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ria METRO PC UTAH MM np A V. Weather Area Wtalker Snow 1 cold today, tomorrow. Hlffh today Low tonight 17 Report on Page 132nd YEAR Vfllumf Number 93 SYRACUSE, N. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1960 SEVEN CENTS AFTER CRASH OF AIRLINER IN BROOKLYN STREET Wreckage of huge tail assembly domin ates scene. In foreground stretcher bearers make way over sidewalk cove red with snow and fire hoses.

AP Wireuhotos FLAMING WRECKAGE FIR ES ENTIRE CITY BLOCK View of devastation in Brooklyn after plunging United airliner strikes church. Resulting blaze demolished the church. Ten other buildings were set afire. Ditl on oin Kennedy Mw PALM BEACH, Fla (AP)-President-elect John F. Kennedy appointed two more Cabinet members Friday during a busy day in Kennedy also announced two non-Cabinet level choices.

White is Deputy He selected Byron (Whizzer) Washington and then flew to White of Denver, a long-time friend and comrade of Navy days, as deputy attorney general. Florida for a weekend with his family. Making the flight with him from Washington was his brother, Robert, 35. newly named attorney The other Cabinet select tion Friday was Republican Douglas BUlon, 51, chosen secretary of the The two selections left only one position to be fined In the Cabinet, that of postmaster general. Also aboard the Kennedy plane was the man considered the frontrunner for that post, JL Edward Day, a Los Angeles insurance Earlier, in Washington, Kennedy announced the two Cabinet appointments from the snowy of his Georgetown home.

He said, in answer to questions, that he couldn't recall a precedent lor naming a brother to a Cabinet post but "we are going to start one." Sought Best Talent Kennedy told reporters he thought he should obtain the best possible talent, regardless of party or other considerations. William P. Rogers, the Eisenhower administration's attorney general, sent Robert Kennedy a of congratulations, pledging "complete cooperation hi making the transition orderly, successful and in the public 1 Day arrived in the capital Fn- dey morning after speeding eastward via jet airliner in response to an'invitation by Kennedy. talktefc' vrfth newsmen. Day dui quite say he had been ap- But he commented that "this was quite a bolt from the blue" and said he told Kennedy "I would be available if he needed in some important job in his White's nickname comes from his All-America football record at the University of Colorado.

Harry J. Anslinger, veteran of years of service as U.S. narcotics commissioner, will continue in the new administration. Kennedy had followed the same policy in asking J. Edgar Hoover to continue as 'chief of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Allen W.

(Continued on Pare 2, Col 7) Wire News in Brief Leftists Driven Out of Vientiane Laos Pro-Western forces of Gen. Phourni Nosavan drove leftist-Communist defenders from Vientiane Friday and announced the liberation of the Laotian capital after three days of bloody fighting. Tanks of the rightist invaders were reported mopping up the last pockets of resistance at the Vientiane airport where the Soviet Union had landed plane-ferried artillery in support of the pro-Communist forces fighting under paratrooper Capt Kong Le. Hits Target 4,384 Miles Away VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (19 An Atlas nose cone carving a small charge of TNT was exploded on target in Eniwetok lagoon Friday after a flight from this West Coast missile base.

Gen. Thomas $,, Power, head of the Strategic Air Command, said the training operation was completely cessfnl. Power said the 27-mlnute flight "demonstrates that in combat ICBMa would compress to an incredibly short interval the time necessary to place nuclear explosives on target." The Air said the purpose of the TNT charge was to check out the mechanisms which would arm a nuclear device. ATT Plans $2,5 Billion Expansion NEW YORK tfl The, American Telephone Telegraph the world's largest utility, to spend about $2.5 billion on expansion next year, president Frederick R. Kappcl said Friday.

This year 1 total for construction and enlargement of facilities has been estimated at close to the same amount "This $2.5 bil- the vide nee we can oiler of our confidence in the essential of the economy and in the future growth of our 1 Kappcl declared in yearend statement. The $2.5 billion is among the largest if not the largest sum ever budgeted for expansion by an American business firm. Jet Narrowly Misses School; Worst Crash in Aviation History 1 NEW YORK airliners, one a jet, collided in the air Friday and plunged down into New York City. There were 134 persons killed in the worst disaster in the history of aviation. Of 128 persons aboard the two planes, the sole survivor was one small boy.

The jet plunged into a crowded Brooklyn neighborhood, killing a street cleaner at work and six other persons. A block-wide area scourged with fiery death and destruction. The other plane, a four engine, propeller driven craft, apparently exploded and came down in Earning pieces on Staten Island, across the narrow neck of New York Harbor. It landed in an open field, sparing further tragedy- Over Narrows i Police fixed the collision spot above the Narrows, the heavily steamship lane between Brooklyn and Staten Island, federal authorities said the jet's last reported -position was 5,000 feet over while plane was cleared over 'Linden, N.J., to down from 6,000" to 5,000 feel. Until now, the worst air tragedy in was the death of 129 servicemen in the June 18, 1953.

crash near Tokyo of an American Air Force transport. Fire Commissioner Edward P. Cavanagh said it might be many hours before all the buildings ravaged by the fallen jet could be thoroughly searched for bodies. above the The awesome tragedy, occurring over a metropolitan area, pointed up the growing peril of sit nation's larger cities. Tt.

was opiv t-c collision between commercial The last was over t.he Grand Canvnn in Arizona in 1956 when all 128 died in a collision between a Trans World Airlines plane and a tJnited airliner. Snnw. Fog By grim coincidence, the same two airlines were involved in Friday's crash. It occurred at 10:34 a.m. in dirty gray skies that were further obscured by the falling snow.

