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a LOGANSPORT PUBLIC LIBRARY The Weather In The Service Of The cloudy and For Over CLOUDY Founded 1844109th Th colder tonight, with snow Curries INDIANA: Mostly LOGANSPORT Community cloudy continuing north Temperature and portion, near 12 colder. noon, Lake snow Sunday 48 Michigan. degrees. Nurries partly Pharos Tribune One Hundred Years HOME EDITION 5:59 a. 5:50 ID.

p. YOUR Sunset sunrise Sunday HOME TOWN NEWSPAPER Wires SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 13, 1954. Phone For All. Departments Price Per Copy-Seven Cents Year Full-Leased Das and Night LOGANSPORT, INDIANA, United Press Two Perish In Singapore Airliner Crash AUTOMOBILE IN WHICH DRIVER DIED 02348 John Henry Seward, 63, Meets Death; Two Hurt Two Americans And Among Canadians Victims AUTO COLLISION KILLS ONE Passengers and Crew Trapped in Fuselage While 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 British airliner that crashed on landing at Singapore's Kallang Airport.

Eight crew members But the big plane's 31 and one crew member died in the flames, the doors of the fuselage jammed, while rescue workers tried frantically to hack a way inside. The Americans were listed as and Mrs. Alexander J. Wood, a world tour which they started New York, and Michael Shalhin, Far Eastern representative Warner Brothers motion picture company. Shathin was a Russian born naturalized American, friends said.

He has maintained headquarters bere for about. seven years. The Canadian was not immediately identified. An Australian victim-Mrs. Anne Marie Stafford Steen, wife of Perth physician-had flown here meet a daughter who is due here by plane Monday from the United States.

Plane Bound For London The gleaming British Overseas Airways Corp. Constellation was on flight from Sydney, Australia. London. It was coming into Kallang Airport from Djakarta, Indonesia, skimming over the waters of the Singapore Strait. The plane with the triple-finned tail dipped too low.

It's tricycle landing gear nicked the sea wall which raises the runway above the water. 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 hack a bole in the fuselage. Two of those inside were pulled out--one male passenger, who died the way to a hospital, and 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 open it. Robin Rendle, spookesman the civil aviation department, said the airliner crashed at the wind end of the runway while landing from an easterly direction. Eyewitnesses said the plane ayproached 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 crewmen on the scene before they were taken to the hospital ambulances. Samuel McCleary Reported Improved Samuel McCleary, 33, of 528 Fast Melbourne avenue, who was seriously wounded last Sunday morning in a clubroom fight, was! reported improved today at the Joseph hospital. His condition no longer is garded as serious. Edgar Ewing, 28, of 700 East Wabash avenue, who admitted be shot McCleary twice, according to police, has been held in the Cass county jail since his arrest shortly after the shooting.

Maroney Asks Lawyer to Drop Appeal Plans Youth Says He Is Willing to Serve 92 Days in Jail for Reckless Homicide. History of Glass Will Be Subject of Lecture By Indiana Collector Larry Maroney, 19, Metea high school student, serving his second week-end in the Cass county jail for reckless homicide as the result 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 a six months penal farm term, stated, "I am terribly sorry the cident that took Mr.

Miller's life ever happened. Maybe I am desa tined to pay society for my negleet. 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 person to be tried in Cass county for this sort of accident.

But maybe I'm the chosen one to take punishment for all of the other young fellows," the youth stated. "Be that as it may, I'm going to serve the ninety-two days in the best spirit that I know how. I want to be a good citizen, and maybe this isn't too great a price to pay for the many other freedoms we enjoy." Maroney expressed his ation to members of his family, his many friends, and his attorney, Charles Anderson. for the comfort and encouragement they had 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 to the reckless bomicide charge, must serve eight week-ends in jail during the remainder of the school year and then must serve 76 days a alter the school year ends. He also pay a $500 fine. The charge was filed after the car driven by Maroney struck and fatally injured Miller on June 20, las: year, as Miler was crossing North Third street. for The history of glass will be the subject of a talk to be given by Eugene R. Bock, Anderson newspaper man, at 3 p.

m. 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 indentify 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. Bock's appearance here is sponsored by the Cass county Historical Society. the damaged automobile, a 1954 model sedan, in which John Henry Seward, 63, Above is shown was killed Saturday morning. Two other persons were hurt residing near Royal Center in Pulaski -Tribune county, in the two-car crash.

