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c3 fee $smwi ff 9 mm afi DAILY NEWS, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1956 i i Lakenheath, England, Oct. 11 (IP). An armada of aircraft, including giant jet bombers, criss-crossed Atlantic waters tonight in a great search for a U. S. Military Air Transport Service plane missing with 59 men aboard.

fading' hope that the Air personnel and Psavy crew I I This MATS (a C-118 Liftmaster) plane is like one missing on flight from England to the Azores. The hours yielded only of the huge C-118 Liftmaster iwen while the night searchers peered hopefully over the smooth waters for flares from possible survivors, the mystery deepened as to just what happened to the plane. The ship took off from here at 4 :22 P.M. (New York time) yesterday. The homeward-bound Liftmaster military version of the civilian DC-6 vanished between Lands End and the Azores.

Its last message came from about 180 miles southwest of the westernmost tip of England at 4:55 P. M. (New York time). It had fuel enough to last until 1 :30 A. M.

today (New York time), shortly after it was due at Lagen, Azores. Returning to Lincoln, Neb. By early morning, the plane was officially described as "presumed down" and the search -was launched in fine, clear weather. Aboard the Liftmaster were two Air Force officers and 48 enlisted men returning to the Lincoln, Air Force Base after duty in Britain. The Navy crew consisted of three officers and six enlisted men.

The Liftmaster carried three survival rafts. All aboard were provided with life jackets. Called into the search were a nal from the missing Liftmaster. But it proved to be a garbled version of a message between freighters discussing the search operation. Rescue One, Seek 2d In Jet Air Crash Sheboygan, Oct.

11 (JP). A rescued jet pilot was afe aboard a freighter today but another pilot was the object of an intensive air-lake search following the collision of two jet fighter planes over Lake Michigan late yesterday. Second Lt. Kenneth R. Hughes, 21, of Williamsburg, Ohio, parachuted into the water and was pulled out three hours later.

The other pilot was Capt. Carlton A. Berry, 38, of Bloomingdale, 111. Give Names of Crew Of Lost Transport Washington, Oct. 11 (JP).

The Navy today identified the nine crew members of the military transport missing with 50 Air Force passengers in the Atlantic between England and the Azores. They included: Lt. (j.g.) Dominic Edward Cirbus, husband of Mrs. Laurette G. Cirbus, Mount Holly, N.

and son of Mr. and Mrs. Michael C. Cirbus, 15 Cooper Bayonne, N. J.

Chief Aviation Electronic Tech- tU. NiHj luto via A' Hireiulut Mercy Asked in Coed Sex Slaying Salinas, Oct. 11 (U.R). Pfc. John P.

Kruse, of St Paul, faced a life sentence today for sex slaying of Anna Shay, a coed from Fairfield, Conn. A jury of seven men. and five women found him guilty of first degree murder last night but recommended leniency. The jury also brought in a verdict of guilty of attempted rape. Kruse will be- sentenced Oct 25.

The crime occurred while he was on a pickup date with the 20-year-old vacationist in Monterey, last July 28. allowed to cross as iron workers, electricians and carpenters began repairing the bridge. While the work progressed, northbound subway trains were turned south at 215th St. In the Bronx, stations at 225th, 238th and 2LM St. were without service.

Subway traffic was resumed after test trains made runs over the center track. Patrolman Arthur O'Connor, of the Wadsvrorth Ave. station, and the bridge tenders. Dermis Nolan, 45, of 6211 Broadway and John Dunne, 43, of 110 E. 177th were treated at Jewish Memorial Hospital for smoke inhalation.

(Other Pictures in Centerfold) nician Robert Joseph Miney, husband of Mrs. Ruth Miney, 6-d Kennedy Court, Fort Dix, N. J. Aviation machinist mate 2d CI. Frank Allen Smith, husband of Mrs.

Theresa M. Smith, Riverside, N. and son of Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, Delair, N.

J. Aviation machinist mate 1st CI. Herman Milton Stone, husband of Mrs. Grace E. Stone, Northfield, N.

and son of George A. Stone, 67 Warren Tuckahoe, N. Y. Edinburgh Set to Go London, Oct. 11 (Reuters).

The Duke of Edinburgh starts a round-the-world air and sea trip on Monday. Midway in his four-month travels, he will open the Olympic Games at Melbourne Nov. 22. in the middle of the river. The fuel tank there held 100 gallons of oil.

The blaze spread to the wooden superstructure, and two alarms were sent in as firemen arrived by land and water. The heat buckled many of the steel beams supporting the bridge, and knocked out the motor used to open the bridge to water traffic. The bridge is about 50 feet over the water. Begin to Repair It The fire was out shortly before 8 A.M., and pedestrian traffic was Work-Bound Throngs Befayei By Fire on Bridge at 225th St. were alive.

ATLANTIC tt FRANCE AZORES 4J IASENS PORTUGU.J'1'AIN1 (NEWS map by Staff Artist) The plane was last heard from at (A), 180 miles southwest of British coast en route to Azores. total of 33 American, British and Portuguese aircraft from the Azores, Scotland, England, France, Germany, Iceland and North Africa. They could not detect the slightest trace of the plane, wreckage or oil patches. Easthampton Major in Charge Rescue operations were commanded by U. S.

Air Force Maj. James Goodwin of Easthampton, L. I. One false bit of hope glimmered during the day. A message believed to have been from a search plane was heard reporting a sig- Pleads Not Guilty In Girl's Slaying Andrew Polo, 19, West Milford, N.

a stevedore, pleaded innocent in Tassaic County Court, Paterson, N. yesterday to a charge, of fatally shooting his pretty, redhaired sweetheart, Cecilia De Giuseppe, also 19, of West Milford. Miss De Giuseppe was found on a rural road last Sept. 9 with bullet wounds in her head and chest. She died Sept.

12, and an autopsy disclosed that she was pregnant. Polo has been in jail, without bail, since then. Fire in the superstructure closed the Broadway's 225th St. bridfre over the Harlem River to all traffic early yesterday, and forced huge crowds on the way to work in Manhattan from the Bronx to seek other routes. (By Associated Pi-ps Princess Margaret has a holder with her cigaret as she relaxes after ceremony in Tanganyika.

Meg Gets Souvenirs Of Her African Tour The Broadway Seventh Ave. IRT subwav, which uses the bridge, resumed operations at 12:45 P. some six hours after the. fire started. Private cars were allowed on at 5 P.

but trucks had to wait. The Department of Public Works said the bridge would not be opened for water traffic for five days to two weeks. Oil in the Tank The blaze on the 400-foot span began about 6:30 A. apparently in heating equipment under the bridge on the island support Fire boats and Coast Guard Dar es Salaam, Tanganyika. Oct.

11 (Reuters) Princess Margaret took time out today from her royal tour of this British African territory to go shopping- for presents to take back to London for young Prince Charles and Princess Anne. In a small Indian curio shop she selected an ebony carving of a wart hog. a pig-like African animal "I like pigs," commented the princess and some small grass mats. The Indiain woman who ran the shop excitedly declined to accept payment jthe visiting princess opened a new hospital here named a iter her and inspected the African nurses. (XEWS foto by Tom Cunninsham) help fight Broadway bridge fire over Harlem River.

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