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Two Rational Richmond Times-Dispatch Friday January 24 1941 Rational Saving of 12 in Plane Crash Called Miracle 9 surfaces Immediately after the accident showed no Parchal of Kansas City a member of the Air Safety Board made a detailed examination of the wreckage but said later that he had found nothing which would enable him to draw any conclusions on the cause of the crash He said it would take about two more days to complete the field examination and then various parts of the plane will be scientific laboratory tests An open verdict was returned at a coroner's inquest way In accordance with advice from the control tower the turn beyond the west end of the No 1 runway Dio 1 Guardi thought the airplane brushed something and after that he remembered nothing Collings then reconstructed what may have happened: "Apparently Captain Scott was too high over No 1 runway to complete a landing with the six-Jmile surface wind reported by the control tower and was circling to make an approach and landing on the No 6 runway Ploughed Through Wires is a rise beyond the west end or the field and sections of the tail found there indicate that the airplane brushed the tops of the trees and that part of the tail group was torn off plane then plowed straight ahead through some high-tension wires landed on the near side of the road beyond the west side of the field and came to a stop across the road examination of the plane's 100 proof Copyright 1941 Schenley (Continued from First Pag er conditions The ceiling was 400 feet with lower scattered clouds at 200 feet Visibility was cut to two miles by light fog and drizzle Earl Bierman radio operator in the control tower saw the plane begin its left turn southwest of the field Investigation Begun apparently went he said the pilot pulled the plane into what looked like an S-tum and it disappeared behind some trees Then there was a Federal and TWA officials began ah investigation of the crash Several of them went to DePaul Hospital and questioned Orestis Dio Guardi 28 of Jackson Heights the copilot who suffered internal injuries fractured right ankle and injured jaw His condi-' tion was serious Others injured and their condition: John Walters 39 Chicago industrial engineer fractured ribs and scalp wounds Thomas Stoddard 44 Los Angeles a lecturer fractured right shoulder and lacerations of the head "I Leader Injured Mrs William Ekey 42 leader of the Philadelphia unit of the "I Foundation spinal injury and contusions of the head Mrs Thomas McCIoskey 27 Grafton Ohio wife of a TWA employee fractured skull Miss Isabelle Hidden 35 Baltimore compression fracture of the lower back without complications severe contusions of the ankles Clinton Criggs 43 Worthington Ohio sales engineer lacerations of the right hand Manufacturer Hurt Stanley Shaw 29 Galesburg Kan manufacturer chest injury and contusion of the right ankle Joseph Washburn 41 Burbank Cal head of Lockheed Aircraft photographic department injured ribs and lacerated chin Stuart Sanford 22 Burbank aircraft mechanic cuts of the scalp and forehead Miss Mary Eshback 24 Jackson Heights the hostess severe contusion of the right leg and wrist lacerations Carl Juergens 30 Kirkwood Mo salesman spinal injury Passenger Tells of Landing His fractured right shoulder swathed in bandages Stoddard boarded a TWA plane and left at 2:17 (E T) for New York to complete his interrupted trip John A Collings Kansas City TWA superintendent of operations after talking to Dio Guardi and making a preliminary survey of the wrecked plane said: "According to Dio Guardi the flight was proceeding normally on instruments as the plane passed over the radio range station in its final approach to the field at the prescribed altitude Hie plane let down and the pilot saw the lead-in lights at the approach to the No 1 east-west runway "Dio Guardi said that Captain Scott started applying power as the plane continued over the field for an approach on the No 6 run Wlrtpbota FLEET COMMAND Rear-Admiral Isaac Kidd (by microphone) is shown participating in the ceremony yesterday aboard the Arizona by which he assumed command of Battleship Division One of the United States fleet He succeeds Rear-Admiral Russell Wilson (behind him) who will become superintendent of the Naval Academy Mistrial Denied in Rape Case Despite BRIDGEPORT CONN Defense Attorney Samuel Friedman yesterday demanded hut was refused a mistrial after State's Attorney Lorin Willis accused him of and Mrs Eleanor Strobing during cross-examination of her story that she was raped last month by her Negro butler Joseph Spell Soon after Superior Court Judge Carl Foster denied motion the attorney excused the attractive Greenwich society matron from the