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THE CHINA MAIL TUESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1947.

ANOTHER "DAKOTA" CRASH Prince Gustav Adolf, Grace Moore Among Dead

Plane's Unusually Sharp Climb

Copenhagen, Jan. 26.

Miss Grace Moore, the famous American singer and film star, and Prince Gustav Adolf, eldest son of Crown Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, were among the 22 people-16 --ssengers and six crew-killed when a Royal Dutch Airlines Dakota crashed at Kastrup airport, south of Copenhagen today.

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The plane, bound from Amsterdam to Stockholm;"

crashed in flames on the airfield, hitting the ground nose first and exploding immediately." The dead included Gorda we received letter from Neumann, well-known Danish Grace saying she hoped to be singer, and six other Danes, back in America in February to Count Steenbock, Prince make some recordings and theu Gustav's adjutant, a Dutchman after a.short rest to leave for named Engel, a Spaniard nam,

a South African tour," ed Izgriord, a Swede named Tuvhagen, and a 12-year-old French boy.

Prince Gustav Adolf. who joined the plane at Schipol airport, Amsterdam. his way back to Stockholm after spending some days the guest of Prince Bernhard

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Miss Moore was 46 and had been called the woman who made the cinema public opera- conscious-first of all with her appearance in films such.. "One Night" of Love."

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She was born at Jellicoe, Tennessee, and ran away' from school to join a travelling enn-

of the Netherlands in Holland.cert, company in New York, She studied music in Washing-

Grace Moore, who joined the plane at Copenhagen, was on her way to give a Series of emmerts in Sweden and Was due to appear in Stockholm IOTROW.

GLEANING IS LEGAL

Chichester, Jan. 27. Gleaning behind the reap- ers, as in the biblical story of Turh, still is legal in Eng- land.

"The public has a perfect right to po gleaning when sheaves are not left stacked in the fielda," Juafice of the Peace A. Alwyn ruled in a Juvenile Court here, acquit- fing two boys accused of wick- ing up care of heads of" whent. in a farmer's field..

Mfr. Alwyn, himself farmer, added: "When farmer wants to yake · Aix feld, he loves two sheaver standing,

which

is another

of saying: "Keep off the groas"."—Associated "Préau..........

86-Floor

Death Dive

New York, Jan. 27.

tod and later ander masters in A man leaped 1,000

"Tiger's"

Plan To Fence Russia In

Washington, Jan. 26.,. Hitherto secret papers, of the 1919 Paris Peacej Conference, released to- day by the State Depart- ment, reveal that French Premier Clemenceau proposed that the Allied powers and associated countries build a barbed¦· wire entanglement around Russia to pre- vent her from creating trouble in the world."

Papers revealed that M. Clemenceau made the proposal! when Allied attempts to bolster

Europe, and climbed to the on feet to his death yester-anti-Bolshevist forces failed.

by

to-

Like A Lift The machine rose to about 150 feet and suddenly crashed in flames and was completely .burnt cut-almest the exact parallel of yesterday's Dakota disaster at Croydon airport 'when the South African bound

way of musical comedy day from the 86th floor

later appearing in grand opera

State

at the New York Metropolitan of the Empire and London's Covent Garden, building, the highest in

In 1931, she married the the world.

Valentin handsome Spanish Parera.

After

the liberation of Europe, she sang for Ameri- can troops on the Continent.

Was To Become Catholic

The body struck a woman

ksi,

M. Clemenceun told the con- ference, "There can be no peace | in Europe as lang, as Russin remains in her present state

of anarchy, disorder, robbery, crime and revolt.

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walking below in 34th Street to Russia herself, but to the who was taken to a hospital

whole world....and I would suffering from multiple frac-

suggest making as it were n tures.

barbed wire entanglement Police identified the mari as David H. Gordon, Jr. He felt around Russia in order to a note asking that his mother prevent her creating trouble in Miami, Florida' should be outside and in order to prevent notified of his death.

Germany fram entering into Twenty-nine was re-

cents were relations with Russia, whether found in his pocket.-Associat- of a political or military

character."—United Presk,

plane crashed on to a station- { Misa Moore, who held ary machine. killing 12. An French. Norwegian, Swedish eye-witness said the plane Danish, Belginn, Cuban and

ent up like a t" and then Mexican decorations, nose-dived.

ported by the Vatican Radio last May to have decided to ed Press, become a Catholic. She was said to have announced this after being received in private audience by the Pope. In Octó- ber it was reported that xhe was receiving a course of in- struction from Monsignor Pul- ton Shech, famous United· States priest.

Some passengers had appar- catly tried to crawl out or had been catapulted from he seats as their charred bodies were found on the fringe of the wreckage.

When news of the disaster became known the Danish Broadcasting stations dropped all tonight's light programmes and played mourning music, and newspapers brought out a special edition

with heavy black headlines announcing the Prince's death:

Weeping people queued up to buy newspapers.

Prince Gustav Adolf of Sweden, eldest son of the

Air Ministry Probe Croydon Crash

London, Jan. 26.

