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Crash Detectives Seek Cause of
DC4 Crash Which Took 27 Lives
SEATTLE, tP)—The experts on
sudden death met here Saturday
to begin the work of piecing to
gether the broken fragments of a
wrecked airliner and the stories of
the people who saw it die.
This much they knew:
Twenty-seven men died a fiery
and horrible death when a big
Peninsular Air Transport Co.
plane bounced to explosive de
struction early Friday in the back
yard of a suburban home. And 47
other persons, including a woman
and three small children survived.
Of the 74 persons aboard the
non-scheduled DC-4, €6 were sol
diers who had returned Thursday
from the Far East on the Navy
transport Gen. R. L. Howze.
The other eight persons aboard
were the crew of three, a reserve
pilot enroute to Miami, his wife
and three children.
It is upon the stories of the sur
vivors and the few witnesses who
watched the plane crack up out of
a snowy sky that Civil Aeronau
tics Board investigators pin their
hopes of solving the mystery, the
stories and the plane’s remains.
There were some discrepancies
in the accounts of eyewitnesses
and men who were in the plane—
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as passengers of pilots. And the
only sizeable remaining piece of
the once large DC-4 is its tail sur
face, still resting in a charred back
yard amidst a rubble of melted
and twisted metal.
The investigators said they had
no preconceived notions of what
caused the Miami-based plane to
falter two miles south of Boeing
Field, its takeoff point. On its way
down the plane hit a tree, a utility
pole, and a garage, and then broke
up and burned in the yard of the
Colin Dearing home.
But sabotage, which caused the
destruction of a United Airlines
plane near Longmont, Colo., with
a loss of 44 lives early this month,
seemed unlikely to David Nelson,
supervising agent for CAA’s Seat
tle office.
Two men who watched the final
few yard’s of flight, said the
plane’s engines were failing and
one had even quit E. J. Rice, who
was close enough to feel the heat
of the flames when the plane’s
heavily loaded gas tanks exploded
with dreadful results, said the en
gines were “poppin’ and sputter
ing.”
U.S. ‘Will Never Admit Defeat’ in
Search for a Just Peace-Eisenhower
WASHINGTON, <#>—President*
Eisenhower says that, despite the
East-West stalemate at the Gene
va foreign ministers conference,
the Unite! States “will never ad
mit defeat” in seeking a “just and
durable peace.”
The President’s view was re
layed by Secretary of State Dulles
at the end of a sober, 30-minute
TV-radio report Friday night on j
the Geneva meeting.
Dulles conceded the Western i
Big Three made no progress in the j
sessions with the Russians. But;
this assessment was balanced, in i
part at least, by the secretary’s j
expressions of cautious optimism:
and by a statement from Eisen
hower.
Reading from what he called
“verbatim notes” made during a1
conversation with Eisenhower
earlier in the day at Gettysburg,
Pa., Dulles quoted the President
as saying:
“I know that no setback, no ob- i
stacle to progress will ever deter;
this government and our people j
from the great effort to establish
a just and durable peace.
“Success may be long in coming
but there is no temporal force so |
capable ©f helping achieve it as j
the strength, the might, the spirit j
of 165 million free Americans. In
striving toward this shining goal,
this country will nev<er admit de
feat.”
Dulles said his three weeks at
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Geneva “didn’t get us anywhere at
all.” But he said the “spirit of
Geneva,” flowing from the sum
mi conference which Eisenhower
attended in July, lives on everj
though the Soviet’s summertime
smiles turned into frowns this fall.
Posing and answering five ques
tions he said “are in the air,” Dul
les declared he and Eisenhower
agree that:
1. The Geneva spirit is not en
tirely dead because the Russians
now shun the “threats and invec
tive” which characterized their
pre-summit diplomacy.
2. The risk of open war with
Russia is no greater than in July
when Eisenhower said the summit
conference made it “less likely.”
3. The cold war is back, but it is
“peaceful” and devoid of rankling
“hostility and animosity.”
4. The Eisenhower Administra
tion plans no drastic revision of its
defense and aid programs because
it never lowered its guard on the
basis of Russian promises in July.
5. More talks with Russia would
be “foolish” as things now stand.
But if the West keeps hanging to
gether the Soviets eventually will
come around to making conces
sions.
The lower Nile has an unbroken
navigable stream nearly 800 miles
long.
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Alaskan Huskie
Gets 2nd Chance
KANSAS CITY OTC-An Alaskan
huskie, accused of leading a pack
of livestock-killing dogs, got an- j
other chance Friday form a fam- j
ily with the same name as the dog. ]
King, a 100-pounder, is owned I
by Mr. and Mrs. Donald Netz, of j
nearby Independence. They said it j
was a gentle and good-natured j
playmate for their children, rang- j
ing from 2 to 14.
But neighbors said they had lost
livestock to a pack of dogs and
identified King as the leader of
the marauders. He broke his chain
Tuesday and escaped from the
yard. Later deputy sheriffs saw
the dog pack running through the
neighborhood.
Mrs. Walter King, a dog lover,
heard about the case. So Friday
she and her husband offered to
send the animal to some friends at
Jackson Hole, Wyo., where the
Kings have a summer home. King
said their friends, Mr. and Mrs.
John Waldron, lost a huskie dog
last summer.
“It’s hard to imagine King was
the ringleader in such a thing,”
Netz said, “but to keep from hav
ing any trouble in the neighbor
hood, I guess we’ll have him de
stroyed.”
That sent Mrs. King into action.
She said the climate in Wyoming
would be ^cooler and the dog prob
ably would be happier there.
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