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SEVEN MEN DIE IN FOURTH
B-52 CRASH SINCE FEBRUARY ’56
ANDOVER, N.H., MP>—A giant
B-52 Air Force jet bomber ex
ploded in flight yesterday with a
known loss of seven men. The
seventh body was found by the
searchers early today deep in the
plane’s wreckage.
One man is missing and the
ninth man aboard the plane para
chuted to safety and is reported
in good condition at Loring AFB,
Limestone, Me., the plane’s base.
Air Force officials said the
bomber blew up while the pilot’s
vision was partially obstructed on
purpose as part of a training test.
Hundreds of heavily garbed
men, including Air Force men,
Royal Canadian Mounted Police
and French-Canadian trappers
and guides waded thru snow
choked woods in bitter cold in
search of the missing crewmen.
Five of the seven victims of the
crash were Capt. Richard A. Jen
kins, Huron, Ohio; Capt. Wm. C.
Davidson, Stockton, Calif.; Capt.
John E. McCune, Hayward, Calif.; j
Capt. Marquid H. D. Myers, Tra- |
cy, Calif.; T/Sgt. Ray A. Miller,
Racine, Wis.
The only known survivor was
1st Lt. Joe L. Church, Charlotte,
N.C.
In Washington, the Air Force
said the pilot was undergoing a
NEIGHBOR TOWN WILL
HELP RESTORE MALIBU
MALIBU, Calif., UP>—A neigh
borly community is going to help
Malibu cover the scars of its
Christmas week fire.
Officials of the Pacific Pali
sades Chamber of Commerce yes
terday called on homemakers in
the area to take potted plants and
shrubs to Malibu on weekends
this month to “help make Malibu
green again.”
reflex test wherein the flyer’s
eyes are partly shielded and the
plane put into an “unusual” posi
tion. The pilot then must right
the craft.
The Washington spokesman said
the plane apparently had been
“placed in a position beyond its
capability.”
The blast shattered the eight
jet Boeing-built Stratofortress in
to several flaming chunks of
wreckage which scattered over a
wide area.
The Air Force quoted Church
as saying the plane was either in
a steep climb or sharp glide when
he heard a loud noise and found
himself parachuting to earth.
The plane was the fourth B-52
lost by the Air Force on training
Rights since February 1956.
SIX CREWMEN DIE
IN CRASH OF B-29
AERIAL TANKER
AUSTIN, Tex., UPI—Six crew
men died last night when a B-29
aerial tanker crashed and burned
while landing at nearby Berstrom
AFB. Three others were injured,
none seriously.
The plane crashed while near
ing the ground after a refueling
mission, hurling four crewmen
out of the flaming wreckage. Five
men were killed instantly and a
sixth died later in the hospital.
The Air Force identified the
victims as 1st Lt. Ronald Rosetti,
24,. Paterson, N.J.; 2d Lt. Robert
E. Smith, 23, San Antonio; T/Sgt.
Edw. C. Clemmons, 29, whose
wife lives on base; Airman 2/C
Thomas Salazar, 24, Uvalde, Tex.,
ton, wife lives on base; 2nd Lt.
Michael Bryan McIntosh, Hous
ton, wife lived on base; 2d Lt.
Don Anderson Berg, Birkenfeld,
Oregon.
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Hammarskjold Reports on Clearance
Of Canal; U.N. Forms New Committee
To Inquire Into Hungarian Situation
By MAX HARRELSON
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., UP>—
Secretary General Dag Hammar
skjold said today he expected to
have sufficient funds pledged by,
the end of January to finance the
initial stages of the Suez Canal
clearance operations.
He also indicated in a progress
report to the 80-nation General
Assembly that things were going
well otherwise in the task of get
ting the vital waterway back into
operation.
He made no reference to diffi
culties over Israel’s delay in with
drawing her troops from the Sinai
Peninsula or 'possible complica
tions arising from this.
Hammarskjold made his report
as the Arab and African nations
worked on a proposal to press Is
rael to hasten the withdrawal.
This was expected to touch off a
new round of debate on the Mid
dle East next week.
The United States already has
given Hammarskjold a check for
$5 million as an advance for this
purpose. Hammarskjold did not
disclose which other countries
had pledged advances.
The U.N. turned its attention to
the Middle ^East as a new Assem
bly committee prepared to in
quire into the causes and events
of the Hungarian revolt.
The Assembly voted 59-8 yes^
terday over bitter Soviet bloc op
position to set up a watchdog
committee to seek out the facts
on the Hungarian situation. The
resolution, sparked by the United
States, was sponsored by 24 na
tions.
Budapest radio said the com
mittee would be barred from
Hungary, just as a previous fact
finding group named by the As
sembly was. Instead, the new
committee will probably inter
view refugees and other sources
in the United States, Austria, It
aly and other European countries
on this side of the iron curtain.
GOLD OUTPUT OF
SOUTH AFRICA IS AT
ALL - TIME PEAK
JOHANNESBURG, South Afri
ca, (#>—Gold output of the Union
of South Africa reached an all
time peak last year when 15,S‘82,
935 ounces were produced valued
at 198,450,158 pounds ($555,6:60,
442).
This figure is 15,694,973 pounds'
($43,945,924) higher than the pre
vious record output set in 1955.
Thousands of
Railroad Workers
Strike in Budapest
BUDAPEST, Hungary (#)—Sev
eral thousand workers walked off
their jobs in two railroad equip
ment shops in Budapest today.
Unconfirmed reports said Hun
garian militiamen opened fire
with machineguns and wounded
some workmen.
Russian armored cars also were
reported in the area.—in south
west Budapest.
The workers were said to have
left their jobs partly in opposi
tion to the renewed Stalinism of
the government, partly because of
prospective layoffs and partly be
cause of reduced wages.
