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EIGHTY DEAD IN AIR SMASH NEW ECONOMIC
Two plane disasters averted
New York, March 12. Plana disasters were nac-
at
rowly averted opposite ends of the United States to- day.
At Tampa, Florida, 16 Air Force men on a training flight -escaped, death when their Superfort beniber crashed and burned after a difficult land- Ing.
One officer was badly In. Jured but the others aboard received only cuta and brulace.
Rescue squade from a local Air Force base helped the crow free and put out the fire.
Off San Francisco,
15 P sengers and seven members of the crew landed safely in coastal
their waters when strato-cruiser sirtiner had engine trouble on its way to Honolulu.
Plane accidents killed 524 people in the United States Air-Force last year, it was announced today. This total was 50 fewer than in 1948, "the-Air-Force at Reuter-
Giant Tudor aircraft
crashes near
near Cardiff THREE SURVIVORS
CARDIFF, MARCH 12, THE WORST AIR DISASTER ON RECORD OCCURRED
NEAR CARDIFF TODAY, KILLING 80 PEOPLE. ONLY THREE OF THE PASSENGERS SO FAR SURVIVE.
A large passenger plane, packed with rugby football supporters homeward bound from on International match, heeled over in mid-air, and nose- dived to the ground not far from the South Wales coast.
Six soriously injured passengers were taken alive from the wreckage but
five of them died later.
an
The wrecked aircraft, Avro Tudor, equipped to carry 12 passengers, les in a field outside the village of Biggins tan, 15 miles from Cardiff.
Altogether the machine carried 78 passengers and Ave members of the crew.
a mile
The plane broke in half as it Jin August, 1947, on a flight from crashed half
from the London to Santiago. The il people runway of Llandow, the airport aboard were killed. An inquiry for Cardi.
Four women were among the eye-witnesses said.
Government may make statement on Seretse case
Landon, March 12.
Political quarters believe that Mr. Clement Attlee's Government, foaring for its precarious major- ity of six scat's in the House of Commons, is likely to make an early statement clarifying its decision to exile Soratse Khama, and his white wife from the native protectorate of Bechuanaland, South Africa.
cerned
I was unable to determine the cause
of the crash.
a
Two survivors staggered to a
Next, the "Star Tiger" disap- nearby farm. A third, wearing a
bleeding peared with 21 people aboard, on latiered uniform and from the head, stumbled out of another South American flight the_wreckage, enlling for help, fearly in 1948. A year later,
Third Tudor airliner, the "Star The plane, taking people back Ariel" disappeared mysteriously to Cardiff after yesterday's Wales | with 20 aboard. v. Ireland Rugby International in Belfast, was reported lo have turned
over in mid-air after | over-shooting the runway of the
airport.
Vivian and Thomas John New- man were playing football in their garden at Siggingstone when the
flew over them. plane Thomas said: "We
The Civil Aviation Ministry immediately ordered all Tudors lo be grounded and appointed a court of Investigation. The court reached no verdict because it lacked survivors evidence from any of the crashed aircraft, but the Ministry decided that the Tudor IV type to which the three thecrashed aircraft belonged-should plane coming at aliqui 30 feet nano longer be used on passenger If preparing to land. I remarked to my brother that it looked very law. We thought something was poing to happen and we started to run. It takes to the zight and started to climbs,
"Then the engines cut out and it nose-divest into the ground. It seemed to burst into pleces only a few yards from our garden.
"We rushed over as quickly as we could. When we got there man stuggered out of the
routes.
The aircraft involved in today's disaster was a Tudor V-bigger than the Tudor IV..
ber 11
Normal load 44
CRISIS AHEAD OF BRITAIN?
Washington, March 12.
Belief is growing among officials here that Britain
is heading for another financial and economic... Crisis in 1950, as she did'in 1949 and 1948. Some speculate privately that Britain's problems may, reach a head in 1950 earlier than the August-September crisis season of the last two
years.
QUITON-
The crux of the problem, ast reserves and to help Britalis ro- they see it, is that although fund her old debts, Britain's production is
The thought bohind it is that about us high as it can go in the near elca would enable those countries
strengthening European future, it does not yield enough to trado more freely among exportable goods to meet sim- themselves, yet I would not ultaneously two pressing Bri- make it more attractive for them tish problems: *
to trade with one another than with the U.S.---Associated Press.
1. Need to Increase sales to the U.S. so as to earn more dollars and thus solve Britain's current inability to pay for the goods she must get from the US.
2. Confteling pressure on Bri- thin to ship gouds to other credi- British tors-notably India and Con unwealth countries—as means of paying huge debts ac- quired in wartime and since.
