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Miamian Commands Formosa Jets By WILLIAM G. MOESER HriHirU-r of The Ml mil Ntm A native Miamian who flies the fastest plane in the world sent word from Formosa today that the Starfighter squadron he commands "can handle anything it is apt to come up against." Lt. Col. John W. Bennett, who flies the F-104 Starfighter at a speed in excess of 1,400 miles an hour, is the son of Mr.

and Mrs. John J. Bennett, of 3910 Crawford Coconut Grove. The Starfighter has been dubbed "the missile with a man In it." Bennett and his squadron of 20-25 Starfighters arrived in Formosa Friday. "Don't tell me he is over there," said his mother today when she learned from The Miami News of his whereabouts.

She was silent for a moment, then said, "It was only a week ago Sunday he and his wife called me from California to tell us they returned from a camping trip in the mountains. "And now he is in Formosa? I didn't know he was going, but service ever since he graduated from University of Florida in 1942." "We were brought here to assume a role as part of the air defense team for the island of Taiwan," Lt. Col. Bennett said on Formosa. The 83rd Fighter-Interceptor Squadron was flown from Hamilton Air Force Base, disassembled aboard giant C-124 doubledeck cargo planes.

The F-104 holds the world speed record for operational fighter craft of 1,404 miles an hour and the world altitude record of 91,249 feet. In an Interview recorded by the Air Force and released to newsmen, Bennett, an Air Force career officer with 16 years service, said the Starfighter' special new gun can fir at a phenomenal rate. Bennett said the fighter plane's principal armament is the Sidewinder missile, a heat-seeking missile which heads for the tail of a blazing jet Within 24 hours after Its arrival the squadron had the first jet fighter assembled and la the air, Mrs. Bennett said her son's family was living on the Hamilton base. "His wife Is a Miamian also.

She was Doris Lemle. They have four daughters, Donna, 15, Joanne, 12, Laura, 8, and Martha, the baby, who is two years old. "This news has me sort of shook up, but John is doing just what he wants to do. He has commanded the 83rd since Col. Evans was killed." Col.

Raymond Evans, first commander of the Starfighters, was killed in a crash in California last Ftb. 20. The F-lMs were grounded after his death. The aircraft was returned to an operational status a month later but again was grounded after the July 26 death of Capt. Iven C.

Kincheloe, who was to have been tl nation's first military man to attempt a conquest of outer space in the still-to-be-ccmpleted rocket plane the X-15. A month ago, on Aug. 12, the Air Force announced the Starfighters again were grounds Four weeks later the squa ron was in Formosa. The Nationalists got. mora supplies to th beleaguered Quemoys by planes and ships today, the Defense Ministry said.

For the third straight day th Nationalists supplied Quemoy by air. Seven cargo planes made the drops at 5:37 p.m. An LST rammed ashore and quickly unloaded its cargo lata in the afternoon. LT. COL.

J. W. BENNETT he wouldn't be happy doing anything else. He has been in the Miami News Twilby Says Sell the raincoat! It'll be generally fair through tomorrow, with tonight's low near 80, against last night's 82. Complete Weather On Page 2-A Blue Streak Edition Five Cents Established In 1896 Miami, Florida Tuesday Evening, September 16, 1958 "Z3 ffl i J) i 3 LkwZZI i i Watery Grave Gives Dp Victim Schools' Fate To Be Known Vanguard Launching 'Scrubbed' WlM ftcrvtm of Th Miami Nrin LITTLE ROCK, Sept.

16 Gov. Orval Faubus today advanced the date of the scheduled vote in Little Rock on the question of integrating the city'g schools from Oct. 7 to Sept. 27, saying "time is of tho essence." At the same time a U.S. district judge said th DRIFTS OVER COAST Pilotless Blimp Perils Airlane, Crewmen Escape t'nltrd Pi International BRUNSWICK, Ga.

All 10 persons aboard a powerless, free ballooning blimp reached i safety today, but the blimp then sailed away unmanned. The blimp touched ground in a marshy area near Darien, just long enough for the 10 men aboard to scramble to safety and then rose unmanned into the air again. By MILT SOSIN Aviation Writer 01 Tint wi CAPE CANAVERAL, Sept. 16 if ji-- An attempt to launch a Navy Van prospects for Immediate federal i guard satellite was "scrubbed' today after a countdown which started during the night reached action are so dim he is leaving Little Rock. "There -is no emergency down here," F'ederal Judge John E.

