THURSDAY. NOVEMBER 3. 1955
44 Persons Die
In Plane Crash
LONGMONT, Colo. (W)— A four-engine United Air Lines
plane—some witnesses said it seemed to explode in the ail'
—crashed in a northern Colorado sugar beet field last night,
killing all 44 persons aboard.
The disaster hitting the DC6B craft was the second crash
the airline has suffered in the Rocky Mountain region in less
Peron Quits
Exile; Flies
To Brazil
'RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, Nov.
2 (41—Juan D. Peron broke off
his exile in Paraguay today and
flew to Brazil. His ultimate desti
nation was announced as Nicara
gua, but speculation arose that
the deposed President of Argen
tina might be heading for Europe.
Officials in Paraguay provided
a plane for him and breathed a
sigh of relief. Insisting on anony
mity, they said his departure re
lieved them of many worries. But
they insisted it was Peron's own
idea.
Peron's presence in Paraguay
caused dissent within the Para
guayan government and strained
relations with Argentina, which
claimed he broke the rules of po
litical asylum by declaring that
he was still constitutional presi
dent of Argentina.
Anibal Arguello, a part-time
AP correspondent in Paraguay,
was arrested Friday for interview
ing Peron. The Paraguayan gov
ernment said it Acted "to safe
guard the principles on which in
ternational understanding and
friendship are founded" because
it learned that the interview con
tained "sensational news."
The exact content of the inter
view has not been learned pending
release of Arguello from jail.
The airline reported all bodies
had been removed to mortuaries
in Greeley, 17 miles northeast.
Although there was snow at
higher elevations, the ground was
clear here. Mud in a freshly
plowed field into which part of
the wreckage was scattered gave
some difficulty.
The temperature was slightly
below 20 'degrees. The reading
was 18 in Denver, 32 miles south.
State Senatorial Contest A number of United's flight en-
To Serve as Yardstick gineers are on strike Over job se
curity. but a spokesman for the
WILKES-BARRE, Pa., Nov. 1 line in New York said there was
(IP)—The state senatorial contest no connection between the strike
in Luzerne County's' 21st district an d th e cras h.
was seen today as a yardstick for , 13
y all means, no," he said.
measuring a rise or fall in public
support of Gov. George M. Lead- He said that in place of a regu
er's state administration. lar flight engineer on the crashed
State leaders in both political p lane was a pilot who was fully
qualified and licensed as a flight
parties were reported keenly in- engineer also.
terested in this aspect of the race
between Peter M. Margie, Demo- The line, he said, made sure
crat, of West Pittston,.. and that anybody assigned as a flight
Liam H. Davis, Republican, of engineer was trained and licensed
Wilkes-Barre. Ito perform flight engineer duties.
Nobel Prizes Awarded
To Three Americans
STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 2 (/P} . —Three American
scientists today won the 1955 Nobel prizes in chemistry and
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physics.
Dr. Vincent du Vigneaud of Cornell University medical
college will receive the $36,720 chemistry award for work on
two hormones that help in childbirth and keep a check on
vital organs like the kidneys.
The physics award goes jointly
to Dr. Willis E. Lamb of Stanford
University and Dr. Polykarp
Kusch of Columbia University.
They will split $36,720 for work
in connection with atomic meas
urements. Their work corrected
an error made by a Briton who
previously won the Nobel prize.
The prizes, announced by the
Royal Swedish Academy of Sci
ence, will be presented by King
Gustaf Adolf here Dec. 10. The
awards were created by the will
of Alfred Nobel, inventor of dyna
mite.
Dr. Du Vigneaud was a front
runner for the 1955 Nobel prize
in medicine, awarded last month
to Dr. Hugo Theorell, a Swedish
authority on enzyme chemistry.
Both these scientists have been
among top candidates for many
years.
Their field of biochemistry bor
ders between medicine and chem
istry.
Informants said the prize
awarders decided to give the 1955
THE WAY COLLEGIAN, STATE COLLEGE. PENNSYLVANIA
than four weeks.
A UAL airliner smashed into
Medicine Bow Peak in southern
Wyoming Oct. 6 for a loss of •66
lives, the nation's worst commer
cial aviation tragedy.
Last night's crash killed 39 pas
sengers, including an infant boy,
and 5 crew members.
An airline spokesman declined
to speculate on what happened to
the New York-to-Seattle plane,
explaining that accounts of wit
nesses varied widely. He said
statements were being taken from
all available.
Cause Is Questioned
"Some say it exploded in the
air, others that it hit the ground
and exploded," the UAL spokes
man said. "It is difficult for us
to say what took place. That
probably will have to be deter
mined by the Civil Aeronautics
Board."
