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107th Yeor. No. 35. Phone ST. 3-5000 *+* WASHINGTON, D. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 4; 1959-72 PAGES Home Delivered; S& 5 CENTS
65 Lose Lives
In East River
Airliner Crash
Eight Are Rescued
After New Plane
Falls Near Airport
NEW YORK. Feb. 4 (API.—
A glistening new Jet-powered
American Airlines plane with
73 persons aboard plunged into
the chilling, fog-covered waters
of the East River with a shat
tering crash late last night.
Slxty-flve apparently perished,
despite feverish rescue efforts
by harbor craft.
The plane’s pilot, using
instruments because of the
murky weather conditions, was
feeling his way gingerly toward
a runway at La Guardia Air
port after a flight from Chi
cago.
But for some undetermined
reason, the big four-engine
turbo-prop airliner fell into the
water and burst apart about
half a mile from the shore end
of the runway.
Some of the passengers and
crew were flung from or floated
out of the wreckage before it
sank to the river bottom 30 to
38 feet below.
Tug Rushes to Scene
A tugboat, a few hundred
feet away cut loose two barges
it was towing here from Con
necticut and raced to the crash
site. Crewmen leaped into the
water or used boathooks to pull
out the eight persons known
to <have survived. One was an
8-year-old boy.
A member of the tug’s crew
said the sights and sounds were
lomething never to be forgotten.
“There seemed to be bodies
Yll around, and there were con
tinual screams for help,” he
said.
All through the night and
Into a gray, rainy dawn swarms
of boats searched the river for
bodies. By midmorning only 20
had been recovered, leaving 45
still missing. The eight survi
vors, including three members
of the airline's crew, were in
hospitals.
Numerous investigations of
the tragedy were started. The
Civil Aeronautics Board alone
sent 26 men to the scene.
Many floating pieces of wreck
age, including a portion of the
main landing gear and pieces
of sheet metal, were recovered
and taken ashore to see if they
might yield any clues to the
cause of the crash.
TV Producer a Victim
Among the missing plane
passengers presumed dead were
Beulah Zachary, producer of
the Kukla, Fran and Ollie tele
vision program, and Richard
Winn, director of facility plan
ning for American Airlines.
Another was Robert W. Con
rad, 36, of 2203 Joan court,
Falls Church, Va„ an attorney-
See PLANE, Page A-6
3 Officers Lost
As B-47 Crashes
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Feb. 4
(APK—Three Air Force officers
were reported missing and pre
sumed dead in the crash of a
B-47 medium bombers near the
Little Rock Air Force Base last
night.
The plane plunged to the
ground and exploded as it ap
proached the base for a land
ing after completing a training
flight.
Base officials identified the
men aboard as Capt. Charles
W. Stevens, jr„ 41, aircraft
commander, from Beaufort, N.
C.; Capt. Robert S. McCoy, 34.
co-pilot. Des Moines, lowa, and
Ist Lt. J. W. Smith, 24, navi
gator. Little Neck, N. Y.
The plane had been in radio
contact with the base shortly
before the crash and had re
ported no trouble.
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SMALL SURVIVOR HELPED ASHORE—Robert Sullivan, 8, of Hemp
stead, N. Y., is carried ashore from the East River after the crash of an
American Airlines four-engine plane last night. (Story on Page A-6.)
AP Wirephoto.
Fire Safety Hazards
Found in Schools Here
Auchincloss Plans House Inquiry,
Says Corrective Steps Needed
By GRACE BASSETT
Ster Stuff Writer
The ranking House District Committee Republican said
today he has found fire protection seriously deficient in
some public and private schools throughout the city.
Representative Auchincloss, Republican of New Jersey,
made the findings as a result of a two-month study con
ducted by Fire Chief Millard Sutton. Cjjief Sutton was asked
to see if city schools were safe
guarded after 90 children and
three nuns were burned to
death in a private school fire
in Chicago on December 1.
