Kenosha News from Kenosha, Wisconsin • 1

Berlin air crash fakes 156 lives Kenosha Wisconsin Tuesday Augusf 15 1972 15c a Copy-r-Home Delivered 65c Weekly wind lash city county BERLIN Eyewitnesses said today an East German Interflug Ilyushin 62 developed engine trouble and apparently was trying to return to East Berlin when it exploded Monday killing 156 persons in the second worst air disaster Last year 162 died in Japan in the collision of a jet fighter and Japanese Boeing 727 in the worst disaster Eyewitnesses said the pilot of the Russian-built transport apparently had engine trouble soon after takeoff on a charter flight from East Schoenefeld Airfield to the Bulgarian Black Sea vacation resort of Burgas There were no survivors among the 148 passengers and eight crew Interflug announced there were no West Germans or foreigners on board It said all the dead were East Germans The crash took place at 510 pm The East German news service ADN said hundreds of police 'Jiremen and other rescue workers toiled through the night to recover bodies and prevent fires in the woods in which the aircraft fell ADN said small fires broke out constantly during' the night and had to be put out A government commission headed by Transport Minister Otto Arndt was con- IWOT)'' I 1 maw- VS yd jil iibiiii n1 4 't 15 4 vened to investigate crash and aid the families of the dead Witnesses said the aircraft exploded soon after it took off from East Schoenefeld airfield and crashed near flie town of Koenigs Wusterhausen 20 miles southeast of Berlin They said- the aircraft fell in farmland and wreckage was strewn for miles some fragments falling onto the railway station in Koenigs Wusterhausen The IL62 a four-engine was flying to the Bulgarian Black Sea resort of Burgas when it crashed at 5:10 pm After the crash was announced the East German radio network dropped its regular schedule and played solemn music Apparently all the passengers and crew died immediately rescue operations carried out immediately by fire brigades and doctors all help came too ADN said Western newsmen were barred from the by high winds scene of the crash American Motors Corp was It was the worst European air disaster forced to shut down assembly the death toll exceeding by 26 the 130 lulled lines when water flooded in the crash of an Air France 707 at Orly areas airport in Paris June 3 1962 Most of the victims were in a tour group from Atlanta The rainstorm fu about 2:40 pm in toe first 20 min- utes the Water Pollution Con- trol plant recorded an inch of rain Another inch fell in the TL cm following 45 minutes and from I he inside Story then until toe rain ended about 5:45 pm toe total reached an PaSe official 229 inches at the lakef-Amusements Television 19 ront Area News 10 In the western part of the Classified 22 connty Silver Lake rePorted about two inches and portions uearADDy i 0j payock were without Dr Joyce Brothers 26 power for up to three hours Editorials 4 due to storm damage Pleasant Family Page 18 Prairie recorded 35 inches of Farm 20 rain- Financial News 21 Water spurted as much as Obituaries 8 two feet out of Clty manholes overloaded storm sewers re- 15 18 17 acted to the tremendous pres- The Lyons Den 23 gm-e in west side areas Activities 8 7 High winds drove the down- pour into cracks and crevices editorial: of mes crain "evf entered before Some residents Rubbish pickups is tops xM water spurting through cracks around tightly shut windows and doors At the height of the fury the rain was travelling almost horizontally before high winds from the west After the first 26-minute slashing the storm suddenly stopped for a few minutes then resumed in somewhat abated fashion One of the hardest hit areas by flooding was 27th Ave and 50th St Anton Johnson 69 50th St had four feet of Water in his basement even this morning due to cracked basement walls and floors and killed instead Sheldon Epstein 40 of New Rochelle NY and Max Tekelch 48 of Woodmere LI Both were jneat company executives The wounded men business associates of the two who were killed were Leon Schneider 48 of East Meadow LI and Jack Forem 55 of Brooklyn Rain Kissinger will go to Saigon WASHINGTON (UPI) President Nixon has dispatched his chief peace negotiator Dr Henry A Kissinger to Saigon to confer with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu on efforts to negotiate an end to the war the White House announced today Press secretary Ronald Ziegler said Kissinger who held a private meeting with North Vietnamese negotiators in Paris on Monday will arrive in Saigon Wednesday evening (Wednesday morning US time) and remain there until Friday afternoon Ziegler said Kissinger would fly to the South Vietnamese capital from Laax Switzerland where he paid a brief visit to his parents celebrating their 50th wedding anniversary Ziegler said the President directed Kissinger to visit South Vietnam a general review of all aspects of the Vietnam problem including the negotiations in Knee-high water at 75th St and 40th Ave was typical of flood scenes throughout toe Kenosha area Monday afternoon Young people some with bikes watched towing (Kenoshs-News Photo by Norbert Bybee) men wiped out vwKv W-X 'f "X-Wj a yx I 4 i i )j downpour came down sewers To handle "with fountain Says P0W group not typical -MADISON Wis (UPI) The American prisoners of war interviewed in Hanoi by former US Attorney General Ramsey Clark were not representative of