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i v. I LINER FALLS Ike Spenders Challenges CHILD ELS OF TRAGEDY One Victim's Body to Be Sent Her The body of a South Bend resi CHUP INTO RIVER A1KEP0I a i Is Mystery Eight Survive" i Plunge. NEW YORK. (It A glistening -new jet-powered American Air. AN lines plane with 73 person! aboard plunged -Into the chilling.

fog-covered waters of- the East Riverwifhasha ast night) Sixty-five apparently perished, despite feverish rescue efforts by harbor craft. The plane's pilot, lnstru- i ments because of the murky weather conditions, was feeling -his way gingerly toward a run. way at LaGuardia Airport after flight from For some undetermined reason the big four-engine turbo-prop craft smacked into the water and burst apart about half a 'mile PLANE STEWARDESS RESTS IN HOSPITAL ROOM-Miss Joan Marie Zeller, Jackson Heights, N.Y., receives treatment in an emergency room in Flushing, N.Y., today after her rescue from New York's East River following the crash of the American Airlines plane. She was a stewardess on the ill-fated plane. (Other pictures on pages 2, 5, and 14.) from the shore end of the run-l Some Aboard Plans Escape, Some of the passengers crew were flung from or floated out of the wreckage before it sank to the river bottom 30 to 36 feet below.

A tugboat chugging along a few Labor Code Changes BLEEDING PLANE CRASH SURVIVOR TAKEN ASHORE An unidentified survivor of the crash of an American Airlines turbo-prop plane Into New York' East River is; taken ashore by tug in New York. Rescuers wrap a blanket about him as he steps ashore- with -face bleeding and part of his clothing i Delay Repeal Bill I hundred feet away cut loose two -barges it was towing and raced -v By DON REEDER. 'Aaaoclattd Preu Political Writer, INDIANAPOLIS Passage' of bill repealins the rteht-to-work dent who was reported missing and is presumed dead today fol lowing the crash of' an Amerl- can Airlines plane in New York Gty, will be returned to the Hickey-Funeral Home here after it is located and identified, The South Bend passenger on the ill-fated Chicagoto-New York flight was Neal P. Murphy, 33, of 1008 E. Fairview Ave; He was one of 45 persons still missing this morning after the plane plunged Into New York's East River near LaGuardia Air port.

Pilot Known Here. Capt. Albert H. DeWitt, 59, of Decatur, was also pre- NEAL P. MURPHY.

sumed dead In the crash. He was thc pilofkoL the non-stop plane, which carried 87 passengers and crew of five. He also had lived in South: Bend at ojje.timt,l- Murphy was a proiect mana er in the Metal Wall Division of the Kawneer Co. in Niles. He bad been working for the firm for the last 10 years.

Kawneer officials said Murphy had left the office about 4 p.m Tuesday for Chicago. Members of his family said he had planned originally get.a JNew York flight out of St. "Joseph County! Airport but changed his yesterday. He was -Iisted-among fsrpas-j sengersboard theJeiifYdrk fljghrourof Chicago.JCawneer; ficials said he waJgomalaMew York on company btisinessti-t DeWiU Loss Stuns Decatur. Murphy'a wife, Arlene.F..

was notified that her husband was missing while in her home here early today. She was joined there by her Mrs, Ken neth Tubes. The Murphys had no children; II I ii I 4 rput nrumT. i N. v.

A 14 si I Is- tCv the site. Crewmen leaped, into the water or 'used boathooksto pull out tha eight persons known to have survived. One was an eight-year-old boy. au urougn no sna into a doleful fray, 1 raiirydawn huge array of boats searched the gnmy river waters for bodies. By mid-mornfrui only 30 had been recovered, leaving 45 still missing.

