The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 1, 1954, Page 2

Faint Message Spurs Hunt For Missing Plane NORTH CONWAY, N.H. (2—A faint radio message and an un- wreckage on a mountainside today spurred ground and air search for, a Northeast Airlines plane downed yesterday with seven aboard. The brief radio voice message— ed “blind” for anyone who could pick it up—read: | “Emergency — down five miles northeast of Field Hill but — —.” ‘The message then faded out. At about the same time a report 18 attributed te a Civil. Air Patrol) said wreckage of a plane had | sighted in the snowy wilder- of Bald Mountain, about five jles northeast of the airliner’s Airport destination. How: ever, the Air Force search co- said it-had no word of sighting. ele Snowy Weather The plane disappeared in snowy | weather on a scheduled flight from | Boston to the Berlin Airport at Milan. Immediately after report of the | Ik and the radio message— indicating that at least one of the | missing seven persons still lived—| search parties went into action. Nearly three score searchers . moved into the Bald Mountain area. The party included litter bearers, mountain specialists, a medical referee and a doctor, all equipped with arctic clothing. Some 30 planes combed the area | in flying. conditions described as | “extremely rough.” The Ber?in Airport at Milan was closed due to poor visibility accompanying a heavy snowfall. From one to two feet of snow covered the ground in the search area. Robert L. Turner, airline vice president, said the radio message was sent on an emergency fre- quency. Message Identified { Turner said the message was identified as from “792,” the} flight designation of the missing More than 20 search planes immediately converged on the - area, which includes Bald and | Black ‘mountains, both more than 2,000 feet high. Bald Mt., 2,370 feet high, one of the lesser mountains of the White Mountains range, is between Ber- lin and the Berlin airport, eight -miles outside Berlin to which the DC3 was flying when it vanished | yesterday noon. Report of the wreckage sighting | came almost simultaneously with | reports from Northeast’s Berlin office that faint radio signals had been picked up there. The. radio signal came about 8 a.m. from within a five mile radius of Berlin to which the plane had been flying from Laconia, 68 miles away yesterday in a Bostop-Ber‘in flight with seven persons aboard. Search Spreads A broad ‘air search directed py Air Force officers which had been working out. of the North Conway area immediately shifted into the Berlin region. The DC3 transport has been missing since noon yesterday. The plane acknowledged at 11:15, a.m., a report on weather condi- tions at its destination, the Berlin Airport at Milan, about 10 miles north of Berlin. Northeast Airlines in Boston said it “suggested” at 11:30 a.m. that the plane return to Laconia be- cause of . “deteriorating” weather conditions at Milan. That message never was acknowledged, the air- The plane’s crew were Capt. W. Peter Carey,. 37, Swampscott, | Observation T: The Weatherman Says: Key West and Vicinity: Clear to abrad Cloudy and mild through ‘hursday. Low temperature to- night near 69 high Thursday about 2. Winds should be moderate to ee nmally fresh northeast winds ing east i Thursday. erly tonight and Florida: Clear to partly cloudy and mild through Thursday. Jacksonville through the Florida Straits: Moderate northeast winds over the north portion becoming gentle to moderate east to south- east tonight and southeast to south Thursday. Fresh northeast winds over the south portion becoming moderate to occasionally fresh east- erly tonight and Thursday. Clear to Partly cloudy weather. East Gulf: Gentle to moderate easterly winds over the north por- tion and moderate to fresh north- east to east winds over the south portion this afternoon and tonight. Thursday gentle to moderate south- east to south winds over the north Portion and moderate east winds over the south portion occasionally fresh in the extreme south. Clear to partly cloudy. Western Caribbean: Moderate to fresh northeast te east winds through Thursday. Partly cloudy and widely scattered showers. mn at Post Office Building, 7:00 A.M., EST, Key West, Fla,, Dec. 1, 1954 Temperatures Highest yesterday Lowest last night .. Mean 3 16 Normal . - Precipi Total last 24 hours 0 ins. Total this month .. Deficiency this mont 06 ins. Total this year ... Excess this 'year Relative Humidity. 7 A.M. 86% Barometer (Sea Level), 7 A.M. 30.21 ins.—1024.0 mbs. Tomorrow's Almanac Sunrise * Sunset Moonrise TOMORROW'S TIDES (Naval Base) Time of Height of Tide high water Low Tides 8:32 a.m. 8:31 p.m, Station— High Tides 1:22 a.m, 3:02 p.m. ADDITIONAL TIDE DATA , Reference Station: Key West Bahia Honda (bridge). ......