Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 6

wv CORPUS CHRISTI CALLER Sat Nov 25 1961 Air Escape In Yukon Described ON STAGE Plane Returning Rcservisls lllew Apart Killed 6 BOX CONTAINING REMAINS RESTS ON BURIAL PI)T ON SAirAN jjrave could be llmt of avia til Amelia Earhari and navigator (AP Wlrsptists) 24-YEAR MYSTERY Jungle Burial Site Could Be FAIRBANKS Alaska (A A hairbreadth escape by parachute after the plane exploded in flight was described Friday by a survivor of an Air Fbroa transport that crashed Thursday while taking 10 reservists home to Texas The latest count left six dead three rescued and one missing Sgt Clyde Nicholas of Pasadena Texas said he got out barely in time for hia parachute to open before the C119 transport hit the ground and burned in the Yukon wilds SSgt Leroy Cotton of Galena Park Texas and Airman lC Jean Conklin an of Genoa Texas were the other known survivors Nicholas and Cotton said MSgt Roger Forstner 18 of Houston was the only other man who parachuted although first reports indicated five got out Extensive' Reim-li An extensive ground and air search for Forstner was conducted Friday is amazing that I got out alive" Nicholas said in a telephone interview from Whitehorse We were flying along and Cotton came up to the cockpit and said that our right engine was on Are ran back to look and it wrs starting to burn the pilot (dipt Wayne Sager 37 of Pasadena Texas) gave the jump signal and three men jumped" Cotton went first told me to get some survival gear" he said I told them there wasn't time for that" Forstner went next and Conklin third Before Nicholas could jump the plane exploded boom blew off the right wing of the aircraft" said Nicholas the plane flipped over on its back I didn't knowhow far I fell before I could get out" Tree Broke 1-all He said his parachute barely opened before he landed in a tree that broke his fall I looked up and saw three parachutes floating up near the mountain" Nicholas continued hobbled down to the plane and saw two men beside the plane dead I tried to pull them away but my leg was hurting me I got away from the plane because it still was exploding" The bodies beside the plane were those of Airman 1CL William Murphy 22 of Houston and Airman lC David Paul 38 of League City Texas Ellingston Air Force Base in Texas listed as dead or missing Cspt Sager CapL Milton Kim-ey 38 Houston CapL Alan White 28 Houston SSgt Lonnie Fireman 36 of Genoa and Forstner 1344-45 and had trudged over the island Devine said a native woman salted if he wa searching for a grave and then the shallow bur ial place was pointed out to him He said he did not connect the grave with the disappearance of the American fliers until years later Goemcr said that an expedition he headed came upon the burial aite Sept 21 in the vieinity SAN FRANCISCO 10 Bmtrs and teeth found in a shallow jungle grave on Saipan Idand wore being flown here Friday to as-rertain whether they may he those of Amelia Earhart and her navigator Fred Noonan Mia Earhart called for her daring flight and Noonan vanished mysterious-ly July 2 1937 while crowing the Pacific on a world flight Fred Cornier 36 a newsman for radio station KCBS told a news conference Friday he found where tjie war-destroyed city a grave containing bones and 37jof Garapan once was" Goer-human teeth -nrr said we found a shallow un- marked grave containing the re "We are not sure these aie the mains of a man and woman teeth uncovered doc- remains of Amelia Earhart and Fred Goemer said Dr Theodore McCownjtors indicated they were Caucas-protessnr of anthropology at the ians and quite possibly those of have been kept on Saipan (nr a year or more" fioerner said was told Miss Earhart died of dysentery and after her death Noonan -was executed by samuri sword" There were no dental plates as such but the teeth had fillings indicating the work of American dentists Thorough Job No one had done a thorough job of checking information on Miss Earhart's last flight including reports of intercepted messages presumably from the Japanese which were never maie public Do you think Miss Earhart might have been acting as a py?" Goemer was asked "I don't believe he replied Miss Earhart's sister Mrs Albert Morrissey of Medford Mass expressed little confidence that the remains were those of the flier She said there was no known dental chart of Miss Earhart Plane