The Key West Citizen Newspaper, August 5, 1952, Page 3

TEXAS BUS CRASH CREATES MYSTERY,! ‘WACO, Tex. (# — Just how many yersons died in the flaming Hell hat resulted when two Greyhound wuses crashed south of here early Monday remained a mystery to- lay. At Teast 28 bodies had been re- ered from the charred sham- les of the big 37-passenger high- way liners, but a pile of charred flesh and bone remained for classi- fication. Twenty five persons were injured. Heat from the flumes was so tntense that molten metal and glass poured in little streams across the cracked highway. Officers believed some bodies were compleely cre- mated. Meanwhile, officials of the Grey- hound Lines, local police and the Texas Department of Public Safety tried to find out what happened, and why. The two speeding vehicles rammed together and burst into flames about 4 a. m. Two young drivers—Milburn Berry Herring, 24, and B. E. (Billy) Malone, 23,— were piloting their big vehicles through predawn blackness of Cen- tral Texas. Herring was complet- ing his fifth day as a driver; Ma- lone had been driving about four months. Both were among the dead. A passenger, pretty Mrs. Dora Daniels, 17, Corpus Christi, said somebody hollered, ‘Look out!” Then the buses hit. “It sounded like thunder,” Mrs. Daniels said. “It would blow up and then blow up again, one after another.” There was wild panic, horrible Will Officiate At Key West Conclave PICTURED HERE ARE FOUR STATE BUSINESS AND PrOrrssiONAL WOMEN’S CLUB OFFICIALS who will off misery and death aboard the bus. Outside there was death in the blazing gasoline that spilled over U. S. Highway 81. Where Malone,. driver of the southbound .bus .sat, .searchers found only three pieces of metal— a ticket punch, a cap emblem and a drivers badge. Bodies were thrown burning from the buses by the force of the impact. Men, women and children tried vanily to get out small windows. The safety exit on one of the buses was jammed by the body of the other vehicle which had swung around alongside it, Passengers miracylously thrown clear of the shambles pulled screaming injured from the flames. But the fire enveioped the wreck- age quickly. Bodies nurned on the pavement and alongside the high- way right of way. Identification of the dead was being made by personal belong- ings more than any other way. Little of the charred bodies re- mained for sorrowing, shocked rel- atives to identify. iclate In Key West on Aug. 22-23-24 when approximately 200 women arrive for their annual conclave. Left to right, are: Miss Helen Grauss, St. Petersburg, who is State Nominating Committee Chairman; Mrs, Wilhelmina G, Harvey, Key West, who is State President, will preside at all business meetings; Miss Pauline Hoover, Pensacola, State Ist Vice President, who will be in charge of coordinating the state’s program; and Mrs. “Mimi” Southwick, State 2nd Vice President, who is in charge of the entire state’s membership. Key West merchants and local BPWC members are cooperating to make this one of the finest state board meetings the Florida busi- {, Scher is assisting the state and city. Women Leaders Of BPWC SSRN NT NE ness women have ever known. It is believed that many more than 200 ordinarily in attendance will arrive. The local Chamber of Co. mmerce with Harold Laub- ail sepa OE = Fay Photo Service, Boston, Mass. ’ MRS. WILHELMINA HARVEY, as State President of the Business and Professional Women’s Clubs, recently served as member of the National Board of Directors at the annual National Convention ass many important women among nominated as Democratic Nominee for the Vi Lakeland, Florida; Mrs. land, Judge Hughes; Miss Bess Madil}, Biennial C 1 by Florida girls. whom (2nd from Annie Sales, Past Lake! led in Boston, Mass. ght) is Judge Sarah T. Hughes esidency of the United Sta’ BPWC President; Mrs man, of Miami, Florida. | Ha While Mrs. Harvey was in Bi ice President of Eng- ienna, Austria, who was adopted By The Associated Press Top Democratic leaders pre- dicted today the South will remain solid this November despite rum- blings of Dixie dissatisfaction with the party platform. The democratic presidential nominee, Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson of Mllinois, said Southern political leaders have given him “hearten- ing evidences” of the “fidelity of the South to the Democratic Party in this campaign.” Two Democratic senators today gave him more reason for opti- mism: Russell Long of Louisiana and Theodore F. Green of Rhode Island said in separate interviews the Republican candidate won't win a single Southern state, GOP Nominee Dwight D. Eisen- hower and: his party are counting heavily on splitting the South over the civil rights issue, offsetting the heavy edge Democrats have over Republicans in vote registra- tions. Both candidates had busy sched- ules today. Eisenhower flies to Los Angeles to make his first major speech since his nomination, and Stevenson set up appointments with two White House intimates to talk over campaign plans. Also jockeying for tical head- lines were three primaries, in Mis- souri—where President Truman is taking part—and in Michigan and Kansas. | The Negro vote—and which way it might swing—continued to fig- ure prominently in campaign cal- culations. Eisenhower has said handling