25 Are Believed Dead in Korean River
Crash Landing of A. F. Globemaster
By C. S. CHIN
SEOUL, UP* — The U. S. 8th
Army ordered in divers and en
gineers Saturday to try to lift
from the Han River the wreckage
of a U. S. Air Force transport
plane in which up to 25 Amer
icans are believed .to have died.
At least 134 of the 159 Amer
icans aboard were saved when
the plane, burning and disabled,
crashed on an islet in the river
Friday night. Of these, 28 are hos
pitalized with injuries.
Five bodies have been re
covered.
The pilot said an engine of the
big C124 Globemaster ran wild,
burst into flame and spewed
chunks of metal into the two
story fuselage, tearing holes big
enough for a man to walk
through.
The troop transport — the Air
Force’s largest — took off from
Kimpo Airfield for Tokyo with
10 crewmen and 149 passengers,
most of them servicemen looking
forward to rest leaves in Japan.
New Budget for
Alaska Surveyed
The first indication of what the
territorial budget may amount to
came from two sources yesterday
—the House Ways & Means Com
mittee and from the Senate floor.
In the House, a bill was intro
duced for $1,431,187.60 to pay for
territorial operating expenses dur
ing April, May and June, 1957.
That would cover a 3-month
period of changeover during
which time all territorial agencies
and departments would shift to a
new fiscal year period starting
July 1.
A budget approximating $37 Vz
million was talked about in the I
Senate, which resolved into a
meeting of so-called “committee
of the whole.” The senators de
cided to put the bill before the
whole membership in a public
committee meeting.
Sen. John McNees, a Nome
Democrat and a member of the
Finance Committee, said, total
bulget requests from territorial
departments and agencies for the
next two years amount to $46 mil
lion. The Department of Finance
has recommended a $30 million
budget.
McNees suggested the budget
would fall “in the neighborhood
of $37V2 million—meaning rough
ly that some $7 Vis million will be
needed in new revenue.”
Lying on a stretcher at Tachi
kawa Air Base in Japan, the in
jured pilot, Capt. James Cart
wright, 37, of Elkton, Ky., re
lated what happen next:
“We lost power on No. 3
engine. . . .
“It caught fire and started to
throw chunks of metal through
the fuselage. They hit . . . No. 4
engine and it started to lose
power. Pieces of metal were com
ing through the fuselage, cutting
holes big enough for a man to
walk through.
“The metal cut the aileron
cables. ... We couldn’t turn
around so I decided on the Han
River. ... It all happened in four
or five minutes.
“We landed on our belly. The
first impact was smooth, but the
second was a lulu. The next thing
I knew I was in the water.
“I crawled on an ice floe and
I like to froze. People were pour
ing out of the plane and strug
gling onto a sand bar 50 yards
from shore.”
The landing on the tiny island,
above the water only at low tide,
was described by another Air
Force officer as a “one in a mil
lion” shot th'at saved most of the
lives. The scene was only lVi
miles south of the demilitarized
zone separating North and South i
Korea.
Rescue. crews arrived at the!
scene within 45 minutes of the
crash. Five bodies were found be
fore the tide from the Yellow Sea
ir.undatd the island.
An Air Force spokesman said
some of the mussing may have
been washed downstream in the
confusion of the crash. The water
on one side of the island was shal
low enough for wading but on
the other side it was deep, swift
and cold.
Four crewmen were among the
missing. The others, all suffering
minor injuries, were flown to
Tachikawa.
A Monday Associated Press dis
patch reported four more bodies
found in the twisted wreckage.
This raised the list of known dead
to 9, leaving 13 others still miss
ing and presumed dead.
The big Cl24 transport was en
route to Japan with 159 Amer
icans aboard — 10 Air Force
crewmen, 147 Army men, and 2
Army civilian employes. Most
were an leave. Twenty-eight of
the 137 survivors accounted for
are still hospitalized, two of them
in serious condition.
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Swedish Doctor’s Plan
For B. C. Development
Would Benefit Mank:nd
j VANCOUVER, B. C., UP) — The
Province in a dispatch from Mex
ico City quotes Swedish finan
cial Axel Wenner-Gren as re
iterating Wednesday that he re
gards a vast development scheme
for northern British Columbia as
an opportunity to tap. hidden re
sorces -for the benefit of man
kind, not jst as a personal money
making venture.
Norman Hacking, Province
staff writer, interviewed Dr. Wen
ner-Gren in his office in Mexico
City, the headqarters for his
world-wide interests.
“All my assets will go to phil
anthropical and atruistic founda
tions,” Dr. Wenner-Gren said.
He said the idea for a $1,000,
000,000 hydro anl mineral devel
opment in the Rocky Mountain
trench from northern B. C. to
the Yukon border was conceived
during visits to Canada in the
1920’s and 1940.
Dr. Wenner-Gren again denied
he showed Nazi sympathies dur
ing the second World War.
Japanese Prime Minister
Resigns in Bad Health
TOKYO, UPi — Prime Minister
Tanzan Ishibashi resigned Satur
day because of ill health. The
■chances look bright for Foreign
Minister Nobusuke Kishi, who
narrowly missed getting the post I
last December, to succeed him. |
Ishibashi, 72, took office only'
a month ago. Within a month he
was stricken with bronchial pneu
monia and a weakened heart. He
never was able to attend a ses
sion of the Diet (Parliament) as
Prime Minister.
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Two Chicago Brothers
Succomb Simultaneously
CHICAGO, OR — Two brothers
died minutes apart last week,
victims of apparent heart seiz
ures. ,
When Frank Hurley, 67 began •
gasping for breath, his wife,
Katherine, 53, called Frank’s
brother, Walter, 72, from his
apartment in the same building.
Walter telephoned for a doc
tor. As the physician entered the ;
apartment Walter collapsed.
The physician pronounced both i
men dead.
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SUMMARY FOR JANUARY
In sharp contrast to November
and December, which were quite
cold and clear, this January was
the warmest in eleven years, with
frequent minor storms and much
above normal precipitation. Mod
erate to heavy glaze occurred on
thirteen days, causing extensive
dam: ge to power lines, radio an
tennas and telephone wires.
GUARDSMEN MARCH WITH
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CLEVELAND, UP! — A National j
Guard regiment — the proud
Cleveland Grays — marched
through the downtown here yes
terday in a Washington Day pa
rade minus Col. Robert M. Camp
bell, who was scheduled to lead
them.
When the regiment returned to
the armory after the parade, it
was found someone had accident
ally locked Campbell in the men’s
dressing room.
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