Photo-Engraving) Rumor Highly Secret Atomic Files Missing Congressional Committee Orders Thorough Investigation at Hanford, Plant WASHINGTON (UP) The 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-1 N.Y.) said the committee is looking into report by Rep. Thomas M.

Pelly (R Wash.) that the Atomic Energy. Commission has admitted "substantial quantities" of secret papers are missing from the plant. The AEC had no comment on the report and Cole said the investigation was ordered at Pelly's 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 Hipshaw a committee member, told a report the commission "always has missing documents. As a rule, in the course of time they show tap." 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 8 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 reporti 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. Brands Tax Cut Drive "A Phoney" CONGRESS By UNITED PRESS Sen.

Ralph E. Flanders (R-VU) today charged that a Democratic plan to boost personal income tax exemptions is nothing but "an expensive phoney" and would mean little to the average taxpayer. He made the statement as Democrats buckled down for an all-out fight to take the play away from Republicans on taxes. A measure to increase the ent $600 individual income tax emption by $100 was. scheduled to come up in the house next week.

And Senate Democrats, pushing for a $200 boost, were considering tacking their exemption proposal on a House-passed bill to cut excise taxes one billion dollars. The! 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 Lawn, 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, Ill. 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 injured.

Crawford was a plumber and steam fitter here for the Graf company for years and resided at 1411 Market street before leaving here 12 years ago. He was a service man for the Minneapolis Honeywell 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 Pennsyl-1 vania engineer, 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 in 1939. He joined the Minneapolis well company at the beginning of World War I and was a supervi-1 sor 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.

Erebel Phillips, Fowler; 1 brother, Otto, Western Springs, a Chicago 511- burb; and the mother, Mrs. Luetta Crawford. Fowler. Mr. and Mrs.

Tartman left Friday evening for Chicago. His wife, Mrs. Coe Crawford, who died April 17, last year, was active in the local Legion auxiliary. was a member of the 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 chapel at Fowler.

Funeral rites: will be held at Fower at 2 p. Sunday, with burial in the Fowler cemetery. 42,000 Fans See Tourneys INDIANAPOLIS (UP) Four small schools battled their larger foes today for the right to enter I 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 fieidhouse in Bloomington. Butler fieldhouse here, the Fort Wayne Coliseum, and the Purdue fieldhouse at Lafayette.

Television coverage was provided at every center but Lafayette. radio and stations most led of Indiana's play-by-play s2 back to their thousands of Listeners. James Kochel and His Son Are Injured as Automobiles Collide on County Line Road Northwest of Royal Center. Mr. on at to a to to on to John Henry Seward, 63.

of Royal Center, rural route, a milk truck driver, was killed instantly and two other persons were injured in an auto collision at 10:25 Pulaski county 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 2, 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 in serious condition, it was reported. James suffered 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 in his 1954 model sedan when it struck the Kochel auto at the left front door as it was traveling east on the county line road, pulling a two-wheel trailer, according to investigating officers. SEMI-FINAL TOURNEY Quarters Elkhart 14 20 Lafayette Jeff 11 18 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 3 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 ad do the job for you. Call 4141 for courteous want ad service. Hoosiers Get Tornado Scare INDIANAPOLIS (UP) -Jittery 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 8 p.m., and from then until the "all clear" 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 and a "blue alert" was broadcast over police radios.

Had the tornado developed, a alert" would have been given, and air raid sirens would have sounded. Origin of Gas City Explosion a Mystery GAS CITY, (UP) Residents were baffled today by a mysterious door-rattling explosion heard over a 10-mile area. The blast came on the eve of today's semi- final high school basketball tourneys. Early speculation was explosion might have been an attempt at "psychological warfare" against the Mississinew 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 plane breaking the sound barrier. The blast startled residents here and in South Marion, Fairmount. Jonesboro and Upland. 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 shorly after 11 o'clock Saturday morning to assure the Loganberries of a rousing sendoff in their quest for a semi-final tournament victory.

