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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1947
PRK E TWELVE CENTS
Nationwide Sott Coal Strike Threatened Again
IS'Cent Pay Boost by Lewis
Washington, May 31. (UP)—Wage negotiations between John L. L/ewis and northern mine operators collapsed today, raising the threat of a nationwide coal strike July 1.
The operators reported that I..ewis had rejected a mine owners offer to Increase wages the equivalent of 15 cents an hour and had demanded raises of 35 cents, plus other concessions. Lewis would not  comment.
While there will no doubt be further efforts to avert a mine walk-
€au*t IdeniifT Bodies
Defective Tail Caused Vforst U. S, Plane Ctash
out,    today's    breakdown    clouded the   prospects   for  avoiding  a   na-
legislation now pending in Con- the prospects tor avoiding a na- grese. He said the operators would tional strike when the government comply  with the law and  did  not
know specifically what  the  union
turns the mines back to private operation July 1. Lewis' Mine Workers (AFXi), who do not work without    a    contract,    have    been
wanted.
The   pending   bill   would   permit
working  for  12  months  under  an j the   government  to   obtain   an   80- agreement with the government.      day injunction  against strikes  af-
HICH JI.VKS FOK NUKI.NERS
— The Al Koran Temple little symphony band of Cleveland sup¬ plies its own  unusual bandstand
during    the    colorful    three-mile  i nau   convention.    Harold   Lloyd,
Shriners parade in Atlantic City,  | former    movie    comedian,    was
N. J.   Fifteen thousand .Shriners  } elected   Imperial   Chief   Rabban
took  part during  their 73rd an-  \ during  the   meetings.
BY GLEN MN
Walter Morgan Retires
State Cos Tax Help for Streets May Be Boosted
Bill in LeRisiature Will Increase Fund For ^^ ilke.s-Barre to S:}:},OOI), Give More To All Other Towns in Luzerne County
I     Action has started in the legislature at Harrisburg to continue the
' plan started two years ago by which, for the first time, cities, boroughs
I and  townsnip.s  in   Luzenie  county   received  help  through  division  of
/\t   WflnflniJP   OPOrStiOIV     ''^'''^ gasoUne lax funds, for the upkeep of their roads and streets.   The
'¦'¦>•¦- »     I jjiii lias pas.sed the House and is considered certain of Senate approval.
GeOfQC,   Harris  Upped \    in addition, the measure on the way through at Harrisburg is ex-
! peitcd to increase the money to be divided among the towns. In | Rptiienietit of Walter Morgan,! Wilkes-Barre. for instance, where the amount received for each of mine foreman at No. 18 Colliery, the last two years h^s been about ;„ the budget, from all sources, for Wanamie, and appointment ofi $28,000, it is e.'cpected that the "cw I regular street work. Wilkes-Barre Hiram George to succeed him was' iQtal will be nearer .$33,000, an in-|i,„j the largest allotment ever for Himounccd   yesterday   by   William : crease of about SS.OOO a year. I ^jjis work with addition of a spe-
Kverett    general   manager   of   the      ^ proportionate increase will goicial loan ot $300,000 to expand tho ulen   Alden   Coal  Co.   Mr.   Morgan   ,„   „„   „^j,,,,.   ^,^,^^^j    boroughs   and! work.
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.oncern.  Now  6U.  he  started  wXli  "1^^"'^''   "'^'^O'"'^''   "»^^'   «»   »»   « ,    This  was  considered  good  busl-
Ihe Glen  Alden  at  the  age  of i".'^^'^"' I ne.ss. The city was working under
M»n»»..r   K-vr-r^.t   «..irt   fhi.   ,nri  *-*""'*  """'* ^"^ **''"'* l*'" sccond of a two-ycar contract
Manager   Evereit   said   this   and      t,,;^   ^.j,,   ,,„ntinur   what   is   the,,,.^,    Goeringer    Construction    Co.
state gas tax with jand believed it had a much better
.... .     »- .  . .....J..! i«...... «^cause Luzerne coun-inrjrp   tiian  it  will  be  able  to  Bct
dent  of  Wanamie.   Nrwi>ort  town-   . ... ...  ... .. .... IPncc   man   it   win   ne   aoie   lo  gti
Calls  Lewis  "t'nreasonaWe"
Charles O'Neill, spokesman for northern and western operators representing 75 per cent of the coal Industry, blamed the breakdown on Lewis' "unreasonable demands."
