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SUNDAY W48 am Airline Pilo ts Rub Their Eyes, See a Fiery, Wingless Whatizit Atlanta, July 24 (U.P). Two pilots of Eastern Air Lines, who thought they'd seen everything, soberly announced today that they had encountered a giant, wingless, flame-throwing aircraft "straight out of Buck Rogers. By JOHN CROSSON A lot of CIO and AFL unions, which have been sitting out of the early phases of the '48 political campaign, are going to be ushered into the Truman camp in the next month or so by New York's' Mayor O'Dwyer, if plans being hatched by Democratic strategists work out. The Mayor, who stands high in the regard of all branches of labor except those dominatedby Communists, has been allotted one of the most important assignments of the campaign persuading labor to line up behind Harry Truman and disregard the blandishments of free-talking Henry Wallace and his leftist pals. O'Dwyer commenced the jolj Friday by meeting at Gracie Mansion with Martin T.

Lacey, president of the powerful AFL Central Trades and Labor Council of New York City. Conferences with CIO leaders will follow. As soon as possible the Mayor would like to sit down with Philip Murray, CIO head, and discuss his hope of bringing the national CIO into the fight. Thus far the CIO has not taken a position; its support would be a powerful boost for Truman. Mayor O'Dwyer and the President will meet Saturday at the New York International Airport, ldlewild, Queens, when President's Day will be observed, stai-ting a T.ine-dy air show at the field.

Dvvyer will see that ruman gets a rousing welcome; and Republicans also will be on hand to put Air 1 4S i A. me TVlt-fuio) Co-pilot J. B. AVhitted (left) and Capt. Clarence Chiles talk over phantom plane they spotted firing over Alabama yesterday.

2 Slain, 2 Shot in Row Over New Love in Home By CH ARLES McHARRY Lupercio Seda's idea of a nice design for living was to shack up with his wife and his mistress, but his wife wouldn't have it. So yesterday he came up with a design for death. on a big show for their Presidential candidate, Gov. Dewey, whtfll be in the spotlight with Truman. Saturday will mark the first meeting of the rival candidates since their nominations.

Naturally it will be a rather jittery occasion for officials charged with protecting the two noted guests. Fifteen hundred police will be turned out for the occasion. Secret Service agents'" will be sprinkled around the platform abundantly. State Democratic leaders, still angling wistfully for active aid from Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, are reported ready to name her very close friend, Mrs.

Gertrude (Trude) Wenzel Pratt Ish, as vice chairman of the Democratic State Committee. They hope that Mrs. Lash can induce the former First Lady to stump for Truman. Mrs. Lash, in addition to being one of Mrs.

Roosevelt's intimates, is the wife of another of the latter's friends, Joseph P. Lash, now 38, once known as a perennial leader of youth movements. Trude, a German-born socialite, divorced wealthy Eliot Pratt of the Standard Oil Pratts in 1943 and was wed to Lash. The vice chairman's post became vacant last week when Doris Byrne resigned from it after being sworn in by Mayor O'Dwyer as a city magistrate. The duties would not be strange to Mrs.

Lash; she once served as assistant to Doris Byrne. Two Sure Winners: Jones and Greenberg The question of who won over whom in the Tammanv Hall- same hospital, was reported in fair condition. Elsie's wound was not considered serious. Police learned Seda spent several hours Friday night with an aunt, Mrs. Carmen Zapata, at 556 Fox Capt.

Clarence Shipe Chiles and his co-pilot, John B. Whit-ted, each corroborated the other's report of the fantastic plane, or whatever it was. Thev were 1vtng sJong serenely in a DC-3 Eastern airliner at 5,000 feet about 20 miles southwest of Montgomery, early today when the thing- cam at them, they said. It looked like a B-29 "blown tap about four times" and stripped of its wings. In the seconds luring- which the mystery craft scooped past and shot up into the clouds, it cast a light more vivid than lightning, they said.

They saw two decks or big square windows and "it was a man-made thing, all right," they added. This Is Their Story. "We looked out the nsrntside of the cockpit and a tremendous light." Capt. Chiles said. "The first thing that came tc my attention was the long stream of Same coming out of the real end of the pk.ne, or whatever it was.

"Then I noticed the two rows of square windows we couldn't see any people aboard. It was traveling too fast for ihat. "The aircraft seemed to be about four times the circumference of a B-29 fuselage out it was only a little longer. There were no wings Vr hatever. "The plane Dassed us on our right, then, as if tr pilot had seen us and wanted tc avoid us, it zoomed up into the same cloud it came out of.

A 40-foot red flame siliot out its rear end. A luminous glow, like a giant fluorescent light, ttn along the beilv of the thing." "Between 500 and TOf m. p. wmuea. wno saia ne uau 5 the best Air Force jet planes not on the secret list, estimated its speed as much faster than any he had seen before.

"I'd say that when it shot up into the clouds it was going between 500 and 700 miles an hour," Whitted said. "I've seen real shooting stars and meteors they look pretty close when you're a pilot but I've never seen anything like this." Whitted added that as a B-29 pilot over Japan he had looked Kamikaze suicide planes in the face. As the aircraft passed them, they paid, their comparative small DC-3 fluttered in the "prop wash, jet-wash or It sent out tremendous sho-k waves." The brilliant light of the airship and the fame of its propellant brought "lightning hlmdness" to their cockpit, the pilots said. and. they had to turn up their instrument lights.

