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SIX AIR DISASTERS Tragic Day In History Of Aviation 50 Dead, 69 Missing, 9 Hurt Passengers Trapped, Burnt Alive In Flaming Wreckage
San Francisco, May 30.
At least 50 were killed, 69 were missing and nine injured on Thursday night in four 'plane crashes in New York City. Tokyo, Alaska and The Nether- lands,
A fifth is reported overdue in Iceland. (United Press reports-an- other Japan 'plane crash a courier plane from Takiawa aerodrome, near Tokyo, which plunged into the mountains west of Tokyo, not far from the earlier crash).
Thirty-nine were killed and nine others injured
When a United Airlines plane crashed and burned near LaGuardia airfield, "New York. in the worst commercial air disaster in the United States and equal to the world "re- cord in Newfoundland last October, South-west of Tokyo, an Army transport plane (a C-54 "Skymaster") with 33 passengers and a crew of eight crashed into a mountain. It has not yet been determined whether or not there were any survivors.
An Irelandic Airways DC-3, class and witnessed the disaster plane, with 26 passengers on from the school'a windows.
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Nether At Tilboy, in the lands, 12 were killed when two planes cultiden).
"Burst Into Flames" Seriously burned and bleeding | from cuts, Baldwin could only
plane murmur:-"The
nosed down and burst into flames."
The cafeteria of the Academy
At Fairbanks, Alaska-thres | in the busement of the building mer are reparted missing and only 60 feet from the charred! nine other members of the crew escaped serious injury when an Army B-20 crashed shortly af ter its taksall", Associated Press.
La Guardia Fleb. NY..
May 30. A four-motored® United Air- lines 14 "Main Liner" crash- ed at the edge of this wind und rain swept airport last night, killing 38 persons in the great- est domestic plant disaster in the hintery of United States commercial aviation.
Of the ten survivors, one has xinen died, and seven are crifi eally injured and
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| wriettage, was taken over from The morgue. 11 money budies of 37 of the 38 victims! were id out there for identi- lication by relatives who ha gone to the airport in a festive. mood
them off Memorial Day holidays.
Six men and five women were taken to hospital, where оле woman died soon after arrival. A were burned and some had broken legs and arms.
to
Besutes the pilots, the crew? included two stewardesses, one
other injured.
"IT IS A DISGRACE"
Margate, May 29. Land applanar today greet- ed the neutement by Mr. Tum Bribery
to all of tim
that Frane i still in purer nearly few pears after this Government came in puneer,
There was no discussion of his paint, however, nul the
Republicans Spanish have been afficially ob
confer. nerving the Labour ence, made no comment ex- rept ce are always ginest to auti-Francu manifesta- tion."--United Press.
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Rangoon Police
Disarmed
Rangoon, May 30.
or whom was killed and the Gurkhas and Punjabis When the plane nosed down of the XII Army today
the ground manned The wreckage burst into flames it ploughed along the
broke
Rangoon
HONG KONG, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1947.
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PIRATES TAKE PITY ON VICTIM
Shanghai, May 30.
A band of semi-gallant river pirates, using fifth column, tactics, robbed a small passenger ship yesterday of CN$200,000,000 cash and cargo near the mouth of the Yangtze River. The passenger ship, travelling from Nantung to Shanghai, was approaching the confluence of the Yangtze and Whangpoo Rivers when 12 pirates, who boarded as passengers, comman- deered the vessel and disarmed the crew guard.
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S'HAI PROFESSORS ON PROTEST STRIKE
GOLD CURRENCY?
Nanking, May 29. The PPC Finance and
Frenomic Committee today surcreded in drafting a pro- pasal urging the Government to issue true currency based on the gold standard after a stormy debate in which two membere dimost C#710 to blows, it was learned reliably, The proposal will be turned over to the general session for discussion.—United Press.
Last Bid To Stay Taxation
Night-Long Search Of University
Shanghai, May 30. Ninety-seven professors of Futan University an- nounced today that they are striking in pro- test at the illegal nightlong search of the uni- versity last night by the Woosung Garrison, the police and secret police. They expect all. professors in Shanghai to join their protest. A professor told United Press that the police ar- rested 11 students, including two girls, singled out by masked informers. One student was arrested in the General Hospital, where he was recuperating from the Sunday night beat- ing.