Southern operators, who were,not involved in today's development, will resume conferences with the UMW Tuesday. Inasmuch as they always have offered greater re¬ sistance to UMW demands, how¬ ever, there was little likelihood that they would reach an agreement while the deadlock continued for the balance of the industry.
O'Neill reported that the opera¬ tors had offered to increase the miner.s' straight-time hourly wage to $1.33',", which would provide a gross of $11.35 for an eight-hour day. The minera now earn $11.85 for a nine-hour day. which Includes two hours at overtime  rates.
Lewis demanded $13.05 for an eight-hour day, O'Neill said, which would be equivalent to a straight- time  hourly  rate of  $1.53 H.
"Tl'.i Ofciators icjavitcd the de¬ mands a» being wholly out of line with what is going on in the countrj- and the added cost of coal production." he said. Asked Exemption from Law
O'Neill reported that one of Lewis' demands asked for contract language that would exempt tlic UMW from the restrictions of labor
fecting national health and safety It offered no assurance, however, that an injunction would keep the mines open. The provision said specifically that it could not be construed to compel Individuals to work. An injunction would prevent strike activities, such as picketing, but it would be ineffective if the miners merely stayed away from work as they usually do under their no-contract, no-work policy. Tells LewiV Demands
O'Neill gave this summary of UMW demands in addition to the wage proposal:
An increase in the union wel¬ fare fund assessment from five to 10 cents a ton, inclusion of the federal mine safety code, bargain¬ ing rights for supervisors in line with the existing government con¬ tract, six paid holidays. $100 an¬ nual vacation pay, time-and-a-half pay for Saturdays and double time for Sundays.
The management spokesman said the operators countered by offering a 15-cents-an-hour "pack¬ age" which has settled wage dis¬ putes ;:i iv.ost li-,islc industries this year. He disclosed that the opera¬ tors also offered for the first time to continue the present five-cents- a-ton assessment on coal for the union welfare fund.
Operators also asked that the contract remain in force until April 1, 1949. but Lewis demanded a clause allowing termination on 30 days' notice.
Bainbridge, Md., May 31. (UP) — Government investigators tonight sifted mounting evidence tliat a damaged or defective' tail struc¬ ture sent a four-motored Eastern Air Lines luxury plane into a screaming dive that carried ,53 persons to sudden, horrible death in   a  muddy   Maryland  swamp.
Charred, mangled bodies of the victims in the nation's worst com¬ mercial air disaster were laid out in two long rows in a Navy train¬ ing station cold storage room con¬ verted  into a morgue.
While medical experts and griev¬ ing relatives strove to identify the dead, investigators poked through the twisted, scattered wreckage of the four-motored Douglas DC-4 liner. Two More Die
The plane was the same type as the Cleveland-bound United Air¬ lines craft which plummeted to death at LaGuardia Field, N. Y., shortly after its take-off Thursday evening. The death toll In this crash climbed lo 41 today as two of the eight injured died in the hospital.
The New York and Maryland crashes were successively the worst in the history of VS. commercial aviation. They brought to 180 the number of persons killed in a total of nine air disasiers throughout the world   since   Thursday   night—^the
Worst Disasters Of Last 10 Years
The worst commercial airline disasters   in   the   last   10   years:
MAY 30, 1947—53 killed in East¬ ern  Airlines  DC-4 airliner crash near Port Deposit. Md.
.MAY 29, 1947—41 killed in crash of United Air Lines DDC-4 at Laguardia Field, N. Y.
FEB. 17, 1947—53 killed in a Colombian Avianca DC-4 which crashed near Bogota.
OCT. S, 1946—39 killed in Am¬ erican Overseas Airline crash at Stephenville, Nfld.
MAY IB, 194ft—27 killed In chartered Viking Transport Air Co.  crash  at  Richmond,  Va.
MAKCH 3. 194R—27 killed in American Airlines crash near San Diego. Calif.