While the CAB will have charge
of the investigation? the Civil
Aeronautics Authority in Wash
ington announced three of its top
officials also were leaving for the
scene. The CAA said they will try
"to find out if any type of im
mediate remedial action is neces
sary" pending the outcome of the
investigation.
Dead Removed
chemistry award to the Ameri
can because 44 years had passed
since a Swede received the medi
cine prize.
The work that won the physics
prize for Dr. Lamb, 42, and Dr.
Kusch, 44, was described by the
Academy as a major advance to
ward learning what goes on in
side the atom. It enabled scien
tists to calculate correctly the
properties of some of its com
ponent parts.
Wage Issue—
(Continued from page two)
is that students may use the meal
tickets at breakfast in the Lion's
Den.
In other action, the board of
governors acted on setting up a
new secretarial committee, insti
tuting a regular independent so
cial affair in the HUB ballroom,
and having a regional National
Independent Student Association
convention here.
Truman Praises
Harriman In
His 'Memoirs'
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (JP)—
Former President Harry S. Tru
man gives high praise to W. Aver
ell Harriman, governor of New
York and prominently mentioned
Democratic presidential po s s
bility, in the first volume of his
memoirs, published today.
Truman says Harriman per
formed
"vital service" as this
country's World War II ambassa
dor to Moscow, and he relates
that Harriman gave him urgent
personal advice that the United
States must stand firm against a
postwar Soviet "barbarian inva
sion of Europe."
"At this point," Truman relates,
"I stopped Harriman to say that
I was not afraid of the Russians
and that I intended to be firm.
I would be fair, of course, and
anyway the Russians needed us
more than we needed them."
Excerpts fr o m the Truman
memoirs have been -published in
Life magazine and the New York
Times.'
The portions of the book prais
ing Harriman have unusual in
terest in the light of Truman's
recent statements describing the
New York governor as exception
ally well-qualified for the Demo
cratic presidential nomination,
Truman also has said, however,
he is not backing away from Ad
lai E. Stevenson, the 1952 nom
inee.
Duchess Faces
Death Questioning
MINEOLA, N.Y., Nov. 2 (/1 3 )—
An array of the socially _ .omi
nent including the Dutchess of l
Windsor tonight faced eventual
questioning in the fatal shooting
of millionaire William Woodward
Jr. by his wife.
Authorities said they wanted to
talk with everyone of the.6o per
sons who attended a party with
the Woodwards just hours before
the tragedy. The dutchess, wife of
the former King of England, was
the guest of honor.
Meanwhile, more than 1000 per
sons prominent in society, finance,
and sports attended funeral ser
vices in New York City for Wood.
ward, 35, owner of the fabulous
racehorse, Nashua.
New Battles Rage
Off China Coast
TAIPEI, Formosa, Thursday,
Nov. 3 (IP)—An air-sea battle and
artillery duels roared along the
offshore island front yesterday in
a sudden flareup of China's dor
mant vest pocket war.
The Nationalists claimed their
Thunderjets sank nine Red gun
boats and other craft despite a
storm of anti-aircraft fire from
the mainland.
Communist ships had been re
ported massing in Santuao inlet,
25 miles north of the Matsu group
where the Nationalist garrison
this week was put on the alert
for a possible Red invasion.
Bomber Crashes;
2 Airmen Killed
EAST MEADOW, N.Y.; Nov. 2
(JP)—A twin-engined Air Force
bomber crashed amid a row of
small private homes here today,
heavily damaging one of them.
By a miracle, only the two airmen
aboard the plane were killed.
The 826 medium bomber was
returning to Mitchel Air Force
Base after a routine training
flight.when it went into what was
described as a "flat spin." It
crashed in the front yard of a
one-story Cape Cod house in the
middle of a block.
The scene is about a mile and
a half east of Mitchel Field.
Summerfield Announces
Stamp to Honor Mellon
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (EP)—
Postmaster General Arthur E.
Summerfield has announced his
department will issue a special
three cent stamp here Dec. 20 to
mark the centennial of the birth
of Andrew W. Mellon, former sec
retary of the Treasury.
Mellon, a Pittsburgh million
aire, headed the Treasury Depart
ment from 1921 to 1932 and gave
the nation the National Gallery
of Art, now one of Washington's
chief show places.
Israel's Premier
Wants Peace Talks
JERUSALEM, Israel Sector, Nov. 2 (/P)—lsrael's Premier
offered today to talk peace with the Arab nations.
In his first speech since returning to the premiership after
two years' retirement, David Ben-Gurion told Parliament
there is "no real reason for an Israel-Egyptian conflict, but
on the contrary there is a fruit
basis for cooperation between the
two peoples."
"Israel is ready for a lasting
and enduring peace settlement
and for long-term political, eco
nomic and cultural co-operation
between Israel and its neighbors,"
he said.
