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vr (THE Morning KANSAS CITY STAR) 5EI)c iUununi (tihj VOL ns NO 1S6 KANSAS CITY AUGUST 5 ER ID AY -44 PAGES PRICE 5 CENTS Thirty Die in Plane Crash Near Ft Leonard Wood Mo PLAN BONDS FOR LIBRARY Kansas Cily School Board Approves Tentative Building Program including New Structure in Downtown Area TRAGEDY NEAR AIR STRIP Doomed American Airlines Convair Was Only Threc-j mirths of a Mile From Emergency Landing at the Ft Leonard Wood Mo Field Grew and Passengers on Plane Which Crashed BIG LIBRARY PLAN WING FALLS OFF Kansas City School Board Ap proves Project Including New Main Building Explosions Wrack Craft as the Pilot Makes Valiant Effort to Reach Field THROUGH A BOND ISSUE A OFFICIALS TO SCENE Investigation Starts Immediately Fire in Right Engine Began Over Lebanon Two Large Branches and Ren ovation at Other Units Also Included Also at Meeting Budget Social Security and Civil Defense Are Acted On Eight Missourians and Kansans Among the SO Dead Bodies Brought to Camp A's Lose Another Lame to the Orioles The dropped three of four games to Baltimore -losing to the Orioles there yesterday 8 to 1 The next Kansas City foe will be fourth place Boston which yesterday pulled to within two games of first place Chicago Cleveland by heating New York tied with the White Sox The Yankees are one game out Kansas City and Boston play the opener of a 3-game series at Boston tonight Other scores: AMERICAN LEAGUE Washington 9 Detroit 6 Boston 7 Chicago 3 Cleveland 6 New York 3 NATIONAL LEAGUE St Louis 3 New York 0 Brooklyn 11 Milwaukee 10 Cincinnati 4 Philadelphia Chicago 11 Pittsburgh 10 Details in the Sports Section beginning on page SO Other News on Inside Pages 0 Three Private firm is authorized by the FPC to build in the Hells canyon area of Idaho Story on page 2 Discount Mere Up Federal Reserve directors here approve an increase to 2 per cent from It Page 3 For Fireman Full credit for service before Jifly 1 1953 is favored by city council This and other council news on page 3 Arrests in -let Three workers two armed are questioned by sheriff Page 3 Worry in officers fear the Allied position is weakening while the Reds build up strength Page 8 A 70-Cent Levy Judges indicate that will be the county figure to be approved Monday Page 9 State Cash Lure Hampshire Senate clears sweep-stakes hill that governor will sign Page 12 Set Airport Allocation to states of increase voted by Congress is announced by Secretary Weeks Page 22 Store Sale Rise Summer promotions and air conditioning business are factors with a gain of 22 per cent in Kansas City Page 34 ARMY RESCUE WORKERS examine the still-smoking wreckage or an American Airlines plane which crashed in an emergency attempt to glide onto the military airstrip at Ft Leonard Wood Mo yesterday The thirty persons aboard were killed The heavily-wooded area where the plane fell was only three-quarters of a mile short of the post landing field New York Aug 4 (API The New York office of American Airlines tonight issued the following revised list of crew members and passengers aboard a plane which crashed today at Ft Leonard Wood Mo Crew Members Capt Hugh Barron 7441 East Seventh Tulsa First Officer William Gates 3191 South Florence place Tulsa Stewardess Thelma Ruth Ballard 1304 South College street Tulsa Passengers Kansas Samuel Hobson Eighteenth and Short Galena Kas Mrs Louis Humann South Tenth street Independence Kas Bernard Johnston 300 South Summit El Dorado Kas Missouri Joan Monaco 419 North College street Neosho Mo Stanley Holderby 128 West South street Aurora Mo Mrs Josephine MeReynolds Greenfield Mo Lieut Kurt Richards 1009 Fast Sunshine Springfield Mo Virgil Maupin 926 University' Springfield Mo Elsewhere Mrs Jerry McColley 318 First Southwest street Ardmore Ok John Cross 77 Park avenue New York City Tilson Farough 206 North Connecticut street Royal Oak Mich Herman Schmyer 9405 Warrick Detroit Miss Karen Franks 14 5703 West Brooklyn place Milwaukee Morris Akin 212 Hopkins place Long Meadow Mass Mrs Betty Gallow ay and two children Devern 8 and Robert 5 Lexington Ky Mrs Robert Glover 408 Blountville highway Bristol Tenn Mrs Loa Rohleder 1543 Middlebelt Garden City Mich Donald Carr-Harris 34 Hillcrest avenue Trenton William 6436 North Whipple Chicago James Howe and his son Wayne Howe 1409 East Sixty-eighth street Chicago The Rev George Krock Marvknoll Fathers Marvknoll Warren Lee 606 Monticello drive Fort Worth Tex Robert Zellens 6533 North Green view Chicago Harold Fields 235 Halsey avenue Jericho FLOUR FIRM SOLD INGALLS FOR JOB Texans Are Paying Almost Million for Control of Flour Mills of America Inc Eisenhower Is Expected to Name Robert Cousin to Succeed Talbott By Robert Sanford (A Member of The Staff Ft Leonard Wood Mo Aug 4 The American Airlines Convair which crashed here at 12:23 this afternoon taking the lives of twenty-seven passengers and three crew members was only three-fourths of a mile away from the army base airport and a possible safe emergency landing Civil Aeronautics board officials found upon their arrival here this afternoon The plane crashed into a rocky and heavily wooded hillside inaccessible