Ai;u. 81, 1940—25 killed in Pen¬ sylvania Central Airlines crash al Lovettsville. Va.
Ot-T?. 17, 1937—19 killed in Unit¬ ed Air Lines crash near Salt Lake City. Utah
MAY, 1937—,36 killed in explo¬ sion of Dirigible Hlndenberg at Lakehurst, N. J.
total killed last year in all plana accidents on regularly scheduled rommerciBl airlines in this country. Won't Oround DC-i's
Chairman James M. I.Andis of the civil aernnautics board aaid in Washington that there waa "na obvious connection" between th« New York and Maryland crashes that would justify immediate grounding of DC-4s.
CAB investigators sought to find what caused the Maryland crash who.se death toll equalled the worst in the history of heavier-than-air craft anywhere in the world. Nona aboard lived to tell what happened. All the investigators knew for cer¬ tain was that, one moment th« New York-to-Miami plane wai gliding along smoothly at 6.000 feet through a golden evening sky. Tha next moment, it was a plummeting silver shaft of death.
Landis said one theory waa that a     propeller     snapped     off     and wrecked   the   tail    assembly,    but "this is only a theory so far." Propellers  Not  Found
Myers said the plane's propellers have nol yet been found. Hence, he would not discuss "one way or the other" the theory that a pro¬ peller blade snapped off in flight nnd damaged the tail structure. Myers estimated it wauld take at least a week tn sifr all detaili for a formal CAB iiearing. Mean-
blackest period in peacetime avia¬ tion.
The  94   killed   In   the  Maryland and New York  crashes  alone  fell | while.    CAB    Hearing    Examiner only  three short  of  equalling  the (        (Continued on  Page A-12)
other   changes   will   become   effe<-' f,r,,,^ „j,^ring of t^.ve tomorrow. Mr. f jeorse   a  resi-; ,^g^^'j„„„^, bee.
.¦ihip. is tran.Hferrrd from mine foreman at Bliss Colliery to fore¬ man of No. IS. A yuang man. hc v.as promoted from fire bo.ss to foreman   sevrrnl   months   ago.
Ilarriv  Take<i   Oeorge   Post
Harry Harri.s. Kingston, has been advanced from section foreman to mine foreman at the Bli.ss, taking the job vacated by Gi.-orjrt.
ly. unliko many others in the state does not share its gasoline ta.x revenue. Other counties give most of It to the towns within their boundaries.
Unlike these counties, many of which have practically eliminated county roads. Luzerne county main¬ tains its own road and bridge de¬ partment at a cost of nearly REQUCES TIRE PRICES $300,000 por year. The gas tax money  it   receives   from   the  slalel    Akron,   O.,   May   31.   (UP)-The
in 1948,
In addition, it was felt that with so  many streets in need  it would be far more economical to fix theiii ((Continued on  Page A-13)
IGOODRICH COMPANY
5 Killed,  Many Injured' By Tornado in Oklahoma
Sen. Crowe Says Duff Has Told Operators No Stripping Bill'
Mr, .Morgan, one of GI  „  AIMp"     money   it   receives   iroro   uie   siaiei    Akron    O ho.am»
oldest    officials,    started    at    thel amounts to about $2.^0.000 per .vear.|R_K^. Goodrich J.o._ today_^b^
Wanamie operations as a hoy andj As far as Wilkes-Barre is con- the first Big Four rubber com- Im., rrmaine<l at the one colliery u-erned, the added assistance from P^"y W^'"'°Z^., IJZf Jft^.' Ihroughont his mining career. He tlie state should be another factor t-ion slashing retail list pnces gen- is the father of five children. 'in producing a heavy slash in Pav-|er«lly^lO ^d Tubes" P^*""*" One son. John Morgan, is minei'nK costs in 194fi. ''^%he"^nri("e"cut"is effective June 2 u'f.r"" v. ^""^ Colliery: another i This year, with $100,000 Provided j^f^/J-'^^^f^^yf^^^^^^^";;^^;' WilIl.Tm Morgan, w employed at th«' atomif bomb plant. Oak Fiidge. Tenn.. and the other children are Mis. Tlavid Jones of Plymouth. Mr.s. Edward Keriiti.s, Wanamie. and Mrs. George Morgan, Scranton.
