Patrol Bomber, Missing On Rescue
Flight To South Pole, Found Safe;
Navy Otter Still Lost in Antarctic
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SAN JTJAN, Puerto Rico., (tf)—
The U.S. Navy announced today a
patrol bomber missing on a rescue
mission to Antarctica had been
found in Venezuela with all men
aboard safe and uninjured.
The plane, a Neptune P-2V,
with seven men aboard, earlier
was reported down in a marshy
area of northeast Venezuela.
The Navy announcement said
it was found 70 miles southwest
of Trinidad.
(Dispatches from Caracas, Ven
ezuela, said the twin-engine am
phibious plane was sighted on the
ground in the Orinoco delta area.)
(The Venezuelan Ministry of
Communications said the seven
crewmen were being transferred
by helicopter to Pedernales, near
Boca de Sierpe, and would be re
moved from there to Trinidad.)
Navy officers said the pilot, in
his last radio report, said he was
planning to ditch the long-range
patrol bomber in a clearing by a
river.
The Neptune, with Lt. Cmdr.
John H. Torbert of Carmel Valley,
Calif., as the pilot, left Patuxent
Naval Station, Md., yesterday to |
help in the search for a small j
Otter plane missing with seven j
men in Antarctica since Feb. 3.
Torbert returned fropi An tare- j
tica only two weeks ago. He had
planned to fly by way of Puerto
Rico and South America.
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Aboard the UsS Arneb, enroute
to New Zealand, l/W—Rear Adm.
George J. Dufek, commander of
the U.S. Deepfreeze task force,
Tuesday approved a plan for the
Navy patrol bomber to fly from
Maryland to join the search for a
plane missing five days in Antarc
tica with seven men aboard.
A twin-engine Neptune would
fly from Patuxent Naval Air Sta
tion, Md., via South America to
Little America V, Operation Deep !
Freeze’s main base on Kainan i
Bay.
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The missing plane, a one-engine |
De Havilland Otter, disappeared i
Friday while flying from Marie1
Byrd Land to Little America with
some members of a trail blazing
party whose vehicles had broken
down. The last radio voice con
tact with the Otter was 67 min- j
utes after takeoff. An S-O-S, ap
parently from the plane, was re- 1
ceived Saturday.
The Arneb received word from ;
Dufek, still in Antarctica, that a j
searching helicopter Tuesday had
found a downed plane, but it was
not the missing Otter. The dis
covery was made in the foothills
of the Rockefeller Mountains east
of Little America. Rear Adm.
Richard E. Byrd, veteran antarc
tic explore- aboard the Arneb,
said the plane found was appar
ently an old Fokker wrecked on
Byrd’s first antarctic expedition
in 1929.
The helicopter reported it had
found no trace of the Otter during
a four-hour flight.
Three noted airmen and explor
ers were aboard the Fokker when
it took off from Little America
on an exploration flight in March,
1929, Byrd recalled. They were
Bernt Balchcn, pilot; Harold June,
copilot; and Lawrence Gould, now
chairman of the Antarctic Sub
committee of the U.S. Committee
for the International Geophysical
Year.
The three landed on a frozen
lake at the foot of Mt. Helen
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Washington and set up camp.
Winds of more than 100 miles an
hour suddenly blew the plane
away and wrecked it.
Balchen, June and Gould were
picked up several days later by
Byrd and others in another plane.
DOG RECOVERS FROM
FIVE - WEEK STAY AT
BOTTOM OF WELL
ASHLAND, Ky., 0?)—Lassie is
back home, apparently none the
worse after a five-week stay at
the bottom of a 30-foot deep dry
cistern.
Buddy and Junior Gibbons re
ported their medium-sized mon
grel, with collie characteristics, ^
missing Jan. 1.
Last Sunday, a worker discov
ered a deep cistern under a house
next door to the Gibbons’ resi
dence and caught the gleam of
two eyes.
Firemen were called and they
rescued the emaciated dog. But
now Lassie is romping again with
Buddy and Junior. A hole in the
concrete block foundation next
door is being plugged up.
Two Senate Groups
Maneuver for Probe of
Campaign Fund Offer
WASHINGTON, UD—Sen. Hen
nings <D-Mo> told the Senate
Rules Committee today he will
resign “in due course” as chair- j
man of the rules group’s elections
subcommittee.
The statement, disclosed by
Rules Committee Chairman Green
(D-RI), left in doubt Hennings’
next step in his tug of war with
the Senate leadership over inves
tigation of a $2,500 campaign
fund offer to Sen. Case (R-SD). |
A special Senate committee, set
up with the backing of Sens.
Johnson (Tex) and Knowland
(Calif), respectively the Demo-1
cratic and Republican leaders,'
also is investigating and is claim
ing priority. By quick maneuver
ing it got going ahead of Hen
nings yesterday.
Case interpreted the campaign
fund offer as an effort to influ
ence him to vote for the bill to
exempt natural gas producers
from federal utility-type regula
tion. He said he had been inclined
to favor the measure but the offer
changed his mind. He voted >
against it Monday but it passed
anyway.
