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Crash Investigators
To Study P-38 Radio;
All Bodies Recovered
Navy divers today were rigging
hoisting tackle to the Bolivian
P-38 believed to contain valuable
clues to the cause of the world’s
biggest airplane disaster.
The speedy, twin-engined fight
er. however torn and twisted, prob
ably still bears markings to reveal
the angle at which it chopped
through the fuselage of an Eastern
Airlines DC-4 just south of Na
tional Airport Tuesday.
Further light on the tragedy
that cost 55 lives may be shed by
the radio equipment over which
Pilot Eric Rios Bridoux, 30, talked
back and forth with National Air
port traffic controllers before tak
ing off on what was to have been
a routine test flight.
Rios Given 60-40 Chance.
While Capt. Rios clung to life
today with what doctors believed
was a 60-40 chance of survival,
salvage operations were under
way from a floa'mg Navy crane
near the spot where the captain’s
P-38 catapulted him through a
plastic canopy into the Potomac.
He was rescued to become the lone
survivor.
The fact that Capt. Rios lived
more than an instant after his
fast fighter hit the airliner from
above and behind is a mystery
to military aviation experts. They
are interested to see the condition
of the heavy safety belts which
usually are fastened in flight, es
pecially during landings and take
offs. Valuable clues also should
be any sections of the canopy that
may be recovered.
Meanwhile, harbor police re
covered the last body—that of
William Smythe of Long Island,
N. Y., secretary-treasuruer of a
pencil manufacturing company.
All 55 bodies have now been iden
tified, the airline announced.
Capt. Rios, director of aviation
for Bolivia, is a veteran pilot
who has crossed the Andes many
times in P-38s.
Radio Will Be Examined.
Capt. Rios has a broken back,
three broken ribs and pneumonia
in one lung, in addition to severe
scalp lacerations and facial
bruises. The physician attending
the flyer said today he is not out
of danger, but apparently has
recovered somewhat from the
shock he received Wednesday
night when he learned for the;
■first time that his plane had
struck an airliner.
Experts from the Civil Aero-:
nautics Board's Bureau of Safety
Investigation were waiting today
for a minute examination of the
receiving and sending radio equip
ment in the P-38. They want to
see the wave-length settings on
the dials, and the condition of
radio equipment. The rugged
sets installed to withstand war
time shocks may still reveal if
they were in good order at the
time of impact, and still retain
Capt. Rios dial settings.
An explanation for the tragedy*
may yet be found in the moni-i
tored conversation between the I
LOST.
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—6
BADGE, Woman's Relief Corps; Sunday,
Oct. 30, on Capital Transit bus or street
car, between 14th st. n.w. and Uhland
terrace n.e Call TA. 3948. Will Identify.
Reward.
BEAGLE, short-legged, black and brown,
with white spot under breast, answers to
"King"; vie. Gallinger Hospital. Thurs.
afternoon. Reward. AT. 2537 after 4:30.
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CAT, large, black and white: Tuesday,
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COCKER SPANIEL, black and white, male,
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clipped, Ga. ave. bet. Allison and Buch
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COCKER SPANIEL PUPPY, all black. 8
Bos. old, answers to the name “Teddy”;
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COCKER SPANIEL, reddish brown, half
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p irn Wed. Reward. TE. 3917.
COLT REVOLVER, .38, in New Municipal
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Reward. Box 74-K. Star. 6*
DOG—Small white female pup, with black
markings; lost in vicinity of Naval Gun
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please call FR. 5700, Ext. 573. —6
DOG, large, red-brown. '•Bonnie.” Ta
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EARRING, gold filigree; in Georgetown,
Thursday evening. Reward. HO. 0567.
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last rfon. evening. Party who called Sat
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FOUNTAIN PEN, Sheaffer’s Lifetime; be
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Call RA. 4596.
GLASSES, white pearl frame, brown case
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National Airport Reward. WI, 8947.
gold CIGARETTE LIGHTER* in black
leather case. Both initialed K. B. B.. in
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IDENTIFICATION BRACELET, name “Oron
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KITTEN, yellow and white; vie. 5741
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6294 after 6. —4
PASS CASE, with identifications. Please
return. Small reward. Call HO. 1335.
PENDANT PEARL EARRING, of persona
value. Reward. Telephone DU. 8299.