HOLIDAY WEEKEND DEATHS REACH 332
Memorial Day weekend accidcnt- a   deaths soared pajt the 300 mark today, and the total was expected t.i go  much  higher  with  one  day] s;ill to go in the thrcc-day holiday.
Tiic total number of dead was 332.
Auto fatalities reached 120. The nation's two worst airplane crashes In history claimed 94 lives. Thirty- four persoas were drowned and 84 died in miscellaneous accidents.
The nations^ safety council had picdietpd that 275 persons would be injured fatally in traffic accidents alone during the three-day week¬ end.
The fatal accidents Included two collisions between automobiles and trains. A mother and her child were burned to death in their Boise, Ida., home. Two Chicago boys drowned when their motor- boat overturned in a lake.
Charge Strike Was Called for Reds
Washinglon, May 31 <UP> • The House labor commitiee charged tonight tiiat Harold Chriatoffel. former president of a (TO local, called the 76-day strike at the West Allis. Wis., plant of the Allis-Chalmers Co. in 1941 "at the direction of the Communist party and for the purpo.sc of carrying out its pro¬ gram."
"In doing this." It said, "he used over 2.0(X) fraudulent ballots and betrayed his country, his em¬ ployer and his fellow workers."
"The commiltee recommended that the Justice Department take whatever steps "the evidence warrants."
In a report partly suppressed at request of the Justice De¬ partment, the committee said there    is    "conclusive    evidence"
A company spokesman said the reduction would average about 10 per cent, depending on the type of the product. For example, he said, the 6.(X)xl6 Silvertown tire, the company's largest seller, will be   reduced  to  $14.40   from   $16.10.
Newman said co-operation of re¬ tailers in sharing a reduction in profit with the company made the price  cut  possible.
COUPLE, 2 CHILDREN DIE IN HOUSE FIRE
Brookhaven. N. Y., May 31. (UP) - A niotlicr, her two young chil¬ dren and their stepfather were burned to death today wiien fire swept a two-story frame house here.
The victims were Donald Barry, 28, his wife Dorothy, 26, and her two children by a former marriage, Lawrence  Costa,  six   and  Thomas
I Shattuck, Okla., May 31 (UP)— !The Red Cross reported late to- , night that at least five persons had been killed and "many" injured by a tornado that blew away "half" the town of Leedeyi 40 miles south¬ east of here.
The storm was one of two prairie twisters that cut across the Texas Panhandle and northwest Okla¬ homa early tonight, spreading panic among residents of tjie area laid waste by a tornado April 9 that killed 169 persons and injured 980 others.
Rescues in Rain
Bob Edson, in charge of Red Cross relief at Woodward, Okla., where 95 died April 9, reported that five bodies had been found at Leedcy. The search for additional victims was continuing in pouring rain and pitch-black darkness in the  town   of  S74.
Ambulances, doctors and nurses sped to Leedey from neighboring cities, and the Red Cross isuued an emergency call for more.
Edson s<ud no estimate of in¬ jured could be made yet.
Elxtensive property damage waa known to have  resulted.
The Red Cross appealed to the Army at Fort Sill, Okla., to send water purification equipment. The storm put the town's water sys¬ tem out of operation.
Army   blankets,   medicines,   and
I other emergency supplies not used I at Woodward were sped by truck to Leedey  tonight. Business District Hit
Fragmentary reports out of Leedey said the business district and a portion of the community's residential section had  been hit.
Highway patrolment, who had sped earlier in the evening to the Shalluc'K and Gage, Okla., and Higgina, Tex., areas in search for possible victims of a twister in this district, were ordered to Leedey.
A funnel-shaped cloud that form¬ ed southwest of Higgins followed almost the same course of a twister that demolished that town. Glazier, Tex., and half of Woodward, Okla., on  April  9.
Luckily, the windstorm passed south of all the towns — but only after hundreds of persona had leaped into automobiles and fled for their lives. Late tonight, only one person wa\ known to have been injured in the Shattuck area.