of the explosive civil rights issue— the one Negroes and other minority | groups are most interested in— should be left mainly to the states. Most Negro leaders are against this principle. But after a meeting with Eisen- hower Monday, a group of Repub- lcan Negro leaders who said they represent organizations with three million members came out flatly for him. This immediately aroused speculation over whether he plans to change his civil rights stand. Stevenson didn’t seem to be wor- ried. He said: “TI can hardly see why the Ne- gro vote can find any happy refuge in the Republican Party.” Eisenhower's Los Angeles speech Tuesday, August S, 1952 THE KEY WEST CITIZEN rage 8 Wounded Marine Pilot Lands Bomb-Laden Damaged Plane WITH FIRST MARINE AIR- CRAFT WING IN KOREA # —A Marine jet pilot with a shattered arm made a one-wheel landing with an unexploded bomb dangling from his crippled plane. Capt. Edward Shamis, 28, Pensa- cola, Fla., has been recommended for the Bronze Star for his heroic a: the Marine Corps said to- y: Shamis was wounded by anti- | aircraft fire soon after he com- pleted his first dive bombing run against an enemy supply area northeast of Chorwon. He suffered a compound fracture and lacerations of his left arm. “I heard this thing go ‘thung’ through the side of the cockpit, then my arm started bleeding,” the pilot said. “I turned and headed for our own lines.” Followed by his wingman, 2nd Lt. Richard T. Spencer, 26, Lima, Ohio, the wounded officer made his way to a distant field. As he started his landing approach he | found that only one wheel would come down. “Evidently the shell that got me had also torn up my landing gear system,” Shamis said. “I still had one bomb left, and believe me I prayed the wheel that was down was the side the bomb hung on. “I put her down on the deck and for awhile that one wheel held up. But when my air speed got low, the plane fell on the wing with no wheel. Then she started skid- ding.” The Pantherjet came to a stop close to a standby crash crew who rushed him to a nearby hospital. Maj. Alexander S. “Rocky” Gil- lis, 30, Baltimore, a Marine pilot waiting to take off when Shamis came in said, ‘‘Ed did a fine job of bringing that thing in, as badly ; hurt ashe was. He sure made a sweet landing.” stents from his hospital bunk, “They're all sweet, Rock, when you walk away from them.” Nancy Oakes To Re-Marry NIAGARA FALLS, Ont. ® — will be before the annual encamp- ment of the Veterans of Foreign Wars (about 9 p.m. EST), He said it will be non-political and will deal with his ideas about good gov- ernment and the role veterans can play in achieving it. Stevenson’s two appointments are with Secretary of Agriculture Brannan and Clark Clifford, for- mer special counsel to Truman. Wednesday he has a conference scheduled with Sen. Richard Rus- sell of Georgia, and later another with Sen. Estes Kefauver of Ten- nessee—both losers to Stevenson for the nomination, The Illinois governor hailed the Russell-Kefauver meetings as fur- ther evidence he faces little worry about losing the South and its big bloc of electoral votes. Of the three primaries, major interest centered on the one in Missouri, where Truman has open- ly endorsed Attorney General J. E. (Buck) Taylor for the Democratic nomination for U. S. senator. Op- posing Taylor is Stuart Symington, one-time key man in Truman’s ad- ministration. The Taylor - Symington race cracked the Missouri Democratic Party into two feuding camps, and Pitted the well-known Pendergast organization against a new faction headed by Sheriff Thomas F. Cal- lanan. Michigan nominates candidates for governor, Senate and House; Kansas for governor and House seats. Other political developments: Elder Statesman Bernard Ba- ruch said he wants to see which presidential candidate “has the greater wisdom and fortitude” to beat inflation before he decides whom to back. Both, he said, are able men. The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle is breaking tradition: It said editori- ally today it is backing Eisenhow- er, the Republican candidate. Sen. Paul Douglas (D.-Ill.), who pulled at the Kefauver-for-Presi- dent bandwagon until it broke down, said he will campaign ac- tively for Stevenson. Sen. Everett M. Dirksen (R.- M.), in the opening Republican | blast against Stevenson, said Ste-| venson is “rapidly becoming known | as Illinois’ worst governor since the turn of the century.” Dirksen heads the GOP senatorial cam- paign committee, Moonshiner Sent To Federal Prison Carlton Beard, 50, Gainesville, a former deputy sheriff in Alachua | County, was sentenced to a year| and a day in federal prison Mon-| day for transportation of moon- shine whiskey. Beard, who did not contest the government’s charge that he tra: ported 160 gallons of moonshine, ported 160 gallons of moonshine, was arrested with the liquor near Lake City om April 26. Nancy Oakes, beauteous gold min- ing heiress whose first husband was accused, tried and acquitted on charges of murdering her fath- er, is going to marry again. The groom-to-be is Ernst Lys- sard, younger son of the Baron and Baroness Hermann von Hoy- ingen Huene, Oberammergau, Ger- many. He is a student at Occl- dental College in Los Angeles, Cal. 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