‘Miracles’ and Courageous Action Save
Destroyer After Crash of Flaming Jet
SAN DIEGO, Calif., (#>—Sailors’
brushed by death said Saturday I
that miracles saved them when a
make-believe attack by a Navy
bomber turned into a real and
deadly crash aboard the destroyer
Hopewell Friday.
The Skyraider bomber struck
the U.S. warship’s superstructure
and exploded in a sheet of flame
a few feet £tom an ammunition
magazine.
Five men were killed—three on
the bomber and two at their work
in the destroyer’s office. Five
others of the Hopewell’s crew of
200 were burned.
But the ammunition didn’t ex
plode. “I don’t know why it did
n’t,” said Cmdr. Mark M. Gantar,
the skipper.
And other men, who were in
the wrecked laundry compartment
and in the flame-swept area be
tween the stacks, lived to talk
about miracles.
Gantar also credited the cour
age of his crew and the crews of
the destroyers Yarnal and Inger
soll with saving his ship.
The other destroyers helped to
fight blazing gasoline from the
bomber—sprayed over the ship
and running in streams to the am
munition magazine and engine
room.
“If it hadnt been for them,”
said Gantar, after the destroyer
reached San Diego Friday night,
“I’m afraid we would have gone
up.”
The Skyraider was making a
simulated attack on the Hopewell
in maneuvers of U.S. and Canaai
an naval units 80 miles west of
San Diego.
It roared down upon the de
stroyer, only 100 feet above the
sea. Then, Gantar said, “kind of
slid off like it was out of control.”
The three airmen killed were
identified as Lt. Cmdr. M. S. Ess
ary, 40, pilot, Coronado, Calif.;
R. E. Stewart, 21, radar man, of
Punxsutawney, Pa.; and Brent
Montgomery Phillips, 24, radar
man, of Jamaica, N.Y. Names of
the destroyer’s dead were with
held.
Bob Hope Proposes to
Make TV Film in Moscow
HOLLYWOOD, UP>— Comedian
Bob Hope wants to go to Moscow
and film a television show.
Hope said yesterday he will ap
ply to the Russian Embassy Mon
day for a visa. He added that the
U.S. State Department has cleared
him for the trip.
Hope, who films at least one of
his shows abroad each year, with
held further details of the pro
posed trip pending a Russian de
cision on the visa.
MMM HOSPITAL
Admitted: Allen Ahnangnato
guk, Eleanor Holm.
Discharged: Fritz Chambers,
Ruby Outwater, Eugene Avosuk,
Margaret O’Dell, Ellen Lyle, Mary
Paneok, Herman Attatayuk, and
Steven Heath.
Genes which carry hereditary
traits are so tiny it is estimated
that a teaspoonful could hold all
the diverse hereditary traits de
veloped by the human race since
the origin of man.
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Teacher Sees Pupil With
Her Diamond Earrings
NEW YORK, (JT—Mrs. Julie
Hale, a Bronx public school teach
er, looked startled when 14-year
old Lydia Morales appeared in
her classroom wearing handsome
diamond earrings.
Mrs. Hales home last month had
been robbed of $800 in jewelry.
Among the gems was a $300 pair
of earrings.
On closer inspection, the ear
rings worn by the pupil turned
out to belong to the teacher.
In Bronx magistrate’s court
Friday, Lydia’s mother, Mrs. Ber
tha Morales, was held in $2,000
bond on a -charge of criminally
receiving stolen property.
Mrs. Morales said she bought
the earrings for $20 from a man
she did not know, and gave them
to the girl to wear to school.
French President’s Wife
Dies Unexpectedly
PARIS IflPJ—Mrs. Germaine Coty,
69, wife of French President Rene
Coty, died unexpectedly early
Saturday.
An Elysee Palace announce
ment said death was due to a
heart attack.
Mrs. Coty died at Chateau de
Rambouillet, the presidential resi
dence 35 miles south of Paris,
where she and her husband nor
mally spent their weekends.
Mrs. Coty had spent a full day
Friday praticipating in Armistice
Day observance in Paris. She be
came ill suddenly that night in
Paris.
GUNMEN GET $250,000
IN WORTHLES CHECKS
PASADENA, Calif., Two
gunmen intercepted a loan com
pany messenger enroute to a bank
and escaped with a quarter of a
million dollars in checks. But they
can’t cash them.
James Farrell of the Pasadena
Savings and Loan Co. said he was
carrying no cash yesterday, and
all the checks were marked “For
Deposit Only.”
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Murdered Boys’
Father Dies of •
Broken Heart
CHICAGO, [R—A despairing,
heart-broken father, whose two
young sons and a companion were
brutally murdered less than a
month ago, died Friday.
The cause of Anton Schuessler’s
death was described by a physi
cian as “apparently a heart at
tack.” He suffered the attack, the
doctor added, while being given a
routine electrical shock treatment
for a depressed state of mind.
But police and * friends of the
42-year-old father of the slain
boys agreed that he died of a
broken heart. v
Schuessler’s wife, Eleanor, 37,
prostrate at the news of her hus
band’s death in a rest home in
suburban Des Plaines, sobbed:
“It’s all the killers’ fault. They
killed the boys and now they’ve
killed Tony. I had everything to
live for and now I’ve got nothing.”
The Schuessler’s only children,
John, 13, and Anton Jr., 11, and
their neighborhood chum, Robert
Peterson, 14, were found brutally
murdered Oct. 18 at the Robinson
Woods forest preserve.
The boys had disappeared from
their northwest side home on Sun
day, Oct. 16, after leaving home
to attend a Loop movie.
Schuessler went without sleep
in the search for the boys. After
the burial of his sons the succeed
ing days were filled with heart
break and anguish.
He closed his north side tailor
shop and said he would devote all
his time in helping police search
for the sadistic slayers.
Thus far police have found no
tangible clues in connection with
the slayings. Police have ques
tioned some 10,000 persons and
have pursued every lead, however
insignificant. Rewards for the cap
ture of the slayers total $33,350.
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