional Committee Orders Thorough Investigation at Hanford, Plant WASHINGTON (UP) Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee today was investigating a report that 'highly secret" files have disappeared from the Hanford, atomic plant. Chairman W.

Sterling Cole (R- N.Y.) said the committee is looking into a report by Rep. Thomas SEMI-FINAL TOURNEY Quarters Elkhart 14 20 Lafayette Jeff 11 18 M. Felly (R Wash.) that the Atomic Energy Commission has admitted "substantial quantities" of secret papers are missing from the plant. last year, as Miler was crossing North Third street. Samuel McCleary Reported Improved Samuel McCleary, 33, of 528 East Melbourne avenue, who was seriously wounded last Sunday morning in a clubroom fight, was reported Improved today at the St.

Joseph hospital. His condition no longer is regarded as serious. Edgar Ewing, 28, of 700 East Wabash avenue, who admitted he shot McCleary twice, according to police, has been held in the Cass county jail since his arrest shortly after the shooting. History of Glass Will Be Subject of Lecture By Indiana Collector The history of glass wiE be the subject of a talk to be given by Eugene R. Bock, Anderson newspaper man, at 3 p.

Sunday at the Longfellow school. An invitation has been extended to the public to attend. Bock, whose hobby is glass collecting, has amassed many rare pieces of glassware some of which he will show at his Sunday afternoon lecture. He will also use slides to illustrate and inden-tify others types of glass. The speaker will spend some time describing early Indiana and the abundance of glass factories that were in existence at that time.

Book's appearance here is -being sponsored by the Cass Historical Society. request. Cole said, the committee and the AEC already have been conducting "routine" investigations of possible missing papers from the AEC's file of 80 million classified documents. Rep. Carl Hinshaw a committee member, told a report the commission "always has missing documents.

As a rule, in the course of time they show up." Hinshaw said at every atomic installation someone is authorized to take secret papers for work at home. "He leaves them somewhere at home and forgets them under a book or something," he said. He said the commission has to "keep rapping these guys all the time." Hinshaw said the committee has asked the AEC for a full report on the Hanford case and expects to get all the facts next week, ROCHESTER RESIDENT DIES ROCHESTER Alice Mossman, 91, 1015 Elm street, died at 10 p. m. Friday at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Wayne.

The body has been returned to the Zimmerman Brothers funeral home. NEEDED 11 Water Heaters This little classified ad which ran recently in the Pharos-Tribune and Press produced 12 calls for the water heater. Electric 20 gal. water heater. Good condition.

Phone xxxx. Since only one buyer could purchase this heater, it would appear that eleven others are still seeking a good used hot water heater. If you have one, or any other usable item to sell, let a low-cost Pharos-Tribune and Press classified do the job for you. Call 4141 for courteous want ad service. Brands Tax Cut Drive "A Phoney" Hoosiers Get Tornado Scare INDIANAPOLIS ('TIP) Hoosiers relaxed today after scanning murky skies Friday night which the weather bureau warned might bring a tornado.

But the tornado didn't show up, and the worst was no more destructive than mild gusts of wind. It was the first tornado warning for Indiana this year. Radio stations briadcast the alert shortly after p.m., from then until the "all clea-r" was given at 11 p.m., radio stations, newspapers and weather stations were flooded with calls from anxious citizens. The danger area was in a 60-mile wide band stretching from Terre Haute to Indianapolis. Indianapolis civil defense units were alerted, and a "blue alert" was broadcast over police radios.

Had the tornado developed, a "red alert" would have been given, and air raid sirens would have sounded. Origin of Gas City Explosion a Mystery GAS CITY, Ind. (UP) Residents were baffled today by a Berry Backers Give Players Gala Sendoff Impromptu Rally at Berry Bowl Precedes Departure of Logansport Team. Anxious Logansport fans began to gather in the vicinity of Berry Bowl shortly after 11 o'clock Saturday morning to assure the Loganberries of a rousing sendoff in their quest for a semi-final tournaiment victory. Th-e Berries were scheduled to take on the Hammond Wildcats in the 2:15 o'clock game at Purdue fieldhouse, after Elkhart and Lafayette Jeff opened the tourney at 1 o'clock.

Championship encounter is slated for 8:15 o'clock between survivors of the afternoon eliminations. Winner earns the right to represent the area in the final four firing at Butler fieldhouse, Indianapolis, next Saturday. Members of the basketball team, the coaching sta'M and school officials departed for West Lafayette by chartered bus, leaving about 11:30 o'clock. Students and adult supporters followed the bus in private automobiles. Enthusiasm for the Loganberry semi-final basketball venture was generated Friday afternoon at a gala pep session in Berry Bowl, featuring several selections by the LHS 'band and a number of rousing cheers.