"If the other side is not ready
for that yet, we would also agree
to a lintited settlement providing
for the' insurance of the full im
plementation of the armistice
agreements, mutual elimination
of all incidents and acts of hos
tility, boycott and blockade, ob
servance of freedom of the seas
and any additional arrangements
agreeable to both sides.
"The government of Egypt and
other Arab rulers now have the
opportunity to show the world
what they really want: war or
peace."
In Cairo, official comment was
withheld while the Israeli offer
was studied, but Arab League
sources called it "useless." Since
Israel was created, Arab leaders
have rejected joint talks of any
kind to avoid the implication that
they recognize the Jewish state.
One Arab League source said
Palestine is primarily a UN prob
lem, and any serious peace pro
posal must come from there, not
from a party involved in the dis
pute.
Wage Proposal
Averts Strike
PITTSBURGH (W)—An undis
closed wage proposal today avert
ed a' threatened strike of bus and
trolley operators against the Pitts
burgh Railway Co.—the citfs ma
jor transit system.'
Mayor David L. Lawrence an
nounced an indefinite postpone
ment of the scheduled walkout by
2,280 members of the Divsion 85,
AFL Street, Electric Railway, Mo
tor coach employees less than two
hours after the midnight strike
deadline.
The new proposal was submitted
by Mayor Lawrence. Earlier, the
union rejected a company offer
of four cents an hour Tay increases
immediately and another five
czrats an hour hike next May 1
The vote was 800-554.
Ike, Mitchell Confer
On Taft-Hartley Law
DENVER, Nov. 2 (iP)---Secretary of Labor James P. Mit
chell said today he has abandoned any hope that the next
congressional session will approve administration proposals
to change the Taft-Hartley labor law.
But he said President Dw
recommend changes to the le!
Mitchell spent 30 minutes con
ferring with Eisenhower today at
Fitzsimons Army Hospital. He
told a news conference afterward
the President will press once
more for half a dozen items of
labor legislation which the Demo
cratic-controlled Congress fail
ed to enact in the last session,
along with the new legislative sug
gestions which can't be disclosed
now.
As something of an after
thought, in response to a ques
tion, the secretary included Taft-
Hartley amendments in the legis
lative program for labor. With
Congress in its present mood, he
said, he sees no possibility that
it would put through such amend
ments.
Mitchell was the eighth Cabi
net member to call on the chief
executive at the hospital. Eisen
hower stepped out today along
the road to recovery from his
heart attack and goal of ending
McCarthy
Investigates
Labor Board
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2 (/P)—
Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy (R.-Wis.)
said today he has "succeeded in
uncovering facts, which, if true,
establish the existence of a cur
ren t l y functioning Communist
cell" in the National Labor Re
lations Board.
"My information incriminates a
large number of individuals who
at this very moment hold top
level jobs in this government
agency," McCarthy said in a let
ter to Chairman John L. McClel
lan (D.-Ark.) of the Senate In
vestigations subcommittee.
McCarthy urged that the sub
committee on. which he is the
senior Republican undertake an
immediate investigation.
McCarthy sent copies of his let
ter to the Senate press gallery
late today for general distribution
to newsmen. The Chicago Tribune
had published the substance of it
in its Wednesday edition.
Asked for comment on the basis
of the Tribune story, Philip Ray
Rodgers, acting chairman of the
NLRB, told The Associated Press:
"I would rather not comment at
this time until I can see exactly
what the senator says."
Dairy Team Ties
For Tenth Place
The Penn State Dairy Judging
team, led by Richard Mong, jun
ior in dairy science from Seneca,
tied for 10th place among 26
teams competing in the 21st Col
legiate Students' International
Contest in judging dairy products
held• last week in St. Louis, Mo.
Mong received a gold medal for
milk judging, in which the Penn
State team placed third.' The team
also took sixth place in the but
ter judging contest.
This is the only meet this year
in which the Penn State team will
take part, according to Dr. George
H. Watrous, associate professor of
dairy manufacturing and assis
tant coach of the team.
ght D. Eisenhower again will
islators.
a stay of nearly seven weeks in
the hospital on Nov. 11.
The chief executive did more
walking today than at any time
since his progress toward conval
escence permitted him to take the
first steps. Both at breakfast and
lunchtime he walked to Mrs. Eis
enhower's room, a few doors from
his own.
And twice he walked down a
long corridor to work with his
paints.
Eisenhower saw Mitchell after
two hours of resting and napping.
And the secretary said, "I found
him to be in exceedingly good
health, surprisingly so."
Mitchell said he and Eisenhow
er talked about "the high levels
of the economy" in terms of a
high plateau of employment of 65
million jobs, a low level of un
employment of about 2,100,000
and "about the remarkably good
strike record that has been
!chalked up by management and
!labor this year "
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