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SUNDAY INDEPENDENT
The Weather
Today—Cloudy, Wmram. Monday—Slower*, Wsril
43RD YEAR, NO. i7 — 48 PAGES
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WILKES-BARRE, PA., SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1949
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Miners' Pension Sttilces Spreading to This Area
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49er Covered Viagon forced to Use Aerial Route
The 4Ber Covered Wagon that  e«,rried  the theme of the current Parada of Progrea* BSxikosition
lr««n Waahington to Wll)t«i-Barp» had to revert    from typ« and taka to tha aerial rout* yeaterday
t* oomplete Ha Journey.
I Whan Al Bcnrman and Kan Rica, covered wagan driver*,  reached tha Klngaton Armory^-alte of
^ tba   ai^KXitlon—they   found   a   war-time   arected steal  wire   fenca  blo<^ng  the  way  to   tha   main
emranoa to the axpoaitlon.
Parade of ProgreM ataff held a hurried eoniultatlon and decided that a modern touch would havVHo mar the hlitorlc trip of tha wagon. Loren Oatrander of Oatrandcr Structural and Ornamental Iron Worka tn Klngaton Immediately dlipatched a gigantic crane to the scene and without even a huff or a puff gently lifted tha prairie achooner over the fence.
Bowman and Ric* wf Invited to ride in the wagon during the ahort flight, but they turned iown th* offer on tite grounds that "49er« didn't   do flyln' and we can't get out of role."
Ship Fire Death Toll Reaches 123; 705 Hurt
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Partial Shutdown Feared At Operations Tomorrow
Reports in mining circles last night indicated a shut¬ down of at lea£t some anthracite (iterations tomorrow as miners' resentment rose a^fainst the siLspension of pension, disability and death benefit payments by ths Anthradts Health and Welfare f^ind.
It was also expected that workers at other operations would follow, with probable indefinite suspenaion, affecting railroads, homes and factories, until the pension picturs had
cleared. {hard coal region waa feared.
Tha   region'*   78,000    hard    ooal'    One colllery of the Hazleton area, workers had no ofBcial word from the    Leddo-Hlghland    Coal    Com-
$6M0/HH) Blaze on Noronic Tied to Pier at Toronto la Blamed on Careless Smoking; No Crew Members Lose Lives
TORONTO.—A naah Are destroyed the tourUt-jammed Great Lakes rtiimni Norontc at her dock hara early yesterday. At least 123 peraona, auwt of them United Statea tourists, were known to be dead.
Offlclala at improvlsad morgues had received IU bodies. Divers I reported they bad found alght more bodies Jammed agalnat the celling oi a watar-loggcd  cabin.
Tha kumber af addltionid Ati or missing wa* not known.
Diving «r«w* planned to ehaek M other cabin* tonight for any mora parsons who might have been tha high death total.   The passen
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trapped. K. R. Mar^all, president of Caiwda Steamahip Linea, owner nf the ill-fated veaael, aaid ha did not bollav* ttia flnal death total would ^ mora than  IU.
A large number of the US par- 3n* aboard w«r* killed, daapite ttie faot the dock wa* ao nearby, be- -auee they wore trapped on lowar desk* from whtoh there were few exit*,   rescuer* aaid.
Man, woman and children, screaming with tarror, burned to death In the corridor* and on the deck* of the ship. Other* were tramipled to death in an hy«t<>rlcal mob fight. Soma suffocated In their aabln* a* they alapL Several drowned when they leaped over¬ board. 108 Injared
Hoapital* and flrst aid workar* reported that 106 parson* war* bi- jurad. Moat of them suffered *bock lutd altKht burn*. Th* Red Crosa «ald that 364 paasanger* definitely were known to hava survlyed.
Marshall aaid all 170 erew mem¬ bera wara saf*. Moat of them were aahora on. leave, he said, leav¬ ing only a skeleton crew on duty. Tho** who were aboard wer* fa¬ miliar with all avenue* of escape and had undergone flre drill*.
Marshall said the flre started In a stateroom oh C Dack. the highest deck on the ship. He believed one of &e passengers had left either a lighted oigar or a cigaret In a cabin, walked out and forgotten about It.
The disaster was not caused by any neKliKence of crew members, he aa*erted, and the ship waa 'Swell equipped with every modem flre- flghting device."
Surviving passengers and craw jnombers engaged in a bitter argu¬ ment over who was to blam*  for
gera aaid crew member* did little to help them. The crew membar* said a panic was caused by drun¬ ken passenger* who had been mer¬ rymaking In th* ahip'i bar until only a few minutea before the fire broke out.