—oh 10m (east end) .4:+-2h 20m Boca Chica Sandy Pt. No Neme Key Caldes Channel (north end) 9.0, th oh 40m +2h:10m +1.4 ft, {—)—Minus sign: Corrections to be subtracted. (+)—Plus sign: Corrections to be added. Temperatures Mass.; Copilot George McCormick, 37, Boston; Stewardess Mary Mc- Kettrick, 23, Dorchester, Mass ; and Flight Supt. John MeNulty, 39, Boston. The passengers, were listed as James W. Harvey, Watertown, Mass.; W. Miller, Philadelphia; and Daniel H. Hall, Montclair, Pt lic Invited To Attend Elks Memorial Rités Chaplain Charles B. Robinson, | USN, wili be the principal speak- er at the)annual memorial exer- cises of Key West Lodge of Elks te be held 3 p, m. Sunday in the Elks annex. ’ Harold Thompson, chairman of the committee on arrangements, announced today that the public was again invited to attend the | services. Taking a prominent part in the exercises again this year will be the Key West High School Chorus | AT 7:30 A.M., EST | | Atlanta | Augusta | Billings | Birmingham | Bismark | Boston Buffalo Charleston Chicago Corpus Christi Denver 4 Detroit | El Paso Ft. Worth Galveston Jacksonville Kansas City KEY WEST 38 11 47 37 | | Louisville | Meridian | Miami. Minneapolis | Memphis New Orleans... New York Norfolk Oklahoma City Omaha Pensacola Pittsburgh es . 38 41 a2t . 51 3h 82 from us?” | S. | “|have combined in a two-pronged | -|tive group, still are the largest +| party, in the Diet, but.the Demo- 35} Yoshida Raps Communist Sympathizers | By JIM BECKER | TOKYO —Primé Minister Shi- |Seru Yoshida, in stinging replies | |to his Diet (Parliament) crities, | | said today, “It is very necessary | |for the Japanese to know the real | |menace of the Communist offen- | | sive.” And he «snapped at opponents | seeking to oust him: ‘‘The Liberal party will decide when and wheth- er I should’ step down.” The 76-year-old leader fought back at critics who attacked him | for being too “pro-American.” | “It is necessary to oppose com- jmunism,” he said. “If that is| called ‘alignment with America jonly,’ f say all the frée world is j aligned with America only.” | To questioners in the Diet who |urged expansion of trade with the Communists, he declared: | “The Communist radios pour | sugar-coated words at Japanese ears,” he said. “At the same time, | the Communist radios beamed to) Southeast Asia tell them Japan is | being rearmed for rénewed ag- gression under American instiga- tion. It is foolish to buy Communist words at face value.” | “Russia and China,” he said, | “have been unable to export to earn foreign exchange. If they| have no foreign exchange, how can |we expect them to buy anything | Yoshida refused to give his |erities any hint of his retirement | plans. He has agreed to step down |as president of his Liberal party, | with the broad hint that this also | would mean he would retire from | }the prime ministership in the near | future. | Crities both on the left and right | drive to oust Yoshida from office. The newly formed Democratic arty—made up of conservatives like Yoshida—and the Socialists oppose the leader whose more than six continuous years in office is by far a Japanese record. Yoshida’s Liberals, a cdnserva- crats and Socialists could push a nonconfidence motion and force new elections, Stork Club Owner Learns Daughter Is Married Now |NEW YORK (Sherman Bill- | ingsley, owner of the Stork Club, has called off a:police search for | his 18-year-old daughter Barbara after learning she eloped with a} New York photographer. The girl had been missing since | Saturday but her father waited | until yesterday before asking po- lice to try to find hen Then last night he telephoned police and said “we know where the girl is. We) don’t want any more police ac-| tion.” } Barbara telephoned home to con- firm the family’s suspicion that She had run away to marry John Rogers Christoffers, 28,. a com- mercial photographer who uses the professional name of John Rogers. The couple ‘met three weeks ‘ago at a party. } Christoffers’ brother Alfred said | |they were married Monday at | Folkston, Ga., and are honeymoon- | ing in Florida. EARLY APPROVAL (Continued from Page One) | iously hurt. I'm a member of the utility board and I’ve given the | question serious thought and I am convinced that the expansion is | mecessary.” | Lower Rates Hoped For | Cobo also advanced the hope that | as the electric company expands, it will be possible to lower rates through more efficient operaton. | City Commissioner Louis Car-{ bonell said: “If they can show me | there is a need for it — and there must be the way the city is grow- ing — I'll go along with it. The fact that the engineers and the | utility board advocate the expan. |sion should. be enough evidence. | We can’t continue to progress un less we have adequate utility ser- vice for new business.” Commissioner Paul R. Roberts commented: “I haven't had a Meet Tomorrow Yhe object of a statewide search | yet. One night he stayed at the | present plant, we might be ser- | Page2 THE KEY WEST CITIZE 'N Wednesday, December 1, 1954 County Board To The Monroe County Commis- sion will meet at 4 p. m. to- morrow in the. county court house, it was announced today by Gerald Saunders, chairman. The meeting was called at the request of Commissioner Har- ry Harris, chairman of the road- committee, to discuss. county roads, Fear Of School Failure Led Boy To Hiding FORT MYERS (#—Fear of fail- ing his studies at Florida State University caused him to fake his disappearance, Glenn E. McDon | ald said when he showed up here last ‘night, safe, sound and wor- ried. McDonald, 17, son of a wealthy Pensacola oil distributor, hd been since his bullet riddled automobile Was found at a trash dump in Tam- pa ‘Saturday night. He said he spent most of the