Mr. Auchincloss promised a
thorough Investigation of fire
safety laws by the House Dis
trict Committee.
Deficiencies Cited
He also warned the House
that new laws may be required: i
1. To assure installation of
fire alarm boxes in every
school, hospital, nursing home
and place of assembly in the
District. Now 83 schools j
have no telephone or are more
House Unit OKs
Hawaii Statehood
By the Associated Press
The House Interior Commit
tee today approved a bill to
make Hawaii the 50th State.
Representative O’Brien,
Democrat of New York, acting
ommittee chairman, said the
15-4 vote reflected overwhelm
ing congressional sentiment in
favor of admitting Hawaii this
year.
The bill now goes to the
House Rules Committee, after
a one-week delay for filing of
formal reports.
It Is up to the Rules group
to schedule House action. Mr.
O’Brien said he believes there
is an excellent chance the Rules
Committee will clear the legis
lation for House consideration,
although it did not act on Alas
ka statehood last year.
The bill that brought Alaska
into the Union was taken up in
the face of Rules Committee
inaction.
Clark Urges 2 More
Juvenile Court Judges
Senator Clark, Democrat of
Pennsylvania, today urged a
Senate District Subcommittee
to recommend two rather than
one additional Juvenile Court
judges for the District.
His call for amendment of
his own Juvenile Court Judge
bill was echoed by Chief Judge
Leo A. Rover of the Municipal
Court of Appeals and the lone
Juvenile Court judge, Orm W.
Ketcham.
Chief Municipal Court Judge
Leonard P. Walsh added that
qualified people have assured
him two more judges are
needed.
Witnesses appeared before
the Judiciary Subcommittee,
headed by Senator Hartke.
Democrat of Indiana. He is
faced with the job of shaping
a compromise from two con
flicting bills to expand the
Juvenile Court bench.
As written, measures spon
sored by both Senator Clark
and Senator Frear, Democrat
of Delaware, would authorize
appointment of only one addi
tional judge.
The major differences rest
in the strict limitations of resi
dence and broad experience de
than 300 feet from fire box
alarms, he said.
2. To make fire drills a reg
ular part of the school curric
ulum. Mr. Auchincloss said
he was “startled” to find that
fire drills were not required by
District regulations. It ap
pealed to him that private and
parochial schools held an in
: sufficient number of drills.
1 Mr. Auchincloss said he also
' lacked assurances that private
and parochial schools are up
.j to public school standards In
jthe number of fire doors and
jin closed fire stairways. Chief
I Sutton reported that every
i public elementary school would
be equipped with interior en
closed stairways if present
budgets cleared Congress.
Committee Inquiry
Mr. Auchincloss hailed Chief
I Sutton for the thorough in
! vestlgatlon made of fire safety
• equipment. He urged House
, members to read the report so
they can aid District commit
teemen In the coming investi
• | gation.
: The “most disturbing” lack
; was the inadequacy of facilities
for calling the Fire Department
in case of emergency. Mr. Au
-1 chincloss said.
> “This should be corrected
even if a law is required.” Mr.
, Auchincloss stressed. “In that
; way, as nearly as is humanly
, possible, assistance can be as
' ‘ sured without delay, many in
| juries avoided and lives saved.”
i
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» Crash Kills 12
GUADALAJARA. Mexico.
' Feb. 4 i APi —Twelve Mexicans
were killed and six seriously
injured yesterday when a bus
i and a truck collided on the
i highway about 25 miles from
' Guadalajara. Six persons were
badly injured.
manded for the new judge by
'Senator Frear.
Senator Clark said he had
revised his earlier estimate of
court needs after studying
the overwhelming burden of
present case loads on Judge
Ketcham. The judge con
ducted 13,196 hearings in fiscal
1958. A backlog of 371 juve
nile cases and 671 adult cases
awaited first hearings Jan
uary 1, 1959.
"A good judge ought to take
a couple of hours each day to
think," Senator Clark insisted.
