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Worst Air Disaster In History: 55 Dead

Fighter Plane's Crash Into Giant Liner

TRAGEDY OVER WASHINGTON

Washington, November 1.

All 55 persons aboard an Eastern airliner were killed in the worst disaster of United States commercial airlines when a fighter plane piloted by a Bolivian official crashed into the big craft, as both planes were trying to land at National Airport. Eastern Airlines reported after correcting its figures several times, that 55 persons, including four members of the crew, were aboard the wrecked transport:

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Eric Rios Bridoux, pilot of the smaller plane and Director General of Civil Aeronautics for Bolivia, survived but suffered a spinal fracture and possibly ~ fraktäreď škuli.

the US Air Force and the

Vyshinsky Has PEACE TREATY

No Comment

Lake Success, Havember 1.

The Soviet Föreign Minis- ter, Andrei Vyshinsky, today declined to commention the Anglo-American... agreement to "revive the question of the Japanese

•peace treaty." Mr.Vyablosky,zald he „had not enough Information the subject to exprese any opinion at this time, adding, "After all, I cannot comment DA" "everything." - United Priss.

Seventh Crash In

A Week

WITH JAPAN

UNDER STUDY

working for

Washington, November. 1.

United States and British officials have been several weeks on the terms of a Japanese peace treaty, it was stated authorita- tively here today.

The British Foreign Secretary, Mr. Ernest Bevin, and the US Secretary of State, "Mr. Dean Acheson, announced in Washington in Septem- ber that the conclusion of a Japanese peace treaty was urgent and that their officials would study the question.

Officials said that the Unit-discussed this step recently and ed States and Britain had not to have procred a new and urgent decided to reopen the quee study of the question." tion as stated in-a New The Times" said separate York Times report today be studies along this line were un- Washington, November 1. cause it had been regarded as der way in bath London and

The mid-air crash between open ever since this

an-Washington a. Skymaster" airliner and a nouncement. fighter plane near Washing-S ton today, was the seventh air crash within a week

Last Tuesday seven people were killed when a Bristol cargo plane of the furgentine Air Force crashed in the Tucuman Province of Argentina.

were killed the

It said the State Department's Officials here said that there for the Assistant Secretary of work was under the supervision were three problems:

State, Mr. Walton W. Butter-

Mr. Maxwell worth, and Hamilton.

1-What is the best mechanism for bringing about a peace con- ference to prepare a Japanese peace treaty:

2-What do Britain and the United States wish to see includ a Frenched in such a treats de vos

3-Is the United States or any

Two people following day when Ay plane crashed and exploded air base, near Pau, France.

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Commissioni prepared to go ahead with the preparation of such a treaty if the Soviet Union or any other country excludes itself from discussion of the treaty?

Ries Bridoux was test-fiy-War Assets Administration T. Williams, construction worker ing a war-surplus P-38 which said they were not concerned for the Potomac Electric Power Company, said he saw the crash. his Government recently in the deal.

After hitting the passenger plane. purchased. The Bolivian Em- The hiliner carried 51 passen the P-38 shet of like a billiard bassy refused to say from scrs and four crew. All but one bail, he said. It sounded like tin

were killed at the whom the twin-engined fight pparently er plane was bought. Bome of the crash or "dled a few clanging, he added, and the big after taking off from Pont Logother member of the Far Eastem plane continued ploughing into mininites Later.

On Thursday seven people were The only non-American passante round 30 seconds later.

Williams helped to carty 11 killed in two crashes, six when ser, Mrs. Isabelle Velutini, 33, of

passengers from the transport's an amphibian aircraft owned by Venezuela, lived long though to fuselage. He said all but one ap- the Superior Oil Company, of reach hospital. She had arrived peared dead inside the fuselage, America crashed at London Air- New York this morning after he continued, "elothes were splat-part and one when 3 United a Hight from South America tered about, seits were tangled States single-engined plane Her death in hospital left no and one man's arms were almost roshed in flames in Reitjerk. Echown kurvivors · among those ve

severed. A few of the persons Morocco, aboard the airliner.

First reports had said Pios had safety straps on. The ste

Another two crashes on Friday wardess who was dead, lay fat. Bridoux was carrying a woman on her face with her hands stretkilled 19 people, fo of them in an Air France · Constellation which passenger, but Vance Adams, ad-thed out toward the door." ministrator of Alexandria Hospit- Corporal Roland "Crowther said crashed on the island of Sau The Russians, it is believed, said the Bolivian told him he he was me of the first to reach Miguel in the Azores on a flight from Paris to New York. The French boxer, Marcel Cerdan, was among the victims.

MOSCOW AND RED CHINA

Baky

Moscow, November 1.

here by diplomatic observers, had been alone in the small plane. the scene. His white coat was are ready to listen to propo-Air Force

Rios Brideux was rescued by an splattered with blood. He helped

sergeant stationed at sals from the Chinese Com-the Bolling Field air base across who was still alive. Bodies were carry out ten bodies and one man Government for munist

a the river from the airport. The piled up inside the plane and killed in the crash of a Chilean Friday's forty-ninth victim was friendship treaty of

and Bolling tower

saw the collision there was

no sound except the military plane which came down alliance.

and despatched three crash boats meaning of a survivor who apm flames South of Santiago de

Chile peared unconscious.

to the scene.

Should the people's Govern. Rescued In Water ment in Peiping make

such 2

The sergeant was in the Grst proposal, the prospects are bright boat to arrive. He spotted a man that such a treaty could be con-struggling in the water and dived | cluded

fully clothed to his rescue.