The 9 survivors were on hospitals. Weather Hampers Search, Swirling river currents, plus Tugboat Skipper Efforts: To Assist. NEW YORK Robert Sulli. van, 8, was sitting in the seat ot the big airliner next to his moth' er, Nearby were his father and two sisters. They had gone on a happy ex cursion to visit relatives in Chi cago, as they often did.

and were almost back home again. Then came the nightmare. From a hospital bed later, little Robert told about it in halting phrases, as he emerged from the shock of a terrible series of events. was sitting in the seat next to mommy'' he said. "I donVJcnow what happened but all of asudden I began to slide and we wenfunder the seat.

Knows Parents "Then-1 -was -on somethingin the water. ''Mommy was holding me. "Then in the water we couldn't stay up. "I tried to hold my breath. I was armrfelt frozen," Little Robert could speak no further.

But somehow he knew of the tragedy that had befallen him. His murmurs to. attendants made it all too plain that he knew his parents listers were dead. and his mother' "were rescued from the Icy waters and rushed to the hospital. His moth er was alive at the time, but died in the hospital.

His father, Joseph, and sisters, Patricia, 13, and Joan, 5, were listed among those missing as searchers continued to scour the waters of the East River for bod ies. Lives in Long Island. The family lived in-Hempstead, Long Island. A tugboat skipper gave a gra phic account of the airliner's crackup near his "vessel, and of frantic efforts to rescue passeng ers. The skipper, Everett Phelps, .48, said he would never be able to forget some of the awful sights and sounds.

"We were heading down the East River towing two empty barges from Seabrook, Conn. We heard a terrific crash, I was at the helm," he said. "The noise seemed to come from- about- 800, turned on a searchlight and saw a plane. cracking up in all direc tions. "We Immediately cut loose the barges, and I and some-of (he crew, members jumped into the water.

It was a shallow place, and we, through mud. 'Bodies All "I pufled; three persons There seemed to bebodii around, and mere were continual screama Jor Jhelp, "We got eight persons using boat hooks on most ot them. of the' people was under four feet of water, and the only reflection on a belt buckled Phelps said one of "the survi- vors picked up was little Robert Sullivan. The captain continued: "When we got to the scene the plane was in small bits. The tail of ram and wind tip to 40 m.p.h.

hampered the search for other bodies, and gave -rise to fears that some of them might be i TAXES TO PAY COSTS OF PET BILLS Presi dent Believes People Oppose More Inflation. WASHINGTON W- -President Eisenhower today called on Con- gressto provide for higher taxes in every spending bill which would unbalance his $77 billion budget Eisenhower told a news confer ence he is sure the publicdoes not want tax increases, deficit spending and cheapened dollars and would stand against exces- sive spending if the cost thus was made clear in spending bills. In obvious warning that he plans, through appeals to the public, to bat down if he can every, high spending proposal that Congress brings, Eisenhower said erimlv that he means this and he will sav often. His attack was aimed chiefly at a pending $3 billion housing bill and at Democratic proposals for federal airport spending. Praise Virginians.

The housing measure Is billion above Eisenhower's budget request and tha Democratic air port aid proposal is soo muiion by comparison with $200 million asked by the President Eisenhower touched on these ntW matters In the course 6f the news conference: SCHOOL INTEGRATION He aonlauded Vireinia officials and citizens for this week's reopening of public schools in Norfolk and Arlington County vith Negro and white children studying together -for the first time in the state's! history. This, said the Presidentmay i. laken as evidence that Amer icans are beginning to underH fanrf thev must have considera- tinrt for -their' fellowmen if de mocracy, is to work. Russ Ctaim MISSILES -r The claims by Soviet Defense Minister R. Y.

Malinol5ky that trte West lacks the ih1ssae might to cope with new Russian weapons of pinpoint accuracy sound very much like propaganda Eisenhower said. Why, he asked, should Americans pay more heed, to such boasting of new weapons than to Soviet claims of having invented the flying machine, the auto and the telephone. The Russians do not have the capability of completely knocking out America's retaliatory force, -Eisenhowexjtmphasized. And this widely-dispersedsecurity system has brought the United States to a splendid military posture which rfpadilv improving, he added THE WEATHER. -OTnwF-SDAY.