“He is hearing serious family
problems. He should not fe«.l
| that he is on a treadmill like
!& squirrel.”
Senator Frear said he is con
vinced “at least" one additional
! judge is necessary. But he did
not commit himself to an cddi
: tional two judges.
Unlike other witnesses, who
shied away from the conflicts
lin the Clark and Frear ver
sions, the Senators tackled
:them head on.
Most controversial appeared
to be the Frear requirement
that a new judge must have
lived in the District for five
See JUVENILE, Page A-7
District Loses
Slum Grants
HHFA Won't Add
Funds in 2 Areas
By AL ALIBRANDO
Btar Staff Writer
The Housing and Home Fi
nance Agency has refused to!
extend expired capital grants
for slum clearance in the
George Washington University
and Foggy Bottom areas.
John Searles, jr„ director of
the District Redevelopment
Land Agency, told its board
members of this setback today.
Mr. Searles said Federal I
.grants of $3.5 million for thej
GW section and $400,000 ex-;
pired last December 15. The
RLA asked the Federal agency
for an extension and it was
I refused.
However, this does not mean'
i the end of urban renewal in
ithe two areas. John Remon,!
: chairman of the RLA board,
stressed that the District
agency would ask for new
grants.
-
Decision Due Soon
He said the agency expects
to announce within six weeks
whether it will use its powers
to condemn property to obtain
two square blocks in the
George Washington area for at
field house and law center. The
university’s long-range expan
sion program provides for the
field house between F and G
and Twenty-second and Twen
ty-third streets and a law cen
| ter between Ninteenth and
! Twentieth streets and Penn
sylvania avenue and C streets.
Mr. Searles conceded, how
ever, that if sufficient funds are i
not authorized for urban re-1
newal by this Congress, ration
ing of Federal money will con
tinue and the District will have
less chance of getting a new
authorization for the GW and
Foggy Bottom areas.
He noted, however, that pri
vate rehabilitation is going
along rapidly in Foggy Bottom
and that it may only be neces
sary for RLA to “pick up the
pieces” in less desirable sections
near the proposed western leg
of the interloop.
Other Actions Listed
In other actions, the RLA:
Disclosed that Archbishop
O'Boyle had been notified that
Immaculate Conception Cath
olic Church, between Eighth
and Ninth streets on N street
N.W. probably would not be
disturbed by future slum clear
ance projects in Northwest.
That the RLA itself is mov
ing to make way for slum
clearance in Southwest. The
agency’s headquarters, now at
685 Maine avenue S.W., will be
moved March 15 to 919 Eight
eenth street N.W.
Postmaster General
Assistant Named
Rollin D. Barnard, a deputy
assistant Postmaster General
since 1955. was nominated by
President Eisenhower today for
promotion to Assistant Post
master General.
Mr. Barnard, 36, a Republi
can who formerly taught real
estate management at the Uni
versity of Denver, was named
to succeed Ormonde A. Kieb,
who recently resigned as As
sistant Postmaster General in
charge of the bureau of fa
cilities
Japanese Boat Seized
NAGASAKI. Japan, Feb. 4
(AP>.—A South Korean gun
boat today fired on nine Jap
anese fishing boats and cap
tured one of them. Police said
the 5-ton Hamahisa Maru and
its crew of six were seized only
4 miles from the northern coast
lof Japan's Tsushima Island. 1
Soviet Frees Convoy
After U. S. Protest
Alexandria
Told to Admit
9 Negro Pupils
Judge Bryan Orders
Board to Enroll
Students Tuesday
By DAN POOLE
Star Staff Writer
Federal Judge Albert V.
Bryan today ordered nine of
14 Negro applicants into three
or possibly four all-white Al
exandria schools beginning
Tuesday , •
He refused to defer the ad
missions until September as had
Young Students Named in Alexandria
Order. Page A-27
Arlington Integration Remains Calm.
Poga A-28
been requested by the school
board.
