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Weather borecast District and vicinity—Clear and colder tonight, low 34 in city and in upper 20s in suburbs. Some cloudiness and cooler tomorrow. High, 53, at noon today; low, 39, at 6:30 a.m. today. Fail Report on Poge A-2 110th Year. No. 328. ■.., ' I | 13 IL I < r ftMMII.-<- ' ta? - --4 y • a HW- *• - ~~ * BBfejJfe? £ \g^^~'.. ~ * raysgEraaL'nW? jMjßft’, .', > '~*. -jj*?- •» “*.»> j ■ / i W - <• l "Yjj'it Investigators search this morning through the tangled and charred wreckage of the United Air Lines Viscount plane which crashed in the Probers Try to Solve Mystery Kennedy Tests After Airliner Crash Kills 17 NewTaxPlan Investigators renewed their efforts today to discover why a United Air Lines Viscount plane suddenly plunged 10,000 feet out of sunny Maryland skies yesterday and crashed near Ellicott City, killing all 17 persons aboard. The four-engine plane, bound from Newark. N. J., to Wash ington, dived into a wooded j section of Howard County, Md.. i about 10 miles southwest of' Baltimore at so steep an angle | that it cut a swath barely 100 yards across, reporters on the scene said. Three Washington area residents were among the crash victims. Investigators from the Civil Aeronautics Board, the Federal' Aviation Agency, the Airline j Pilots Association, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and > United Air Lines had these | puzzling facts before them in the crash of ill-fated Flight 297: 1. It was bright and sunny with no weather disturbances when the aircraft nosed over into its fatal dive at about 12:30 p.m. 2. The pilot. Capt. Milton J. Balog, 39. a veteran aviator, apparently had no hint of the approaching tragedy and his radio communications as he prepared to land at National Airport were entirely routine. 3. Eyewitnesses said the Vis count's wings were fluttering and the fuselage was quivering. The motor sounded "like a tractor engine choking" as the olane swept low over the roll ing farm land before suddenly nosing over into a nearly straight-down dive. 4. Another eyewitness said he saw something flutter down just before the crash, as FOR TOP HOME VALUES VjfVlw SEE THE STAR HOME AND REAL ESTATE SECTION TODAY Every Saturday in The Star you'll discover a wide vari ety of select real estate of ferings by leading builders and brokers throughout the Washington area. For additional home list ings, check today's Star Classified Section. Phone LI. 3-5000 ** though the plane had begun to disintegrate in the air. 5. Residents of the rural area ' near Clarksville, Md., said they heard three distinct ex | plosions at the moment the plane slammed into the around. Flight Recorder Recovered Part of the answer to the tragedy may be found in the | plane's flight recorder, a mech anism encased in a shatter proof steel ball. This device, I which keeps track of the plane’s altitude, speed and other data, wa; if covered from the smojc in. wreckage three hours after the crash. Investigators said it appeared to be intact. Ten of the victims were em ployes of United Air Lines and {another was the wife of one of the UAL men aboard. Only I four of them were on duty in ■ the Viscount. The rest were “dead-heading” on personal trips, the airline said. I The plane was one of 46 ac quired from Capital Airlines in the merger with UAL last year. The last accident involving a Viscount was on January 18, 1960, at Holdcroft, Va„ and of ficials noted one similarity: In both crashes, the wreckage was confined to a small area in dicating the planes went down at extremely steep angles. Capt. Balog apparently was sailing along in entirely normal fashion until just before yes terday’s crash, the FAA re ported. The FAA said the crew had been in radio contact with both the Washington Air Route Traffic Control Center and the Washington Approach Control Center just before the fatAl plunge and had given no in dication of trouble. Tape recordings showed that at 12:20 p.m., as the plane pre , pared to approach National Airport, the plane was “handed i END OF ORDEAL I Real Slayer Confesses MOUNTAIN HOME, Idaho, Nov. 24 (AP).—For more than seven months Airman 1 c Ger ald M. Anderson, 24. was in jail awaiting trial for two mur ders. A blurted confession this week by admitted sex slayer Theodore Thomas Dickie will open the jail doors for Airman Anderson. Only a court order, expected Monday, stands in Air man Anderson’s way to free dom. "It’s wonderful, real nice,” he said yesterday when he was told authorities had accepted Dick ie's story that Dickie killed Mrs. Nancy Joy Johnson and her 2 Vi-year-old son on April 9. “I knew I didn't do it.” said Airman Anderson. "Somebody had to do it. I was just hop ing he was telling the truth.” Mrs. Johnson had been stabbed nine times and raped The child, found lying in her arms, also was stabbed. A week later. Airman Ander son, a friend and neighbor of the Johnson family, was charged with the slayings. Airman Anderson signed a statement for Air Force Inves tigators saying he killed Mrs. , Johnson. He denied he killed Bhe Biennia Btaf y J V WITH SUNDAY MORNING EDITION / woods near Clarksville, Md., yesterday, killing all 17 aboard. The plane was en route to Washington.