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HERA D. 0 Vol S5-No. 52 DECATUR, ILLINOIS, MONDAY, MARCH 2, 1964. Two' Sections 18 PAGES-7 CENTS LI ILUU nir Liberian Tanker Split In Two By Severe Atlantic Storm Sierra Storm Makes Search Impossible Tahoe Valley, March 1 (AP) A four-engined Paradise Airlines transport carrying a capacity load of 81 passengers and a crew of four disappeared in Canadian Ship Rescues 36; 2 Crewmen Die Halifax, N.S., March 1 (AP) Pounding Atlantic waves broke the Liberian tanker Amphialos in two but 34 of her 36 crewmen were saved by a 4, Sff 111? iv Associated Press Wireptaoto Crewmen Leave Crewmembers of the tanker Amphialos row away in a lifeboat (lower right), from Staff photo by Dick Torgerson Kite-Flying Season Here youngsters took advantage of the nice weather to get their kite in shape. They are David French Accused Two Injured Wisconsin Plane Crash Kills Air Force Pilot Red Assassination Plot Revealed By Viet Chief blinding snow and gusty winds today after it started a landing descent across Lake Tahoe toward this gambling center and winter sports airport.

Hours later, Herman Jones, 32, president of the two-year old Paradise line, said "We don't know what happened. As far as we can trace, the flight was all routine." There was speculation that the four-engine, propeller-driv- en constellation had plunged into Lake Tahoe. The lake is 27 miles long and 1,500 feet deep. Ivan Stracener, investigator for the Civil Aeronautics Board at Oakland, said pilot Henrj Norris radioed the Tahoe Valley Airport at 11:21 a.m. "He reportedly had seen a hole in the overcast and was beginning his approach.

There was no indication of anything wrong. But the weather has been so stinking you couldn't search." It was snowing hard at the time, and winds were gusty. Paradise President Jones issued a statement somewhat differing with this. "The weather at Lake Tahoe was dropping (worsening), moving in and out. Snow showers.

However, at that time there was nothing alarming about the weather. We assume he had the laise in signt." Bad weather prevented anv air search today. Monday weather permitting, four amphibian planes, 16 helicopters and 31 or more planes, as well as ground crews, will search. Paradise President Jones statement included this: "We have no word as to location of the Diane. We have a base camp set up to search the entire Tahoe area when weather allows.

There have been no reports, no sightings, no nothing. "Our last contact with tho lot was at 11:29 a.m. when he said he was starting his final approach of 27 miles. He was on visual conditions to land. Hp never said anything adverse of the flight He was under instrument rules but cancelled them about 11:25 which would indicate everything was running normally." 83 Perish in British Plane Crash in Alps Innsbruck Austria March 1 (AP) A blackened, twisted hean in the snow, the wreckage nf a British airliner was found in an Alpine gully near this winter resort today.

Rescuers reported an B3 aooard had died. Austrian officials said the plane, groping in thick fog to land Saturday, hit a mountain peak, exploded and sliDDed in flames down the slope into the guny. The officials said the Diane was flying about 1,500 feet too low, indicating something was wrong with the altimeter. "Even 100 feet more altitude would have been enough for the plane to clear the mountain tops and escape the disaster," said Dr. Eduard Obrist, deputy security director of Tyrol Province.

The passengers were skiing enthusiasts headed for Innsbruck on vacations. All but three two Australians and an Austrian were Britons. The plane hit Mt. Gamslahner Spitze, then slid down into the gully between that mountain and Mt. Glungez-er, southeast of Innsbruck, the recent scene of the 1964 winter Olympics.

Canadian warship in a hazardous storm- rescue today. The other two crewmen died. Five of those rescued were re-Dorted iniured. The destroyer escort Athat baskan steamed toward Hali fax tonight with the rescued crewmen and the body of one of the dead. The floating stern section of the 630-foot vessel was first spotted by a passing Royal Canadian Air Force patrol plane.

The Athabaskan, then 10 miles away, was directed to the scene by the plane. The pilot gave therse details of the rescue: The Athabaskan first took aboard 16 tanker crewmen from two of the tanker's own lifeboats and also the body of a 17th. The second fatality occurred when one of 19 men huddled along the stern section of the Amphialos either jumped or fell into the oil-covered water as a boat from the Athabaskan approached. Two attempts by the Atha- baskan's boat to take the men off the tanker's stern failed amid 20-foot waves. The Athabaskan's boat had to turn back.

An attempt to float two rub ber rafts to the wreck also fail ed. Then the destroyer escort herself moved in close, fired a line across the stern and this was made fast. The tanker crewmen then pulled a 20-man rubber raft from the Athabas kan along the line and jumped into the raft as it came alongside. They were then pulled to safety to the destroyer escort. The Canadian Navy reported another destroyer escort, the Crescent, was standing by the tanker's stern section awaiting word from the owners whether to sink the stern by gunfire.