Crown Prince and grandson of The Air Ministry is reported to be investigating

King Gustav, was born at Stockholm on April 22, 1906. His wife, Sybilla, Princess of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, gave birth Danish ground staff men to a son at Naga Palace last when interrogated tonight by April, ensuring the succession the authorities reported that to the Swedish throne. They the plane, in a check-over, was have also four daughtera. Hound to be technically por- Prince Gustav Adolf is the feet. It had left Amsterdam brother of Ingrid, the Danish at 11.50 (Dutch time) and had Crown Princess. landed at Copenhagen at 2.30, where it remained for half an hour. Athough the tempera ture was. six degrees below zero, the weather was other wise excellent, it being crisp and dry, with sunshine. Re- cause of the pleasant weather there were a' greut many friends and relatives of the passengers at the airport, all of when saw the take-off and the crash.

Popular Prince The news of the death of Prince Gustav

Adolf was broken to his wife, Princess Sybilla, at Haga Castle, Sweden, today by Crown Princess Lou- ise, the Prince's stepmother,

All theatres in Stockholm were closed tonight, and the radio broadcast a memorial programme.

the actual fully-loaded weight at the take-off of the Dakota which crashed at Croydon air- port with the loss of 12 lives. The Air Correspondent of the Sunday Chronicle, announcing this today, added that the Minis- try is also investigating the sys- tem at Croydon by which fully- fonded weight is accepted by con- tral oficiale before the plane is permitted to leave.

"Two matters of great import. ance to the travelling public wit have to be considered as a re- sait of this crash," the Sunday Times Air correspondent states.

"One is the single-engine per- formance of all such' aircraft as the Dakota. The other is the ap- propriate maximum loaded weight for the Dakota,

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"By United States standards Weighing 60,000 lbs and having a cruising speed of 180 miles per The Prince's death is a par. British Dakotas are down over- ticularly hard blow, to Kingoeded to an extent of nearly hour the Bermuda will have an Crash Theory

Gustav, with whom he was a 3,000 pounds. The Dakota is al- upper and lower deck and a bar lowed by its makers and by the been ordered by BOAC and de

Three of the new planes have his Late tonight an inspector at great favourite: Despite

United States authorities to fly at livery of the first is expected the airport advanced the theory inherent shyness, he was popu- that it was possible the steer nr with the Swedish people, a total weight of 25,200 pounds. about mid-suruner, the amounes

The British ing or elevating gear of the some of whom regarded him as Board has approved a maximum

Air Registration ment said.United Prese. plane had somehow become en- the next King of Sweden,

Prince, is in bad health, and

of 28,000,

tangled with the automatic His father, the Crown "At that loading andligine Riots In

pilot "Such a happening," he said, "might be responsible for the plane's unusually sharp an- gied ascent and apparent un- manoeuverability,”

Grace Moore's aged mother, brothers and sisters, who live at Chattanooga, Tennessee, had been looking forward to a hap- py reunion with her next month. They had not seen her since the spring of last year. Richard Moore, one of her brothers, speaking over the long-distance telephone tonight said: "Mother had a cable from. Grace this morning say

failure at take-off is almost

it had sometimes been rumour-bound to mean a crash in flight. ed that he would abdicate in

"The failure of one engine favour of his son in the event would probably mean a forced of the King's death.-Reuter. lending within a few minutes.

United Press adds that the The Dakota has not enough

identified first victim

power to continue a take-off sue.

or maintain Prince Gustav Adolf, who car-cessfully

a.safe ried three identification discs. height on one engine." Miss Moore also was identified officially, as were most of the

other bodies. '.

was

NO SECOND-TERM PRESIDENTS?

Washington, Jan: 20. Senator Slyira › Bridges today

ing she was leaving Denmark sald he may soon introduce legis for Stockholm and sent her lation to restrict the President of love to all of us. The shock the United States to a single term

of her death has greatly affect of six years, ed mother, who is now serious-

"I believe the country has had

ly ill. Only a few days ago enough of the second, third, fourth

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Bombay, Jan. 27. Felice Sred into groups of rioters as Bombay tensely cele brated India's Independence day, but authorities said the situation did not get out of hand and that It was reported recently that casualties were relatively light Sweden, Norway and Denmark An official announcement sair had asked that British European at least five persons were knifee Airways on services to their coun- Land acid throwings were. numer. tries should reduce the load of ous. Dakotas by nearly one ton-Rou-

tér,

term ides and would welcome a change," he said.

He added that he wax opposed

to the plan to limit the President two four year terms:-United Press.

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Most of the fighting was be tween the Moslems and Hirador but in at least one arca, unfouch ables clashed with caste Hindus ---Associated Press.

WFTU DELEGATES IN MUNICH

Frankfurt, Jan. 26. Gustav Schiefer, Chairman of the Munich Trade Unions, wel comed the World Federation of Trade Unions' delegation on their arrival in Munich tonight.

The delegation in headed by Mr.. Albert E. Carthy (Britain), and included Mr. E. Rostovský. (USSR), Mr. Koneeny (Czechor slovakia), M. Albert Preuss

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Mr. Carthy said the object st the tour was to acquaint delegates with the progress of derailñea tion of the trade union movement. --Reuter,

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