—Photo by Robert Grauel. off" from Route Control to Ap proach Control for landing in {struct ions. At 12:22 p.m., Approach Con trol directed the pilot to take a compass heading of 200 degrees and the order was acknowl edged routinely. At 12:25 p.m., Approach Con trol ordered the compass head t 'ing changed to 180 degree but i Capt. Balog did not respond to ■ - this order. About the same •I time, the FAA said, the plane , was disappearing from the i,radarscope monitoring its ap , proach. Flight 297 was not ' ■ heard from again. About 50 investigators met l ; today in Ellicott City to plan I their inquiry and then split into eight groups to cover spe- I cific areas around the crash ■ scene. One immediate goal was to begin the painstaking task of ' reassembling what is left of ■the wreckage. George A. Van Epps, chief i of safety investigation for the’ See PLANE, Page A-8 ■| | 3 Swim Icy Canal To Escape Reds BERLIN, Nov. *24 (AP).— Three East Germans swam icy waters of a canal to reach safe ty in West Berlin during the night, police reported today. Temperatures were slightly below freezing and the ground ‘ was covered with 6 inches of ' snow. Details of the escape, were J not disclosed by police. Informants said, however, the three, between 18 and 32 . years of age, crossed the Tel ' tow Canal which forms the border between East Germany l and West Berlin in the south 1 of the >city. fl Wk I % ] w® IS 1 XV i 1 wk / i i i 1 : l t " *8; GERALD ANDERSON ; —AP Wirephoto ’ 11 the boy, Danny. Later he re- - pudiated the statement and said he was told his wife would also . be prosecuted and his children f placed in foster homes if he 5 didn’t. “After eight days and eight i nights of questioning, I just ■ gave up trying to argue.” he . told a newman later. “I was 1 so confused at the end that if WASHINGTON, D. C., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1962—28 PAGES Reaction Sought To 2-Step Idea By th* AMociated Preu The administration is giving ’ congressional leaders a preview showing of a double-feature tax . proposal to test its chances in . the next session. t The tax package, it was > jlearned yesterday, would be e presented by President Ken ° nedy as a single bill to be ; enacted in 1963 but would take . effect in two steps: t 1. A substantial but partial tax cut to be effective retro- ■ actively to January 1, 1963. i 2. A second stage, to become effective January 1, 1964, which would include both a further i reduction and the tax revisions and loophole plugging wanted i by Mr. Kennedy. By joining the two steps in one bill, even the initial tax cut would not take effect until the reforms were written into law. Yet the economy would have the extra fuel of a year’s tax reduction before the re visions came into force. Seen as Compromise The revisions would be de signed to offset at least partly revenue losses of the tax re ' ductions. The two-step proposal is de signed apparently as a com promise of doubts that a com- See TAXES, Page A-2 ’ 1| . China Woos Brazil RIO DE JANEIRO. Nov. .24 (AP). Communist China , wants to buy rice from Brazil ! in exchange for coal and coke. The proposal was made by Chi ' Chao-ting, head of a Red Chi nese trade mission that arrived 11 this wefek to try to establish trade relations with Brazil. they would have told me I was Mona Lisa I would have be lieved themi’ Col. Charles Allard, com-i mander of Mountain Home Air Force Base, said earlier this week he was sure nothing im proper had been done in the questoning of Airman Ander son. Dickie, a 22-year-old laborer, married while he was here and later was estranged from his wife. A few months ago he went to Boise to work. Two weeks ago in Boise, 10- year-old Carolyn Rae Oldham Reitan was strangled and raped. Dickie, after 10 hours of ques tioning, said he did it, but didn’t know why. During that questioning he hinted that he also knew of other murders. "I killed two other people,” he told Boise Police Chid Jack Barney. “But another guy is going to swing for it.” Later, Dickie told visiting newsman Rick Raphael he killed Mrs. Johnson and her son. That was Monday. Author ities matched details of Dickie's ; story with the evidence. They announced yesterday • they had the wrong man. Red China Proposes Pact With Pakistan Indians Seek Clarification From China More Information Asked on Offer To Settle Dispute NEW DELHI, Nov. 24 (AP). —lndia has asked Red China to clarify several points of its offer to settle the undeclared Himalayan border war, the Foreign Ministry said today. A spokesman said Foreign Secretary M. J. Dsai sum moned the Chinese charge d’affaires in New Delhi yester- i day and “put him several points about China’s cease-fire proposal which required clari fication.” He said the Chinese diplomat is “obtaining clarifi cation from Peking.” The Foreign Ministry spokes man declined to say what the points were. Red China ordered its troops in the disputed Himalayan bor der areas to cease fire last Wednesday. It promised to pull its troops back on December 1 to a point 12% miles behind what it described as the line of actual control. The Indian spokesman said the Chinese proposals are still under consideration, although Prime Minister