by road to the rest of the camp With two bulldozers the army cleared a trail to the scene Area Residents Victims Eight Missourians and Kansans were among the victims including Virgil Maupin 48 years old Springfield Mo formerly a resident of Kansas City Kansas Squads of soldiers removed the last of the thirty bodies from the charred wreckage early tonight and a temporary mortuary was set up in a barracks The plane was on a flight from Tulsa Ok to Syracuse Twenty minutes after taking off from Springfield at 11:56 Capt Hugh Barron the pilot radioed that the right engine of the 2-engine craft was afire and that he was approaching the Ft Wood field for an emergency landing Hear the Message The message was heard at the airport at Springfield and at St Louis It is believed the plane HAD BIG ROLE IN '52 DRIVE TO RETAIN THE MANAGEMENT Company Will Continue to Be Based in Kansas City Ferguson Jr Says After Defeat His Campaign Chief Worked Hard for Ticket Long Connected With Aviation He Was Navy Captain in World War II This Is the First of Several Projected Investments Group's Spokesman Adds Br Ben Schifman The Star's Financial Editor By Duke Shoop (The Star's Washington Correspondent Washington Aug 4-David Ingalls of Ohio aviation pioneer and World War I flier is believed to have the inside track for appointment by President Eisenhower as secretary of the air force His appointment is ex- A group of Texas investors will plunk down nearly 2 million dollars at 10 this morning on a transaction that willl SI AIR CADETS DROP OUT place the stock ccntrol ofj V'our Mills of America Denver -Officials InC- in thelf hanQS- of the new air force Individuals in the academy said here today that have widespread! six of the 306 original cadets had submitted resignations and holdings in banks lnSUF-that medical discharge proceed-J comnanies food! mgs had been instituted for companies pected before President I uas over Lebanon Mo forty T- miles southwest of the camp Eisenhower leaves for a When the message was sent At three other cadets A tentative building program for the public library system that would include a new main library two new branch libraries and extensive renovation of the present branches at a cost estimated to 5U million dollars was approved last night by the Board of Education The board recommended that the library program be financed through a bond issue to be submitted along with a bond issue for school construction which school officials said it is expected the board will submit to the voters No date for the vote was set and no site chosen Other Action by Board In other action last night the board approved these plans: An increase in the operating budget for the 1955-1956 school year to $17921000 which is $1121000 more than expenditures in the last school year without an increase in taxes Legislative recommendations and financial contributions for the next two years to permit teachers in the school system to come under the federal social security program by 1957 retroactive to January 1 1955 Revision of a school rehabilitation program to permit an expenditure of $723 500 on the revamping ot nine schools Development of a new civil defense program in co-operation with Thrasher civil defense director for evacuation of school children in the event of an air attack The proposed new main library would have four floors with 34000 square feet on each of four floors There wou 1 also be two mezzanines with a total of 40000 square feet Estimates on the Cost The cost of the building wasi estimated at 3 million dollarsj equipment and stacks were to cost $500000 and the cost of the site has been estimated at 1 million dollars bringing the total for the new building to 44 million The two branch libraries would be at Linwood boulevard and Tracy avenue on a site now owned by the board and at a site in the Country Club Plaza district Negotiations for the latter site are under way The two new branches would be of two floors and would have 16000 square feet on each floor Construction and equipment costs of the two branches was estimated to be $700000 In the renovation program eleven of the present fourteen branches were listed to receive building electrical and equipment improvements Extensive enlargement was indicated 8t Northeast and Southeast high schools The program will include the relocation of three branch libraries the Mt Washington Swinney and Center branches The branch to be opened in September in the Van Horn high school at Truman road and Arlington avenue will serve the Mt Washington area The present Center branch now in crowded quarters at 1600 Linwood will become the nucleus of the branch at Linwood and Tracy The Swinney branch which board members say is equally small and inadequate will become the new Plaza branch An incomplete estimate of the cost of remodeling and modernizing eleven of the present fourteen branches and of providing an area for the servicing of the bookmobile totaled $300000 Commenting on the location of the new public library Richard Sealock librarian said: "In order to be approved the bond issue will have to have a two-thirds majority of the voters This would mean that it must carry