1. Wang Chủ Asiang Com

munist China's new Ambassador to the US.S.R., arrived in 'Mos-

Monday. Major-General

V. Roschin, former Soviet

Rios Bridoux, bleeding from a severe head injury, remained conscious just long enough after | being saved to gasp that he was the plot of the P-38

Crashes Into Lagoon The collision occurred is both planes were coming- in "for a fanding. The smaller plane dived into the lagoon near the end of the airport. The larger plane crashed partly in the

Lagoon from _the' Potomac

River.

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cow on N. V.

The transport was a DC-4 on a Ambassador to

to Nationalist China, Moments later, when rescuers (flight from Boston to New Orleans arrived

to take Peiping to at

up his reached the crash scene, the only via New York and Washington. new job as Ambassador to the sound and sign of life in the The armoury at Alexandria,

weeks transport's wrecked fuselage was Communists about two ago. This was soon after Russia the moaning of one unconscious on October 2 became the first survivor. nation to recognise the new Pel- Starley Osbourne, Eastern's ping regime. -

virginia, was converted into a

In Two Months They said that the present work of putting down on paper what Britain and the United States wish to see included in

The I

The British Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Maberly E Dening, was reported to be directing the work in Lon don-Reuter and ***Associated

Press.

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Mr. Bevan Puts His Foot In It

London, November 1.

The Prime Minister, Mr. Clement Attlee, told the

ai-

a treaty could go on irrespec tive of a "decision the question House of Commons today that of who should finally "Warns the Health Minister's bitterly- cipate in its' negotiations criticised speech predicting "further redistribution of Officials said that the provi- sions of the treaty may be finish wealth" was not official Gov-

interested nations in about Two Bevan's speech was openly ed in rough draft and ready for ernment policy.

The Health Minister, Aneurin review with Britain and other

months.

Conservative Marked by the

leader, Vinston Churchill. The American and British Mr. Hevan had said that one Governments have been co of the reasons for the new policy Other recent plane crashes in operating closely for months on of cluded the following:

the whole range of Oriemal tributionibution would be re- October 13: A United States

Asked by Henry. Strauss (Con- Air Force Superfort crashed-át -These include possible Ja-servative) if he agreed with M.

Chinese,

Beran's contention," Mr. Attice people panese,

South Asian anti-Communist referred to his own speech on the budget for a full statement of

|ject-United Press.

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October 6: A United States Reports that the US. and Bri-Government policy on the sub- Air Force Dakota crashed on (tain have decided to reopen the Mon: Mitchell, North Carolina question of the Japanese peace Nine people were killed.

treaty as quickly as possible had a booming effect on Force. Flying Fortress crash-change.

Japanese September 3: A United States bonds on the London Stock Ex- morgue, to which 11 bodies were ed near the Mexico border. Ten brought. Other passengers were

Japanese issues Jumped from two points to three and a half carried to the Washington City People were killed. Vice-President in charge of tra- Morgue and the emergency hes

c, said: "There were four crew pital here. Among the first bodies lane crashed 100 miles from

September 27: An Argentine Points in response to the reports: and 51 passengers aboard the

recovered from the lagoon were Buenos Aires: Fifteen people were plane."

He said the fighter crashed in about on a woman and of a child killed acts

one year olÀ,

September 27: A United States was zot a factor in the crash-thina, Oklahoma, Thirteen people

Airport officials said the weather Air Force 329 crashed hea. Tal

United Press"

were killed-Reuter

Formalities are being ar ranged for Wang to present his credentials. Diplomats here believe one of Kie first

to the top of the airliner st

in half.

will be to sound out the Rus behind the wings, cutting the liner Rizna on the question of x treaty.

"The Eastern plane was making At the same time Russia re-lits. final approach to the runway cognised the Communist regime, after clearance and was No.

she broke off relations with the instructions from the tower? Kuomintang Nationalist Govern-Some 500-feet in the air it was ment. She concluded with that hit by a -28," Government on Adgust 14′ 1947;3

a 30-year friendship treaty. This

pact promised the

Nationalst

Worst Ever

The tower gave instructions to

Government military and moral the P-38 twice, but the fighter support in the event of any new failed to acknowledge, he said. aggression by Japan-Associated Press:****

Australian Communist Acquitted

Perth, November 1.

He apparently dived on to the |field," hitting our ship midway.”

it was belleved to be the worst plane disaster in history. Ther

"greatest "death" toll Tn"any previous plane creath was 53, this number being recorded three, times in the past in the United States and abroad.--

At 10 p.m. five hours after the disaster, harbour police said 20 kodies had been accounted for. A Naval diyer sent down to

examine the submerged part of the wreck reported 'addikofial bodies in the Mr. Kevin Martin Healy, forward part of the cabin, which Chairman of the Western Aus- was submerged. By dusic,- 31

les were rec

recovered and the bodies

tralian State Committee of Navy diver said the removal of Communist Party, was today acquitted by the

additional

be found in the

Criminal submerged wreckage would have to wait until morning

Court of a charge of sedition

He was charged with having

The Civil Aviation Board open- supported in writing, on or about 2 investigation immediately. Board representatives went to

March 7, the statement by the Rois Bridoux, bedside to get his Party's General Secretary, Mr.

Louis Sharkey, that version of the crash, but would. "If Soviet forces came here in not discuss the interview, pursuit of aggressors, workers Congressman Dead

Lawrence

would welcome

Sharkey was sentenced to three

Passengers killed included Con essman George Bates of Mas- sachusetts and Helen Hokinson,

years' imprisonment on October well-known cartoonist for the 17 far having uttered seditious new Yorker magazine, Miss words in a telephone interview

with the prest.

Hokipson was famous for her-f cartoons

Suburban club women.

Since sentence was passed on Another passenger killed was Sharkey, more than 2,500 miners Gertiner Taylory president, of the First Federal Savings Association

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