The two big planes were coming frqm the west for seoarate landings at the two New York City airports LaGuardia Field and Tdlewild Airport, about 10 miles Margaret Gernat Plane Crash Victim flight Was Last Before Her Holiday GRANVILLE Stewardesi Margaret Gernat, a tall, haired registered died just two days before her 25th birthday. The Trims World flgiht that ended in a mid-air collision over New York City was to be her last before spending Christmas leave with her parents in this small village near the Vermont line. Miss Gernat was a graduate of New York City's Bellevue Hospital. She received her ardess's wings two years ago thii month, Mr. and Mrs.

George Gernat have no telephone in their home so the airline telephoned a neighbor today to notify them of the crash. Mrs, Bruce Hammond said the Gernats took the news "the spart on Island. The ceiling; way any mother and father AP Wireoboto BOY THROWN CLEAR IN CRASH OF JETLINER IN BROOKLYN Stephen Baltz, 11, aided as he lies in snowbank near disaster scene Lone Survivor Worried About His Waiting Mother Pacifists Want Army Post a Health Center ntCDCIlICK, Md, A pacifist ffrotp protesting term warfare mearcfc at Ft, Detrick, hat tww grigi fnr cenTCrt the army port Into A world health tenter. Lawrence Scott, project director for the "vif at Ft. cald today hit grovp wilt try ret people all over fat comtiy interated hi the Idea, particularly Rebellion Crushed in Ethiopia ASMARA, Ethiopia Emperor Selassie, "King of CnifflMS SEALS FIMT Tl 6MM Kings, Conquering Lion of returned in triumph Friday to recover hit realm from revolutionaries who seized power two ago.

The rebellion was reported crushed. Selassie's eldest Crown Prince Asfa Wassan, 44, served the revolution only under duress, and remains faithful to his father, reliable sources isaid. Hoffo Denies Moil Fraud Charge rf dta NEW YORK she's waiting for 1 These mumbled words came from the lone survivor of Friday's double plane disaster, Stephen Baits, 11, as he lay seriously injured in Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital. He was aboard a United Air Lines jet plane from Chicago when it collided over New York with a Trans World Airlines plane, and crashed into a Brooklyn residential area. Iree ORLANDO, from a tail section.

A passer-by, Louis Vterickl of Brooklyn, found the youngster lying unconscious on the pavement, and with the aid of policeman got him to the hospital about six blocks away. He had been on his way here io join his who'had flown here earlier to visit relatives. His own trip had delayed because he had a sots throat. with a number of others waiting lor the plane. They were in tears.

When the news of her son's survival was given her, she broke into a great smile of joy. She loft in a car for the hospital. There the lad, in his moments of awareness, explained weakly, 'Tm a Methodist Sunday School boy." Chief nurse Edith Roberts told him he had to an appropriate hospital, a Methodist institu- lion, and "We'll take good care of ou." The youngster had serious burns, and an undetermined number of broken bones. His uon was listed as critical. He lapsed back into unconsciousness shortly after his few remarks.

His wrist watch had stopped at presumably Chicago time. The boy regained consciousness later, and was able to talk to a doctor. He said of the accident: "I heard a big noise while we were flying. The last thing I remember was the plane The doctor said the youngster was in "good His mother and his sister, Randee, 9, arrived at the nuspilai later, after being driven from Idlewild by Henry Sansone, a United Air Lines representative. a vigil at the boy's bedside.

The boy has deep third-degree burns over the chest and his left arm from the elbow to his his back to was about 600 (eel. The two were supposed to have been at different altitudes. tUil for some unexplained reason, they weren't. Recorded tions their pilots had with the control towers were being monitored for some clue to the tragedy. So was an automatic flight recording device carried by jets to list their action in flight.

Ironically, a part of the jetliner came to rest in the wreckage of a Brooklyn funeral parlor, with a score or more passengers entombed in the debris of the house of Would be rescuers told of see lire bodies held to their seats by safety belts they would they're just staring and crying. 11 "She was a very nice girl, very a a Mrs, Hammond said. Miss Gernat had written her parents that she would be home for the holidays. Also surviving are five brothers and six sisters. Inside Today rt -T and lesser degree, A doctor sairt there was some and Amboy sections.

(Continned on Page 2 Col. 4-Inch Snow Arrives Early A four-inch snowfall that rived fchead of schedule sent cars spinning on city county roads last night Two sail trucks and 13 plows attacked city streets, while the county highway department said all sandtrs were put to work, especially in the North Syracuse ANDEDMBKR6EU M4DE THEIR NATIONAL PRQ63AM Page 16-1? 9 6 13 Church News Comics Pages Crossword Puzzle Death Record Editorial House of Week Markets 10-14 Morning's Mail 8 Fuzzie Quiz 13 Radio-TV Programs 17 Sports 11-12 Syracuse News suspicion that the b6y has That apparently fixed the time of breathed flames, which the crash as a.m. New York 1 seriously injtfring, bui there wculd innocent Friday in of mail frmid in the twe sf mrvre than $500,000 to i Judge smsters President James Hoffa and! At one $xini, in hospital, he jLv 1 ff to mfirmtir that his rwvthsr allowed Hoffi, Henry i fof- recovered waltiftf Mlwffd Mm. And he Hght to was lime. The rnetel watch wristband crushed.

The boy the tf Mrs. "We're very nt definite prognosis on this for 24 hours. He also has ft Upwards of 40 accidents were blamed on the storm. Richard ville, Mrs. S.

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