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C-124 Crash At
Moses Lake Kills
86 of 132 Aboard
MOSES LAKE. Wash., {IP)—A
huge C-124 Globemaster “Christ
mas special” loaded with service
men returning home for the holi
days crashed here early Friday
and three hours later the Air
Force estimated about 86 of the
132 aboard were killed.
This death toll would be the
worst in aviation history.
The C-124, biggest U.S. mili
tary plane in service, crashed
from an undetermined Cause
about two miles of Larson Air
Force Base runway at 6:30 a.m.
It had just taken off on a flight
to Kelly Air Force Base at San
Antonio, Tex. Most of the passen
gers were servicemen “hitchhik
ing” a ride home for Christmas
The crash was the second
Globemaster mishap in six weeks,
and the latest in a series of tragic
military plane accidents since
November. Another C-14 smashed
against an Alaskan mountain on
Nov. 22, killing 52.
Brig. Gen. H. W. Bowman an
nounced the number aboard was
134. There was no immediate
breakdown of crew and passen
gers, but a Globemaster normally
has a crew of about 12.
The Globemaster was making
the hop to Texas as a “routine
training flight,” with servicemen
taking advantage of the trip to
get home for the holidays.
The C-124, big as a five-room
house and capable of carrying as
many as 200 combat troops,
crashed only moments after the
takeoff. Gasoline spilled from
broken wing tanks and flames
shot up.
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Monday, December 22, 1952
American Newsman,
Serving Life for Treason,
(Dies in Penitentiary
SPRINGFIELD, Mo., </P)—The
death of Robert Henry Best, serv
ing a life sentence for treason by
broadcasting Nazi propaganda
during World War II, was re
ported Saturday.
Officials of the U.S. Medical
Center for federal prisoners here
disclosed Best died last Tuesday
after what a spokesman describ
ed as an “illness of some time.”
Prison records gave his address
as Vienna, Austria, and his only
next-of-kin as his wife, Erna. No
address was listed for her.
Best, an American newspaper
man, was convicted of treason in
federal court at Boston, April 16,
1948. He later was sentenced to
life imprisonment and fined
$10,000.
The 56-year-old former Sum
ter, S.C., newsman was accused of
giving aid and comfort to the
enemy and that he intended to
betray the United States. Best ad
mitted he had made 300 broad
casts from Germany between
1942 and 1945.
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