Nehru has in dicated he would not accept the Chinese terms. By accept ance, the Indians would have to give up claim to 12.00 Q square miles of disputed terri tory in Ladakh on India’s northwestern border with China. Mr. Nehru has indicated he believes the border fighting will erupt again and that he wants Chinese troops off what he con siders Indian soil. Indians Bolster Strength The Indians were believed taking advantage of the Chinese cease-fire to bolster their mili tary strength. United States and British military aid missons here con tinued their appraisals of India’s long-range military > needs. The Himalayan fronts re mained quiet for the third day under the cease-fire. Mr. Nehru in a message ad dressed to a youth rally, warned his nation yesterday of “a long struggle and a difficult one. and we must not imagine that the struggle will be over soon because of various diplomatic moves.” The reference to various dip lomatic moves presumably in-, eluded the Peking offer, under which both sides would pull back. Reds Want No Stalling Red China indicated it wanted no stalling. A New China News Agency broadcast quoted Chen Yi, Chinese Deputy Premier and Foreign Minister, as saying he hoped India would reply quickly and positively. A Peking offer to India’s* angry neighbor Pakistan to enter into a mutual non-aggres sion pact was reported from Rawalpindi where the Pakistan Parliament has been in an emergency session debating about the British and American arms being rushed to India. The Pakistanis fear American and British weapons sent to India ultimately will be used to beef up Indian forces in a showdown with Pakistan over Kashmir. The Red Chinese appeared to be engaged in an effort to pull Pakistan out of its pro-Western alliances. India continued reinforcing her positions facing the Chi- See INDIA, Page A-3 I —’ Holiday Fatalities Continue to Climb CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (AP).— Death on the Nation’s highways continued to mount today as the 102-hour Thanksgiving holiday entered its third day. Traffic accidents involving more than one fatality in creased the death toll. The dead since 6 p.m. (EST) Wednesday totaled 286 persons from auto accidents. Another 35 were killed in fires and 73 persons died in miscellaneous accidents. There were no National Safety Council predictions for the holiday, which ends at mid night tomorrow. A council spokesman said traffic is not as heavy Thanksgiving as other holiday periods, although he i said 480 persons would nor mally die in traffic accidents ' during a Thursday to Sunday span. Harvard Dean Keppel Given Education Post HYANNIS PORT. Mass., Nov. 24 (AP).—Dean Francis Keppel of the Harvard Graduate School of Education received a presidential appointment today as United States Commissioner of Education. The position has been vacant four months. It pays 820,000 a year. Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin gave it up and went back to the University of Utah. He was unhappy in the job, and the administration found it dif ficult to find anyone else whiling to step into it. Dr. McMurrin had com plained that the Office of Edu cation, an agency of the De partment of Health, Education and Welfare, was afflicted with red tape, bureaucratic problems and skimpy support from Con gress. Dean Keppel, 46, has been education dean at Harvard University since 1948. Choice Praised William G. Carr, executive Secretary of the National Edu cation Association, issued a statement in Washington prais ing the appointment. He said Mr. Keppel is “fully committed to a sound program I of national school legislation as formulated by President Ken nedy’s 1960 educational task force, of which he is a mem ber.” The task force proposed ex penditure of 32.3 billion an nually in Federal aid to edu cation. The statement added: “Dean Keppel will receive the full support of the National Education Association in his ■effort to secure enactment of Kennedy Plans Visit To Cuba Alert Forces HYANNIS PORT. Mass.. Nov. 124 (AP).—President Kennedy is planning a swift one-day trip Monday to military bases in Georgia and Florida, including the command post for the Cuba crisis alert. The temporary White House announced today that the Commander in chief will fly to Hunter Air Force Base outside Savannah, Ga., visit nearby Fort Stewart, go on to Home stead Air Force Base south of Miami. Fla., and then to mili tary installations around Key West, Fla. At Homestead. Mr. Kennedy will inspect the war room, an advance headquarters for the Cuban operation. Home Tomorrow Mr. Kennedy plans to end his week end on Cape Cod and return to Washington late tomorrow. Andrew T. Hatcher, assistant White House press secretary, said many of the units alerted during the Cuban crisis now will be going home, and Mi. 'Kennedy wants to pay a per sonal call on the officers and men before they leave. • —— B■l B B I OBSTRUCTIONIST Tommy Udall, 14, tries to keep his father, Stewart Udall, 42, Secretary of Interior, from scoring during a workout at the Interior De partment gym here. Its development from a storage area has bee* a pet project of the Secretary, former all-conference guard at the University of Arizona.