in the Northeast sections as well as the Southwest sections of the city "In order to please adequately all the voters it would have to be assumed that the new library will be located in the center of the public transportation system somewhere in the downtown The board approved the hir-( Continued on Fifth Page Les to pa? at Broadway! Broadway Motor Ford Adv TOOL AT STARLIGHT SHOW Audience of 4032 Sees the "Cole Porter Starlight theater drew an audience of 4032 persons for the performance last night of the Cole Porter Festival The afternoon rain brought cooler temperatures but also held down window ticket sales theater officials said Colorado vacation Ingalls a multi-millionaire and active Republican would succeed Harold Talbott also an Ohioan who resigned Monday after a Senate committee questioned the propriety of his partnership in a management engineering firm which listed corporations holding defense contracts Managed Taft Campaign A cousin and presidential campaign manager for the late Senator Robert A Taft of Ohio Ingalls has long heen active as a Republican worker but never became involved in any of the bitterness of political rows After Taft's defeat for the nomination by General Asked to eral Dwight Eisenhower Chi- ago in 1952 Ingalls along with Shorts Ruling processng and oil ranch operations The Texas group and those associated with it now will have enough stock to control the Kansas City-based company the seventh largest milling concern in the country In Fast and Texas The money settlements for the stock which was acquired from Eastern and Texas stockholders will he made this morning in Philadelphia and Fort Worth Here to arrange ihe closing transaction and meeting with local bankers and officials of the company was Ferguson jr Fort Worth one of the principals Ferguson said he and Charles A Sammons Dallas with their associates have purchased "a ML s'd THE PLANE CRASHED SHORT OF THE AIRSTRIP (in the distance) falling into dense underbrush in the circled area Army bulldozers slashed a temporary road to the scene from the airfield while other soldiers fought the forest fire which spread after the (Kansas City Star photographs by Sol Studna and A Crank other pictures on pages 2 and 22) plane had sheared a path into the ravine and had left a trail of burning gasoline A 30-foot section of the right wing 400 feet from the rest of the wreckage was the largest pan of the plane intact Officers at the camp said the bulldozers cleared a trail from the airport for a fire truck in thirty-one minutes Capt Jack Starkweather the American Airlines operations manager at Springfield arrived at the camp airport and was flown by helicopter to take charge of the removal of bodies With Capt Hugh Barron 46 Tulsa the pilot on the crew were William Gates 35 of Tulsa a native of Tyrone Pa who was first officer aboard and Miss Thelma Ruth Ballard 21 Salisbury the stewardess who completed training in May To Talk to Witnesses Investigators arrived by plane COMFORT DEPENDS OS CHIEF GRAND JURY HEARS FIVE Chief of Detectires Is Among Those Who Appear Five witnesses including Maj Eugene Pond chief of detectives appeared yesterday before the Jackson County grand jury at the courthouse The jury is to reconvene at 10 o'clock Wednesday THE WEATHER COOLER SCATTERED SHOWERS Kansas City and Vicinity: Cooler temperatures and scattered showers High today in the 80s Low tonight from 65 to 70 High tomorrow in the 80s (Weathf-r map and detailed observation on page 271 The temperature readings yesterday: Taft and his other close friends and campaign managers did yeoman service for the party 821 8 83 82! 9 83 7910 82 82 ill 81 83il2 midnight 81 85 1 a 80 84! 2 a 79 831 Springfield the highway patrol notified Rolla Mo authorities to be on the lookout for the plane The plane had intermediate stops scheduled for St Ixiuis Chicago Cleveland and Buffalo It had picked up passengers at Joplin Mo and Springfield and was scheduled to land at St Louis at 12:30 (Kansas City time) Witnesses at the camp said the stricken plane flew over Lieber Heights a housing area on the base at an altitude 200 to 500 feet with flames streaming from the right engine The right wing seared by fire was seen to break from the plane before it crashed "There were flames shooting over the right wing and along the Pvt Beverly Streeter a WAC said She was standing in front of the post-office in Lieber Heights when the plane went over "It was banking slightly with the right wing she said "I heard several muffled explosions The plane dipped down behind the trees and I heard a Sees Debris from Plane Lieut A Brewster said he saw debris falling from the plane "The pilot was lined up for the Maj Warren Pauley aviation officer at Ft Leonard Wood said After the wing left the plane the craft plunged into the hill burrowed a 4-foot ditch crashed to the bottom of a 40-foot ravine and burned After the fire which took three hours to bring under control the fuselage was not recognizable Immediately after the crash fifty army fire fighters and twelve members of the base fire department set out on foot through the woods with firefighting equipment One of the first at the scene