Ordered Into the Theodore
Ficklin Elementary School are
James E. Lomax and Margaret
I. Lomax. Patsy Ragland and
James Ragland are to be ad
mitted to Hammond High
School.
Ordered Into either Patrick
Henry or William Ramsay Ele
mentary Schools are Kathryn
C. Turner, Sandra Turner, Ger
ald Turner, Jessie Mae Jones
and Sarah A. Ragland. The
school board is given the op
tion of assigning them to either
sohools.
Involves Many Problems
Judge Bryan said the delay
until next fall was refused be
cause “aside from a considera
tion of the rights of the plain
; tiffs, a postponement from one
session to another, as distin
guished from one semester to
another in the same session,
would involve many problems.
“Among others, it would
mean a wholly new review, ad
ministrative and possibly judi
cial, of the qualifications of all
the applications here because
of their completion of one
grade and entrance into an
other in the interval.”
Os the five pupils denied ad
mission to the white schools,
Judge Bryan said three live
closer to their present school,
Parker-Gray High School, than
they do to George Washington
High School where they were
seeking to enter. He upheld
the school board’s rejection of
their applications.
Two other students were re
fused admission to Patrick
Henry or Ramsay Schools for
"academic deficiency."
Must Admit Others
“But.” he ruled, "the re
maining nine applicants should
be admitted to the schools they
requested, the evidence not giv
ing a basis other than race for
their rejection.”
Judge Bryan said he dis
carded mental or emotional
stability as a factor in the
determination of the applica
tions. That reason had been
; invoked by the board in all 14
cases.
He said the mental or emo
tional stability factor would not
apply to any of the applica
tions. Two of the other five
: factors used by the school board
in its determinations —health
and well-being of the appli
cant. and whether he is a bona
See ALEXANDRIA, Page A-3
Dulles Reaches London,
Has No New Proposals
LONDON, Feb. 4 <APK—SCc- i
retary of State Dulles flew in I
from Washington today for ]
urgent talks with allied leaders '
on Western policy in Germany
and elsewhere in Europe.
“I have brought no new pro
posals," he told reporters at j
the airport.
“I have come here because
I suspect that in coming weeks ■
we will be forced to take diffi
cult decisions pressed on us by 1
the Soviet Union.
“It is vital that the Western j
nations should understand each 1
other.”
After two days of consulta- 1
tions in London. Mr. Dulles '
plans to go on to Paris and ;
Bonn.
“I am confident that after all
these talks we will be in a bet
ter position to meet the prob
lems of the future." he said.
"But I shall do more listening 1
than talking.” 1
As Mr. Dulles arrived re
ports circulated in London that 1
Prime Minister Macmillan has
decided to accept a long-stand
ing invitation to visit Moscow,
probably next month. -
The reports said Mr. Mac
millan will be prepared to dis
cuss with Premier Khrushchev
President Hails Virginia
On Calm Integration
Warns Against New Rights Bill
That Would 'Raise Tempers'
By GARNETT D. HORNER
Star Staff Writer
President Eisenhower warned against any new civil rights
legislation that would “raise tempers” today as he praised
Virginians for their orderly start of school desegregation in
Arlington and Norfolk.
The President told a news conference he believes all
Americans should compliment Virginia State officials who
determined that there was go
ing to be no violence when
Negroes entered former all
white schools Monday.
He added that he is “cer
tainly proud” of the way the
parents of the Virginia school
children involved performed
their duties, and of the stu
dents themselves.
No “Police Force”
As for new civil rights legis
lation, Mr. Eisenhower said he
never would propose anything!
he did not believe the public
would accept as “moderate and
decent.”
He added that he thought it
would be “a wicked thing” for
the Federal Government to take
any action that would give peo
ple an excuse to say that it was
trying to set up a great Fed
j eral police force to see that
every citizen does his duty.
President Challenges
'Spenders' on Tax Rise
By J. A. O LEARY
Star Btaff Writer
President Eisenhower today
challenged Democrats to in
clude higher taxes in their
spending programs to keep the
Federal budget balanced.