Possible solutions-pelting-men- tion include British negotiations with creditors to ease pressure of ing them out and slowing them old debt payments by lengthen- down, and provision of further U.S. help to Britain,
American oflends are loathe to prod Britain to try negotiation fent it prompt a British request for further aid-something they suspect will come Intrly 0011 without any prompting,
Hoffman plan
Thi Foreign Ald Adminis trator, Paul G. Hoffman, mean. while, is threatening Britain with loss of $150,000,000 Marshall Plan aid if she wilt not come in on the European normal toad for
payments union Mr. long
Агоровах. was 44 passengern, but with less fuel on short hops it
Although the Senate has voted to make $600,0000,000 in. could carry considerably more.
fig,
Jews pay respects to Eliash
London, March 12, Hundreds of men and women of British Jewry filed
coffin at the Israeli Legation, past Dr. Mordechal Eliash's this afternoon. The coffin, draped with the blue and white flag of Israel, rested in the Minister's gun room at the Legation, where as re- cently as last Friday he had been giving instructions to his colleagues, who now stood silently flanking the bier as a Guard of Honour.
At the hend of the coffin; candles burned. In an adjoining anteroom women cried softly 3 the mournful procession moved Hoffman slowly and silently up the stairs, past the coffin and out again into the runtit street,
hud People
Dr. Ellash's newly-acquired homa, in which he had slept only day and died suddenly or he was one night. He went out the next reading a book.
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we
"We were looking around to could and crowds of people seemed to
from a directions. ⚫ome
We helped to get two men clear in case the plane caught fire. For lunately it did not,"
Stine Labour Members of pected to force a debate on the give what asstatanec Parliament are deeply con-affair.
by the human and Parliamentary circles fear the political issues that the deci-emotions roused by the exile of slon has raised. They are ex-
Sereise, young chief-designate of the Bamangwate tribe.
BELGIUM VOTES FOR LEOPOLD
Brussels, March 13. Exiled King Leopold early today won a plebiscite on the question of his return to Be- Iglum's throne. Complete offi- cial returns from all 30 of the country's voting districts gave him approximately 57-per- cent of the total vote.
The count was for Leopold's return. 2,871,442; against his re- turn. 2,150.881.
The result in favour of King Leopold is Approximately two per cent larger than the percen- tage he had said he would have to have to ruic again over the Belgians.
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It is generally felt that the public has not been given enough facts on which to base Judg- ment.
Mortuaries in RAF station
On Cluistmas Day, 1948, 71 people perished in three crashes within a few hours at Shanghai Airport. Threg Chinese air-liners crushed while trying to land in
when the
tiense for.
The denth-roll.
of the total for use in union scheme the payments there are misgiving in the Trea sury and other
rea agencies here about the payments union itself,
ges
Those who travelled with tha Mr. Hollman's iden is to an expansion of trade among the coffin to the Legation included his daughter, Hachel, aged 23, Western European countries by making their cirreneles cpaver and hip 21-year-old son, Moshe, tible into one another, bringing in Oxford law student relaxation
barrio.s
however
of
trade
among them.
Some officials here.
Among the first to file past the coffin were Lord Samuel, Mr. Barnet Janner, Member of Pur-
now Express fear that the pay-ament, and the recently appoint American dirigible Akron crash-ments union plan will actually Mordechal R. Kidron.
ed: Israel! Charge d'Affaires, Mr. worsen chances of solving what
Sixty ambulances, rushing to the spot from surrounding dis- fed on April 4, 1933, off the New tricts, took the bodies of the Jersey coast, was 13. victims to temporary mortuarics The Minister of Civil Aviation, set up at a nearby Royal Air Lord Pakenham, hurried to Wales and the neigh-today to make & personal in- bouring town of Cowbridge. vestigation o! history's
worst the victims were a mar-commerclat aviation disaster. mobile rled couple and their sun. All Reuter, United Press and Asso-
clated Press.
Meanwhile, Seretse Khama, 28- year-old exiled chieftain-desig- iate of the Hamangwato tri, almost collapsed after a maxs prolest meeting here tonight.
Looking tired and ill, he ac knowledged the cheers of 800 people as he made his way to the platform. When the cheering died down. he su with a faint smile on his face and began to sway.
Force Station
Among
three were killed.
Air Vice-Marshal Donald Ben- He steadied himself by gripping nelt, wartime "Pathfinder" hero the edge of the desk and explained of the RAF, and Operations Man- that he had gone without meals ager of the owners of the plunr, owing to pressure of work and a Fairlight Ltd., took off from an
Birfield deluge of enquiries.
near London in his Kwa plane to investigate the Crosh
* Air-Vice-Marshal-Bennett-has- The West Indian cricketer, been the strongest defender of Learle
Constantine, preiided the Tudor nircraft before Its the meeting, which was | <rilles. over
.