Hennings went before the Rules
Committee in a closed-door meet
ing on the heels of challenges to
his right to serve as elections sub-1
committee chairman.
HEAVY SNOW KEEPS ALL
VOTERS FROM POLLS
MULESHOE, Texas, (#)—Not a
single vote was cast Saturday at
a Bailey County bond and tax
election called to provide funds
for improving the county roads.
The reason was a blizzard that
dumped from 16 to 24 inches of
snow over the county, blocking
all roads and highways.
The county commissioner yes
! terday ruled the Saturday ballot
ing “no election” and ordered the
election re-set.
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I Eisenhower Will
Decide hy March 1
Whether to Run
WASHINGTON, (JV—President
Eisenhower said today he thinks
he should have enough informa
tion by March 1 to decide whether
to seek re-election.
Eisenhower strongly indicated
at a news conference that an an
nouncement of his decision will
come shortly after that date if he
actually does have at that time
the information he feels he needs.
With a smile and sometimes a
hearty chuckle, the President par
ried all questions seeking to find
out what he thinks his decision
may be. He said he probably will
want to make a long explanation
of his decision, and this explana
tion quite likely will be given
elsewhere than at a news confer
ence.
This seemed to indicate the pos
sibility of his making a nation
wide TV and radio broadcast, al
though Eisenhower did not elab
orate on this statement.
Also in the political field, Eis
enhower said he would have no
objection to Chief Justice Earl
Warren’s running for President
on the Republican ticket if he
(Eisenhower) decides against run
ning again.
The President went on to say,
however, he doubts very much
that it would be within his proper
sphere to ask Warren to run.
Eisenhower’s remarks were in
response to a request that he clar
ify what he said in response to
questions two weeks ago about
Warren. He said then That he felt
politics and the Supretpe Court
should not get mixed up together.
Eisenhower’s statement then was
interpreted in some quarters as
meaning he was against the idea
of Warren’s bidding for the presi
dency.
Warren said last year that un
der no circumstances would he
leave the court to seek any politi
cal office. There has been talk
among some Republicans, how
ever, of drafting the Chief Justice
as a presidential nominee if Eis
enhower does not run again.
Asked if his youngest brother,
Dr. Milton Eisenhower, has any
ambition to run for President,
Eisenhower smiled'' broadly, and
said that’s something he has no
information about.
Union Leaders Call Off
Australian Dock Strike
SYDNEY, Australia, tfft—Union
leaders called off the three-week
strike of 27,000 dock workers yes
terday. They agreed to refer the
dockers’ wage demands to an ar
bitration court.
Some 200 ships have been idle
in Australian ports. More than
200,000 bales of wool and 150,000
tons of general cargo, much of it
bound for Britain, have piled up.
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‘Little Mo’ Connolly
Turns Professional
To Teach Youth Tennis
CHICAGO, UP!—Maureen (Little
Mo) Connolly, one of the greatest
women tennis players of all time,
turned professional this week “to
promote tennis among the youth
of America.”
The three-time national wom
en’s champion and three-time vic
tor at Wimbleton will join the ad
visory staff of a sporting goods
company.
Little Mo, 21 and married, has
not played tennis competitively
since suffering a leg injury while
horseback riding in July of 1954.
She said she will “do some
touring, giving talks on tennis and
instructions at high schools and
playgrounds. I think all of this
will halp also in combatting ju
venile delinquency,” she added.
GIRL SCOUT TROOP 68
The Feb. 3 meeting was called
to order by Catherine Siegwart.
There were two visitors, Mrs.
Ruth Brady and Mrs. Bob Casper
son. We introduced ourselves to
the visitors. We think Mrs. Cas
person is staying with us as our
assistant leader. We hope so.
We sang our song and went
home.
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Natural Gas Bill
Before President
For'Signature •
WASHINGTON, (AV-President
Eisenhower said today he will try
to strike a balance between states
rights and the rights of consum
ers in deciding what action to
take on the Natural Gas Bill.
Eisenhower declined to say
specifically whether he will sign
or veto the controversial measure,
sent to him after the Senate Mon
day night passed it 53-38.
The bill would exempt natural
gas producers from utility-type
! federal regulation. The President
has nine more days in which to
act.
He told questioners as a news
conference today that his feeling
always has been that production
of national resources is a matter
for state regulation and that the
federal government should not
interfere in the states' business
unless it must.
On the other hand, Eisenhower
said, natural gas production and
distribution is a complex affair
and it is necessary to protect con
sumers—who, he said, are pretty
much the captives of producers.
Eisenhower was not asked
about a pending Senate inquiry
into whether an improper attempt
was made, through a $2,500 con
tribution, to influence Sen. Case
<R-SD’ to vote in favor of the bill.
When asked, in general, his
views on the effect of campaign
contributions, Eisenhower said a
study should be made of whether
such donations are disinterested
or whether somebody is trying to
get something in return. The do
nor of the $2,500 which Case
turned down has said he offered
the money with no strings.
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