He came out swinging ver
bally against the spenders in
Congress at his news confer
ence today, directing his blows
at the Democratic housing and
airport bills.
In both of these bills. Sen
ate Democrats have gone well
beyond Mr. Eisenhower’s budget
figures, and may pass both
bills this week.
As the President spoke the
Senate began debate on the
$2.9 billion Democratic housing
bill, which is $1.2 billion more
than the President recom
mended.
Airport Bill Approved
The Senate Commerce Com
mittee, meanwhile, approved a
$565 million airport bill in place
of S2OO million in the Presi
dent’s budget.
The President made it clear
he is going to take his plea
for a balanced budget to the
country at every opportunity,
but declined to say whether he;
would veto either the housing
or airport bills as they stand.
Both the housing and airport
money would be spent over the
next five or six years, but some
where between S3OO million and
SSOO million would go into the
1960 spending program and
throw the budget out of balance
by that amount.
Mr. Eisenhower said he won
dered why the advocates of
higher spending do not write
into each of these bills the
taxes required to finance them.
a general easing of East-West
tension, including the German
problem control of nuclear
weapons and expansion of trade
between the USSR and the
non-Communist world.
British Foreign Secretary
Selwyn Lloyd welcomed Mr
Dulles at London Airport.
Mr. Dulles planned to have
a quick talk with United States
Gen. Lauris Norstad, the su
preme commander of North At
lantic alliance forces in Europe,
and then meet with Mr. Lloyd
and Mr. Macmillan.
British opinion favors a
change in th# Western approach
which would offer a demon
stration of allied flexibility.
There is a strong feeling here
that any new allied proposal
to unite Germany will stand a
better chance of breaking the
East-West deadlock than the
often-rejected demand for free
all-German elections.
Leaving Washington yester
day, Mr. Dulles told newsmen
:he hoped to make some prog
ress in arranging a Big Four
meeting with Russia on Ger
.many. He did not specify at
what level.
The Secretary spoke with re-
See DULLES, Page A-I7
Metropolitan
Edition
New York Markets, Page A-35
t After the news conference.
' the White House announced
that the administration’s civil
' rights proposals will be sent to
1 Congress this week.
[ The President made it clear
in discussing proposed legisla
tion that he is reluctant to try
bans against racial discrimina
tion in Federal housing pro
grams.
A questioner, noting that the
’ Civil Rights Commission had
:! found evidence of racial dis
crimination in the North as
j well as in the South in Federal
housing projects, asked if the
. funds should be withheld from
! projects where there was such
, discrimination.
Mr. Eisenhower said that was
i another facet of the problem.
. He said he would not want to
give a “shotgun opinion” about
See CIVIL RIGHTS, Page A-3
The President said that would
be the honest and straight
forward way to find out
whether the people want these
larger programs.
Peak Income Tax
Although the President rec
ommended a few special tax
increases in his budget message,
he made it clear today he
thinks income tax rates gener
ally are as high as they should
go, barring some emergency.
Senator Monroney of Okla
homa, in charge of the Demo
cratic airport bill, made this
retort to the President's tax
suggestion:
"How about cutting out some
of the other wild, unnecessary
items he has in his budget, such
as s2l million to buy three 707
jet planes for the use of VIPs?”
The Senator added that Con
gress will impose a new tax on
jet fuel, but not as much as
[the President requested, even
though this revenue would go
into the highway fund. He
pointed out that planes do not
use the highways, but will make
up the cost of his bill by spe
cial taxes already imposed.
Air Tragedy Mentioned
The President seized upon
the tragedy in New York this
morning, where an American j
Airlines plane fell into the East j
River, to emphasize that his;
airport bill is confined to safety
facilities and does not concern j
i itself with “lovely adminlstra
| tion buildings.” He said the;
Federal Government did not
build terminal stations for the
railroads or bus lines.
The President said El wood R.