"
student The police not only searched calling for
strikes. but the dormitories
also the labour strikes, Ahopkeeper professors" and the university | strikes and then a general up- president's houses, submitting rising on June 2: He nald the black lat of 16 names for whom | authoritles watched the plot cur- they were searching.
ried out step by step and it had The students, who had decided now come to a point where ¡ to return to school after strik- | draatle- nction was negengary. ing, are now in a feverish pitch, Government also found A last bid to stay the demanding retribution. United Communist document ordering arson in the Shanghai banking in.plementation of the Press,
Mayor K. C. Wu announced areas, resulting in big blazes income tax ordinance
ala press conference today here.-United Press, was made by Chinese that "some 10 of 80 wanted merchants yesterday "known Blutent Communist when they submitted to agents" and 11 non-student Red Government through the underground workers. Including four newspaper reporters, have Chinese General Cham-
so far been rounded up in the Nanking, May 30. ber of Commerce a peti-laat 12 hours.
Members of the Legis- tion seeking an inde- Mayor Wit said all Relative Yuan today at- finite postponement of agents will be shipped without tacked the official re- trial from Shanghui to Com- the measure.
munist areas, "where they be-pressive action against The
requested long.* petitioners
street demonstrations as Government to transmit their request by cable to the Secretary
of State for the Colonies for
throwing ON OTHER PAGES Rympathetic consideration.
The pirates told the women not to be frightened and then
looting, started money, jewellery and other valuables into large kacka,
The pirates relieved one pas- achger of $13,000,000 cash: The
passenger fainted. The pirater poured water on him, and rubbed his hands until the unfortunate man regained con- scicusOCAS.
Questioned an to why he fainted the passenger wild he had borrowed the money at
Pago
un
"No Mistake
The Mayor emphasised that
Criticism
a short-sighted policy more likely to aggravate
It will be recalled that the the Garrison Commander's Hq. than alleviate the situa- Chamber had submitted a peti has narrowed the list of student tion. Japätieso Caht With Naval. tlon, along similar lines to Gov. Agitators to 80 from a tola of
The Aession Adopted a re- Plot's Murder.
ernment in March; and it was 45,000 university studanty in
He claimed turned down after the Income Shanghai.
that solution uppointing a nine-man Page Three
Dutch Ultimatum)
Tax Bill became law.
there could be no mistake that commiaaton to help Government students from Puge Four
No new grounds are given in everyone on the black at were diasunde the Local Court
holding the June-2 demonstra. Jungatent
the latest petition which merely genuine Communist agents, Fronch Govt. Claim,
repeats the heavy losses suffer- The government had tolerated on and to apan the wide gaps Page Five
ed by the mercantile community their activities but the time had between the students and Gov- Bevin
on the Far East.
from enemy occupation, the arrived when there was no choice rnment. Page Siz
Lending Articles: War Memorial loans contracted by many mer- but to arrest the agents or allow A member of the Legislative
chants to enable them
Govern- to re them to hold a huge demonstra. Youn suggested that Fund: Hoover Argument.
habilitate their business, and tion on June 2, endling with anment would be wise to capouse India Plana in Melting Pot, the detrimental and retarding uprising against the government, the student revolutionary force, offect the tax would have on re- The Mayor aald Government recalling that students 20 yeara Motors and Motoring.
habilitation and revival of trade obtained early this month ago were instrumental in over- secret Communist document throwing Peking and establish- Russia Wants a Loan.
Mention was made of the re embodying
an over-all undering the Kuomintang Government, "Local Insurance
Companies' ported postponement of Income ground plot in Nationalist areng-United Press.
tax measures in Singapore, and Capital Increase.
a plea made that this colony Page Twelve
Local and World Sports News. should follow sult,
nad 37 of the dead were trapped for a few yards, then crashed police stations following high interest rates (current and burned to death in the fune↑ inte a rockpile, bounded about the Government order black market interest rate 20 Page Seven lage. The 38th crawled out but 150 feet into the air an died soon afterwards in hospi-¦ up. crashing into a shallow to disarm the entire po, marshy pont. Seconds later it lice force of the city with the exception of senior officers.