Tribal boycott
to
Memorial for Burma fallen
Dr. E. Yapou, Press Altacho at they regard as the fundamental the Legation, said: "It was the problem: getting European eur Minister's wish to be buried Levi rencies generally convertible- | VAU meaning freely exchangeable for Jerusalem, in the family tomb on dollars as well as for European the Mount of Olves, where his
wife is buried. That neighbour manies.
now in the hands
of The main need, they insist, is hood is
Arabs,
60 Dr. Eliash will be for Europe to overcome its trade, buried elsewhere in Jerusalern." defelt with the U.S. by export-
The plane, carrying the boy to ing more goods to this
country Israel will stop at Nice, Romd
to pay for what it needs from here.
Alternative idea
and
Athens and will arrive in Palestine tomorrow. The burial will take place on Monday, after- noon or Tuesday.-Reuter..
They contend that the pay- ments-union,-by-making-it-easler for Europeans to trade with one MR. London, March 13.
another. would automatically Earl Louis Mountbatten will make trading with the U.S. rela- attend a service of commemoratively less attractive, tion to men who fell in the de- fence and liberation of Burma at Westminster Abbey (on Then came the great Tudor | Thursday, May 11. controversy. The Tudor Type IV was ordered to be grounded batten will hand to the Dean of During the service, Lord Mount. Early in 1948 the board of the Westminster a Airline
memorial book announced Air Vice-containing the names of over Marshal Bennett's dismissal after 10,000 mem who fell in the Burma campaigns. The book will
organised by the "Beretas Kha- He became Chief Executive of ma Fighting Committee," form- | British South American Airways ed a few days ago.
after leaving the Royal Air Force The Bamangwato tribe of in 1015. Bechuanaland today decided boycott tomorrow's tribal meeting alled by the Brlitsh High Com The plebiselle, conducted yes-missioner, Sir Evelyn Baring, to terday, is only advisory. The re- explain the British Government's sults will serve merely to inform five-year ban on their young Parliament of the nation's will. chief, Sereise Khama. Parliament itself will make the final decision on the King's status Leopold III ran ahead throughout the tabulation of ballots,
At one time during the count ing the margin of volos in favour of King Leopold run as high as 70 per cent. That was on the basis of results in the Northern Flemish-speaking distrlels where tho pra-Leopold forces were strongest.
It is believed that an attemps differences of opinion on matters kept in a chapel of the Abbey
of policy.
·
Previous crashes
will be made today to persuade the tribal leaders to attend.
Serowe, the mud-hutted capital of some 30,000 inhabitants, Is But the
The headmen's spokesman guve Ruth Khama. Seretse's white |wife, the tribe's decision.
quiet today.
AIP Vice-Marshal's faith in the Tudor alreraft wa unshaken. He formed a charter company, Fairlight Ltd., flow
A
be
for a short time so that relatives may inspect It, and later it will be sent to Burma to be enshrined in the war memorial chapel of Rangoon Cathedral, for which over 80 units of the Brillah forces have subscribed nearly £2.000. Mrs. Khama remained InTudor If himself and made more
It is hoped that representatives Bechuanaland when her husband
than 300 flights on the Berlin Been to London for talks with airlift, he ran a thriving airline of the fallen. Men who perved in from the subscribing units wil also attend the memorial service That lead was cut down steadi, the British Governmont-Reuter. hotween the Yemen and
Abbey, as well as relatives Israel Burma as Government officials, FANTASTIC CLAIM badly damaged by anti-aircraft commercial firms have also been with. Tutors. One of them was missionaries and members of fire. Inst. October when it flew off invited to the memorial service. course over Egyptian-held ter. ritory with a load of displaced has been-invited by the Dean of The Bishop of Rangoon, who persons for Israel.
Westminster to be the special preacher at the service, will y
In
Ty at the end of the counting by the large anti-Leopold vote Brussels and the French-speaking parts of the nation. Anti- Leopold forces carried Brussėla by approximately 30,000 votes.
King Leopold also lost the 'im- portant industrial city of Liege by
hoavy margin.
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Newark, New Jersey, March 12. An American girl wrote to the Income tax authorities asking for a $20 tax reduction because
The Tudor controversy began
she lost her bathing suit while with the crash of the "Star Dust" to London-Associated Press. fswimming.
But the authorities dim view of
lier
Took n
case. "We
In most of the nation, however, King Leopold ran from 10 to 15 or 20 per cent ahead of the total polled last June by the Social denied the claim and advised har Christian (Catholic) Party; which to buy a tighter bathing sult this had made his return one of its summer, they said. This ehler, compaign plunks. —Associat»the third year she has made this ed Prem.
| claim."--"Reuter, ·
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