PAA Plane Crash
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life rafts on which the surviving
huddled.
Those clustered on the three
life rafts could hear the constant
ly weaker and more distant cries
of those who died in their life
jackets, victims of cold, shock and
drowning.
The ditching and the rescues
were a cruel combination of the
good and the bad. Normally, when
one of the big 4-engined Strato
cruisers loses the service of one
engine it can continue on the
power of the other three.
But the unexpected forces that
wrenched the engine from its
mountings and cast it into the sea
wrought such structural damage
the plane could not return to
land. Capt. H.S. Joslyn, the pilot,
had no choice but to ditch on the
water.
They did, and all those who
came ashore from the Navy trans
port USS Bayfield in Seattle last
night told similar stories. It was
of the calm quietness of all aboard
when Capt. Joslyn ordered over
the communication system:
‘"Get to your seats, Prepare to
ditch.”
Less than 10 minutes later the
ship crunched down on the sur
face of the water. The tail as
sembly broke loose and passen
gers were thrown forward in a
disorganized jumble as the plane
seats tore loose from their fit
tings.
Helped by crew members with
adjustment of life jackets, the
passengers one by one, plopped i
into the sea, to fight their way j
to the rafts which had been put
on the water. The Petersons were
the last of the passengers to leave.
Capt. Joslyn, former Alaska bush
pilot, was the last crew member.
Eighteen miles to the north, the
Bayfield, carrying a shipload of
troops home from Army maneu
vers on the California coast, had
watched the plane disappear from
its radar screen and turned to its
aid.
Lost in addition to Peterson
were Angus G. Hendrick, 33,
Seattle, the copilot; Donald R.
Fowler, San Francisco, the flight
engineer, and David Darrow, 29,
an Auburn, Wash., bank employe.
Scientists say a good diet in
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parts protein and 3 parts fat.
Boy’s Mother Killed,
Stepfather Suicides
In Domestic Fight
SEATTLE, W — “He grabbed
a pipe and hit my mother about
four times. I tried to stop him.
Then he hit me on the head and
arm. I started out the door, hop
ing he would come after me. If
he did, my mother would get
away.”
With tears streaming down his
cheeks, 13-year-old Billy Mar
gitich used those words to de
scribe to police a domestic fight
which led to the slaying of his
mother and the suicide of his
stepfather Friday.
Shot in the back as she at
tempted to flee a beating at the
hands of her ex-husband, Holland
Joslin, 42, was Mrs. Mary Joslin,
38. Joslin, poisoned, was found
sprawled inn the front seat of
his car a few miles north of Mrs.
Joselin’s home.
Billy, whose hand and arm was
battered as he sought to defend
his mother, told officers Joslin
broke into the home early Friday
and insisted a third degree assault
charge filed against him by Mrs.
Joslin be dropped. Mrs. Joslin
filed the charge after Joslin broke
into the home and beat her re
cently.
The argument broke into vio
lence when Joslin grabbed a pipe
and started hitting Mrs. Joslin,
Billy said. When the youth inter
vened Joslin switched his attack
to Billy.
The boy said he started to run
outside and Joslin followed mo
mentarily and then turned his at
tention again to rs. Joslin as she
too, ran outside. At that point,
Billy said, Joslin drew a gun and
shot his ex-wife in the back. She
fell dead.
Joslin ran to his car, swallowed
some poison and sped north until
the poison began taking effect.
He lost control of the car and it
crashed into a utility pole.
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Prime Minister Nehru will visit
Moscow at the Soviet govern
ment’s invitation early in June,
the foreign ministry announced
today.
The decision was made after
an “exchange of opinions a few
days ago,” but the length of stay
and other details have not yet
been fixed, the announcement
added.
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MOSCOW, —Soviet Premier
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proval Saturday of President Eis
enhower’s statement last week
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What Bulganin said was that he
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Bulganin said Russia already
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Russia has invited Austrian
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Bulganin took the unusual step
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the first time he has done that
since taking over the premiership
from Georgi Malenkov.
Eisenhower has said that a Big
Four meeting would have to fol
low ratification by the western
powers concerned of the Paris
agreements on re-arming West
Germany. Russia is violently op
posed to West German re-arming.
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