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48 1 a.m. 43 p.m. 54 10 p.m. 46 2 a.m. 42 rmsnn FRIDAY, APRIL 29, 1960 Pages Eight Cents On Guard for 128 Years nn mi UW Lb Lb an A bed irnner 13 om By Crazed Russian Newherg 2nd To Chairman Tex Sees Rosy Future, Eyes 20 of "Market CARACAS.

Venezuela (UPI) A Russian suddenly went berserk Thursday and ex-! ploded a hand grenade aboard i a Venezuelan Airlines DC-3. The plane plummeted to earth near Calabozo, 100 miles southeast of here. Ten persons were killed. Three survived the explosion and crash. i I Other stories and pictures on P.

18 and Back Page BY FRED OLMSTED Fre Press Automotive Editor Chrysler Corp. President Lester L. (Tex) Colbert was promoted to board chairman Thursday and quickly demonstrated that he will retain active control of the company. William C. Xewbcrg, 49.

who has been executive vice president since 1958, was elected president at the board of directors meeting in New York. The board said Colbert is to continue as chief executive! C2 i li HE'S NOT LEAVING. It's just Jimmy Hoffa coming: into court with a suitcase full of "evidence." Court Told Hoffa Was Framed BY JAMES M. HA SWELL Washington Bureau Staff which wants to toss him out and fpt "a fahnlnus fortune omrnno M-hn for, talr a. aiding aiij viic van rv over" the Teamsters.

Judge Joseph R. Jackson heard the union bid to dismiss the monitor's civil suit against riofta. Monitor attorneys called the union arguments "vicious and unprincipled." Judge Jackson, who entered the case Wednesday when F. Dickenson Letts disqualified himself, adjourned until Friday, Jackson has sa'd that if Turn to Page 13, Column 1 1 1 i i 'a -4 tor '-'-M! Ill I SODOM, GOMORRAH SEEN Minister Finds Lost Evil Cities In Dead Sea Bed The survivors were identi-1 fied as the co-pilot, Olivo Parra, and two passengers, Mrs. Mar-1 celina de Flores and Jose Chacin.

The stewardess, Regine Rachinel, survived the crash but died later in a hospital. The survivors said Lavinski rose to his feet while the plane; was in flight and announced: "I'm a space explorer. I want! to experience great emotion." He dashed toward the cockpit, and passengers jumped to their feet to restrain him. PARRA CAME out of the cockpit and pinned Lavinski's arms for a time, but the crazed man broke away, pulled the grenade from his pockets and hurled it, survivors said. A loud explosion followed, and the plane fell to earth.

The plane, belonging to Avion Linea Aeropostal Ven- i ezolana, was flying from Ca-i racas to Puerto Ayacucho. piloted by Capt. Alejandro Medina. THE MAYOR of Calabozo reported that the plane ex ploded as it passed over the city, and many telephone calls were received at City Hall. The first persons on the scene were farmers who were reported to have cried at the.

sight of the bodies of the dead and injured lying about. The airline said Miss Rachi Iroons Halt Uprising In Turkey tuilents Demand i That 'Dictator' Quit I Turkish Discontent Is Suppressed. Page 8. 1 ISTANBUL, Turkey (APi Thousands of tough Turkish troops patrolled Istanbul Thursday night to curb i Korea like demonstrations against the strong-man government of Premier Adnan Men-, deres. I I Inflamed by the example of; youths in Korea, about 10.000 students and others touched off la noisy protest against the! I Menderes regime.

It grew into a riot. ABOl'T .50 persons were in--jured and four, by some accounts, died. Martial law was invoked in Istanbul and also in Ankara, although no disturbances were reported in the capital. The presence of so many troops, some of them battle- hardened veterans of the Korean War, restored an at- mosphere of calm hv nightfall. Shouting slogans of praise for Korean students whose pressure ended a Rhee's regime this week, demonstrators denounced Menderes as a dictator, demanded his ul Atlantic Ireaty Alliance pre- Pared fOT A conference here Monday.

Menderes called otf a flight to Iran, where he had intended to join a CENTO (Central Treaty Organization) meeting Thursday. Sparking the student uprising was a stormy session of Parliament Wednesday night, when powers of a special parliamentary commission were broadened. The commission was set up a week ago to probe the opposi tion People's Republican Party headed bv former premigr; Turn to Page 5, Column 1 AMMAN, Jordan The lost evil cities of Sodom and Gomorrah have been found by American divers on the bottom of the Dead Sea, a Baptist missionary -explorer reported Thursday. Dr. Ralph E.

Baney of Kansas City, head of a four-member expedition, told also of finding extensive underwater remains of biblical civilization that flourished 4,000 years ago. Vol. 129 No. 361 52 IF L. L.