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Snow death- -M-aKfce. Momhly total.i Jl iacbaa. aiooiMy aoc- sweptmiles- out- into Long Is- land Sound. The: site of the crash was marked by a few floating pieces the- $1.7 million Lockhead Eiectrs airliner a type put In- -to service with fanfare only a few weeks ago. There also were some heart of breaking other reminders of the tragedy- such as, a baby's glove women shoe, a package 61 letters, a knapsack and a worn- an It was an irony of fate that ithe tugboat happened to be near the crashNew York Jiarbor tt 1 Russ Free Four Truck U.S.

Convoy BULLETIN. HELMSTEDT, Germany The Russians tonight raeasea a con- rvey or lour American "trucks which they had held oa tha route between Berlin and West Ger many since Monday- The Red army released1 the convoy alter lm united States rushed me diplomatic trouble- shooter Findlay Burns here from Berlin for I conference with the Soviet political advisers to the Russian army Germany. HELMSTEDT." Germany on The Soviet Army stood pat today on 'Jts refusal to grant passage to a U.S. Army truck convoy held up for1 two days at West Germany's frontier. At the same time it was disclosed the Rus sians had searched a British truck on the same Berlin high- -r A' U.S., Army officer met with Soviet Army officer at the check-point for 10 but apparently nothing wu settled.

I A i Army spokesman charged that the convoy's refusal to bow to Red Army inspection controls at the West German fron tier was "a deliberate and pre pared maneuver. Comments on Affair. Commenting on a rapid-fire se ries of U.S. pretests and demands that the four-truck convoy with its five-soldier guard be allowed to proceed immediately, the fM Army spokesman at East Berlin headquarters said: It is now up to the- Amer to put this affair in order." ThcSoviets-TC Insisting-that the convoy either allow the in-l tenor of the cargo trucks to be searched or return to West Berlin. The United States is retorting that the Russians have no rights to search the truck interiors under, four-power agreements.

Refuse Allow Search. The Americans refused to allow Soviet border guards to- search the convoy when it rolled up Mon day from Berlin at the I Soviet check-point in. Manenborn, just law and restricting unions wu by changes proposed for the labor speaker Birch tu siayn Jr. (in Terra Haute) said the House Dem-j ocrauQ majority Would caucus to day to discus! amendments' suggested Tuesday night, The chairman of the House La bor Committee, Rep, Joe A. Har ris (D-Carlisle), said he and other committee members conferred, on the code for about three hours with representatives of manage ment and labor.

I Would Delay Court Action. Harris said the result was sug gestions requiring dissatisfied un- ion members to go through regu lar union grievance procedure before hauling their own officials into court. The amendment could delay civil court action for as long as IS months. Denying the labor code was be ing "watered Harris said. the changes would merely spell out procedure to make certain normal union girevance channels are not bypassed when a mem ber has a complaint against his officers.

If the amendments are ap proved by the 78-member Demo cratic House majority in caucus, the could be tacked onto the Ja- oor coae oetore a iinai vote is callett" Bayh had said earlier the House would pass both labor bills this week after a pair of right-to- wonc repealers became stalled in the Senate Labor Committee. GOP Turns to New SUB. rThe'Teforra BieasG re" itself con tains a section repealing the right- to-work law, and the pemocrats' 79-21 House majority would have no trouble passing both, bills whenever they were In. the Senate still, stalemated on its nght-to-work repealers Republicans turned their attenion to a new supplemental unemploy-J menl would require an individual ae- wnt for each worker In present SUB plans. Money the employer pays into the fund goes into a common pool When an employee quits his job he gets no benefit from the fund, and the pool remains' intact as a source of pay for laud-off workers in addition to their state unemployment benefits.