CHINA   SEEKS  HALF BILIJON IN I'. S. LOAN
Nanking, China, May 31 (UP) — China has opened negotiations with the United States for a $500,000,000 Export-Import bank loan, authori- tattive sources said today. The foreign office had no comment.
that Christoffel "testified  falsely  icosta.   three.    The   youngest   child
CTiristoffel   denied affiliations    in    hit
under oath Communist testimony.
The report said "Allis-Chalmers was selected by the leaders of the Communist party as a focal point for the 1941 strike because of the important work it was doing for the Navy.'
I was found in the bathtub, where Ihis mother apparently had put him Un a vain attempt to save his life. Ernest Leger. 41. who lived in the oUier part of the house, and his wife, Jacqueline, 25, were awak¬ ened by the cries of their 10-month- old daughter, Denise. All three escaped.
Red Coup Successful;. Yfill Control Hungary
Lasky and Movie Director Due Hen To Visit Miracle of Bells' Scene
Jesse L. Lusky, RKO Radio Pic¬ tures producer and Irving Pichel. noted Hollywood director, have scheduled a visit to Wyoming Val¬ ley this weekend and may be here now although a check at Ihe lead¬ ing hotels la.-il night revealed thai reservatioiLs had not been made.
Lasky and  Pichell will visit  the
N'anticoke-Newport  area  to  faniil-
arize   themselves   with   the   locale
'>f the «tory, 'Miracle of the Bells,"
_ Ahich is being made into a motion
' picture. Most of the picture will be
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filmed on the West Coa.st but it is Mr. Lasky's wi.sh to preserve a.s nearly as possible the atmosphere of the coa! country depicted in the story.
Fred MacMurray and Frank Sinatra already have been cast for the principal male roles and the choice of the feminine lead. Olga Trofki, has been narrowed down to three prospecLs, after interview¬ ing and testing hundreds of candi¬ dates, all unknowns.
An Interesting sidelight to the visit planned by these Hollywood celebrities is a disclosure by I'es:- dents of Glen Lyon that many strangers are visiting the town and especially St. Michael's Cemetery in the hills since the best-selling novel was published b.v Russell Janney. Numerous out-of-state cars have been s<?cn at the cemetery on Sun¬ day afternoons.
ADRIENNE AMES DIES: FORMER MOVIE BEAUTY
New York, May 31 (UP)— Adrienne Ames, 39, former brunette beauty of the movies who had been a radio commentator in leeen years died this afternoon at ner home in Sutton Place.
The announcement of her death was made by Radio Station WHN. for which she had done two inter- view-commenlator program for about six years.
Death was attributed to cancer. She had" worked until two weeks ago.
Miss Ames was married tliree times. Her first husband, father of her child, was Derward Truax, a Texas oil man. Her second husband was .Stephen Ames, wealthy New York broker. She divorced Ames in October 1933 and immediately mar¬ ried Actor Bruce Cabot.
She received a California decree in 1935. ending her marriage to Cabot, who. she charged, was a bachelor type and did not desire matrimony.
1 Vienna, Austria," May 31 (UP)— A coup by the minority Commun- ' ist Party, with Russian support, ¦ to take over the Hungarian gov- j ernment drew to a successful close ' today as Lajos Dinnyes was sworn in as premier to replace Ferenc Nagy, who resigned yesterday from a Swiss refuge.
Reports here and from Budapest told of a wave of arrests. One re¬ liable report to the Austrian g6v- ernment said 24 members of the Hungarian parliament were arrest¬ ed yesterday. Twenty-two of them were said to have been released today. Secretaries Arrested
Ferenc Kapocs, private secretary lo the resigned Nagy, was one un¬ der arrest, a Budapest dispatch said.
Two of the other." arre 'd were secretaries of Gen. Laslo Komaro- my, head of the rural police. They were accused of taking part in a conspiracy with Nagy and others to overthrow the "democratic" government.
An Austrian government spokes¬ man said several members of the Hungarian parliament and a, number of other political refu¬ gees had succeeded In getting over the heavily-guarded border into Austria.