(Tex) Colbert William Newberg Denis Join To OK Bill On Housing em lorm. 1'iospects tor tavor- able Senate action anneared rood Democrats, who passed the bill admittedly lack the strength to override a veto. But, party strategists hope to indicate that the "forces of reaction." as one of them put it, control the Republican Party. The bill would authorize Federal purchases of a billion dollars' worth of mortgages to combat what backers call a "critical shortage of home mortgage credit, a costly up ward spiral of interest rates and a serious decline in home building." PASSAGE followed the rejection of a Republican attempt to add a proviso against racial discrimination in the occupancy of houses. Liberal democrats joined Southerners in opposing it.

If the amendment had passed. Southerners would have joined Republicans to defeat the bill. The bill was supported by Michigan democrats and opposed by Michigan republicans. Rep. Louis C.

Rabaut, a democrat, did not vote but was paired for the bill. Clare E. Hoffman, a republican, was paired for it. They Like Kids (They'd Better SAN LORENZO. Calif.

(UPI) Mr. and Mrs. Michae) J. Costello, who hoped to have a large family, were off to a flying start Thursday. Costello.

26, and his wife, Eugenia, 28, kissed their two-year-old twins goodby early Wednesday and hurried off to a Castro Valley hospital where Mrs. Costello promptly gave birth to triplets. LJiitu I THE COMMUXICA TIOXS Ministry, which identified the beserk Russian as Vjacheslav Lavinski, reported the surviv- 0rs said some of the plane's ooouDants strueled desner-1 lately with Lavinski just before' he pulled the pin from the grenade and threw it against the cabin wall of the twin-j engined plane. 'TWASVT HIM Chase What Chase? BAT CAVE. N.C.

(UPI) Wilburn Harrill, 37, fleeing deputies with a warrant for his arrest, drove a speeding car through Hickory Nut Gorge, across Black Mountain, through the town of Old Fort, up Buck Creek Gap to the Blue Ridge Parkway at Little Switzerland, down Lin-ville Valley, skirted Grandfather Mountain, through a highway patrol roadblock at Linville Falls, turned off a dirt road, fled on foot when his car stalled, swam a quarter of a mile across a lake and was captured by police who tracked him down with a bloodhound early Thursday. Taken to jail, Harrill told Deputy J. C. Helton he remembered nothing about the 73-mile chase. 1 nel was a native of France but: WASHINGTON Attorneys resignation and cried for "lib- New er Tm" became a naturalized citizen in for James R.

Hoffa shouted erty." ASHINGTON The House 1958. The other victims also themselves hoarse Thursday passed a billion-dollar "emer- were identified as Venezuelans, trying to convince a Federal Tl'KKEV is a stanch anti- Sncy housing bill Thursday in Among the scattered plane judge that charges of misuse Communist ally of the United a calculated election-year chal-debris was found a novel en- of funds against the Toamster' States. Like Korea, she has re-; lene to tne Eisenhower ad-titled "La muerte en El Aire' president should be dropped. ceived billions of dollars of ministration. "Death in the Air." They said Hoffa was framed United States aid.

The Democratic measure by the Board of Monitors, The demonstration erupted as faces certain veto in its pres officer, a designation he held) in his 10 years as president, and Colbert showed he meant to continue in the role at a press conference in the Chrys-; ler headquarters after his re-1 turn from the meeting. HE DOMINATED the 45- minute conference, referring to Newberg occasionally for confirmation of facts and figures' he quoted. Colbert faced a battery of television cameras and scores of reporters in the library ofi the Chrysler office building to tell how he and Newberg will divide responsibilities. "Bill will run the dav-to- day operations." he said. "I will be in general charge of the affairs of the corporation." But.

when asked whether he would be more or less active in the day-to-day affairs of the corporation, he said: "I will be very active there. I expect to work harder in the next two years than in the last; 10 and Bill will be more too. We have been through some rough going, some very tough times." COLBERT SAID the new job designations bring a salary in-: crease for Newberg, but none! for himself and are the culmination of a reorganization plan begun in July, 1956. "At that time, we brought in Edgar Row from Chrysler of Canada and Bill Newberg from Dodge," he said. "At this time, we have re-: rebuilt production plants and facilities.

Today, we have an excellent organizational structure. "I think we have the finest executive manpower in i the industry today. Most of our men are in their 40s. "Our labor relations are in the best shape I can remember. "Our financial relationships Turn to race 7, Column 1 Ike Tecs Off WASHINGTON President Eisenhower went to Burning Tree Club in nearby Maryland Thursday afternoon to play golf.

It was the President's second round there this week. On the Chrysler Sales Up By 34 Earnings Down For 1st Quarter Chrysler Corp. Thursday reported 1960 first-quarter sales of 92S million dollars. 34 per cent higher than the 691 million in the same period last year. First-quarter earnings were 10.9 million dollars, equal to $1.25 a share.