Ralph Tucker, former Logansport free throw champion, who finished secon-d in the national four shooting tourney in the late 20's, was principal speaker at-the session. He was introduced by J. H. Mertz, high school principal. Biggest cheer was accorded Jane Stratman, girls physical education instructor, when she marched into the bowl carrying a healthy apparently recovered from his narrow escape at last week's regional tourney.

Loganberry Coach Keith Showalter paid tribute to the current group of varsity performers in a brief address. well company in the Chicago district at the time of his death. Father Killed In Rail Wreck The deceased was born Nov. 1, 1894, in Benton county, but the family moved here during his youth. After his father, a Pennsylvania was killed in a wreck, the family moved to Fowler but after World War I Crawford returned to Logansport.

He was adjutant of the local Legion post for five years and then served as post commander in 1939. He joined the Minneapolis-Honeywell company at the beginning of World War II and was a supervisor of Honeywell equipment at Crane Naval Ammunition depot for some time, residing at Louisville. He moved to Oak Lawn six years ago. Survivors are a daughter, Mrs. John Zartman, 1411 East Market street; a sister, Mrs.

Erchel Phillips, Fowler; a brother, Otto, Western Springs, a Chicago su- burb; and the mother, Mrs. Luetta Memoriai Crawford. Fowler. Mr. and Mrs.

Tartman left Friday evening for Chicago. His wife, Mrs. Coe Crawford, who died April 17, last year, was Racing World Mourns Death Of Pop Myer Death Comes to One of Founders' olPAnnual 500-Mile Race And Vice-President of Indianapolis Speedway INDiIAMAiPOLIS (UP) T. E. (Pop) Myers, 80, vice-president of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and one of the top leaders of the 500-mile auto race since the first contest in 1911, died today.

Myers died in St. Vincent's Hospital. Myers had been connected with racing in Indianapolis since 1910, a year before the first 500-miler. He was Carl G. Fisher's right-hand man in the first running of the active in the local Legion auxiliary.

He was a member of the Elks and 40 and 8 as well as the American Legion. The body will remain at Oak Lawn until Saturday night and then will be taken to the Hooker In 1914, Myers was named general manager of the Speedway and in 1915 was elected secretary- treasurer. When Fisher sold the plant to Capt. Eddie Riokenbacker in 1927, Myers was promoted to vice- president. He kept that office'wihen Anton HuJman, Terre Haute, multimillionaire, bought the plant in 1945.

Myers had been ailing for several years but usually managed to uivii WJ-U. uc i- chapel at Fowler. Funaral rites i spend much time at the track will be held at Fewer at 2 p. m. during the pre-race activity He won his nickname Pop from his friendly association with drivers and mechanics as well as Sunday, with burial in the Fowler cemetery.

Both doors on the right side of the Seward auto were thrown open by the impact and Seward was hurled out. He fell beneath the Kochel car's wheels, and it was necessary to move the Kochel car off his body. Suffers, Skull Fracture Seward's death was caused by a skull fracture, according to Cass county Coroner M. B. Stewart.

Both vehicles came to a stop at the southeast corner the intersection, headed east. The Kochel car snapped off steel corner post and tore down approximately 20 feet of fence. The tongue of the trailer it was pulling was snapped off by the impact. Strangely, the Melbourne Douglas mailbox was undamaged although it was sandwiched betweea the two cars when they came to a stop. Seward's body was removed to the Harrison funeral home at Royal Center.

The injured Kochel father and son were brought to Memorial hospital by a neighbor. Seward was born Nov. 20, 1890. He is survived by the wife, Esther; three sons, Roger, Charles and. Kenneth; and a daughter, Mrs.

Edith Carlson, of west of Royal Center. State Trooper Harold Flinn, Sheriff Claude Berkshire and' Deputy Sheriff Dale Logan investigated the accident. Coroner Stewart said the public inquest will be held at 9 o'clock Thursday morning in his office in the court house. Ten witnesses have been subpoenaed. 42,000 Fans See Tourneys INDBANAPOLIS (UP) Four small schools battled their larger foes today for She right to enter next week's four-team finals of the 44th annual Indiana high school basketball tourney.

About 42,000 fans were expected to witness the three-game sessions at the Indiana fieldhouse in Bloomington. Butler fieldhou-se here, the Fort Wayne Coliseum, and the Purdue fieldhouse at Lafayette. Television coverage was provided at every center but Lafayette, and most radio stations of fed Indiana's 52 play-by-play back ers. to their thousands of listen- car owners. During his career, Myers spent most of his time promoting the Speedway.

He made three trips to Europe, visited famed road races on the continent and stimulated foreign interest. In recent years, Myers was a member of the Contest Board of the American Automobile Association, which supervised the 500-mile race. Myers was born on a farm near Richmond, in 1874. SET WISE SERVICES CAMDEN, Ind. Funeral services for Mrs.

Joanna Smith Wise, 81, who died at her Rockfield residence Friday, will be conducted at 2 p. m. Monday at the Gentry funeral home with the Rev. Clifford Winter officiating. Burial will be made in the N-ebo cemetery.