most POWs a US Stale Department official said Monday night William Sullivan deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs told a meeting the prisoners Clark saw were same group every prestigious visitor to Hanoi sees Sullivan said the group is given special housing and feeding and makes tegular statements over Radio Hanoi are not our judgment representative of the great body of Sullivan sa prefer that 10 different body of Sullivan said prefer that 10 different prisoners be shown to each visitor rather than the same Water rose three feet above foundation level in that area and provided one of the many lakes in which boaters and swimmers frolicked a the storm Outride the Johnson home which had been flooded seven times in the past few years a dozen autos belonging to AMC workers were flooded Water poured in the windows of cars in the low-lying spots The flooded area covered a two acres Similar flooded areas were reported in other west side locations A long stretch of 30th Ave was under up to 12 inches of water Traffic came to a standstill at a number of locations when cars stalled in deep water Basement windows gave way under the pressure of water outside and sent gushers flowing into many cellars No estimate on the dollar damage was available although individual householders reported furnaces water heaters washers dryers and other appliances and furnishings totally ruined in deep water areas Large trees were downed at scattered locations around the city and county and fallen McGovern was elected president some prisoners would be released on inaugural day and all of them within 90 days after the new administration takes office held a with 10 Americans in a prisoner of war camp and they were in good health good spirits and well-treated Clark said North Vietnam's deputy premier and foreign minister Nguyen Duy Trinh guaranteed him the prisoners of war would be released as part of a military and political settlement of the war He said he spoke with Trinh almost three hours and then was given a signed note reaffirming their talks Clark said the minister him the would be freed but don't know first whether he means it or sepond whether he can But I know he said vvA NSy -x ri i xp Bruce Schroeder too rapidly for ing such as this one at 80to St and 26to Ave effects result- News Photo by Norbert Bybee) shoulder length black wig walked in and went to the bar a few feet away After downing a drink he iniToST 1two 38 caliber pistols and opened fire on the men he thought were mobsters was a terrible crime a tragic Murphy said is the materialization of what I have been that as a result of organized crime violence innocent persons could be The shooting was the latest in the continuing underworld war that has been raging since the attempted assassination of Colombo during ad Italian-American civil rights rally last summer He remains disabled as a result of his wounds Joseph Gallo reputed to have been battling the Colombo forces for a piece of the Brooklyn rackets was slain in a restaurant in Little Italy in April Police believe he was killed allegedly on the orders of Joseph Yacovelli the reputed acting head of the Colombo family The intended targets of the rubout Murphy said were Alphonse Persico elder brother of jailed mob enforcer Carmine Persico son also named Alphonse and Jerry Langella described as Alley bodyguard The fourth man was not identified by the commissioner But the gunman apparently from out of town did not know the Colombo mobsters by sight Bruce Schroeder proposed for DA limbs were a hazard generally One parked car was smashed on 8th Ave at Library Park when a huge tree crashed down on its hood The entire southern portion of toe state was hit by toe sudden August storm Although dangerous winds were common there were only two reports of funnel cloudsone near Merrillan in Jackson County which did not touch down and another an unconfirmed report near Genesee in Waukesha County The funnel near Merrillan knocked down several trees and high winds accompanying the thunderstorms also did damage to almost every county from Marathon and Wood on the north to Kenosha on the south Kenosha was under severe thunderstorm warnings and for a time wasunderaJornado watch The high winds caused two planes to come down and one of them piloted by a Lake Forest 111 mani crashed but no one was injured Mrs Judy Bindl 32 of Wau-nakee had to land her small plane in a Green County field and was taken to a Monroe hospital with minor injuries Edward Jacks was attempting to land his twin-engine Cessna when the winds blew it from the runway at the Nece-dah airport in Juneau County The plane struck an ungraded section of land its landing gear broke and it rolled some 500 feet into a stumpy area There were two passengers but no one was hurt though the plane was a total loss Weather August continued in her unpredictability dumping 229 inches of rain on Kenosha yesterday Tonight is expected fair and warmer with lows in the low or mid 60s Wednesday will be mostly sunny hot and humid with lows in the low or mid 90s Precipitation probabilities are 10 per cent tonight and Wednesday HOT AND Noontime temperatures around town were 72 shared by the 60th Street fire station and the downtown area 68 at AMC and 65 at Water Pollu- tion Control temperature extremes were 90 and 61 The low since midnight was 61 Sunnse Wednesday will be at 558 am and sunset at 753 A Wrong NEW YORK An underworld