—6
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SIAMESE CAT—Lost vie. 18th and Har
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—6
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papers; vie. H st. n.e. or 7th st. n.w.
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AX. 2463 —6
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or on No. 30 streetcar. 17th and Pa. s.e.
Jerry Hatto engraved on back. DI. 7394
after 6, weekdays. Reward. •
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COMMUNIST LEADERS HAPPY AFTER BAIL—New York.—The
11 convicted Communist leaders were all smiles as they left
Federal courthouse last night after being freed on bail totaling
$260,000 while awaiting appeal of their sentences. In front, left
to right, are John Williamson, labor secretary of the party, hold
ing his son Neil, 2VaI Gilbert Green, Illinois State party chair
man; John Gates, Daily Worker editor; Jack Stachel, national
education director; Benjamin Davis, New York City councilman;
Eugene Dennis, general party secretary; Henry Winston, na
tional organizing secretary; Robert Thompson, New York State
chairman. Between Green and Gates are Gus Hall (top), Ohio
State chairman, and Irving Potash, manager of the CIO Fur
riers Joint Council. Party hidden between Stachel and Davis is
Carl Winter, Michigan State chairman.
controllers, Capt. Rios and the
late Capt. George Ray, com
mander of the DC-4. Capt. Ray.
flying in excellent visibility, was
on course, on time and following
tower instructions to the letter
when cut down from behind, ac
cording to CAA observers watch
ing from the tower.
Instructions Disregarded.
The Bolivian, for some reason
as yet unexplained, disregarded
repeated and increasingly frantic
tower instructions, and approached
the runway already assigned to the
DC-4 at an “unusual speed and
steep angle’’ without deviating
from a course he set at 3,000 to
4,000 feet about a mile south of
Alexandria, according to tower
operators. The P-38, with flaps
and wheels down, was still on
this collision course when Capt.
Ray was ordered to make an
emergency turn away from his
curved landing approach. The
captain complied immediately, but
it was then too late.
There seems little doubt that
neither pilot had seen the other
plane when they collided at some
600 feet altitude.
CAB and airline experts today
still worked with the salvaged
wreckage of the DC-4, which was
trucked from the bank by Air
Force equipment, and raised from
25 feet of water by the Navy
crane. They were seeking to
establish the colliding airplane’s
position at the time of the im
pact for comparison with marks
on the fighter.
Results of the approaching pub
lic hearing to be conducted here
by the CAB probably will have a
bearing on the complex question
of liability. A question to be
determined is whether the Boliv
ian government had assumed title
and responsibility for the surplus
warcraft, being purchased from a J
private disposal agency. Capt.j
Rios was preparing to fly the'
plane to Bolivia and had ordered
some modifications.
Hope for Further Questioning.
It was learned yesterday that
Capt. Rios has made a fairly,
comprehensive statement to CAB
investigators, who hope to ques
tion him further when his condi
tion permits. The CAB is holding
the information in confidence
pending the hearing.
Among hundreds of prospective
witnesses being interviewed are
operators of the control towers at
the Anacostia Naval Air Station
and Bolling Air Force Base. Na
tional and the two military fields
across the river are tuned to the
same frequencies and monitor each
other because of interconnecting
approaches.
The CAB wants to learn if the
military observers got the same
version of the conversation as that
given by National’s controllers, and
if Capt. Rios was heard to respond
to the orders directing him to fol
low a circular traffic pattern at
first, and then to, “turn left! . . .
turn left!”
Capt. Rios speaks excellent
English and his talks with the
tower prior to take-off were rou
tine, it was said.
Meanwhile, the CAB was scour
ing Washington for a puhlic hear
ing room large enough to accom
modate the witnesses, officials, re
porters and public expected to at
tend. It was at first believed the
hearing would start next week,
but plans probably will not be
completed for about 10 days, a
CAB spokesman said today.
Barney Settlement House
To Mark Its 45th Year
Barney Neighborhood House,
470 N street S.W., celebrates its
48th anniversary tomorrow with a
five-hour program starting at 5
p.m.
The program includes a boxing
exhibition by boy members, en
tertainment by the boys’ and girls’
glee clubs, a supper and square
dancing. There also will be a
sale of handicrafts.