It was understood that these re¬ fugees will not stay In the Soviet zone, but want to get into the west-" ern zones. The Austrian spokesman
did  not  say  whether  his  govern¬ ment  waa  willing   to  grant   them refuge. Same  Oabinet
The new Premier waa non-party defense minister in Nagy's govern¬ ment. The cabinet that took the oath with him was the same as the one that served under Nagy, except for Erno Mihalyfi, minister of information, who temporarily also will serve as foreign minister.
The Communists, who polled about 16 per cent of the vote in the lasl elections, appeared to have things well in hand. The majority Smallholders Party of Nagy was still in the government. It. in fact, designated Dinnyes as premier.
It was obvious, however, that he and all other members of the new cabinet were acceptable to both the Hungarian Communists and the Russians who occupy the country.
Elections will be held within a nvontli, after the wheat harvest, and no authority in Budapest, London or Vienna expected the Smallholders to win another m^i- jorily.
The Marxist bloc—Communist. Social Democrat and Peasant parties -was expected to Install it¬ self firmly in the saddle through the elections. Informed quarters in London expected the new cabinet to start next week disenfranchising hundreds of thousands of Hun¬ gary's 8,000,000 voters.
DUFF SIGNS BUJ- FOR STATE RELIEF
Harrisburg, May 31. (UP)—A bill appropriating $135,000,000 for public assistance in Pennsylvania during the next two years was signed today by Gov. James H. Duff.
Tlie allocation is to cover all direct relief eosLs and blind pen¬ sions, half of old-age assistance and a third of outlays for aid to dependent   children.
Luzerne County Men To Meet Governor; Sen. Wood Seeks Aid For Flood Control
(Special to Sunday Independent)
Harrisburg, May 31- Sen. Mont¬ gomery F. Crowe, R., Stroudsburg dropped a miniature atom bomb in the laps of Charles (Chuck) Rob bins and Harold Flack, Luzerne county legislators, when he said that Gov. James H. Duff has told anthracite strip mine operators there will be np law passed this session of the Legislature requir¬ ing them lo refill excavations after stripping operations.
The Luzerne county legislators are co-sponsors of a hard coal stripping bill, now resting in the commiltee on mines of which Rep. Flack is a member. Without the support of administratic*! leaders, the bill will be left to die a natur¬ al death. This Crowe Misinformed
The Luzerne county legislators feel that the Monroe county sena¬ tor has been misinformed. They will meet wilh Governor Duff to¬ morrow or Tuesday as a result of the statement.
The bill of David Livingstone, 7th legislative district, Luzerne county, compelling judges to seek one-party nomination, is expected to die in tlie commiltee of elec¬ tion and apportionments. Tliere is much opposition to the bill from other sections of the state. Flood Control Aid
Sen. Newell Wood, 20th district. Luzerne county, in company wilh Rep. Robbins, 5lh legislative dis¬ trict, have been attracting atten¬ tion by their frequent visits lo the water power and resources ^ard. The two Luzerne county legislators are trying to work out something to bring relief to municipalities in their   section   of  the   county,   who
are disturbed by the rising costs of  maintenance  of  flood  control.
Senator Wood has button-holed a number of administration lead¬ ers, but was told to wait until the administration bills are out of the way. He is expected this week to talk turkey to the legislative lead¬ ers with the hope they will lend a sjTiipathetic ear to his  pleas.
Both men recently conferred with councilmen from Kingston borough on  this  needed state aid.
TWO KILLED lEN NAVY DC-4 PLANE
Valley Scene
Mcmoridl Da;/ parade .ftoppinii on Wi/oiiiing avenue. Kinfjsloit, to fallow "Pop" Taylor, former "Mayor of Ki»i/ston Corners" to board one of the honor-ears for the journey to the Forty Fort Cemetery.
Girl on River Common mn- mentariln taking her eyes off the miniature ahip that was to be blown-up Memorial Day and then when the blast eame ex- elaiwinf), "Oh, I missed it. Xow I'll have to tvait another year to see it blow-up."
Junior Collepe student relax¬ ing on River Common after com¬ pleting one of his hardest ex¬ ams and taking great pleasure in vatrhing the notes from that course go up in smoke.