Shipping Iln* official* aaid they believed the flre waa started by a carelessly discarded rigaret Dam- aga to th* ahlp was estimated at $6,000,000. More Bodie* Sought
More bodiea were being sought by firemen pumping out the hull of the vessel. It took only 15 min¬ utea for the flame* to cover the 390-foot,   6,000-ton   vessel.
Sh* had aalled Wednesday from Detroit, atopped at Cleveland and touched at aeveral Canadian cltiea bcfor* ahe docked here with 61S paaaangers and a crew of 170. Some had gone to Toronto hotel* for the night but the majority were still aboard when th* dread cry, "fire," rang out
Canadian officials said It was the worst maritime disaster In the na¬ tlon'a peacetime hlatory. The worst such tragedy occurred June 15, 1904, when the steamship General Slocum burned In New York Har
AI TREASON IAL
Hungarian Defendants Accuse Allied Chiefs Of Anti-Soviet Acts
BUDAPEST. Hungary.—Winaton Churchill waa named in Hungary** maa* treaaon and aspionag* trials yesterday as on* of th* top plot¬ ter* among Britiah, Americans a^: Yugoslavs who schemed to seize the Balkans.
Britain's war-time prim* minis¬ ter was accused by L^azar Brankov, third defendant in the trials. The former counsellor of the Yugoslav legation in Moscow admitted most of the charge* against him.
Brankov testified that Anglo- American* promised military sup¬ port to Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia if h* would turn oapitallst and fight against the Soviet Union as part of a plan by the West and the Vatican to dominat* «a*t«m E^irope. Two Guilty Plea*
Two oth*r defendant* have pleaded guilty. They ara Laaslo Rajk, former Hungarian miniatar of foreign affairs, and former Lt Gen. Georgy Palffy, once th* high¬ est ranking officer In the Hungar¬ ian army, who said ha  offered 10
International officer* of tha United Mln* Workers on a sympathy wcUkout but thar* wer* definite signs of unreat in aJl local mining town*.
Michael J. Koalk, pr«ai<l*nt of District 1, «0inipl*taly denied tee raport*. Ne Word, Koaik ¦*«•
"I don't know anything about it," Ko*ik oommented yeaterday. "I certainly hav* not r*e«ly*d any¬ thing official."
Word from th* bltumlnou* reg- lon indk^tad that hard ooal work- eni would Join th* walkout in sym¬ pathy imles* John L. L>*wla, h*ad of th* international union, issued a dir*ct order calling upon his men to' remain at their poat*.
Th* district president cmphastaad tliat ther* ar* 40,000 min* work*r* under hi* Juriadiction, jrat ha* heard nothing about an impending atrlk*. H* Mamcd n*wspaper* for agit- tatlng th* present unrest among th* rank and fil*.
*? havan't heard anything about any group of United Min* Workera planning to remain away from work," Kosik atresaad. "Anything can happen in a situation lik* thi*, of course, but let'* wait until at least Monday and aee."
Kosik explained that yesterday's stories in th* newspapers might oieate a cartain amount of roaent- ment among the local UMWA mem¬ bership but that nobody was agi¬ tating a lArike, to his knowledge.
"^ou reed the paper*. You know what is going on," h* told a re¬ porter. "Everybody connected with th* Industry i* under Mansion bjit nobody in official position has men¬ tioned anything about a ctrik*."
Anything is possible during a ait¬ uation Mk* thla, but, oflfl«iiJ!y, there wlll be no strlk*.
Th* July 7 agreement betwaan th* UMWA and tha operators pro¬ vided that no atrike would be called except for violations of the old contract. Bituminous opera^ tors have cut off royalty payments to the fund but these are still be¬ ing paid at the rate of 20 cents per ten by producers of anthracite. Will Be Spontaneous
Informed sources aaid they ax¬ pected th* walkout here to be spon¬ taneous, exactly th* way other "holiday*" began har* In th* past.
A general work stoppag* in the
pany's No. 7 operation, was already idle.    Although scheduled to oper¬ ate  yesterday,  th*  m*n  fall*d  to report. Breonan Beport* Vnraet
Martin   F.   Brannan,   provl*tonal
preildent of Dlstrlot T,  ait Haal*-
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ions Of Workers Involved
steel, Auto, Coal, Rubber,. Rail Industries Among Affected
By UNITED PRESS
Th* nation is tfareatenad by on« of tha largest Induatrial shutdown* in history.