Among those expected to at
tend are Mrs. Wilbur Carr, pres
ident of the board of the settle
ment house; Mrs. Leona Crabb,
one of the first members of the
organization, and Mrs. Laura
Dreyfus-Bamey, a daughter of the
late Mrs. Alice Pike Barney who
gave the building for the settle
ment house.
Radio-Directed Boat
Picks Up 2 on Raft
By the Associated Press
MONTAUK POINT, N. Y., Nov.
4.—A rescue boat, aided by radio
directions from a Coast Guard
plane, picked two brothers off a
collapsible raft yesterday after
their leaking 50-foot fishing
trawler sank in the ocean about
20 miles offshore.
The brothers, Felix C. Birch, 32,
and William, 30, of Mamaroneck,
N. Y., were unharmed.
Their trawler, the Rose W„
sprang a leak in the engine room.
They took to a raft when they saw
the pumps would not keep the
boat afloat.
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Police escorted this man from the scene of a disorder last night in Harlem in which six
policemen were injured and six persons taken into custody as bottles and bricks pelted a police
detail trying to halt a torchlight parade. The marchers were honoring Davis. —AP Wirephotos.
Mob in Harlem Fells
6 Police in Welcome
To Freed Red Leaders
By Associated Press
NEW YORK, Nov. 4.—Eleven:
top American Communists went
free on bond last night. Less
than three hours later a brick
hurling Harlem mob felled six
police in a wild welcome-home
for one of the Red leaders.
The Communist leaders signed
bail bonds totaling $260,000 and
walked out to a freedom that
may last a year until the Su
preme Court reviews their recent
conviction of conspiring to advo
cate violent overthrow of the
United States Government.
Defendant Benjamin J. Davis.
jr„ Negro city councilman, met a
roaring welcome when he made
a stret-comer speech in Harlem
a short time later. With him were
defendants Henry Winston, also a
Negro, and Robert Thompson.
Negro Singer Paul Robeson,
leftist target of two recent
Peekskill (N. Y.) riots, also spoke.
Began Torchlight Parade.
A crowd of about 2,000 cheered
the speakers and then began a
torchlight parade up Lenox ave
nue through the tense, crowded
heart of New York’s big Negro
district.
A handful of police stood by.
Officers later said the marchers
endangered bystanders by wav
ing their flickering torches.
Three police cars swung across
Lenox Avenue at 114th street.
The paraders broke the thin po
lice line and milled around the
cars, chanting in tune with a
sound truck, "We will not be
moved.”
From rooftops came a barrage
of bottles, bricks, saucers, cups
and broomsticks.
Missiles Shatter Windows.
Over the sound truck loud
speakers, a voice roared:
"We are not going to be stopped
by the police department of New
York City. We will march.”
Missiles shattered windows in
the area. The paraders tried
vainly to overturn a police car.
Its windshield was smashed.
Police reserves, led by some of
the department’s top officials,
poured into the area—on edge for
weeks over a bitter local election
campaign in which communism
is a dominant issue.
Six persons—four of them Ne
groes—were arrested. One Negro
was charged with assaulting a
policeman. The other men were
accussed of disorderly conduct.
Police Taken to Hospital.
The injured police, none hurt
seriously, were taken to hospitals
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after they were hit by bricks or
other objects.
The parade finally broke up as
some of the crowd followed Davis
off to other meetings.
Davis later told newsmen:
“My re-election is needed to'
end at once and for all the police j
department brutality, evidefoced j
particularly tonight against Har
lem’s people.
“We are not going to stand
for it.”
The Negro councilman, with
strong Communist support, is
running for re-election next
Tuesday on the American Labor
Party ticket.
Davis said Harlemites were
“celebrating and rejoicing the
liberation of their rights.”
Move Made to Bar Vote.
Meanwhile the State attorney
general moved today to bar Davis
and John Gates, editor of the
Daily Worker, from voting in next
Tuesday’s election.
Attorney General Nathaniel L.
Goldstein said only Davis and
Gates, of the- 11 convicted party
leaders, had registered to vote in
the election.,
/ Orders were obtained by Mr.
Goldstein in State Supreme Court
requiring both men to show cause
by 10 a.m. next Monday why they
should not be prevented from vot
ing.
The attorney general acted un
der a State law which says no
person convicted of a felpny in
Federal Court shall have the right
to register or vote unless par
doned or restored to citizenship
rights by the President.
Says Hoodlums Moved In.