Lady asking weary Ashley bus-driver where Ashley Ceme¬ tery is while Ittis is slopped in front of St. Mary's Cemetery. Driver pushing Jiis cap back on his head and taking a firm grip on wheel, replied, "Look lady, ice got three re)neteries out here, Oaklawn, Maplewood. and St. Mary's. A'o Ashley. Which nne  iviU it he?"
Red Bank, N. J., May 31 (UP)—
A small private plane and a four- ! engined Navy transport collided In mid-air .near, here today and the smaller plane »ma.sh?d to earth, killing Ihe two men aboard.
The Navy plane, a military ver¬ sion of the DC-4 which figured in the commericial airline disasters of the past three days, escaped with slight damage to the wing and re¬ turned to its base at Floyd Bennet Field, N. Y.
The two men killed aboard the smaller plane, a Piper Cub. were Francis Cole, 26, pilot and instruct¬ or, of Middletown township, N. J, and Willard Ivins. 29, Rumson, N. J . who was taking flying lessons. in On Transport
There were 10 persons aboard the Navy transport—eight passengers, the   pilot  and   co-pilot.
The  little  plane  plunged   Into a thickly  wooded  section   two  miles (Continued on  Page A-13)
FATHER AND SON DIE WHEN PLANE CRASHES
Bourbon, Mo., May 31, (UP) — Two men, apparently a father and son, were killed tonight, when their converted Army training plane crashed at a pr:vate airport six miles south of here tonight.
The victims were identified by stale highway patrol oBlcials at Bernard von Hoffman. 46. president of the Von Hoffman Distributinf Co.. and Albert von Hoffman, 29.
The accident occurred at a private airstripe on the Bourbon farm belonging to the von Hoff¬ man's.
Police Frown on Picture-Taking From 'Chute, Nab Brooklynite
400 JEWS DEPORTED; REFUGEE SHIP TAKEN
Jerusalem, Palestine, May 31. (UP)—Close to 400 Jewish illegal immigrants were deported to (IVprus today aboard a British transport after they had been seiz¬ ed on the intercepted refugee ship Yehuda Halevy and brought into the port of Haifa.
The refugees shouted, jeered and sang but offered no resistance when they were placed aboard the British ship. A man, woman and child who were sick were hospital¬ ized upon arrival at Haifa. One two-year-old child reportedly died during the voyage and was buried at sea.
New York, May 31. (UP)—Some people will do almost anything and to prove il Leonard d'Attolico para¬ chuted from a private plane into midtown Manhattan today, grind- in away with a movie camera aa he floated down past the big build¬ ings.
D'Attolico, a 26-year-old Brook¬ lynite, said he was just trying to get a new slant on pictures of New   York.
The police didn't like if. They aaid it was a publicity stunt. They locked up d'Attolico on a charge of endangering the public health. Blocks off Target
D'Attolico. whose own health was in the most danger, landed in a backyard on 44th street between 9th and 10th avenues. He was about three blocks from his target, which, police said, was Times Square.
Patrolman Hugh Matthews of the West 47th street station, answer¬ ing agitated alarms, rushed to the yard where d'Attolico landed. The pawichuting photographer was .standing up, looking pleased with himself as he unhitched the har¬ ness of the 'chute. Matthews helped him, the quicker to arrest him
D'Attolico   started   his   airborne
attack on the public health bf hiring a private plane at an air> port at Amityville, L. I, He told the pilot. Air Force veteran Lee Cor- bissano, that he wanted to fly over New York and shoot pictures and later bail out over King's Park on Long Island. Starts According to Plaa
The operation went according to plan in the first phases. Corbisisane dipped and banked the light plane over the tops of the skyscraper! while his passenger ground ftwaji; with the camera.
Coming in over Manhattan from the Hudson River, the pilot looked up to see his passenger standins on the wing.
"I waved him to go back," Cor» bissiano said. "He just didn't pay any attention. So I started for the East River in a hurry, figurinf he would miss the buildings if he bail- ed out over there."
But D'Attolico wasn't waiting. He took a deep breath and jumped. The while silk blossomed and he floated toward the city streets, re¬ cording for posterity for the flrst time what the buildings of New York look like from the outside going down.
D'Attolico was booked for hU flrst public appearance es soon aa he landed—in night court tonlshL