Hundreds of relatives and friends of the 44 passengers who had gathered to ace, them off for Cleveland-the plane's destination were horrified wit ПEXYCH,
burst into flames,
(Conttuned on Pape 12 Coi. 3)
The city area was declareti out of bounds for British troops after Funnel.
percent per month) to conduct a travelling merchandise business, Page Nine
¿Compassion
The rates showed pain and Page Ten compassion, huddled among Page Eleven
Approached the themselves, fainting passenger and inform- ed him that he could plunge his hands into the bag and have anything he could bring out. |But he could only try it once.
The passenger thrust hia handa eagerly into the bag and brought a large bundle of small denomination noter. worth fainted again. CN$200,000 ar CN$300,000 and
the two
The plane hit with such force! that the wings were sheared off
There has no violence as thou- and the fuselage broke in two
The bodles, of the victima sands of troops of the Burma trappast in the fuselage were Rifles
armed "People'a Delayed for an hour and 33 i buried beyond recognition and Volunteer Corps" maintained minutes by strong ground police said bone structure was strict vigilance throughout the winds, the pilet. B.R. "Lucky" the only means of determining city. Baldwin, lifted the huge ernft whether a corpse was that of a from the fichi's shortest runway 11:47 (38 a woman,
3,353 feet-into a sky splai Lering with rain and darken-
The police "crisia" marked ing from an approaching thin-
the climax of the scramble for derstorm. He got the ship upi
leadership of the police union,
When the ship neared to perhaps 50 feet when it
which became a powerful ele
ahore, ment in Burmese politics fol- hot and a motor boat came out
the pirates fred seemed to waver and then nosed
down.
lowing the general strike in and the pirates escaped after crashed on the swampytermely high pressure extending
September last year, when po first wrecking the engine. grounds of the Acronautle Aen Jepna to the Lower Yangtre. A dergi lice throughout the country demy 600 feet from the end of deprin covers Manchuria and shallow went on strike for one and a As they departed they looked the runway. A few seconds de mer moving slowly ENE D
half months, demanding
over the passengers and said: "We are so sorry." elapsed, then there was an ex-te of Japan. Gradients are slight unr
286 independence.. the China Sea to the Philippines.
Press. plosion and Bames, fed by high-
Last night, the new president Today's Forecast --Moderate and NE octane petrol, leaped 609 feet wlah, cloudy with bright Interyale; warm. of the union, with 200 police. Into the air, sending a smoke Yesterday's Weather
men, raided the union....hend- column up into the lowhanging Male 74.0 deur. Fah.
quarters and occupied the pro- clouds.
Sunshine: hours.
riises.
The Weather
Insure remain high to the E of Supari the hillarines with city of and
Maalesim: *3'deg. Fal
Pilot Baldwin was thrown Rainfall Trace. Total since Jan. 1 clear by the impact but co-pilot
RE. Sunds was Among the dend.
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Burm-
The Government immediately
sy mm, be against mu vrsage of ordered the arrest of the now
G60,0 mm.
In their few seconds of grace, laro. at malinina 1008.1 mi.b.
10 other persons either crawled i
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Nel, Humidity *** out of the smashed nose or were Dew Palst pull out by rescuers. The Wind Directlun... remaining 37 mon and women, Wied Force ... incluning Sands, wore helpless-
ly trappod.
Shrieks
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president and some of his fol- towers and disarmed the city's police force to prevent unto- ward incidents. Measures to prevent disturbances in ather districts have been-ordered by the Home Department-Router.
Disagreement Over Italy's Colonies
Washington, May. 29.
United
Big Gold Haul In Bombay
Bombay, May 29, Gold valued at £7,500 in bullion and coins was seized today from the hold of the 4,867-ton British ship "Dumra" in Bombay harbour.
prosperity in general.
Chota Pegs And Polo On The Way Out
Mombasa, May 29.