A police department official,
refusing to be quoted by name,
said the officers had no objection
to a Harlem celebration for Davis.
But he charged that hoodlums
moved in and provoked the dis
turbance.
He called 98 per cent of Har
lem’s residents “good and law
abiding.” The remaining 2 per
cent, he said, are hoodlums “who,
whenever possible, deliberately
provoke trouble with uniformed
police.”
As a precaution against possible
new outbreaks of violence, 360 ad
ditional police were assigned to
patrol Harlem today and tonight.
Police said 135 patrolmen were
added to the regular day patrol
and 225 were detailed to augment
the night shift.
The Government delayed the
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release of the 11 Communists for
hours yesterday. Finally, however,
it conceded that their bail was in
order.
Sympathizers Chant.
They walked out after dark,
while about 100 sympathizers out
side the Federal Courthouse
cheered and sang their familiar
phrase:
“Like a tree by the water, we
shall not be moved.’’
The Government had asked no
less than $1,000,000 in bail to
guarantee that the 11 Commun
ists will be around to serve their
prison terms if they lose their
appeals.
However, the United States Cir
cuit Court of Appeals set bail at
$30,000 each for four of the Com
munists, who have bail-jumping
records or are deportable aliens.
The bond for the other seven
was fixed at $20,000 each.
The Civil Rights Congress,
tabbed subversive by the Attorney
General’s office, immediately put
up Treasury Bonds as bail. It
took nearly 10 hours, however, to
satisfy the Government that the
group had a right to use the bonds
for bail.
Constitutionality Questioned.
The Appeals Court pointed out
that even ^he Government con
cedes that the Communists’ case
raises “ a substantial question” as
to the constitutionality of the
Smith Act.
The 11 were convicted under the
act after one of the longest trials
in history and all were fined $10,
000 each. Ten drew prison sen
tences of five years. The other
got three years.
All are appealing their convic
tion by a Federal jury last Octo
ber 14 and the sentences meted
out October 21 by Federal Judge
Harold R. Medina.
Judge Medina refused the 11
bail while they were making their
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CAA Action Clearing
Airline in Disaster
Causes CAB Dispute
Civil Aeronautics Board and
Civil Aeronautics Administration
officials today were seeking to
patch up a controversy that arose
when CAA Administrator D. W.
Rentzel issued a statement clear
ing Eastern Air Lines of blame in
the air disaster here Tuesday
prior to the CAB'S public inquiry;
into the accident.
Board members are known to
be disturbed over the fact that
such a statement was issued by a
Federal official whose employes:
will be parties before a judicial
hearing on equal status with air-1
line employes and Capt. Eric Rios
Bridoux, Bolivian pilot of the
P-38 involved in the collision.
The issue, they feel, is quite
aside from the accuracy of Mr.
Rentzel’s conclusions. All- facts
developed so far point to the cer
tainty that the DC-4 was oper
ating according to the regulations,
and its pilots did all possible to
save the passengers.
Question Right to Act.
Nevertheless, it was felt, the
CAA had no right officially to de-!
clare one of the parties wholly
faultless before the CAB had held
its hearing and made an official
finding as to the cause of the ac
cident. ,
The CAB is an independent
agency, charged with the investi
gation and determination of the
causes of air accidents, and with
the determination of rates, routes
and other economic matters in
the industry.
“The CAB might have to rule
against the CAA in certain cases,”
it was said, “and for this rea
son alone it seems improper that
the administrator should comment
upon the standing of another
party to the proceedings.”
What was said by the CAA’s
traffic controllers in the tower at
National Airport and the replies
they received will be key testi
mony at the hearing. This back
and-forth conversation went on in
the few minutes prior to the crash
that cost 55 lives.
Statement Approved.
On the other hand, the CAA
says the statement was discussed
with and approved by Secretary
of Commerce Sawyer and Assist
ant Secretary C. V. Whitney and
released to reassure the public
at a time when commercial air
lines were getting an unjustified
“black eye” that was hurting busi
ness.
The CAA is charged by law to
see that all aircraft operate in
conformity with the safety reg
ulations. A study of the accident
was made, it was said, and the
statement was issued on the basis
of the study which disclosed the
aircraft was operating strictly ac
cording to the regulations.
In CAB circles it was said Mr.
Rentzel only Issued the statement
because of “pressure from above.”