—AP Photo. Amusement/ A-10 Churches A-6-8 Classified B-7-12 Comics A-14-15 Editorial A-4 Editorial Articles A-5 Loot and Found A-3 Home Delivered: Doily and Sunday, per month, 2.25 . 'S ' < V ..jy* J DEAN FRANCIS KEPPEL —AP Photo that program of national sup port for public education which the President has rightly de scribed as the most important item of domestic legislation. Served With NEA “The new commissioner has served the National Education Association on several impor tant national committees. His knowledge of educational needs and problems provides a firm basis for a successful adminis tration of his office. “I urge members of the pro fession and of the public, with out regard to political or other forms of partisanship, to give our new Commissioner of Edu cation every assistance in ad vancing the cause of educa tion in the United States.” Dean Keppel. 46. is a native See KEPPEL. Page A-3 '. The President will be accom s panied by Gen. Maxwell D. j Taylor, Chairman of the Joint i Chiefs of Staff, and by chiefs I of the Army, Navy, Air Force i and Marines. Cancels Trip to Game •I President Kennedy canceled i his trip to Boston for the Har : vard-Yale football game be cause of rainy weather. However, the White House { said other members of the football game party including Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, Senator-elect Ed ■ ward (Ted) and their wives and other house guests—about 10 in all—drove to Cambridge for the game. They had planned to travel with the President in a heli-! i copter. ! The President did review the Cuban problem with top ad ministration advisers yesterday. And it is certain to be a key , item of discussion in his next I conference with Prime Minister Macmillan of Britain. The tem porary White House all but confirmed yesterday that an- I other Anglo-American summit session is in the making. Guide for Readers * Music B-* Obttuaries A-lt Real Estate B-M Society A-» Sports A-U-11 TV-Radio B-6 Weather A-2 Ali Accepts Invitation From Chou RAWALPINDI, Pakistan. Nov. 24 (AP). —Communist China has offered to sign a non-ag gression pact with Pakistan, informed sources said tqday. The offer was made in a note from Peking to President Mo hammad Ayub Khan’s govern ment. - - Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Ali refused to com ment on the report. But he said he had received and ac cepted an offer from Premier Chou En-lai to visit China at an early date. Mr. Ali made the remark to newsmen in the lobby of par liament house. There was no comment immediately from any other official source. Reliable parliamentary In formants said, however, that the report was correct and that the Chinese offer was now be ing considered by the govern ment. Offer of Help Included The Karachi English - lan guage daily Dawn carried the report prominently. It said a point of the proposed pact was an offer by China to help Pakistan “against aggression from any quarter.” It added that the Chinese had raised no objection to Pakistan remaining a member of the pro-Western CENTO and SEATO alliances if such a pact were signed. The reported offer came dur ing an emergency session of ine Pakistani National Assem- I bly which has heard strong criticism of the United States 1 and Britain. Pakistan’s allies, for rushing arms to India. Pakistan feels these anna are a threat to her and some Pakistanis, in the disillusion ment with the Western powers, have been talking of adopting I neutralism as a policy. U. S. Accused in Debate- Red China's unilateral ceaae ' fire on the border with India ’ and the offer of a troop pull back has bolstered the Paki stani view that the present Indian-China conflict is only a temporary flareup which merits no Western assistance to India from Britain and the United States. In the debate today, the United States was accused of making “a local border affair” between India and China into an expanding ’full-pledged glo ! bal war” for its own benefit. The accusation was made by Sardar Bahadur Khan, brother of President Ayub Khan and leader of the opposition. He said the supplying of arms to India disregarded Pakistan’s safety and security. Friendship Policy Urged Mr. Khan said the Pakistan government should “change its foreign policy, become neutral and withdraw from CENTO. SEATO and other pacts im mediately.” He advocated a policy of friendship with all nations— " Communist or capitalist.” Mr. Khan was supported by the government’s parliamentary secretary. Abdul Hai Chaudhri and by opposition right-wing religious leader Farid Ahmed. Mr. Farid quoted a letter from Chinese Premier Chou addressed to heads of Afro- Asian governments and cir culated by the Chinese embassy in Pakistan last night. The letter. Mr. Farid said, made it clear that long before the border clashes between In dia and China started India was provoking China. The letter said China would confine her action to the border area, Mr. Farid claimed. Western "Betrayal” Charged Mr. Farid said the western supply of arms to India was a "gross betrayal of the friendli est nation of Asia. Pakistan.” He demanded concrete action by the government against the United States. W. Avereil Harriman. U. S. 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