Lloyd of London said the tanker was built in Norfolk, in 1949. Lloyd listed the owners as the Nueva Valencia in care of N.J. Goulandris London. The Goulandris' are a wealthy Greek ship-owning family. Fire Causes Female Paul Revere Ride Santa Ana, Calif March 1 (AP A fire chief's wife made a Paul Revere like ride early today to arouse off-duty firemen as a blaze destroyed a struck General Telephone Co.

business office. A company official estimated damage at more than 000. The fire, in nearby West-- minister, a town of about 000 between Santa Ana and Long Beach, temporarily cut off service to about 20,000 telephones. Fire Chief Mel Ingram, notified of the blaze at 3:40 a.m., asked his wife Frances, 43, to summon about 50 off- duty firemen by phone. "By that time," he said, "the fire had already destroyed some of the lines to homes.

So my wife hopped in the car and made a female Paul Revere ride through the sleep ing city." The firemen quelled the flames in two hours. Chief Ingram said his arson squad is "working on the possibility of vandalism" but said he had no evidence the fire was deliberately set. Superior, Wis. March 1 (AP) An Air Force jet plane crashed into a house today, killing the pilot and seriously injuring a woman who was alone in her home. Another Air Force man parachuted safely from the plane.

Killed was Capt. Kenneth C. Hite, 33, who lived with his wife and three children at the Duluth, Air Force base. Spokesmen at the Duluth base said Hite ejected from the F106B fighter plane but his parachute apparently did not open. His passenger, the deputy commander of the Duluth base, ejected and suffered only minor injuries.

A Douglas County sheriff's department spokesman said the plane stuck the home of Mrs. Julieann Nordlund, 45, outside Middle River, a little commu Storm-Split Ship the sinking stern section of their ship. The Amphialos split in two in a wild Atlantic nity 17 miles south of here in northern Wisconsin. The house was destroyed in the ensuing fire. Mrs.

Nordlund was in serious condition in a Superior hospital. She was in the basement of her home when the plane hit, about 5:15 p.m. GLENN'S CONDITION IS SATISFACTORY Columbus, Ohio, March 1 (AP) Lt. Col. John H.

Glenn recovering from a mild concussion suffered in a bathroom fall last week, was reported in satisfactory condition today. Glenn, bidding for the Democratic senatorial nomination, was forced to postpone his retirement from the Marine Corps for a month Saturday. He had been a "master rigger" a top rating issued by the Federal Aviation Agency which carries authorization to assemble parachute compo nents. Judge, pilot David Monroe and Robert McDonald, a hobby ist jumper from Vermontvule, all agreed that Welsh's rig lacked a pocket for his rip- cord handle, called a "D-ring Monroe and Judge own the Cessna 172 from which Welsh and McDonald jumped. "He was sitting near the doorway," said Judge, "we were about 3,000 feet, high enough for his jump.

"He got onto the wheel and when he let go he yelled He was always yelling like that always clowning. "He "went into a flat spin to his right," said Judge. "I watched him all the way until I saw him bounce." storm 220 miles off Halifax. All but two crewmen were saved. Sen.

Russell Says U.S. Has 11 Super Jets (c) 1964 New York Times Washington, March 1 The United States has devel oped "eleven or twelve" of the phenomenal new A-ll jet fight er planes and these have suc cessfully passed many difficult tests. Sen. Richard B. Russell, chairman of the Senate armed services committee, gave this additional information about the 2,000 mile an hour aircraft which was a secret for five years until President John son broke the secret at his news conference Saturday.

Senator Russell said that while tests of the experimental planes were continuing the pro totype was nearly ready for for mal acceptance by the Air Force as a warplane. i The commercial applications of the A-ll long-range intercep tor are expected to develop from the metalurgical and engineering "break throughs" rather than the conversion of the aircraft or even of its de sign, officials stressed. In addition to being capable of better than mach 3 speed in sustained tngnt tnat is. faster than three times the speed of sound. 660 miles an hour at flight altitudes, the newly unveiled A-ll interceptor is credited with cruising heights of greater than 70,000 feet.

Its range is measured "thousands of miles." President Johnson pointed out Saturday that the performance of the long, rocket shaped A-11 interceptor, apparently powered by two Pratt Whitney en gines, "far exceeds that of any other aircraft in the world to day." AFRICANS SEEK TO CURB SHIPPING TO S. AFRICA (c) 1964 New York Times Lagos, Nigeria, March 1 The foreign ministers of the Organization of African Unity called on all member nations today to bar foreign ships and plans serving the Republic of I South Africa. Polen, 6, and his 9-year-old sister, Paula, of 1656 E. Main St. week before a scheduled trip Khanh was to make to Tay Ninh Khanh commented: "I think maybe the ambassador had not been planning to go on that trip, but when I told him' about the assassination threat, he in sisted on going.