Nixon Delivers GOP Reply Tonight cut and exemption charging CONGRESS By UNITED PRESS the excise Sen. Ralph E. Flanders (R-VU boost, today charged that a Democratic Democrats, plan to boost personal income tax administration's tax i exemptions is nothing but "an ex-1 mainly benefits the wealthy, pensive phoney" and would mean little to the average taxpayer. He made the statement as Democrats buckled down for an ail-out administration is opposed to both which all but kills prospects for that the ram centered "their attack on the proposal for special tax reductions on stock dividends. Rep.

Herman P. Eberharter (ID- fight to take the play away from Republicans on taxes. A measure to increase the present S600 individual income tax ex- Pa) charged that the sponsor of the proposal, Treasury Secretary Georgt Humphrey, has not carried out a promise to list his emotion by SlOO was. scheduled to own stock holdings. Eberharter come up in the house next week, said he will make a "personal And Senate Democrats, pushing for a $200 boost, were considering tacking their exemption proposal on a House-passed bill to cut ex-1 inquiry" about the matter on the House floor Monday.

Other congressional news; Statehood: Republican leaders dollars. The have announced a Senate program early action on a bill to bring Alaska and Hawaii into the Union. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) told GOP Leader William F. Knowland the Senate may be debating statehood next July if the measure keeps getting set aside.

But Knowland said he would go through i plans to consider legislation first. Jets: Sen. Styles Bridges (R- NH) reports that Senate investigators discovered that BO to 70 of every 100 workers in one Italian mysterious door-rattling explosion WASHINGTON (UP)-Vice Pres: Nivnn with heard over a 10-mile area. The blast came on the eve of today's semi final high school basketball' tourneys. Early speculation was that the explosion might have been an attempt at "psychological warfare" against the Mis- sissinew team, scheduled to meet Kokomo today in the Fort Wayne semi-final.

But police said no evidence could be found of an explosion being set off in the area where it was heard. Police said one theory was the noise came from a passing jet ident Richard M. White House backin. Nixon, with President Eisnhower. He spent 45 minutes with the President late to give the uatMus is' scheduled Friday going over the.

subject be- nation tonight the Re-' fore retiring to the seclusion of a publican Party's official reply to down-town hotel room to prepare attack by. Adl'ai E. the talk in complete privacy. Stevenson. Nixon promised factory assembling U.S.

jet fighter plane breaking the sound barrier. r.ocriy4an,f^ planes are Communists. He said the case will be included in a head-on the issues raised by the 1952 Democratic presidential candidate at a party rally a week ago. Stevenson pictured the Repuoli- can Party as hopelessly split, 'half McCarthy and half Eisen- He will soeak from notes, rather he would meet; than a prepared text. Nixon was said to be Mr.

Eisenhower sent personal choice to repre- their party in a "free time" speech at 10:30 p.m.. EST, over CBS radio-television and NBC radio. It is at the same time and over nail mj bower" and accused It of waging th same networks Stevenson had a carkpa-ign of "slander, dissen- for a speech before a De-mocratic a campa sion and deception." Nixon said his speech tonight Wis) has demanded, and been refused by the networks, equal time to make his own reply to what he called "a lengthy and vicious attack on me personally:" But the Wisconsin senator managed to get the jump on Nixon by replying to Ste-venson's charge in a 15-minute radio interview Thursday night with Fulton Lewis Mutual Broadcasting comment tor. McCarthy labelled "completely false" Stevenson's assertion that the GOP had found only one active Communist in government. Mr.

Eisenhower, at his news con- feience this week, dismissed as and in South Marion, Fairmount. I Qf he rally in Miami Beach. last Saturday night which provoked the I south after tb. MIG Attacks Navy Planes FRANKFURT, Germany Two U.S. Navy planes were attacked by a Soviet-made MG on.

the German-Czech Frontier Friday and one of the American planes was "badly shot a U.S. military source said here Friday night. The U.S. spokesman said the two piston-en-gined navy craft managed to land safely in Munich. It was not immediately known whether any crewmen of the attacked planes were wounded.

The naval craft were believed to be from, the U.S. 6th Fleet in the Mediterranean, en route to carry out maneuvers over Austria. The spokesman said the planes apparently lost their way on the flight to Austria and flew along the Czech-West German border area. The attacking plane, apparently a Czech Air Force MIG 15, zoomed in from Czechoslovakia and fired several bursts at the American planes before swerving back Eastward, Returned Fire A spokesman for Bavarian State Border Police in Munich said several eyewitnesses had reported that one of the U.S. planes 'returned the fire with several bursts." Tho reports received by German police said several empty cartridge shells had been found after the attack but their origin could not be identified immediately.

German border police said ths MIG attacked about 7 a.m. CST over the West German frontier town, of Waldmuenchen. German said the two Navy forthcoming report to the Senate. Jonesboro and Upland. len R.

McCarthy and half Eisenhower." I shooting..