The Senate Republican Idea, al ready christened the "Indiana it ordinarily scurrying busily up and down the river watersrs now tied up by ajtrike of inejogwhicnv raced to oie re- JcueTnowever, was not affected by 'V aaX 0S; Protesting: GI Detention 'WASHINGTON' (UPQ-Pret-Went Eisenhower said today the United States is lodging vigorous protest with the So viet Union against the coo turned detention of five American servicemen and four U.S. trucks at a check point oa the road to West Berlin. Eisenhower said the detention of the men and trucks' since Monday afternoon is violation of four-power agree meats, implied and explicit, connected with the occupation status of the World War II over the line from this West German border point. The trucks carried Jeeps. The five U.S.

solders in the convoy spent their second Cold night in the trucks last night- The west-bound British truck, with a lone-driver, was held up two days ago. Both Incidents oc curred on the Autobahn, the 110- mile road linking isolated West Berlin with West Germany, The British said their truck was stopped, the Marienborn check point as it was en route from West Berlin to West Germany. -The Russians said they wanted to check the interior of the truck, iwhich wasTmen-arthectThe driver resisted too move. While he was arguing with-a Russian officer, a Russian sol dier climbed into the back of the truck and looked around, the Britsh Army said. evidently satisfied himself that there was nothing insidr and the Russians then allowed the truckto proceed.

Tedriver wtnt across to Helmsted in West Germany and reported to his su periors. A protest louowea. The convoy had been held up longer than any truck or train convoy detained by the Russians since the 1MM9 blockade. U.S. military authorities considered it the gravest incident since Mos cow began drive last Novem ber to oust the Western powers from West Berlin.

A Private traffic along the Auto bahn continued uneventfully, Sa trust egui Fernandez, a thy industrialist and the speaker at the banquet; the Mar-j qus de case Arnuo. and Mari ano Yobles Romero Robledo, whose grandfather was a minister rl the rooriarchy 50 yeairs ago. Tie. arrests came, as no sur prise, for failure to take action would have been interpreted as weakness in Franco's regime. But a prominent member of the group said it felt more, could be; V.

chief delayed today in the Indiana House code measure; Lagiilirlva calendar a aas S. Otaay toraa aa fag II, II aad 14. efit Plan," would allow a worker to draw whatever had been paid into the SUB. fund for him if he quit. In case of death his account would be paid to survivors A bill carrying out the plan Is being prepared for introduction later this week, said Sen.

Roy Conrad (R-Monticello), ranking member of the' Senate Labor Committee. Several bills scheduled for final House action today guaranteed soma flaming oratory. Two of them concern motorists one requiring driven suspected of being drunk to take intoxl cation test and the other ordering all motorists to carry their opera tor license. Y. Violates Rights, Say Lawyers." Several civic and church groups are backing the drunken driver test bill, but the Indiana State Bar Assn.

contends it violates a driv ers constitutional rights by forcing him to testify against himself. The 1957 Legislature repealed an old law requiring possession of an operator license landalldwed charges of not having one to dismissed if a ucense wm pro duced within" five days, Also up for final House passage was a measure changing the state school aid formulaj-lt wouhLsub- stitute actual average teacher sal aries lor average minimum al ries and include a 25-cent county school tax rate. Democratic sponsors of the bill say it will equalize the property tax burden between rich and poor tnf tiavinff at least partf the schorf4spreader the entire county The House Tuesday passed 71-11 bill raising the pay of half the policemen and firemen in Indiana. Still facing Senate action, would raise minimum salaries now ranging from S22S per month to $295 to new levels of 1295 to $370 depending on the size ot tne city. An increase in annual uniform and equipment allowances for fire men and policemen from $100 to $150 got House approval on a vote 11-0.

a or future." The three were arrested at JhfflorHeT The banquet was attended by 87 important army officers, lawyers, writers and other personali-j ties- No charges v. have yet been leveled aeainst the three arrested this moNng-vUnder the Spanish Bill of Rights, Uhe police nave 72 hours before thqse arrested must either be I released or charged with a crime. The-presumcdrdeatfrCpije toward the tieup because it is based in Connecticut tT Personality Missing. iTT Among the "missing plane pas sengers presumed -dead were -BeTilalrZachtry, producer of the -Kukla, Fran and Oflie television program, and Richard Winn, di rector of facility, planning lor American Tha new turbo-prop airliners were designed to combine jet power with the advantages of the" propeller. The engines operate on the turbine principle.