'We are both in this he told me. Khanh seized power in a bloodless coup Jan. 30, ousting key generals of the previous junta. He has jailed three of ithem on charges of acting as agents for France in a plot to neutralize South Viet Nam. Last Thursday he told associ ates that French officials had given a terrorist about $1,300 to kill him.

No jevidence has been made publie to support the charge and" French officials in Paris called it "too ridiculous to be denied. Fair, Mild DECATUR AND VICINITY: Generally fair and continued mild Monday. High 52-60. Increasing cloudiness and mild Monday night. Low 35-42.

Considerable cloudiness and cooler Tuesday with chance of showers. SUNDAY TEMPERATURES 7 a.m. 38 7 p.m. 42 Noon 53 11p.m. 42 High 59 Low 35 Precipitation: None Today sunrise 6:28, set 5:49 Additional weather on page 6 Inside Today Ruby's insanity plea gets public sympathy Page 2 Ex-cigarette smokers need no big cash outlay to try pipes Page 3 Negro voting rights slim in Deep South Page 5 Apollo spacecraft put on strict design diet Page 6 New tax law gets bulk of revenue from middle class Page 8 Television-radio Page 12 March, the month noted for its windiness, arrived yesterday and these two Decatur Pakistan Warns India of Red China Invasion (c) 1964 New York Times Karachi, Pakistan, March 1 President Mohammad Ayub Khan of Pakistan spoke tonight of the possibility of a Chinese invasion of India.

He called on India to be prepared to meet such a threat by settling her dispute with Pakistan over the state of Jammu and Kashmir e. His statement of the possibility of a Communist Chinese attack represented a major change from Pakistan's previous view of the critical confrontation of Communist China and India along their frontiers high in the Hamalaya mountains. Pakistan's position has been that there was absolutely no possibility of a new out break of Sino-Indian warfare, unless India provoked it by an attack on Chinese positions. Ruby Will Take Stand (c) 1964 New York Times Dallas, March 1 Lawyers for Jack L. Ruby have decided to call him to the witness stand in his trial for the shooting of Lee H.

Oswald. Defendants who plead insanity rarely take the witness' stand, invoking their constitutional right to remain mute. But in this case Ruby's lawyers say that his derangement is episodic and that between spells of mental blackout Ruby is cap able of normal thought and ac tion. Appearing as a witness would expose Ruby to cross examination by District Attorney Hen ry Wade, a "tough" prosecu tor. But the defense is aware that Ruby's case would be immeasurably strengthened if hec toring by the prosecution triggered Ruby into a spell of aberrant conduct in front of the jurors.

Two more jurors must be found before the trial starts. 'Fun Jump' Fall Fatal To Expert Parachutist Tam Ky, South Viet Nam March 1, (AP) "The Communists and colonialists have offered $4 million for the destruction of. my government," Maj. Gen. Nguyen Khanh, South Viet Nam's premier, told reporters here today-.

"There will be no coups, but they will continue to try to assassinate me. The people want my death to bring about neutralization of Viet Nam," he added. Khanh said he would not identify the nationanty ot tne "colonialists," but left no doubt he meant France. "As you have seen, we have taken certain measures in Sai gon to improve the security of the American community and our own. If the French do not understand these things, other measures may be necessary." Khanh was asked if his government planned to arrest any of the alleged plotters.

"I can not say yet," he replied. "You understand we want to be able to expose and get the whole network, not just one or two of them." Khanh said he told U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot" Lodge of the assassination danger last FLIER SAVED BY CUBANS BACK IN U.S. Hollywood, Fla. March 1 (AP) A Syracuse, N.

salesman who had to ditch his plane in the Caribbean two weeks ago and had been in Cuba ever since, returned to the United States today and said he was "treated swell all the way." His Cuban doctor, Prime Minister Fidel Castro's personal physician, even sent a box of the finest Cuban cigars as a gift to Gov. Nelson A. Rocke feller. The salesman, Trevor Burns, 43, spent 28 hours in the water dodging sharks most of the time, he said. He was rescued by the Cuban navy.

Lansing, March 1 (AP) An expert parachutist fell 3,000 feet to his death today, groping desperately all the way down for the handle of his rip-cord, which trailed uselessly behind him. A playful, mock scream was the last sound his flying buddies heard from him. The scream itself may have been the fatal set. "He kept reaching back, trying to get hold of his cord," said flyer Frank Judge, who watched the death dive of Richard Welsh of Lansing, an experienced chutist who once earned his living skydiving. But today's was a "fun jump" flight by members of the Para-hawks, a club to which Welsh belonged.

Welsh, 33, father of two preschool age boys, was dead when found in the backyard of a Delhi Township residence..