Mil zero. ler said. "We will just have to let The expected "fire in the tail' which signifies a successful nature take its course. "I think haste sometimes ere launch, failed to develop when ates more trouble than it reme spite. The board is using the children in its own pressure campaign in this cold war for integration." Faubus said he was not consult ed by the board about its action.

The scheduled referendum, now set for Sept. 27, gives the people in the Little Rock school district the opportunity to vote on whether they want the schools to be reopened on an integrated basis. The new date falls on a Saturday. Elections normally are held on Tuesdays in Arkansas. the word "zero" came over the dies.

That's just my own country loudspeaker system. idea." There was a small puff of Judge Miller handed down the smoke, but the tall, slim satellite original Little Rock desegregation vehicle remained clearly visible order three years ago. "The nose got tilted up somehow," a spokesman at the Glynco Naval Air Station said. "This caused some of the ballast to spill out and then the blimp became airborne again." Glynco sent warnings to all aviation interests in the area of the free-ballooning blimp's being a possible hazard. The spokesman said that unless some way could be figured out Late Report on the launching pad.

A planned demonstration by stu The countdown reached zero at 11:19 a.m. Then came word that dents at Hall City School against the closing of the schools failed to materialize today. there would be a 35 minute "hold." At 11:31 the official scrub Only 10 boys appeared at the notification was given. quickly to retrieve the blimp it school grounds, preparing to stage a sit-down protest, they said. Guards ordered them to leave.

would have to be destroyed as a Court Hears Va. Appeal menace to navigation. Officials at the Naval Air Sta Today was the second day of On Mi what would have been the start of the fall school term in Little Rock. Faubus ordered the schools tion at Jacksonville, had sent out emergency craft and a crash boat in case the men aboard had to ditch it in the ocean. xing Miami Feels Winds From Dying Gerda not to open by proclamation is Thf AMnriatrd Prrtt BALTIMORE, Sept.

16 Tha The blimp was reported to have sued last Friday, five hours after the Supreme Court ruled against further delay in enrolling Negro chief judge of the 4th U.S. Cir Jul i. w-Cs cuit Court of Appeals today took developed engine failure during the morning and began "free ballooning." Miami continued to feel the dy students in Little Rock high schools. ing breath of Gerda today, catch The Navy said that when this AMOdatad Pnu Wlrephoto In his announcement today happens it is impossible for the ing winds ot 15 to 25 miles an hour while the storm was reduced Arrow Point To Body to an easterly wave in the lower Gulf of Mexico. about the vote, Faubus also blasted the Little Rock School Board for a "cruel and unnecessary blow to the children" in canceling this year's football schedule and other extra curricu- Stocks Reach Record High In a continuous upward push on the stock market today, the Dow Jones industrial index, at 2 p.m., EDT, was up $4.05 at $527.45 as compared to yesterday's all-time closing high of $523.40.

(Details on Page 7-A) Judge To Stay On TV Probe Th Associated Press WASHINGTON, Sept. 16 Judge Horace Stern decided today to continue presiding over the Miami TV channel 10 investigation despite a possible indirect personal interest in the case. He announced his decision after lawyers representing all parties urged the 80-year-old judge to stay on. East and southeast winds of 15 under advisement a plea for a delay in integrating two Charlottesville, Va. schools.

Indications were that Judge Simon E. Sobeloff probably would decide by tomorrow. Charlottesville schools are scheduled to open next Monday, Sept. 22. If Judge Sobeloff refuses tha request for a reprieve on integrating the all-White schools, it is almost a certainty they will not open Monday.

A Virginia law forbids integrated school 21 Bodies Recovered In Grim Train Dive to 25 miles an hour which will continue to sweep this area today and tonight are caused by the wave and a high pressure area to lar activities. 'The Little Rock School Board the north, the Weather Bureau is still working for integration said. just like they always have, crew to control its direction of flight but can raise or lower it, by dumping either gas or ballast. Trooper D. W.

Murphy of the Georgia Highway Patrol said the ballooning blimp was headed oceanward and the men aboard used almost their last chance to touch ground. As it was, they scrambled out into a marshy area east of Brunswick. Two or three miles of this type of coastal region separated them from open water. "The blimp never touched ground completely," Murphy said. "They had let out so much gas it was sagging in the back end." It sort of floated down and they piled out.