witness stand Florida Boom May Exceed That of JACKSONVILLE FLA Pi-Under the triple impetus of a banner season huge defense spending and a bumper citrus crop Florida is heading into the peak of a period many observers say will be the most prosperous in its long history not excluding the fabulous land boom of the middle twenties Long lines of tourist-laden automobiles busses and trailers are moving almost continuously through this and other gateway points and fanning out to the south the heaviest movement being to the "Gold area from Palm Beach to Miami Railroads and air lines are running extra sections to accommodate the influx Tourist Registration Booms Tourist registrations arc generally wrell ahead of last season the biggest on record except at St Petersburg popular tourist resort on the lower west coast which formerly drew heavily from Canada Even there most officials and resort operators say the season will be ahead of last year before it's over Across the bay the larger city of Tampa a commercial and shipping center to which the tourist business formerly was incidental reports registrations of winter visitors up 10 per cent with retail sales correspondingly increased and building activity far ahead of a year ago Hie State Chamber of Commerce estimates the season will bring a total of 3100000 tourists who will spend a total of $347-000000 compared with 2600000 who spent an estimated $291000-000 during the record 1939-40 season Defense Spending Large The strategic location of the State pointing like an extended forefinger toward South America and the vital Panama Canal has resulted in a concentration of military and naval establishments on which huge sums are being pent thousands of persons employed and enormous quantities ol' materials used Construction awards in 1940 as reported in Federal contracts and city and county permits totaled $146000000 Of this or more than one-third consisted of Federal defense spending and many a still incomplete and others yet to be started Another large citrus crop is rolling out of the State and although prices are not as satisfac tory as last season whpn growers and shippers received $50000000 the gross take is expected to be as large or larger Growers insist the market and not their fruit that's sour 6 President 9 Willkie Takes the Azores (Continued from First Page) more A takeoff was tentatively scheduled for daybreak today When he was not visiting the islanders or receiving a delegation Willkie whiled away the time playing table tennis or rummy Sees Bombers En Route En route to study war condi tions in Britain Willkie already had seen evidence of United States aid to the British At Darnell Island off Hamilton Bermuda his eyes widened Wednesday when he saw two 13-ton flying boats bombers to be flown to Britain Beside them he saw three famous veteran flyers Bemt Balchen Clyde Pangbom and Homer lazily tossing pennies "Ferrying bombers is getting dull" Berry who fought with Canada in the World War and again wore a Canadian uniform told Willkie am joining a fighting unit The American-made bombers will be flown to England from Bermuda instead of Newfoundland the pilots explained because of weather difficulties encountered over the North Atlantic Walker Renominated As Postmaster-General WASHINGTON President Roosevelt' yesterday nominated Frank C' Walker to serve four more years as Postmaster General He also sent to the Senate the nomination of Dean Acheson to be an assistant secretary of state in place of Henry Grady resigned Walker was named Postmaster General last fall to succeed James A Farley who resigned to enter private business The Postmaster Generalship is the only Cabinet office for which a new appointment has to be made at the beginning of a new presidential term Single Standard Burials PUEBLO COLO There Is no traditional burial place for paupers in Pueblo City officials decided long ago that anyone who died here was entitled to good Even transients who meet death beneath train wheels are buried in a purchased plot in a cemetery with a ceremony equal to those used in services which cost several hundred dollars Distillers Corporation New York City INI MO Council Urges State Control Over Relief Contribution Up to 757c Asked The Council of State Governments recommended yesterday that administration of rejef he turned over to the States with the Federal Government contributing up to 75 per cent of the cost A resolution adopted by the general assembly of State legislative and administrative officials suggested that relief be handled in a manner similar to social security programs under which the States administer Federal grants with Federal supervision over their standards Such a system the resolution said would permit co-ordinating direct relief and work