John L> Lewis' «oa! minera gmrc dafinlta siems of a g«n*ral ooal walkout tomorrow.
The CIO stealworkar* w*r* raady to strlk* at midnight nntt Batw^- day.
A key raUroad waHrout was tn progree*. A Mg rubib*r flM* waa shut down. N««otl«tloaa In tba Ford Motor CSotnpansr-lAiltad A«to Worker* disput* war* at a orMlaal stag*.
The big ooal and staal strlka* would affect 1,400,000 workant. An estimated 87,000 employees already were idled in labor dlsimta*.
Pension   and   welfar*   demands pushed aside wage* in most ol tbe controversies. Lewi* I* SUent
John L. L*wia kept a Mony sUence, but miner* wer* goteg ahead with preparationa for a gen¬ eral strike.
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Exeter Dedicates New $95,000 Memorial Stadium
Ckorg* Maffai, pr*rtd*nt of Kx- •t*r Borough School Board, all- man** a aolorful aaraanony marking th* dodioatlon of th* n*rw Ex*t*r High School H*iBorlal Athletic Stadium yaatarday aftamooai by placing a wreath at th* foot of th* tribute as ss«n In tb* piotur* abov*.
Miaaas Anna Marl* Kashuba, right, and Joan Tockett, menibers of Ute aanlor class, unveiled the marker before a crowd of over >,!i00 fans and residents, who turn¬ ed out for th* program held prior to thc opening grid gam* of the season.
Recently oo(nid*ted, th* stadium was dedicated by tbe ICxeter School Board to the memory at all service¬ men who did th«tr paat tn aH wars
of our nation and to Kxeter stu¬ dents. In the hope that they may uae It to prepare themselves to follow thia  Ideal.
The pre-game program was high¬ lighted with th* presentation of a huge American flag by Comman¬ der Mackin Space of Adam Kal- monovicz American Legion Post No. 833 to CJeorge Maffei, president of the achool board, and Jack Walsh,  vice-president
Remarks wer* made by J. B. C^lampbell, *upervising principal; Peter Berkant, treasurer, board of education; Thomaa McNeil, prin¬ cipal, high school; F. J. Socash, director of athletics; Ben Aoaelml, burgess.
EL S. Teter, Lusem* County su¬
perintendent of schools, was the prlneitial speaker on th* program. He eongratulated the borough rea¬ ident* and educators on their thoughtfulness fai dedicating the stadium a* a guid* for th* young peopi* of today.
Located on Memorial street, the new fleld with dlmenalona of S0(ix780 feet, will hav* cost about .$95,000 when completed. Flood light* for night contests ara now being installed at a cost of about 129,000.
This year marks thc flrst Hm* In many years that Hixeter has had its own athletic field. Previously, football games wer* playrd at West Pittston and Bone's Stadium in Pittston.
Dying Drivwr Takea Blame
bor's  Hellgate,   sending  1,021   per- battalions  In  an  overnight  putsch sons to fiery deaths.   A total of 134'to  overthrow Hungary's Commun-
persons died when the Morro C&b tie burned off Asbury Park, N. J., In 1934. Many Parties Aboard
The fire broke out only a few minutes after th? ship's bar doors had been closed on a group of merrymakers. They had been drinking heavily, several passen¬ gers said, and continued their partying in small groups in cabins.
A. company  offlcial  said  that  it was believed, but not certain, that a discarded  cigaret  waa  responsi- (Continued on Page A-10)
ist regime,
Brankov pleaded partly guilty as he told the court a plot to realign th*  Balkans  was  Initiated  among
others by Churchill and his son, Randolph, who was attached to Tito's staff during the war. He said the plot began  In 1943 when
Noronic Survivors Tell Stories Of Both Heroism and Cowardice
TORONTO — Survlvoni ef th* Noronic dlsastsr told last night of beroe* and heroines who fought on the ahlp'a bladng decks to aave others. And they told dark stories of cowards who obeyed th* frantic law of "every man for himself."
Ben Kosman, a Cleveland busi¬ nessman waa one of the heroea. He
around and many w*** iMcked to th* floor.
