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Daily News from New York, New York • 336

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Daily Newsi
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New York, New York
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336
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DAILY NEWS, WEDNESDAY, JUtiY 2i, 1965 a a XT- Two young men in their early 20s, whose identity was not immediately learned, were killed at 11 o'clock last night when their single-engine plane crashed into a high-voltage-line tower off Route 1 in Woodbridge, XJ. 1 A I i Police examine wreckage of email private plan ia which two youths met death when it kit Zi-tm lility tower. (NEWS foto by Ju11 Mehlman) Cop Rather around Frances Levin as she lien on W. 4 2d St. sidewalk with wooden window pole embedded in her head.

Pole Falls 9 Flooirs Pierces Mer Mead A wooden window pole, more than three feet long and an inch thick, fell from the ninth floor of a midtown office building yesterday and embedded itself like an arrow in the head of a woman on the street. crashed craft, and was among the first would-be rescuers to arrive. He saw the two bodies inside, he reported. "I listened, but there were no sounds. Soon others ran up and people began shouting for ambulances.

I couldn't see any use." Other eyewitnesses told Wood-bridge cops that they hadn't seen tunning lights on the The unknown occupants were pronounced dead at the scene, when their bodies were extricated from the cabin at 1:30 today. Federal aviation investigators began an immediate study of the aircraft, to learn if mechanical malfunctions contributed to tbe crash. ra'- Taxi Drivers To Vote Today The city's cab drivers will east their ballot today in a National Labor Kelatkn Board elortHMi determine which union, if any. they want tepreet them. Voting at gat ages, they will pkk MKWf the new Taxi Organizing Counmiltee.

tbe Team-ter sva otkmi. Voting fc.n are oa to 9 P.M. Thrr. ttuf tuw. tfee iwia-w crar.

farmer Marr Vincent Im-pt-lhtVti. will refow bearing at the America it Arbiiratiow Association. ii W. 5Ut St, The craft, a red-and-white Aeronca with New Jersey registration number 832 on its wings, flipped over after striking the 250-foot tower, breaking apart as it hit the ground. The plane belched smoke but did not catch fire.

It missed by only 600 feet a new, large apartment project, Kensington Gardens, whose several towers are across Rout 1 from the vacant lot in which the plane crashed. The lot also is next to a new supermarket and its parking lot. Traffic Piles Up The plane hit 75 feet east of I busy Route 1, near Lafayette Road in the Middlesex County community, 26 miles from New York. Traffic on Route 1 Jammed as scores of motorists stopped. Authorities believed that the plane, which was on a southeasterly course, had taken off from a private airfield of the Hadley Aircraft firm in South Tlainfield, a few miles away.

Edward Mikulewic. 23. of Am-well Road, Franklin Township, an I employee of a Route 1 gasoline station near the crash, said he 1 heard the plane hit and ran out-; side in time to "see this formless thing hit the ground." "It made a thud and sort of bounced," he said, i He thought it was a runaway car from the highway. He railed police and reported what appeared to he a bad accident involvirg a vehicle. Heard No Sounds Joseph C.

Pateman, 41. of Ijeon Woodbridge, an Air Force veteran ran across Route 1 to the ness. suit Miss Linuers has hied for "several hundred dollars" in back pay Mc-11 ire said. Because of the condition of the t-ody, lr. William Benenson.

assistant Queens medical examiner, could not pinpoint the cause of death. The boy's body was found five days after he and his sister, Alice, 4. disappeared. The autopsy gave ro indications that the boy had been beaten bludgeoned, the physician snid. Tet are being made of muscle tissue for possible poisoning.

With her husband. Edmund, the 2u-year-old Mrs. Crimmins went the Manhattan Medical Examiner's office. 520 Firt where the autopsy was performed. Neither she nor her huhrd was asked to view the body, but t'y did inspect the blue and blanket and cotton T-shirt ard shorts found at the scene.

"When she saw them, she went into a dead faint, reported. She still appeared near co'Iti-se (Cntinai 13, et. t) (Cops AskPMd's Help in ttimmhs Pirke Uy THOMAS VVGll and HENRY LEE As Mrs. Alice Crimmins identified the clothinjr of her second murdered child and then fainted her former maid, who is considered a key witness, was questioned for an hour and a half yesterday The maid. 21 -year-old Evelyn Linder of 158-23 7th Road.

Kew (hardens Hills. Queens, was described by Deputy Inspector Thomas Mcduire as a cooperative wit- 1 if, Victim of the accident was Frances Levin. 45, of 21 W. 72d St. Her condition was critical last night after six hours of surgery.

Miss Levin had been standing in front of 150-52 W. 42d in a crowd which gathered as police cars arrived to break up a noisy group of men who had been annoying passersby. On the ninth floor. Herb Kramp-ner, 47, part owner of the Banner Employment Agency, alo heard the noise and the police sirens and opened a window for a look. Pole Against Sill He told police the pole had been leaning against the sill ami fell out before he could grab it.

Krampner raced downstairs and identified himself as soon as he saw what had happened. Patrol cars responding to the loitering complaint at 1:35 P.M. were on the scene. As Miss Levin lay on the sidewalk, emergency squad officers cut off part of the pole so that she could be lifted to an ambulance. She Undergoes Surgery Miss Levin was taken to St.

Clare's Hospital, where she w-as rushed into surgerj-. She was not brought out of the operating room until nearly 8 P.M. A spokesman said the surgery "went but that she was on the critical list. Police broke up the crowd of, men who had been loitering in front of the building, and arrested three on disorderly conduct charges. They were identified as: Norman Allison, 3fi, no address; Michael Husk, 31, of 890 Union Brooklyn, and rank Mak inen, 41, of" 342 W.

4Sth St. (Other pics, page 1, centerfold) fS------ i 1 7. "A Mr. mmi Mr. Ed and Crimmias mad their lawyer.

MtcVarl La Peaaa Cleft), arrive at Manhattan Medtral F.xamaaer'a Offwo where mareata idea til ted rWaiag of iltrir macaVred mmm, Ldmsad Jr. XKWS fo by T.m Oaltachr Evelyn Linder, the Crimmin maid, at police station..

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