This compares with earnings of 15.2 million, equal to $1.75 a share, in the like period of 1959, and a 15.1-million-dollar loss, equal to $1.74 a share, in the 1958 quarter. THE CORPORATION'S directors, meeting in New York, declared a dividend of 25 cents a common share, payable June 14 to record of May 19. Lester L. (Tex) Colbert, board chairman, said passenger car and truck sales in the first three, months of 190 totaled 363,807 units, including Simca cars and trucks. This compares with 233,185 cars and trucks, including Simca units, sold in the Turn to Pajje 6, Column 3 Ejected Pilot Sought on Coast HAMILTON AIR FORCE BASE.

Calif. (UPI) Air Force and Navy units Thursday searched for an Air Force radar observer who was ejected from an F-101 two-place supersonic jet fighter 50 miles off the northern California coast Wednesday night. The pilot said the plane's canopy apparently blew off, carrying the observer with it at about 35.000 feet. Temperatures at that height were about 50 degrees below zero, an Air Force spokesman said. P.

P. I. 20 ii in Names and Faces Real Estate Sports Stock Markets TV-Radio Want Ads Women's Pages World Today 9 27-31 43-49 15 10 37-42 18-21 23 Your Free Press Insurance application blank is on Page 48. His evidence indicated that the cities of the once-fertile plin were engulfed after a levee collapse in an earthquake and lay hidden for centuries until his divers found them in the salt waters. Some of their levee works that held back the waters in ancient times might emerge through evaporation of Dead Sea waters within a few years, he said.

The biblical version says that when two angels sent by the Lord to destroy Sodom were being entertained by Lot, the sinful inhabitants of the city came to Lot's home, demanding to see the angels. The angels then told Lot they would destroy the city because of its wickedness: "F5r we will destroy this place because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord and the Lord has sent us to destroy it." (Genesis 19 13 King James Bible) BANEY IS executive director of the Christian Approach Mission that runs an orphans home at Bethlehem, Jordan. He said his expedition discovered a levee under the Dead Sea 15 feet wide and 8 feet high, running from a southwestern point of the Lisan Peninsula west for two miles. "We followed it until we almost reached the invisible demarcation line between Jordan and Israel as set up by the United Nations in this area of the Dead Sea," Baney naid. The top of the levee is only four feet under water, he said.

The levee was erected to Turn to Page 5, Column 1 Beware of Reds, U.S. Youth Told SOUTH BEND ffl American youth will be a major target of the United States Communist party soon, according to J. Edgar Hoover, FBI director. "The Communist party, believes that if it is to survive it must attract the youth of this nation," Hoover said in an article in the April 30 issue of Ave Maria, national Catholic weekly magazine. I LETTER FROM THE SUNDAY EDITOR 'Rich' Farms Yield $86 a Year Soviet Base et.

Unknown to SAC WASHINGTON (UPI) The United States does not know the location of Russia's intercontinental ballistic mis- sile bases, according to the commander of the Strategic Air Command, which has the job of striking back after any Soviet attack. But Gen. Thomas S. White held out hope that a reconnais- sance satellite, now under de- velopment bv the Air eventually will be able to pin-j point Soviet ICBM launch pads. Jane Wyatt DEAR FREE PRESS READER: Michigan farmers are complaining that many have little or nothing to show for a year's work.

Example: A group which, according to an official report, netted only an average of $86 for a year's toil. Free Press Writer Lodis Cook visited with the farmers many of whom have an investment in land and equipment of over $100,000 to get an explanation for city readers. You'll find his report fascinating when you read it in Sunday's Free Press. TV PREVUE Magazine Sunday continues its visits to the homes of stars with ducting his campaign as he is. He got the answer from the source in an exclusive interview with Nixon.

You'll read the result Sunday in Knight's "The Editor's Notebook." WE'VE HAD TO work hard at the Free Press this week to keep our Sunday reading matter as interesting as two special advertising sections each a brand new approach. You've never in your life seen anything to match the colorful Mother's Day guide designed by the J. L. Hudson Co. On paper as colorful as a rainbow you'll find artistic tricks sure to strike your fancy.

Example: Some illustrations are printed in white ink on colored paper. Just as original in concept is a 16-page guide, "How to Fish Like an Expert," which is presented by the U.S. Rubber Co. in full color in comic-book format. The down-to-earth information on everything from knots to spinning reel control will be appreciated by both novices and experts.

AS USUAL, you'll get the tops in news, sports and picture coverage in Sunday's Free Press. It would be a good buy at a dollar and at 20 cents is a reading bargain you can't afford to miss. WILLIAM J. COUGHLIN Free Press Sunday Editor Lippmnnn on Koroan Turmoil Lois of Col I on Fashion Sporl Vrilers Love vs for Hon I Fans Amusements 24 Ann Landers 20 Astrology 25 Auto-Business 14-15 Billy Graham 52 Bridge 25 Comics Drew Pearson 22 Earl Wilson 50 Editorials 8 Garden 32-36 Movie Guide 51 a call on Jane Wyatt, of "Father Knows Best." It also reveals that Westerns thought dying by some have surged ahead again with the appearance of Bonanza a story of a father and three sons. JOHN S.

KNIGHT, a top reporter as well as editor, decided to find out why Vice President Nixon is con i.

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