20 Persons Die in Crash of
Northeast Airlines Plane in N.Y.
NEW YORK, UP—A Northeast
Airliner carrying 102 persons
crashed on Rikers Island Friday
night and 20 persons died in the
flaming debris.
The big four-engined craft,
laden with passengers happily
contemplating reaching balmy
Miami in a few hours, thundered
to earth moments after taking off
from La Guardia Airport in a
swirling snowstorm.
Of the others aboard, 64 were
taken to hospitals, and the re
maining 18 were sent home after
. treatment, virtually unscathed. ‘
It seemed that only a miracl^
prevented all from perishing.
Had the giant craft gone down
anywhere else in the vicinity, it
would have dropped into the East
River or heavily populated resi
dential areas.
It smashed into an open spot
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‘Could Happen
Here’-And Did!
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., UP)—
“It could happen here” pro
claimed an editorial in the Moun
tain View Register Leader Friday
in pleading for precautions
against an airplane disaster.
Soon after the paper appeared,
an Air Force tF-84 jet fighter ex
ploded and crashed into a home
in this San Francisco peninsula
city.
The pilot, Capt. Robert S. Mul
vehill, 32, from Luce Field, Ariz.,
was killed.
Mrs. Opal Wright, 56, jumped
out of a window as the plane
struck and fired her home. She
suffered leg and hip injuries.
Flaming debris damaged sev
eral nearby houses.
, Editor George Hall was refer
ring to the Van Nuys, Calif., trag
edy. There, an airplane crashed
into a school yard Thursday after
a collision, with a jet fighter. Five
fliers and three boys were killed.
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on tiny Rikers Island, situated in
the river between New York’s
boroughs of Queens and The
Bronx. The island is about three
quarters of a mile from La Guar
dia Airport and the city peniten
tiary is located on it. Prison in
mates did heroic rescue work.
Police said identification of the
20 dead could be made only from
jewelry, dental plates and de
scriptions of grieving relatives,
scriptions supplied from relatives.
The six-member crew of the
plane survived. The pilot and co
pilot said they believed the craft
struck a pole on Rikers Island.
A theory also expressed by
others was that exhaust from one
of the engines might have ignited
alcohol used before the takeoff to
remove ice coating the plane’s
wings.
The flight had been scheduled
to leave La Guardia at 2:45 p.m.
There was a long delay because
of the snowstorm, which official
ly totaled more than five inches
but reached greater depths in
some places. The plane, a DC-6A
authorized to carry around 100
persons, was trundled back into
a hangar to de-ice the wings.
The plane was finally cleared
for takeoff at 6:01 p.m. It crashed
from 30 seconds to a minute later.
The plane was 'believed to have
reached an altitude of about 200
feet.
Persons watching from the
ground reported a bright light,
orange or red. Some, including
several inmates of the city prison,
thought the glow came before the
smashup.
Rescuers from the prison raced
to the spot and found men, wom
en and children tumbling thru
cracks and doors of the plane.
Some with clothes afire fell in
the snow. Others staggered away.
A few seemed too paralyzed to
move, once out.
Northeast Airlines had just in
augurated the service from New
York to Miami on Jan. 9, winning
over opposition of two other lines
already providing such service.
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Eighth Victim of
Colliding Aircraft
Dies in Calif.
VAN NUYS, Calif., (fl)—A 12
year-old boy died Saturday—the
eighth victim of the plunge of two
colliding aircraft over the San
Fernando Valley.
He was Evan Eisner, who lost
a leg when cut down by flying
wreckage on the Pacoima Junior
High School athletic field Jan. 31.
Two other schoolboys and five
fliers were killed.
Eight children remain in criti
cal condition.
The left leg of Albert Ballou,
13, has been amputated.
BELLIGERENT LAWYER
LET OFF EASY
BALTIMORE Wfi—Attorney Ed
mond C. Fletcher got hot under
the collar when he thought he
heard a rival lawyer make an un
complimentary remark.
So the Washington attorney
took a swing at Francis A. Michel
during a hearing in federal court
Friday.
Fletcher got off with a repri
mand. The judge said he might
have brought contempt proceed
ings except for one thing:
Fletcher is 88.
American Easy-Pay
Debt Climbing
WASHINGTON, (JPI—jVmericans
owed a record $31,552,000,000 in
easy payment debts at the end of
last year. But the figure was
climbing at a slower rate.
The Federal Reserve Board re
ported FYiday the new install
ment total was about $2 Vz billion
higher than at the end of 1955.
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German Commander at
Stalingrad Dies in
East Germany
VTERSEN, West Germany, UD—
Ex-Field Marshal Friedrich Pau
lus, the German commander who
lost the battle of Stalingrad, died
Friday of cerebral apoplexy in
Communist East Germany.
About 200,000 of his soldiers
were killed by Russian guns, cold
or starvation in the Stalingrad
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defeat, which the Russians say.
turned the tide of World War n.
Only a few thousand of the 90,
000 captured survived Siberian
prison camps.
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