relief with other public assistance programs It was suggested that Federal grants for relief range from 50 pr cent of the total cost in richer States to 73 per cent in poorer States Ask More Efficiency The assembly also recommended that States handle the relief of migratory workers as part of their general relief programs that distribution of surplus commodities he administered by the States and that Congress conduct continual researrh in public assistance in cooperation with the States is urged" said the assembly all public officials recognize the crushing force of the soaring burden of all public relief on the taxpayer and we recommend vigorous effort on their part for a more efficient and economical Another resolution urged State officials to appoint experts to ascertain the of small manufacturing plants for defense assembly" It said to the respective States that they either set up new facilities or liaison between such small manufacturers and their respective councils of defense or similar bodies or use present facilities for that purpose to the end that there be immediately available to the national Government the present production potential of plant and labor in the furtherance of Other resolutions Indorsed a campaign against interstate trade barriers pledged co-operation in development of Inland and coastal fisheries and approved proposals to establish a national commission to simplify State and Federal tax structures Arms Promotion The resolution concerning defense said that intensive promotion of the armament program was imperative in the light of and pressing dangers" confronting the country The States It said ought to cooperate for preparedness by pledging each other and to the nation their full and by making production facilities quickly available for defense work the assembly held in the gravest danger by reason of the unprovoked attacks of totalitarian Last Defendant Convicted by Jury In Murder Ring PHILADELPHIA Forty-six-year-old Mrs Agnes Mandiuk was convicted of first-degree murder last night the last defendant to be tried in Philadelphia's notorious murder-for-insurance cases Her husband was the victim The jury of nme men and three women recommended mercy making the penalty life imprisonment instead of death as the State had demanded They deliberated only an hour and a half Mrs Mandiuk mother of two children was accused of collecting $13000 insurance as the result of the death of her husband a baker She was stony calm at the verdict but a sister fainted Nine other women and 12 men have been convicted in the cases Two men and two women were sentenced to die Seven men and three women got life imprisonment Others received prison terms Three women were acquitted Mrs Mandiuk denied the charges during her four-day trial The State contended that she poisoned Mandiuk Taft Introduces Substitute Bill For British Aid WASHINGTON iJP A substitute aid-to-Britain bill providing fop loans of SI 000000000 to the United Kingdom S500000000 to Canada and $50000000 to Greece was introduced yesterday by Senator Taft (R Ohio) Taft explained designed to give aid to England instead of aid to the President of the United States It will give it quicker with much less dissension and discord in this Senator Johnson (D Col) introduced a bill permitting the Government to lend $2000000000 worth of war materials to Britain The only payment required would be reports on how the material functioned in battle KIDNEY JROUBLE Stop Getting Up Nights To harmlesaly flush poisons and add from kidneys and relieve irritations of bladder so that you can atop -retting up nights' ret a S5 cent package of Gold Medal Haarlem Oil Capsules and take as directed Other symptoms of kidney and bladder weaknesses may bs scant burning or smarting passage backache cramps puffy eyes Get original GOLD Refuse a substitute 16-Billion Rise In Debt Limit To Be Sought WASHINGTON -cratic leaders in Congress agreed yesterday to seek an increase of about $18000000000 in the debt limit and thus open the way for one of history's greatest bond-selling campaigns to finance the defense program The decision was announced by Representative Robert Dough- ton C) chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee after he and other congressional leaders conferred with Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau Morgenthau said the step was favored by President Roosevelt The debt limit now Is $49000-000000 and the increase w'ould raise it to $65000000000 Dough-ton explained how'ever that $65-000000000 was a tentative figure and might be changed after he consulted with members of his committee Go for $5 or $1000 In effect Congress will be asked to authorize some $20000000000 of borrowing since the debt now is $45157324061 The Treasury