"Ther* was so much panic I dont know how the** p*ople got **gr*- gated to flnd a way to saf*ty. I slid down a rope." Ptaiae* Flronen
Q. B. Metcal of (3olumbu*, Ohio, praised th* work •< flramea and polioem*n.
"It   was   terribl*,   watching   the
stayed  on th« burning ship  for a
full hour, helping other passengers
to safety, before he was driven offiPeopl*  J"n\P  'rom  the top  deck,"
by the flames. |Metcal said.    'Some of the people
aaiu  LUC  WIUI.  "<=B=j.  ."  *"•»  "..«..     „        ,. .     .,     who  jumpcd   landed  on   the  dock
the Allies were helping "Hto flght „"*v,"t   ,'htJ^"v^*JIi«^w       ^'"'far  below.    Others  landed  in  th* the Ormans. . l*'** ^" nightgown blazing. j^.j,,.   The polic* and firemen did
Mentiona Name* I    "She   collapsed,    crying   In    my]a  marvelous   Job,   using  boaU   to
He   recited   a  list  of  names   of,arms," Kosman said. "I smotherad rescue the people who leaped Into British   and   American   offlcers   heithe flames  and half-dragged, half-]the water." said  took  part In  the plotting, in- PuHed   her  to  safety." |    Mrs. Mat J. Hackman of <>iving-
BBDFORD—Two driver* wer* deared ot rcsponatbBlty yester¬ day in a thr*e-v*hicl* *raah cn th* Pennaylvania Turnplk* b*- caua* a dying truck driver Uved long *aiough to tak* th* blame himself.
CSiarles Downs, S3, Piercetown, Ind., told polio* h* f*ll asleep at the wheal of his truck, caus¬ ing a amashup at the caatern entrance to ths Sideling Hill Tunnel. The orash pinned Downs in the wreckage of hla truck and he died before be eould be renaoved.
All Soft-Coal Miners Expected Out by Tuesday
PnTSBURGH. — A natlonvridefund payments and charged that walkout of 426,000 ooal miner* was ithe operators "seemingly get a tet building up yesterday. of   Joy   out   of   the   aufferingj   of
Full force of th* walkout la •x- tbe  minera."
pected to hit Monday and Tuesday In a dispute over the United Mine Worker*' Welfare and Retirement Fund.
The "kick-off' came in Wyoming and Utah on Friday when 8,000 UMWA member* left their Jo4>e.
V. g. Steel Mine Wont Woifa
John Ozanich. president of Ihe local at th* U. S. St*el'a Robena mine, near Uniontown, has been a good barometer In the past. Today he announced:'Tamnot going back to work Mond6.y. No welfar* pay-
&a)itf«d    in   III*   wr*ok Mn. John Qasay aund John Oaaey )r. Both su<r*r*d out* and shook.
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Kosman aaid he fought his way ton.   Ky.,   told   of  the  terror   and back   to  help  others  and   rescued! P*"'" »"<! of seeing flaming bodies
Atlantic Pact Powers Map Program Of Common Defense Against Russia
WASHINGTON — Th* Atlantic i The defense committee, to be; representative on the military corn- Pa t powers yesterday created a I headed In IU flrjst year by U. S. mittee and th* thr*«-ivyw»r .ih military  high   command  with  per- Dpfcnse   Secretary  Louis   Johnson,! ,,, "*   t''"«-PO*'«'-   ""b-
manent  headquarters  in  Washing-[will hoid ita first meeting here on 1 *^°"""'"e«-
plunging Into the water.
Emil    Dahlke,   of   Hazel   Park,
Mich.,   satd   he    thought    at    first
people were Joking when they woke
him up and said the ship was afire.
__ 'T was asleep In my cabin with
"my   Trlends "wiio ""^   '*^'"   when   someone   atarted
two more hysterical pasaengers be¬ fora he was blocked by flamea on hla fourth attempt to reboard the cruiser. And then terror seized him.
"After   It  was  over,   I  got  hys¬ terical myself," he said.  "T started acreaming    for were  in  our party."
Kosman darted through th* cor¬ ridors of St. Michael's Hospital screaming   "Katz,   Llmmoli,   Merz-
TUCKER DEALERS HOPE TO REORGANIZE, BUILD
CaHCAiQO.—Tb* Tu«k*r Torpedo may yet become tbe "car of to¬ morrow," but this time without the guidance of Preston Tucker, found¬ er of th* rear-engln* automobile firm.
A group of distributors and deal¬ ers said they hope to negofclata a 120,000,000 stock issue and obtain a grant from the Reconstruction Finance CJorporatlon to put the giant plant  back  In  operation.
Thicker holda a 10-year leas* on th* »170,000,000 plant bere. Trua- teea of the Tucker Corp. haw asked th* federal government to take over the malntananc* of the plant because the estate cannot afford the $37,000 to |56,000-a-month upkeep billa.