Quesada, head of the new Fed
eral Aviation Agency, told him
there is no evidence of failure
of the safety devices in the
New York tragedy. But the
President said one thing is
sure—that no money put into a
terminal building could have
prevented such an accident.
The President repeated his
warning that an unbalanced
budget would further cheapen
the dollar, result in higher
fares on the airlines, and make
everything more expensive for
the housewife.
“I am against it,” the Presi
dent snapped, in sharp tones
as he ended his discourse on
deficit spending.
Responding to questions about
See HOUSING, Page A-3
President Leaves
For Georgia
President Eisenhower flew
south today for a golf and quail
shooting vacation at Thomas
ville, Ga.
The presidential plane Col
umbine 111 took off at 12:20
p.m. for Spence Air Base at
Moultrie, Ga. From there Mr.
Eisenhower will drive 35 miles
to the plantation of his host,
former Secretary of the Treas
ury George M. Humphrey.
The President will return
next Monday.
Besides several White House
aides, he was accompanied by
one of his golf partners, Barry
Leithead, New York business
man.
4 Trucks
Allowed tc
Advance
BULLETIN
HELMSTEDT, Germany
(AP).—The Russians tonight
released a convoy of four
American trucks which they
had held on the route be
tween Berlin and West Ger
many since Monday.
The four-truck convoy
manned by five soldiers rolled
into West Germany at 6:12
p.m.
The Red Army released th*
convoy after the United
States rushed 'diplomatic
troubleshooter Findlay Burns
here from Berlin for a con
ference with the Soviet poli
tical adviser to the Russian
Army in Germany.
The United States today
charged Russia with a “clear
violation” of American right*
in the detention of an Ameri
can four-truck military convoy
on the East German highway
between Berlin and West Ger
many.
The State Department note,
delivered to the Soviet Foreign
Office in Moscow this morning,
was released a few hours after
President Eisenhower an
nounced at 'his news confer
ence that a “vigorous” protest
was being lodged with the Rus
sians.
Agreement Violated
The note said the action of
Soviet border guards was "un
warranted and inadmissable”
and it called on the Russian
government to “take the neces
sary measures to allow the men
and vehicles to proceed to their
destination and to ensure
against the repetition of the
incident.”
The President said the United
States regards the Soveit bor
der guards’ action as a viola
tion of an implied agreement
that all four occupying powers
in Germany have the right to
bring supplies In and out of
Berlin.
He said the United States
has never acknowledged any
right of inspection for Rus
sian guards or other participat
ing occupation powres of sup
plies for Berlin.
The American convoy was
allowed to leave Berlin after
being passed through the No
wawes checkpoint by Soviet
personnel, “having been found
to comply with normal proce
dure,” the American note
stated.
Halted at Marienborn
The trucks were stopped by
Russian authorities at the Ma
rienborn checkpoint and “th#
Soviet authorities refused to
allow it to proceed,” the United
States said.
“The action of the Soviet
authorities at Marienborn is in
clear violation of the United
States’ right of access to Berlin
via the Berlin-Holmstedt auto
bahn,” the note declared.
The convoy was stopped at
1:05 p.m., central European
time last Monday. The five sol
diers, taking the trucks out,
have spent two cold nights in
the trucks.
Viewed As Test
The Russians’ move to in
spect American supply trucks
at this point was taken as an
effort to test American firm
ness In the face of Soviet
threats to turn over their oc
cupational functions to Ger
many.
In a brief comment on So
viet Premier Khrushchev’s long
speech before the 21st Com-
See PROTEST, Page A-7
ROCKET ENGINES
BIG BUSINESS
SUPER-BIG ore the rocket en
gines being mode in California—
-1.5 million pounds of engine, so bo
exact. William Hines, Star science
writer, tells about the project in
California on Poge A-8.
GROWING UP musically—tbot’i
what Washington has achieved since
the '2os. Dame Myra Hess takes •
long look at our town's musical
tastas in an interview with France!
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