They got a little wet." Faubus said. At noon today the wave had moved off the western tip of Tb Aifiorlated Pre hi In such case, recovery might not try to bring up another of the "This move yesterday was just Cuba, and was headed toward ELIZABETH, N.J., Sept. 16 be for days or weeks or ever. remaining coaches, but apparently was having difficulty with tides Mexico. Reconnaissance aircraft contin A second coach was pulled out Weary divers and barge crewmen struggled under difficult condi shortly before noon and observ' today in The News ers at the scene said one body ued investigation of the wave, but reported there was no evidence tions today at the grim task of recovering dead from a commut and the job of tying cables onto the coach.

Meanwhile, investigations were launched in an effort to answer the prime question What caused the train to keep going down the tracks toward the open drawbridge despite devices which should have halted it? of tropical storm development. They reported the wave was moving about 20 to 25 miles an hour. er train that mysteriously plunged from an open drawbridge into the waters of Newark Bay yes Football terday. could be seen through a window. It was not known immediately whether others were inside.

This coach had been reported as a "deadhead" on the train, that is, running empty. However, the railroad said a trainman or others may have gone into it. OFFICIALS PUZZLED Still at the bottom of the bay Previews One Jersey Central Railroad coach hauled from the murky Patrick Corcoran, 55, the bridge depths early today contained 13 tender who opened the draw Haiti Raid Informant Demanding Immunity bodies, making a total of 21 re bridge, said in dazed retrospect, "There was nothing I could do. covered thus far. The railroad If was a inira coacn.

it was one estimated that some 40 persons perished. Thirty i train passengers er O. W. Campbell, who has or were injured. I heard the rumble.

I can't describe my feelings. I never spw anything like this in my life I never saw such a mess in my life." Corcoran had opened the span Continued on Page 2-A, Col. dered an investigation of the part RECOVERY DIFFICULT It was feared that swirling wa piayea by county employes in the tut ters of the bay may have carried some bodies to distant points. in Payne's home, and that they are being sought by federal and local investigators. CHECKING ON CASE O.

B. Cline, assistant U.S. district attorney, said earlier that his office Is checking on the case, and probably will turn its findings over to a federal grand jury. raid on Port-au-Prince July 29. MEETINGS HOME It was understood the informant made a trip to Cuba April 19 as a representative of Deputy Arthur Payne, one of the five meri- By BELLA KELLY Reporter of The.

Miami wa A man claiming to know the details of the "Deputies' Raid" on Haiti was picked up by the State Attorney's office today while he was telling a reporter he feared his knowledge might cost him his life. The informant had agreed to tell his story to a Miami News reporter, but balked on the advice of his attorney. He said he A 28-page section previews this year's football season inside. Columnist Joseph Alsop has exclusive report today on Chiang Kai-shek's views of the Formosa situation. Page 6-A.

Are the horses running baseball out of business? Joe Tanen-baum's stcry on Page 3-C. Divorce in Our Town second in a series on Tage 2-B. A night in Fort Lauderdale with Herb Rau on Page 4-B. Crosswords 7C Movie Clock 4B Editorials 6A Obituaries 4A For Women 1-3B Radio SB Horoscope 6C Sports 2 3G Markets 7-8A Television 6B which remained for a time leaning upright against the bridge, partially out of the water, enabling a number of passengers to scramble to safety. Railroad officials were puzzled that no more bodies had been found because most of the victims were believed to have been riding in the car brought up just after midnight today.

However, the railroad said it was staying with its estimate that another 20 persons had lost their lives. This estimate was predicated primarily on calls from anxious persons who said relatives were missing and might have been on the train. At the scene itself, a giant floating crane was being used to Marines Head Home From Lebanon Duty MARKETS AT A GLANCE Tables on Pages 7-8A icans killed in the attempt to up The Annoclatrd I'rMi Higher; advance con- set the Haitian government. The man also was reported to have knowledge of meetings held at Payne's home when the raid was being plotted. The News learned from another source that tape-recordings were made of th conversations Chiang Amusements 4-5B Bridge 78 Busirss 7-8A Classified S-7C Comics 7-8B The man picked up by Gerstein was said by Don Petit, administrative assistant to Campbell, to be one of several key witnesses.

The others have not been located, Petit said, and their names will be given the grand STOCKS: tinues. BEIRUT, Sept. 16 Four ships carrying two U. S. Marine battalions sailed from Beirut today for Morehead City, N.

C. There are Indications that other American units may soon be pulled out of Lebanon. had been warned to talk onlv if he were granted immunity from federal prosecution. State Attorney Richard Gerstein aid he intended to question the man on behalf of County Manag BONDS: Lower; changes narrow. COTTON: Higher; commission house demand.

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