First  poaitive action  In  th*  big'menta, no work." Ozanloh heads a coal fielda waa taken yesterday In i local of 2,800 men. He said h* wlH Cambria county, where three local* I call a meeting of th* local to see voted  not  to  work   again  until  a how the men stand, new   contract   1*   signed   or   u^tUl payment  ef  welfar*  fund*   la  ro- sumed.
Meat WUI Stay Awi^
Other locals hav* *cheduled meet¬ ing* for th* weekend. They ar* ex¬ pected to take similar actjon. One big local near Joh;natown met, took
Jolm L. Lewis, chief of the UMW, has issued no instructions to his men, according to all th* informa¬ tion available in th* eoal fields. The feeling Is, however, that th* men need no word from Lewi*— tb* walkout will be spontaneous.
District  leaders,  generally,  wer*
no   formal   action   but   the' men|"°*   t?!"^'"^   '""'^^   except   to   say
agreed    among    themselves would not work tomorrow.
they
the miners are angry because aome
coal companies hav* shut off pay-
„,   „ ^, ^    ! menta to tbe welfare fund, causing
Similar    action    was    expected gu»penslon of benefits to minera.
around Uniontown,  where the big!    tevris  announced   auspenalon   of
steel companies mine the coal for^gif^re   fiu,j   paymenta   yesterday
their mills. j because receipts had fallen off and
Adolph   Pacifico,    district   presi-j only $14,000,000 remaina.   While the
dent of the 12,000 miners in Ob'o'welfare fund payments aeem to be
and the Weat Virginia panhandle, the   Immediate    issue,    the   main
•aid: problem is working out a new eon-
"Ohlo   Valley  minera  will  leave tract to replace the on* which «»•
the coi,l fields tomorrow—that's my plred last June.
opinion." {    Lewis  wants  eoal  eompani**  to
He said his 'opinion" was based: increeue  payments   fr<Mn  20  scuta
on   talks   with   local   union   iieads.ja ton to 40 cents.   He alao destre*
He reported "growing resentment";*  shorter  work  week  for  miner*
against  the  suspension  of welfare I without   a   cut   tn   pay.
The  council's  announcement foi- ger.   I've   Just   got   to   find   Benny.
He'a my best  friend." Girl I* Heroine
Miaa Sylvia Carpenter of Detroit,
pounding on the walla and door There bad been many drinking parties during tbe night and I thought it was a practical joke. Then I heard the awful word 'fire' ringing down the alleyways. It sent a chill through me.
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ton   to   plan   and   organize   their' Oct.   5.    Thereafter,   It   will   meet
common defense against the threat j once  a year unless an  emergency'' lowed    a   strongly-worded    Senate
of Russian aggression. ' session  becomes  necessary  in  the committee report urging quick pas-
At  a   short  and   secret  meeting;interim. I .„. „,  m    «, .unTn/iuT
teX'artmenu'l'^udTorilXr"^^     '^^ d'f-"-e —'ttee,  in  turn.lto^A.^m'fr^e^'ifatliSa:^,'*'^:^ ^!5e-'-  <"  Jh* "iUa.ter  beraelf, the foni^gTZisters o^^^ instructed to form a militaryiure  carrying  $1,000,000,000  for  the'tol" • »tory of three cowards.        Va   Uy     ScenS
powers blLTrintedth. nnlfiprtde   •committee, made up of the chiefs!pact powers, comes up for debate!    "Someone    had    thrown   a  rope!  ^ (3ti^y      *^V.d IC fense  organization  thev   hoTC  will "' "'-*** "^ ^^'^^ member nation, to in the Senate Monday.   The Houae ladder   over   the   dockside.   but   it avert  war  if  possible  and  win   it »<*'*''**' *"d make recommendations | already hw passed a alightly larger if it comes. °" military measures. ' aid bill.
Dramatic lOOO-Mile Search of Sea Is Being Made for 2 Italian Airmen
The miniatera. comprising the top As the real working nucleus of l^* Senate committee warned council eatabllshcd by Article » of the defensive organization, however,! that Russia is racing to create the tho  Atlantic Treaty,  aet up a  12-'the  council  created  a  gubcommit-1 world s mightiest military machine,
|nation defense committee and in-i tee of the military group on which ia"^ it recommended the arms pro-1 front of me and shoved aome structod it to draft immediately a only the United States Britain andiB^am as the best way to counter screaming women out of the way. flan for defending the entire North iTrnriro will  oif ' the   Soviet   threat The men went down the rope."
wa* all tangled up," Miss Carpen^ ter aaid. "Then a rope was tossed ov»r th*  rail.  I pitt a hitch knot in It to hold it to a stanchion. A* I did, thr*e men pushed  In
Father entering bathroom to ae« tube sticking out of wat&r-filled bathtub and yank¬ ing out son who eomplained, "I waa only under li minutes."
