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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1933 MM Chicago-to- ane With (brashes in semi Mimir M.Y Explodes, Sinks; 9 Saved i By LEEDS MOBEKLEY An American Airlines Electra with 72 aboard crashed and exploded in the East River a mile east of Bikers Island shortly before last midnight as it came in for a landing at LaCuardia Field after a non-stop flight from Chicago. c- sen feet Two hours later, there were only nine known survivors, four of then dition. who were picked up by a tug that was towing a string of barges 5 where the big plane hit. Shortly after the survivors were landed at Culley- 25 bodies were brought ashore. A crewman aboard the rescue tug.

describing the scene as "th ot r. I ever saw." reported he haJ counted 30 bod ies on floating: wrec.Kare. 1 is were trapped in the fuselage and drowned as it sank in 3) feet of wa'er. The crash came just two days after the econd anniversary of in the same area the crash of a Miami-bound Northeast Airiir.s on Kikers Island. Feb.

1. 11)57. Twenty died and 74 survived that The American airliner, one of the new Lockheed turto rop, ri ice 12 days a-r. left Chicago's Midway Airport at 'J: 54 last Ne G7 passengers and a crew of five headed by "apt. DeUitt.

NKi I'i'n My umnir-i Nfws reporter Jack Mallon (left) talk to Samuel Nickerson. Hkipprr of the tug Thomas Teti, which brought the first surTiTors ashore in College Point, tueens. 3 Rock 'n' Roil Stars Die in Plane Crash 7 Na BRONX i The survivors picked up by the tujr. all of whom were taken to Flushing Hospital, were: Sejmour Kemach. :6.

of 2131 K. 21th Brooklyn. Herbert Forman. Zd. of 21! Clinton North Bergen.

N. J. Mrs. Lorraine J. Sullnan.

of 51 Jean Hempstead. L. I. Her son. Robert.

8. frank Hlavacek. 33. co- PIKERS QUEENS LAGUARD! A pnoi. or ji rnnnier Wilmette.

III. Warren CMk. 36. flight i engineer, of 572 Parker Aurora. 111.

I Joan Marie Zeller. stew-! ardess. of 3031 Pawtucket Riverside. R. I.

Paul K. 5o. address Alr Fur i i VP I Buddy Holly. 22; Ritchie Valen. IT.

and J. P. (Big Bopper) Kichardson. 21 (I. to r.J.

ho died in plane crih. Mason City, Iowa. Feb. 3 (AP). Three rock ro Th Electra plunged into the water at (At.

sinking stars, whose records and appearances stirred millions of teen-agers. were killed early todav in an Iowa field. v. known. Idward Gottlieb, 4L.

ad- inar Persons Bureau were sent to Queens General. The four-place plane carrying the thiee and their pit Fiush- KImhurst General an crane.l in light i soon after taking off snow and heavy gust 3 with finger- ng Hospitals equipment printing Both reportedly sold more than a million and a half copie. Richardson as on leave as a disk jockey, singer and raiio program director at station KTRM in Beaumont. Hi- "t'han-tilly Lace" was rated by Bdlboard for a time as the third mo: played record and was released i 37 other countries. dress unknown.

apt. De Witt, the pilot, whose home was in Decatur. and the second stewardess. Mae Markides of Rochester. N.

were unaccounted for. Detectives from the Miss- to aid dead NORTH I DAKOTA in identification as hey were br-The plane. Flit MINNESOTA -A 'jc'nt in. ali- parent lv encountered no I WISCONSIN CIs Bivouac in Trucks Soviets Hold south DAKOTA By RUSS BRALEY MASON citr Bonn. Feb.

3 (Special). Five American soldiers bed ded down today for a second NEB. IOWA night in the Army trucks which the Russians are holding up at a Soviet checkpoint 1 just inside the hast German border. Troi.to- -ment. It had il-ovl for a iar.d:!.i: i'.

22, i.nrv::-. i I', Broix a r. Bikers I- 1. Port A. said.

ho-Aeer. that hr- trol tower at the field 1 lost th at 11:55. ri a The wa a ra; r.f a-i 1 a of T' g- k-rs -r. wa 1 1 -t away. iiv l.o-g Klar i v.

a of L'r- 1 fo'i i 2o -ri the water. i a-in any a- i---- s.year-" 1 i (Continued on page 4. col. J) You'll Have A Bali If you're around in 1335. when the push ol a button will select the best cuts from a freezer and automatically cook them to perfection in an electronic oven.

Visit Mrs. Mary Futureman with NEWS writer Eckert Goodman on Page 35 and se how wonderful life con be. 1 1. 1 i tj TTiaj I Aniso Plane crashed near Maton City (A Rafter taking off for Fargo. froio the Mason City Airport.

'were Buddy Holly. of I.uMHM'k. Ritchie Va'em. IT, of I Angeles; J. P.

Bi Bopper ItichardHon, 24. of Beaumont. and Roger Peterson. 21. of Clear Lake, Iowa, the ilt.

Their troupe hail appeared at the Surf Ballroom in nearby Clear Lake last and they were flying in a chartered "lane to Karen, in advance of the troupe's engagement there tonight. The others went hy chartered bus. Only One Married Valens recently finished his first motion picture, "Go Johnny! Go." His first recording six months ago, "Donna," sold more than a million copies, the Del-Fi Record Co. said. Holly hit the rock 'n' roll pinnacle with his recording! of "Peggy Sue" and "That'll Be the Day." West Germany for repairs and "that's what they're going to do." The U.

S. commander in Berlin. Mai. Gen Barskdale Hamlett, and U. S.

Army commander in Kuiope Gen. Henry Hodes, were replies to their prntets 'lodged with both the Soviets and the Last Germans. Ordinarily when the Russians halt Allied convoys it is done j'ist outside et Berlin. This time the stoppage appeared ie a deliberate provocation timed with the visit this week of Secretary of Dulles to Germany. Cpl.

Richard C. Masiero of West Stixkhridge. in charge of the convoy, bluntly refused to let the Soviet soldiers climb aboard his open trucks to examine the jeeps. The drivers. Specialists 4th CI.

F.lwood F. Johnson, 29. of 41 49th Brooklyn: James Cook. 22, of Hardeville. S.

and Pfcs. Robert E. Love. 2ft, of Union, Ohio, and Benjamin C. Peoples, 20, of Daderville, just sat tight.

The Soviets still have given no reason for halting the convoy Monday night lust as it was about to enter West Germany after a 110-mile trip from Berlin. They have ignored two American demands that the soldiers and the 2'j-ton trucks, each carrying a jeep. 1-e released. An L'at German army spokesman the GIs will just have to sit tight until negotiations have been completed to allow them to make the remaining 5" yards to the West German border. The 'II Carry Out Orders The five are sitting, reading, smoking and taking turns sleeping in their heatless cabs.

American MPs from Helm-stedt, on the border, who took them food and water today, said the soldiers are in good spirits. The trucks have enough gas to return to Berlin, but an Army spokesman said they had been ordered to deliver the jeeps to 1 a Cpl. Richard Matiero Refuted to let Red peek i.