Wreckage Goemer said Dr James Scott of Palm Springs Chlif might have Noonan's chart Goemer went to Saipan In August I960 and recovered old plane wreckage from the bottom of a bay The wreckage included a generator which turned out however to have been from a Japanese plane and not Miss Paul Mantz of Lns Angeles an aviation expert who was Miss technical adviser said he hoped the mystery would bel solved "I would like to see the whole thing cleared up once and for all" Mantz commented The remains were due in San Francisco Friday night but Dr McOown was on a weekend holiday and may not examine them until early next week Miss Earhart and Noonan we are not sure are their remains" Dr McCbwn agreed to study the bones on condition he not he given any descriptions of Miss Earhart or Noonan Goemer resumed: Bridwell told him: "I think they went down in Marshalls close to Howland Island were captured taken to Yap and then brought to Saipan" The bodies had been buried only two feet deep in Japanese fashion He said heavy rains had eroded the earth covering and the hones were brittle "Miss Earhart and Noonan may University of California at Berk' eley has agreed to study them" Goemer said information which led him to the Jungle grave came from Itomas Devine a businessman of West Haven Cram Goemer related: He learned of Navy messages concerning Miss Earhart's flight hich never had been made public Cmdr Paul Rridwell Biipan's naval commandant expressed a theory that Miss Earhart and Noonan were forced down in the Marshalls then taken to Saipan where they were imprisoned Devine was a US soldier with a post office unit on Saipan in SPY REALLY RUSSIAN git of ROACHES TU 4-8214 WASHINGTON (AP)-The FBI FBI Director wrote a sequel to the story of a major British espionage case Friday by identifying the principal who called himself a Canadian as a Moscow-horn Russian who spent five years in this country as a youth Molody came States in 1333 11-year-old son in Berkeley to the 1938 After that he served in the Edgar Hoover: to the United posing as his aunt's He lived with her Chlif until his return Soviet Union about is believed to have! Red army before JrrT PEST F06 INC of eourca The man named in court asT Gordon Arnold Lonsdale was dranR ssTnment espionage agent He went to Canada in obtaining a passport and arrested in January this year and was sentenced in March to 25 head 1951 birth BUYING A NEW HOMI CANS) ratal Investment! INSURE WITH THE servs years as of a spy nng that stole Rntish naval secrets including details of the British atomic submarine Dread-noukjit built with the help of US blueprints The trial produced indications titat Lonsdale is really a Russian with a wife in that country but gave no details Friday Atty Gen Robert Kennedy announced Mat an intensive investigation by the FBI has established his background and his real name of Canon Molody The detail were rejiorted by certificate in the name of Gordon Arnold Lonsdale before leaving in February 3355 He sailed from New York tor England in Match of that year and was arrested by the British in January 1961 along two American citizens and two British nationals The Americans originally Identified as Peter and Helen Kroger were later disclosed to he Morris and Lona Cohen Molody now 38 was In the United States under that name only once after his 1938 return to the Soviet Union the FBI said That was during his stay in New York while preparing to sail for England This was after brief visit to Canada during which he obtained the passport and birth certificate under the name Llons-dale Hoover said (JHflDfflD VV p(l Town Kcnamcil BUDAPEST cf) Communist steel mill tow-n of Stalin-varos Friday was renamed Dunau-Jvaros (Danube new town) BAIBV EGGF fcvg Wt 20-60 Lbs u32 Avi Wt 50-100 lbs WELCOME TO FIRST ASSEMBLY Avg Wt 10-60 Lbs A- ls i SlVRER La usaJ ha THE IDEAL FAMILY CHURCH Christ centered Worship San 10SS A 7:00 pm Age grouped church stheal Sun 941 ciw Active Prayer lend that unites an all request A Full Mslv Music Proyrom lecturing cnc cf Carpus Chriiti's cutstandinf chairs Aa Infcaing Secicl Calender Every Piece GUARANTEED le goed end tender ur ysur MONEY BACK All Meoti Cut and Wrapped Se FREE CITY WIDE DELIVERY SAD CSAKIG' WHOLESALE MEATS INC 9501 HWY Wl Mill Naaaaaaaaaa lmphouzing: The New Birth The spirit Mind life Divine Healing and tht soon return of Christ 1119 I BROWNLIE A GROFF Pastor.