LaGuardia through light rain and fog, in 38-degree weather with the ceiling about 300- to 400 feet' It plummeted into the river be tween 2,500 and' 4.000 feet short of the shoreline start of the ran way. The force of the a cracked the plane in two. The disaster scene was only. about half a mile from Rikers Island, where a Northeast airliner crashed after takeoff in a snowstorm Feb. 1, 1957.

Twenty of the persons aboard the North east pur were lulled. Boats Race to Scene. The American TaMiner crashed at 11:54 p.m. (EST). 49 minutes after It.

was due at Coast Guard boats raced to the scene and.gavea tragic report of "picking up bodies A temporary morgue was se't up at a nearby Queens Point and survivors were rushed to Flush- secGd'ti, which seemed mtactTwasfDeWitt and his wife, the Supplemental Unemployment Ben-of DeWitt, the pilot, shocked -Deca tur, a Southwest Michigan village 1,700 persons. The veteran pi lot would have completed 30 years with the airline next June. er Gertrude Stock of Elkhart, had lived in a small farm home sear Decatur for more than 15 years. They had no children. American Airlines officials said DeWitt was "one.

of the world's most experienced commercial He wu the airline's chief pilot in Chicago and had flown 28,000 hours: or approximately seven muiion milesr tince 1329. Drives to Chicago. He drove to Chicago from his; home- at 3 p.m. for the flight afour-engined prop-jet- which left Chicago at p.m. and was due in uouardia at 11:05 p.m.The trash occurred at EST.

DeWitt'f twin brother. RoHand, arrived at the pilot's borne this morning from La-Granae. ILL Mrs. DeWitt's broth er, William Stock of Elkhart, also an American Airlines employee Decaturling Spanish Police Arrest Three of Anti-Franco Party. sticking out of the water.

The rest was in pieces'. Hears Cry for Help. managed to snag a large part of the' fuselage, with boat hooks, on which were perched three persons. I As we hauled them aboard I saw a hand poke through a duor in the wreckage. It looked like the pilot's door, and I heard a man cry for help, "We yanked at the door with boat hooks and tried to open it 'ijMlMjIiejtrEe pun away ana i saw me nana it a i si saw the hand disappear and heard a man cry, "I'll neverJorget it I thinkr it was the piloti I had to lei it go.

4- IKt FLH5 SOUTH. WASHINGTON President Eisenhower flew aouth today for a golf and quail shooting vacation at Tnotpasville, Ga. f. -weal- Franco regime by working in the lopen. a MADRID (fl Generalissimo, Franco'! tovernment today ar rested three liberal monarchittt who were active in the formation' of an anti-Franco political 11 1 wax uic kutci uiuciu a iu retaliation against new par ty, the Spanish Union, which was farmed at a public banquet 'in a hotel last -Thursday.

All parties except Franco Falange are banned in Spain. Those arrested were Joaquin There had" been no. attempt To keep the banquet secret. Police permission was obtained beforehand and a police representative was present Satrustegui nevertheless spoke out ftrmtr against the regime. He said Franco had seized power il legally and been kept mux by force.

He also- blasted-' the government's economic policy. saving was "without present. HospitaL i A Herbert Fonnan, 38, of North PlainfiekL N. told newsmen at Queens General Ko pital he was leaning against aj CiatlaaHI aasa aahuaa -1 CaatiaaiS aa ft M. aalaaal accomplished to bring down the -mal, Wt.

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