was Master Sergt William Frank attached to the 82nd Engineer Combat battalion who said he heard the Pulaski County sheriff radio station broadcast news of the crash Frank said he heard the broadcast on his car radio and drove to Forney fipld the base airport From there he went by foot Helpless at the Scene never forget that Frank said "There were bodies strewn about and I felt completely The fire-fighters at first were unable to do more than keep the brush fire from spreading The A year ago yesterday high 103 low 82 Precipitation in 12 hours ending 6:30 06 Highest wind velocity yesterday 12 miles River stage 7 yesterday 3 22 feet fall of 22 of a foot since 7 a yesterday Relative humidity 12:30 67 per cent 6:30 66 per cent Barometer reading 6:30 2997 inches 12:30 a 3004 inches steady THE ALMANAC Sun ri-es 5:22 a mlSun sets 7:25 rises 8:12 sets 7:17 a Moon phase East quarter August JO Morning stars Mercury Venus Jupiter ani Uranus Evening stars Mercury Mars Saturn and Nc-ptune Kansas Partly cloudy west mostly cloudy east through tonight Scattered thundershowers over extreme east today Cooler northwest and north today High today 80s northeast to the 90s southwest Missouri Considerable cloudiness through tonight with scattered thundershowers west and central today and northeast tonight Little change in temperature High today in the 80s west to 90 to 95 east Make Bermuda Detroit Aug 4( Mailmen asked their boss if they could wear Bermuda shorts today "There's nothing we can do about our aching feet but we could sure use a little air on our buckling said James Rademacher president of the Detroit branch of the National association of letter carriers (A L) Rademacher said Postmaster Edward Baker thinks the fine but has to cheek first with Arthur Summerfield postmaster general JET TALKSTO RESUME MONDAY No Frogress Is Indicated After a 2-Hour Meeting Members of the negotiating committees of the Westinghouse aviation division and local No 324 of the United Auto Workers I will meet again at 10 Monday to continue negotiations in an effort to end a strike which began June 12 The sessions adjourned yesterday after slightly more than two hours of negotiations in the presence of a 3-man panel of mediation and conciliation service commissioners at the Federal Office building There was no indication of any progress resulting from the meeting Federal mediators and union and company representatives declined comment on the results of the meeting MAY GET SOME SHOWERS The Area Also Will Continue to Have Cooler Temperatures A continuation of cooler temperatures and scattered shower activity is forecast for the area today but precipitation is expected to be light Norris forecaster said last night The rain is expected to diminish tonight Scattered light showers fell over much of Kansas City early in the afternoon Six hun- dreths of an inch fell at the weather bureau at the Municipal Air Terminal Light showers fell at scattered points in Eastern Kansas and Western Missouri yesterday representing the remnants of a tropical storm which moved into the Gulf coast last week Rain measuring 163 inches at Ponca City fell yesterday in Oklahoma The high temperature today will be in the high 80s with a low tonight between 65 and 70 The sky will remain partly cloudy tomorrow with a top reading in the 80s The high of 85 yesterday was the lowest maximum since June 28 when the hign was 84 degrees The low was 75 The mean of 90 was one degree below normal The record high for that dare is 107 in 1934 and the record low 55 In 1894 Temperature extremes: Missouri 95 at Malden and Brookfield and 64 at Farmington: Kansas 102 at Garden City and 66 at Russell David Ingalls Approximate Scene of Fatal Plane Crash The Convair 240 Wtas on the Way to St Louis When It Crashed at the Base Airport at Ft Leonard ood ire photo Representing a Group of Texas Investors Who Wilt Buy Control of Flour Mills of America Inc Today Ferguson Jr of Fort Worth GFS AS IDEAL The English 3Iarriage Guidance Council Offers Conclusion Ipswich England Aug 4 (Reuters) The Ipswich marriage guidance council said today that American servicemen wed to British girls are proving themselves to be "ideal The council said that since it began operations last March it has not dealt with a single problem concerning a GI bride Ipswich is in the area of several American air force bases ticket Ingalls accompanied Taft throughout the country in Taft's 1952 pre-convention campaign for delegates Often Taft accompanied Ingalls in private plane Ingalls was assistant secretary of the navy for aeronautics under Herbert Hoover In that period Ingalls was a crony of the late Will Rogers humorist Often Rogers would accompany Ingalls on cross-country flights from Washington to California The two friends would break (Continued on Second Page) Sale Oldsmobile new cars Brace Oidemobile Co 27th-Main Adv Fred Powell investigator in charge of the Chicago office of the CAB who is in charge here said separate groups wall investigate the wreckage and one wilj interview witnesses Powell said the investigation might take a week Other officials now at the scene 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