time of his disappearance in West Palm Beach in a fruitless search for a job, and didn’t realize until | yesterday morning the anxiety he | was causing his family or the widespread public interest in his case. | Only ygsterday his father, Glenn | R. McDonald, had offered a re-| ward of $5,000 for the safe return | of the youth and $2,500 for infor- mation leading to arrest of tose responsible for his disappearince. Young McDonald said he deter- mined yesterday to reveal his iden. tity but hesitated to go to police for fear he might be put in jail. He took a bus for Fort Myers, considering’ just what to do. Thinking a doctor would be morq@ understanding and sympa- thetic, he. went to Lee Memorial Hospital here. Dr., Curtis House persuaded him to. go to Sheriff Flanders Thompson, who arranged for him to telephone his parents in Pensacola. The father immediately flew to Tampa, then drove here to pick up his son and take him home. Sheriff Thompson said the boy related this story: | He had been having trouble with | his studies and feared failing grades. During the Thanksgiving holidays he determined to disap-' pear. f He drove to Tampa, fired tw shots into the car near the driyer’s position with an old .32 caliber pistol he had,-and threw the weap: on in the Hillsborough River. He wanted to make it appear he was dead so he could get al | job under another name and /stayt anew. (Investigators,had doubted there ‘was foul play because ‘of the absence of blood in the car, | but had. not ruled out that nossi- | bility), Then he took a bus to West PaJm Beach and looked for a job; Everywhere he was met with the reply that he was too young, of that the. season had not stared bus station and the next at a rooming house. Then he decided to make a clean breast of his actions. ‘ Waldron Faces Life Term For — West Palm Killing WEST PALM BEACH W#—Or- ville T, Waldron; 31-year-old for- mer Marine, lost a_motion fora new trial and was sentenced to life in prison for-the murder of an Air Foree lieytenant colonel who had married his former com- mon-law wife. : Judge C. E, Chillingworth pro- nouneed. sentence yesterday. A jury last week found Waldron guilty of second-degree murder in the death of Lt, Col. William Cov- ington. The former Marine’s attorney asked for a new trial but the judge rejected it because, he said “the evidence was Sufficient for first degree murder.” Covington was shot to death July 8 as he slept beside his wife of three months, Mrs. Violet Coy- ington..She testified she had lived with Waldron for six years in Cal- iforhia. Waldron said he came to West Palm Beach to take the woman back with him and not to kill the Air Force officer. 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Copeland was ac-| Supreme Court Upholds Rapist ~-|Death Sentence TALLAHASSEE (#—The Florida Supreme Court) has upheld the constitutionat a section of the 195: child molester law providing a/ maximum 25 years sentence for rave of a girl less than 1§ years old. Charles Copeland Jr., 21 year old | Negro found guilty of raping a 12 year old white girl, the court said the child molester law ‘did not comply with constitutional re-| quirements in attempting to! ‘change the rape penalty. - General law sets the death pen- alty for rape if a jury convicting | a man of the offense does not rec- cused of entering the girl’s bed- room and forcing her to submit by threatening her with an ice- pick. 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VIOLENCE UNDER AND ON THE HIGH SEAS! Group under direction of Tom The following program has been arranged: : Lord's Prayer — High School Chorus > Remarks — Jack Baker, E. R. Invocation — Rabbi Abraham Schwartz ne “Battle Hymn of the Republic” | — High School Chorus “Mystic Roll Call” — Paul Sher, R Pave ee sce ne Diaz Address — Robinson “Onward Christian Solderis” — Roanoke St. Louis San Antonio San Francisco Seattle . Tallahassee Tampa Washington . 34) chance to’study the plan complete 39\ly, but.I’m all for progress and 67) if this is what is needed, I’m for 50) it.” : 34 Delaney’s Pian 49| Commissioner Jack Delaney said . 54) that he would probably approve «of . 37| the measure — but that he is go- | ing to try ta get a bigger payment LS in lieu of taxes for, the city when} MORSE Set FUN the bond ordinance is drawn up. | ASA DEMOCRAT “J haven't looked into it too deep- | WASHTID ®—Rep.-elect | ply, but I know you have to keep | Edith Green (D-Ore) predicts that| wp ‘with progress. The only possi- | Sen. Morse, now listed as an in-| ble objection I might possible have | dependent, will. run for re-election | to such a program would be the | High School Chorus in Oregon in 1986 as a Democrat. Neonunt of taxes they would pay “23rd Psalm” — Roger Been She said at @ mews conference | on such improvements. I'd like to aor — High School econ pas Would be wel-| see a provision incorporated in the rus . {eomed wut open arms by Demo-| bond issue that the city’ would: get Benediction — Rev. John saat leaders in “the sdaageesc fair tax equivalent on any im le & J ; rank-and-file Party members.” —_ | provements,” Fox News Cartoon Box Office Open: 1:45 . 9:00 P.M. Daily 3:45 - 9 P.M. WEDNESDAYS CONTINUOUS PERFORMANCE Gap~ TELEPHONE 2-3419 FoR TIME SCHEDULE <qygy San Carlos Theatre Air-Conditioned