Air Force in the Dark. The Eastern Air lines plane was en roure to Atlanta. The mystery ship appeared to be headed toward Mobile or Ne. Orleans, the pilots eaid. They said they encountered the Buck Rogers plane in the regular "airway, a wide strip des-ignatrd fey the CAA.

Fastern officials said they asked authorities at Maxwell Field. big Air Force university, about the mystery shir. Officers there said they didn't know anything about it, the airline said. Chiles and Whitted said 20 pas-Anger were their plane but all were asleep except C. L.

JlcKelvie. of Columbus. Ohio. They Paid MfKelvie's story jil.ed with theirs when they talked about it later. Furniture Store Burns Columbia, S.

C. July 2i (TP). Fire today swept through the three-story Phoenix Furniture on Main St. L. Pit-kens, store manager, estimated the loss at John R.

Mullen Compromise candidate. sitting out the caucus and floor outside. Americar Labor Party boss: If the He shot and killed his estranged spoUH. Mr. Frances Seda.

38. at 10:15 i in her fifth-floor apartment at sgg prospect Bronx, wounded his two grown daughters, then killed himself. Tragic Quarrel. Police said Seda, a binder employed by the American Manufacturing Co. at Noble and West Brooklyn, came to his wife's home shortly after 8 A.

M. While their daughters, Eva 20, and Elsie, 8, were dressing, the 40-year-old Seda and Frances had a loud argument in the kitchen. It ended when the husband drew a new police special revolver and shot his wife in the Eva ran out of the bathroom and Seda shot her in tne chest, too. Elsie, who had come out of the bedroom, ran back when she saw Seda standing over her fallen sister. He followed Elsie and fired three shots, om of which hit her ir the left hand.

Then he stepped into the living room and fired his bullet into his heart. Mrs. Seda die- oi the way to Lincoln Hospital. Eva takei to the O'Dwyer compromise on the selection of General Sessions Judge John A. Mullen for surrogate is still being debated, but two sure winners are J.

Raymond Jones and Isidor J. Greenberg. Jones, a district leader in the 13th A. was fired as Deputy Commissioner of Housing because he was on the opposite side of the fence from O'Dwyer in the surrogate fight. Now a new place will be found for him on the city payroll in the same general salary bracket around $8,000.

Greenberg, a leader in the 5th A. will go back to his old job as secretary to Council President Vincent R. Impellitteri. Greenberg was fired for voting against his boss when Tammany first designated General Sessions Judge Francis L. Valente for surrogate, but Tammany sources said Impellitteri isn't going to hold that against him now.

Far from subsiding, the feud engendered at Philadelphia between James A. Roe (Roe for President), Queens Democratic leader, and State Chairman Paul Fitzpatrick and his supporters is getting hotter and hotter. Other leaders take a very irked view of Roe's tactics in holding out against the swing to Truman. They charge this was part of a Roe scheme to alibi himself in case of a general defeat in November. Roe, they say, plans to blame the state party's plight on Fitzpatrick 's backing of Truman.

His critics contend that, if any leader is ousted, it should be Queens' chairman, not the state chairman. He'd have been better informed of the actual situation, thev add acidlv, if he'd attended near his wife's home. The aunt said Seda tol" her he was weary of "my MonserrateT a Puerto Rican girl he'd been living with for a year. Monserrate was reported to be 22 and beautiful. The aunt said Seda went to his native Puerto Rico on a vacation last year and returned with Monserrate.

Daughters Questioned. In the hospital, the daughters were questioned by Assistant District Attorney Edmund Farrell. Farrell said Eva told him her father wanted the girl to live with his family. Monserrate's whereabouts was a mystery. Although a note in his billfold mentioned the gili, there was no address- to indicate where she and Seda had been living.

jTnore convention sessions instead battles some air-conditioned spot Threat from Vito Marcantonio, of leftists can run up 50,000 New loi-k City votes for Henry Wallace for President, the ALP will put forward a candidate of its own in next year's race for Mayor. Chief plank would be repeal of the 10-cent fare and restoration of the nickel ride. The candidate hasn't been decided. Could be Vito -Himself. One curious by-product of the Presidential campaign may be a final clearing up of unexplained circumstances surrounding the pardon in 1946 by Gov.

Dewey of Charles (Lucky) Luciano, white-slaver, who was sent up for 30 to 50 years in through the energetip efforts of Dewey as New York District Attorney. Probe of Lucky't Pardon a Hot Potato. Investigators of the Democratic State Committee are busily probing the pardon. The latter at the time was attributed to Luciano's aid to the war effort, his good behavior and his deportability as an alien, which would relieve the state of the cost of supporting him. Validity of the first reason came under question when interested branches of the Army and Navy denied they had any record of Lucky's help, alleged to have been given in connection with the Sicilian invasion through his influence with Italian secret organizations.

Dewey aids are sittings back unworried, though fully aware of the Democratic activity. If the Democrats really do set up a hullabaloo and pry the lid off the Luciano pardon, GOP insiders say they'll speedily be sorry. For they'll find thei iselves smacked by a boomerang the fact that most of the thus far unnamed officials who petitioned for Luciano's release were Democrats. I. Ll-st riyvv Mrs.

Frances Seda in carried to an Lincoln 1NKWS roie. ambulance. She died en route Hospital..