assassin apparently gunning for four members of a New York crime family killed two business1'" men and wounded two others in a bungled mob execution in a Manhattan restaurant police officials said Monday Police Commissioner Patrick Murphy said the hit man allegedly hired by the remnants of the Gallo mob had been sent to murder four members of the family reputedly headed by Joseph A Colombo Sr The mobsters had been drinking at the bar in the Neapolitan Noodle on the upper East Side but moved to a rear table Murphy told a news conference The executives and their wives took the vacated bar stools Moments lata the hit man disguised in a Bath and haircut for nude Hippies MERIDA Mexico Attorney General Humberto Rodriguez of Yucatan state said today who swim in the nude will be offered a bath and haircut at government expense and will be deported if they refused are hundreds of hippies in the Rodriguez said rent houses or apartments where they get drunk or drugged then they go and cause trouble in the streets Sometimes when they are already drunk or drugged they go to the harbors and swim nude in the ocean men and He said he has asked immigration authorities to conduct spot checks to determine whether such visitors have visas who do will be invited to have a bath and a haircut and we will offer them our barber shops and public baths for he said they decline we will invite them to go somewhere Today's quote Life the game that must be played This truth at least good friends we know So live and laugh nor be dismayed as one by one toe phantoms go Robinson poet chuckle The afternoon rush in most cities moves so slowly that you cad bear what the hitchhikers call you Death of general believed suicide NEW ORLEANS (UPI) -Police investigating the gunshot death of Maj Gen Raymond Hufft believe the wound was self-inflicted eliminated foul play as a possibility almost Maj Henry Morris chief of detectives said Monday had been Hufft former Louisiana adjutant general and one of the state's most decorated war heroes was found Sunday with a single gunshot wound in the head Police said Hufft 57 apparently was shot with his own gun a 38 caliber revolver found at the scene along with a holster engraved with name Wife sues Mort Sahl LOS ANGELES (UPI) Comedian Mort Sahl was sued for divorce Monday by his wife actress Margaret Lee whom he married Oct 30 1970 The couple had no children Ramsey Clark United States editor of North leading newspaper told him that if Sen George Kenosha new district attorney will probably be a present assistant in the office Bruce Schroeder The executive board of the Kenosha County Democratic Party and its four-member statutory committee have voted unanimously to ask Gov Pat-r i Lucey to appoint Schroeder to the interim post Dist Atty Burton A Scott will be sworn in Wednesday as appointee to the judgeship of County Court Branch III following the retirement July 31 of Judge Urban Zie-vers Scott will cease to be district attorney at 5 today Schroeder 26 920 60th St is third assistant DA He joined the office in January 1971 following his graduation from Marquette Law School He is a Milwaukee native Schroeder Ramsey Clark denies making Hanoi broadcasts SAN FRANCISCO (UPI)-Former Attorney General Ramsey Clark has denied that he had ever made any broadcasts over Radio Hanoi during his visit to North Clark who returns to Washington today with two suitcases of material he gathered on the bombing" damage to the Communist country said Monday his comments while in Hanoi may have been tape recorded and broadcast on the air a free man I talk I express myself but I did not talk on Radio he said The prisoner of war issue dominated first news conference since returning from his two-week journey Clark said: foreign ministry him that American POWs would be released immediately after a war-ending treaty was implemented by the was named juvenile prosecutor in the office when the post was established last October John Collins Democratic Party chairman and Mrs Josephine Fink chairman of the statutory committee said Schroeder will also be reconr mended for the November ballot spot as soon as Scott caQ legally withdraw from the eleo-tion after the September primary 4 Eau Claire celebrates EAU CLAIRE (UPI) I four-day centennial celebration will get underway here Thursday to mark the first 100 years A 100 gun salute in front of city hall Thursday evening will start the fete which wiU feature parades band concerts a grand ball and various recognition and stage programs Urn celebration ends Sunday Late bulletins DRAFT COMPROMISE ON GOP REFORMS MIAMI BEACH (UPI) Republican regulars drafted a compromise on party reforms today in an effort to head off a convention clash with party liberals over proposals for a major overhaul oi toe GOP Dubbed the the plan would establish a new system of allocating delegate votes for the 1976 convention It would mean extra votes for the big states but not as many as they would receive if toe current method was wiped out entirely or if the party adopted a rival proposal by Sen Charles Percy R-Ill IRISH AIRLINES DEFY AMERICAN BAN DUBLIN (UPI) Aer Lingus Airlines booked flights to New York normally today despite an American threat to ban their planes from landing at Kennedy Airport after next Friday The CAB announced toe ban after the Irish government persistently refused to let American airlines use Dublin Airport on their transatlantic flights.