The Berries were scheduled to take on the Hammond Wildcats in the 2:15 o'clock game at Purdue fieldhouse, after Elkhart and Lalayette 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 staff 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 second in the national four shooting tourney in the late 20's, principal speaker at. the 5C5- was sion. 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 re-covered from his narrow escape at last week's regional tourney. Loganberry Coach Keith Showalter paid tribute to the current of varsity performers in a group brief address. Racing World Mourns Death Of Pop Myer Death Comes to One of Founders of Annual 500-Mile Race And Vice-President of Indianapolis Speedway INDIANAPOLIS (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 bad been connected with racing in Iodianapolis since 1910, a year before the first 500-miler.

He was Carl G. Fisher's right-band man in the first running of the Memorial Day race. In 1914, Myers was named general manager of the Speedway and in 1915 was elected secretarytreasurer, Fisher sold the plant to Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker in 1927, Myers was promoted to vicepresident. He kept that office when multimilionaire, bought the Anton Hulman, Terre Haute, plant in 1945.

Myers had been ailing for several years but usually managed to spend much time at the track during the pre-race activity. He won his nickname "Pop" from his friendly association with drivers and mechanics as well as 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 the Contest Board of the American Automobile Association, which supervised the 500-mile race.

Myers was born 00 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 Nebo cemetery. Nixon Delivers GOP Reply Tonight WASHINGTON -Vice ident Richard M.

Nixon, with White House backing, is scheduled to give the nation tonight the a publican blistering altack by. Adlai E. I Party's official reply to Stevenson. Nixon promised he would meet; head-on the issues raised by the 1952 Democratic presidential dicate at a party rally a week ago. Stevenson pictured the Republican as hopelessly split, "half McCarthy and half Eisenbower," and accused of waging a campaign of "slander, dissension and deception." Nixon said his speech tonight would reflect the views of the Re-: publican Party and particularly of: Both doors on the right side of the Seward auto were thrown open by the impact and 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 of the intersection, headed east. 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 between the two cars when they came to 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, Sueriff 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. MIG Attacks Navy Planes FRANKFURT, Germany (UP)Two U.S. Navy planes were attacked by a Soviet-made MIG on the German-Czech Frontier Friday and one of the American planes "badly shot a U.S. miliwas tary source said here Friday night.

The U.S. spokesman said the two piston-engined navy craft managed to land safely in 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 night 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." The reports received by German police said several empty tridge shells bad been found after the attack but their origin could not be identified immediately. German border police said the MIG attacked about 7 a.m. CST over the West German frontier town.

of Waldmuenchen. German eyewitnesses said the two Navy planes beaded south after toe shooting. administration is opposed to both the excise cut and exemption boost. Democrats, charging that the! administration's tax program mainly benefits the wealthy, centered their attack on the proposal for special tax reductions on stock dividends. Rep.

Herman P. Eberharter (D- Pa) charged that the sponsor of the proposal, Treasury Secretary George M. Humphrey, has no: carried out a promise to lis: his own stock holdings. Eberharter said he will make a "personal inquiry" about the matter. House Door Monday.

Other congressional news: Statehood: Republican leaders have announced a Senate program which all but kills prospects for early action on a bill to bring Alaska and Hawaii into the Union. Senate Democratic leader Lyndon B. Johnson (Tex.) told GOP er William F. Knowland the Sonate may be debating statehood next July it the measure keeps getting sel aside. But Knowland said hie would go through with plans to consider other legislation first.

Jets: Sen. Styles Bridges (R- NH) reports that Senate investigators discovered that 60 to 70 of every 100 workers in one Italian factory assembling U.S. jet fighter planes are Communists. He said the case will be included in a forthcoming report to the President Eisnhower. He spent 45: minutes with the President late.

Friday going over the subject be-: tore retiring to the seclusion of downtown hotel room to prepare. the talk in complete privacy. He will speak from notes, rather, than a prepared text. Nixon was said to be Mr. hower's personal choice to repre-: sent their party in a "free time" speech at 10:30 p.m..

EST, over CBS radio-television and NBC ra-! dio. It is at the same time and over! th same networks Stevenson had for a speech beiore a Democratic rally in Miami Beach, last! Saturday night which provoked the controversy, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R-: 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 OD Nixon by replying to Stevenson's charge in a 15-minute radio interview Thursday night with Fulton Lewis Musual Broadcasting commen: tor. McCarthy labelled "completely false" Stevenson's assertion that the GOP had found only one active Communist in government.

Mr. Eisenhower, at his news confeience this week, dismissed as "nonsense" Slevenson's charge that the GOP is "half McCarthy and half Eisenhower,".