plans -to sell $5 bonds to persons of ordinary means as well as the regular $1000 knid to wealthier individuals and corporations Morgenthau also has hinted at a possible 25-cent saving stamp for school children similar to those sold dur- ing the World War Some Treasury experts were reported to be studying the question of supplying four-minute speakers to boost bond sales as was done in the case of the old Liberty and Victory Loan issues Doughton also announced that the debt limit bill would make all future Federal securities subject to all Federal taxes Under present laws the Treasury is issuing taxable securities but only in the form of notes maturing in less than five years Winant to Sec President Today WASHINGTON John Winant flew back to the capital from New Hampshire last night perhaps to receive the appointment as ambassador to Great Britain to succeed Joseph Kennedy The former Republican governor of New Hampshire cut short his visit there to return to Washington On arrival here he said he ex-ted to see the President today declined to say 'whether lie Mrs Strobing was followed by Dr Francis Zeier White Plains physician to whose office she was brought after two truckmen found her i a reservoir in Westchester County into which she said Spell had hurled her Dr Zeier said a physical examination convinced him she had been 'orcibly assaulted The outburst between the attorneys came toward the end of a tense day in Mrfc strubln the courtroom during which Mrs Strobing several times on the verge of tears had often protested in confusion "I can't and tried to as Friedman pressed her Immediately after finishing her testimony Mrs Strobing left the courtroom accompanied by her husband John Strobing Jr New York advertising executive and one-time Princeton quarterback and the private nurse who has attended her at the trial Roosevelts Are Guests At Cabinet Dinner WASHINGTON President and Mrs Roosevelt were guests last night at a dinner given by members of the Cabinet and their wives at the Hotel Carlton and were entertained by Lawrence Tib-bqtt the noted baritone Other members of the Roosevelt family attending included the President's mother Mrs James Roosevelt and Mr and Mrs John Boettiger of Seattle Wash son-in-law and daughter- of Mr and Mrs Roosevelt Other guests included Vice-President and Mrs Wallace Speaker Rayburn and his sister Miss -Lucinda Rayburn Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy Mr: and Mrs Henry Morgenthau Sr Mrs Louis McHenry Howe Homer Cummings Mrs George Dern Mr and Mrs Daniel Ro- Ser Mrs Claude A Swanson and Irs William Woodin Alaskans Enroll for Draft FAIRBANKS ALASKA -Iff In the predawn glare of the northern lights long lines of hardy Alaskans lined up before the registration office to enroll under the United States' Selective Service Act: The temperature was 28 below zero IN GILMORE-GRAND CANYON RUN three great cars President Commander and Champion awarded two firsts pnd a second in gas economy test Agent Reports Prepared To Fight Sabotage NEW YORK The United States is far better prepared and organized to combat sabotage and espionage than it was in World War days Sackett agent in charge of the Federal Bureau of Investigation's New York office said yesterday He told the marine section of the National Safety Council that specially trained FBI agents had surveyed 1200 industrial plants and shipyard holding Government contracts with the idea of installing plans and machinery to prevent sabotage The survey first of its kind in this country will be extended to include every plant making defense materials he asserted He emphasized that the survey did not include employer-employee relations Early are better prepared today to fight sabotage because the FBI the Army and the Navy are cooperating completely in a well-organized he said "In addition every law enforcement agency in the country has been drawn into the fight officials are being told how to lock the stable before the horse is stolen through con-fidential booklets distributed by the He warned against "false of sabotage saying that they lead to mass hysteria a "weapon used by the totalitarian governments" "We must keep a cool national level he said lie de France Fitted As Troopship Crew Says BOSTON The 40000-ton French luxury liner lie de France is being converted into a troop or supply ship in Singapore under the direction of British authorities members of the crew of the American freighter Steel Traveler reported yesterday They said that when the Steel Traveler which arrived here yes- full pint of medicine that will amass you by Its quick action It never spoils lasts a family a long time and tastes children love it This simple mixture tekee right hold of a conga 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