Top officials would not be
quoted directly except to say that
the “CAB and CAA have never
enjoyed more amicable relations,
and are co-operating with each
other in every way.”
Synagogue Service Tonight
Services conducted by Rabbi
Henry Segal at B’nai Israel Syn
agogue, Fourteenth and Emerson
streets N.W., will be held at 8:30
tonight. Rabbi Segal will deliver
a sermon on “God’s World.”
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Recorded Voice
Of Atheist Scores
Clergy at Funeral
By the Associated Press
DENVER, Nov. 4.—The mourn
ers faced the flower-covered coffin
holding the body of Oscar O.
Whitenack, 79, former editor of j
the Denver Post Open Forum.
With some surprise, they noted
the absence of clergy or music.!
Then a voice spoke out:
"This is my funeral. The clergy J
is a racket. I want no religious
songs. This is going to be a per
fectly rational funeral.”
The voice was Mr. Whitenack’s.
Several months ago, expecting
death which finally came Satur
day, he had planned and recorded
his own services.
The voice explained, “I am an|
atheist and have been for many j
years.”
It went on to attack religion,!
the Bible, beliefs in a God.
There was a pause. Then, very
quietly, "That’s all.”
The body was buried in Crown:
Hill Cemetery Wednesday. The
record was placed in the casket
Mrs. Adelaide M. Hart
Rites in Virginia Tomorrow
Funeral services will be held to
morrow for Mrs. Adelaide M.
Hart, a former District resident
for more than 30 years, who died
of a heart attack in Milwaukee
on Tuesday.
The services will be held in
Berryville, Va., with burial there.
Mrs. Hart’s husband, John,
died in 1935. He was employed in
the composing room of The Star.
Their home here was in the 500
block of Kenyon street N.W.
Survivors are four brothers,
John, Walter and Thomas Morse
of Milwaukee, and William Morse
of Niagara Falls, N. Y„ and two
sisters, Mrs. Mae Mohm and Miss
Alice Morse of Milwaukee.
Woman Severely Burned
In Water Heater Blast
Mrs. Virginia Countee, 46, col
ored, of 1023 Second street N.E.,
suffered severe burns about her
body today when a coal-fired
water heater exploded in the
kitchen of her home. Neighbors
who heard the blast and the
screams of the injured woman
who was alone in the house, came
to her aid.
Mrs. Countee is in a serious
condition in Casualty Hospital.
Police notified her husband, Rob
ert Countee, a taxicab driver, of
the accident.
Rickenbacker Urges
Civilian and Military
Planes Be Separated
Capt. Eddie V. Rickenbacker,
president of Eastern Air Lines, be
lieves that Tuesday’s air crash of
an EAL transport and a P-38 calls
for separation of civilian and
military planes in use of some
airports.
This should be done in the case
of "overcrowded” fields, he told
' reporters last night, following an
address to the Unitarian Laymen’s
I League of All Souls’ Church here.
Asked whether the Bolivian pilot
of the P-38 had given anyone an
J explanation of whether his radio
! had broken down and he failed
; to hear the warnings of the Na
j tional Airport tower, Capt. Rick
! enbacker said “no one has been
! able to find out anything from
the pilot yet.”
I The airlines official made his
i first reference to the crash in
which 55 persons lost their lives
in answer to a question from the
floor on what he thought was the
future of aviation in this country.
"We have just had a terrible
tragedy,” he said. "It has rocked
me to my toenails because it was
beyond my control.”
"I spend money like a drunken
sailor for safety. I hope there
; will be some good come out of it.”
Capt. Rickenbacker predicted
that, in five years, airline speeds
; will be doubled. Jet propulsion for
i transports is only five or six yean
! off, he said.
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VAN DAME ESTATES, INC.
Sarasota, Florida
• Single Vision or Bifocala
• Regular Frames or Rimleae
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Examination
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• 2-Hour Service on New Glasses
• 1 -to-2-Hour Service on Broken Lenses
HILLYARD OPTICAL CO.
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711 6 St. N.W.. 521 B St. N.E.
EXTRA-HANDSOME NEW QO.OM HARVEST TONE IN OUR
OWN MAOE-TO- ORDER, IMPERIAL WINGTlPS, STRAIGHT DPS,
DU/UTER AND PLAIN TOE STYLES. DOUBLE SOLES,
Storm welts. wiiiMne
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