Hungarian workmen who want
to keep working found an unex
pected ally today in the Commu
nist Trade Union Organization.
The union organization ex
pressed support for the workers
councils elected during the revo
lution, apparently in an attempt
to gain some of their prestige
among the rank and file. The
councils are fighting the ma^s
layoffs of Hungarian workers.
In Communist countries trade
unions virtually are part of the
government and seek to keep
workers in line for whatever pol
icy is set from the top. The policy
of Premier Janos Kadar now calls
for firing 200,000 Hungarian
workers.
A trade union newspaper re
ported coal production of last
Wednesday totaled 44,500 tons,
slightly more than half the pre
revolution output for a day.
It said most of the production
was going to public utilities and
light industry while heavy indus
try is getting only about 20 per
cent of the coal it needs.
MORE DEAFNESS
RESULTING FROM
JET PLANE NOISE
WASHINGTON, LPt—A federal
agency says jet aircraft noise has
increased deafness among ser
vicemen and that it may be af
fecting numbers of civilians.
The Veterans Administration
said yesterday it is paying out
$59,355,672 annually to 94,233
veterans suffering from hearing
ailments. Thousands of these
cases, it added, are attributed to
jet noise. *
There is no known treatment
for restoring hearing of a person
suffering from total noise deaf
ness, the agency said. The disabil
ity results from nerve damage.
Air Force authorities hope re
search may soon solve the prob
lem of jet blasts.
Democrats Take Exception to Some
Of President’s Proposals as Set Forth
In His State of the Union Message
By JACK BELL
WASHINGTON, UP1—1 Congres
sional Democrats made it plain
today President Eisenhower will
have to fight for parts of his pro
gram despite the extent of his
re-election victory last fall
Influential Democrats took quick
exception to some of the legisla
tive proposals Eisenhower laid
before Congress yesterday in his
annual State of the Union mes
sage.
Applause interrupted Eisen
hower’s delivery of the 33-minute
message only five times as he
made his second personal appear
ance before Congress in less than
a week.
By comparison, in 1953 Eisen
hower was applauded 55 times in
57 minutes as he delivered his
first State of the Union message
and in 1959 he was applauded 20
times in 53 minutes.
Congress Cool
Despite this obvious coolness,
17 Persons Killed in
Crash of Two Engine
Plane Near Buenos Aires
BUENOS AIRES, M—A two
engine passenger plane crashed
and burned just after taking off
from Buenos Aires airport today.
Unoffical reports said 17 persons
had perished and at least 13 were
injured.
The plane, heading for the sea
side resort of Mar Del Plata,
rammed into a sea wall as the
pilot apparently >was struggling
to sit down on the River Plata.
One engine apparently failed.
The plane was a British-made
Viking.
Senate GOP leader Knowland of
California said he is confident a
“substantial” portion of Eisen
hower’s program will be enacted.
Republicans generally praised the
President’s proposals.
Democratic Leader Lyndon B.
Johnson promised the Senate will
study the President’s abbreviated
proposals—to be enlarged upon in
subsequent messages—“in a co
operative and constructive spirit."
Sen. Aiken (R-Vt) described the
talk as “a message that would be
hard to disagree with, largely be
cause it was so general.”
But it was evident many Demo
crats were preparing for a battle.
As an example of how some of
them felt, Sen. O’Mahoney (D
Wyo) predicted the Democratic
Congress will ignore Eisenhow
er’s suggestion for creation of a
commission of private citizens to
make a broad survey of the na
tion’s financial system.
Instead, O’Mahoney said he is
confident Congress will itself in
vestigate the administration’s
“tight money” policies against
which many Democrats have been
complaining.
Chairman Russell (D-Ga) of the
Senate Armed Services Commit
tee signaled expected opposition
to Eisenhower’s forthcoming mili
tary and foreign aid budgets.
Russell said, “I agree with all
the President said about fighting
inflation but it is no more infla
tionary to spend money on build
ing up our own military strength
than it is to spend it on building
up the military forces of other
nations, some of which are of
doubtful friendliness to us.”
Adenauer Suggest World Agreement
To Ban Thermonuclear Weapons
BONN, Germany, {B—Chancel- i
lor Konrad Adenauer today sug- j
gested a world-girdling agree
ment to ban thermonuclear weap
ons. Adenauer aired his proposal
at a crowded news conference at
which he said:
“Thermonuclear weapons no
longer can be considered as a
means of waging war.”
He firmly declared a “defini
tive solution” of outstanding
world problems can be attained
only through complete abolition
of these weapons. The 81-year
old Chancellor did not spell out
how he thought this could be
achieved or whether he felt some
system of controls would be es
sential. f
There is belief, however, that
he endorses Western insistence
on such controls.
Adenauer also \joiced doubt
that creation of a demilitarized
zone in the heart of Europe could
bring about German unification.
There had been speculation in the
German press recently that an
agreement by the big world pow
ers on such a buffer zone might
induce the Soviets to accept Ger
man unity. *
Adenauer said the creation of
such a zone eventually would im
prove the “political climate,” but
in itself would not constitute a
definite solution of world prob
lems.
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WASHINGTON, (yfl—U.S. offi
cials were astonished by Aden
auer's call today for a ban on
thermo-nuclear weapons.
There was no immediate com
ment from the White House or
State Department, but policy
making officials obviously were
not happy about it.
The Adenauer statement ap
peared to put new pressure on
the U.S. to soften its position
against the prohibition of hydro
gen superbombs except under
some ironclad general disarma
ment pact.
It is particularly significant be
cause the German leader has been
the anchor man of much U.S. pol
icy in Europe for the past 10
years. They have often yielded
to his views on issues involving
Germany.