In addition to a number of former Indian Civil Servants who hope to take up farming or busi- ness, the latest arrivals in Kenya from India include a number, of tea and coffee planters who are likely to follow similar occupations in East Africa.
Mr. Cozens, who was former polo team, which, I believe, is ly a tea planter In India, told either in India or on the way. Router "From everything · I will have fower opponents than am told, runaleg A home in ever." Kenyn in Infinitely cheaper than In India. The housewives in India dare not utter a word of reproval to a servant as they fear he would walk straight out of the house."
Colonel Dean-Drummond from Nilgris, South India, be- fore leaving Bombay arranged with a wellknown local white hunter to spend a shooting holl day in the Kenya game coun-
try.
"Mistake"
Mr. Dunno added that India
coun-
had nothing ilke the number of technical mon necessary for the successful running of a try and she was making a mis- take by forcing out the British of taxes or direct by means hostility. The Indiana would appreciate the merits of the British in about three yours time when they have had a sample of home rule.
The gold was found by Customs A 32-year-old. Dublin gra- Mr. Dunne than maid: "If |
duate Mr. Edward Dunne, who make no mistake, Congress ir Id an engineer and has spent determined to introduce pro nearly a year in India, said on hibition as early ad pússible. arrival at Mombassa: There Life in India vithout the
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As flames. shot up and tho rescuers were driven back those -inslite could be heard pounding frenziedly on doors of the fuselugo,, shricking and weep- ing. They never had a 'chance.
officials who were investigating Flamen shot up in a solid blaz- The United States Government today opposed the
the seizure of £4,275 from three Ing wall and approach was im British suggestion that the disposition of the
people who had arrived in Bim possible. Agonised shrieks sont former Italian colonies should be discussed at
bay in the "Dumra" on Sunday: chills ap and down the spines
a meeting of special deputies of the Big Four A leading supervisor: at th of onlookers, but they did not
is no doubt about it-old India, chota pog" is" 60 ropugnant to Foreign Ministers in London on June 0.
Bombay docks, in whose posses-
the average (Bellon that last long.
sion :me of the seized coins were gone for good and all.".. The State Department sald that; Italian colonies. 7 Suor, the only sound was the ftantia had now agreed to the This commission will ascertain alleged to have found, has been. He added: "The cost of liv immediate reaction was to take explosive anopping of the British suggestion for such a the views of the local popula- arrested.
ing in India is so high that 89 the next boat to Kenya,"
Miss Alum, another pannon- flames. They burned for more meeting but added: “It_is_the | tions and supply deputies. with. This brings the total of the gold por cent of the young civil sor than 10 minutes before the view of the United States Gov- such other data as may be necesselred by the Bombay Customs vant men cannot save from ger, who is sponding a holiday Field's fire-fighting equipment, ernment that the actual disposary to their consideration of the in the past six months to their salaries. The most urgent with Lady Bennet Ebbet at aided by municipal fire-fighters, tion of the colonies should not problem,
problem at the end of the Rongol, Konya' said: "I could could bring the fire under con- be discussed at this preliminary
It is expected that the depution £120,000 moeting
The Customa authorities - are month in which pressing creat not go on living in such a hos trol:"
will also decide on future pro- now keeping a strict watch on the tor can be paid off first. They tile atmosphere.Reuter. It is folt that the deputies RTamme, Including the procedure 100g coastline of Western India do not even play polo in Poona should, until such time as the for hearing the lows of other
Bangkok, May 20 to prevent smugglers from land. any longer although matalas
The Chinese Ambassador to Name thrown into a shallow swamp confins, their deliberations to such Mr. Lowis and wore pulled but by 100 stu procedural matters as the forma States Amber to Britain, bigger vessels coming from Bart State. The people cannot af Siam, Dr. Z Tier-iseng, left
Address denta and Instructors from the tion of a commission of investiga-will be the United Staten deputy, Africa and the Parsian Gulf, --- ford ponies and their upkeep, for Chius this morning for a Academy, who had just finished Ition which is to be sent to the let the London medijug-Reuter. [Neuter.
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