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entire North France will sit.
I    _ 1-      .t       '    The council's decision setting up
 I    Tlic subcommittee, operating from   jjg   defense   machinery   was   an-
Washington. will ma.ster-mind the I jjjjyjjj,gj j„ ^ 2,600-word communi- broad strategy upon which the ^^^j^ ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^^ „, ^ one-hour western allies are planning their | j^^^jj^^g j^^ addition to creating defenses. It will function eon-.^j^^ defense and military groups, it tinuously. | directed   that   five   regional   plan-
Gen. Omar N. Bradley, chairman, ning groups be established to lay of the U. S. joint chief.s of staff.', out a defense plan on a geographic presumably  will  be the American i basis.
MiSs Carpenter helped several others to safety, then escaped her¬ self.
Miss Alberta Agala of Detroit told of blind hysteria. |
"The Noronlc's A deck was &.; oomplete scene of pank," she re¬ lated. "There waa a mob of men and women surging back and i forth.  Men  wei*  pushing   wom«n
Polte* Sgt. Andrew Lannx stopping and getting off a Miners Mills trolley coach to assist a blind m.an across busit George avenue and Scott street intersection  in Parsons.
Traffie jam after Wilkes- Barre-Albany baseball game and Coughlin-PIains football game getting really jammed on Market street bridge when ear caught on /ir*.
NEW YORK—Air Force, Navy .Guard said the full search would and Ojaat Guard planes and ships be resumed tomorrow and that searched the Atlantic for two dar- three Air Force planes operating ing Italian fliers undoubtedly down out of Hammond Field, N. S., at sea in their single-engine plane'would continue the search during after a non-stop fiight from the the night. Azores   to   New   York. |    Brondello.   S6-year-old   soldier  of
On the basis of previous mes-' fortune and his co-pilot BariogUo sages from the fliers and ba4; had hoped to be the first to fly weather and wind conditions, offi-' a plane of the Beachcraft type cials calculated-that John Bron-¦ non-stop from the Azores to New dello and CJamlUo Barloglio had;York. In their last message they run out of fuel by 11 a. m. (BTDT) | radioed that they were about 180 and had been forced t.o crash I miles due south of Argentia, Nfld. land their Beachcraft bonanza, In They then had 940 miles to cover the choppy Atlantic. I on the final lap of their •cheduled
Kighteen   planes  and   two   Coast i 2,060-mile fiight Guard    cutters   fanned   out   in   a i Faced  Low  Clouds 1.0(X)-mile   area   off   Newfoundland:    Weather    reports    indicated    the In the area from which tbe fiiera' '¦ filers    probably    encountered    rain last   message   was   sent    at    6:40; and low clouds near that position, p.   m.   (EDT)   Friday. JBrondcllo's    laat    message    to    La
At 7:40 p. m. (E3DT), tbe C3oast | Guardia said the plane which Guard announced it was calling j earlier had battled strong head- off ita search for the night. That' winds had found favorable tall was 25 hours since the fliers had' winds and hoped to reach New been heard from and almost nine I York by 1 a. m. (EDT). Severe houra after their gas waa be- static blacked out further com- llevcd to have run out  The 0>ast munic&tion.
The C!oast Guard Oittsr [was ordered to abandon a ttalatac : cruise off Block Island, R. L, aad I Eteam at full apeed into tb* •*aa«h [area. The cutter Campbell, barth» led at Argentia, Nfld., also wa* • ¦ > dered out into tb* bunt for tbo 'missing airmen.
j The Coast Guard reported It had inot received any dlstres* calla the fliers, although their plan* equipped with an automati* "Olb- son Girl" emergency radio. Hm plan* also was aqulppcd with a five-man Uf* eraft, th* C^oast (~ said.
Consul Speeds Hunt
Th* CTivil Aeronautics Adminis¬ tration had estimated the lilera would arrive between 2;S0 a. m. and 3:30 a. m. (EDT). Fourteen hours after Brondello'a last mes¬ sage was received, Italian Vice Consul Carlo Perrone announced he had asked the Coast Guard to make an intensive search.
The two men hoped to t«t a rec¬ ord for the longeat non-alop flight OontiDued Ma ]*••* A-*
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