PAGE TWO Carrier Lists 42 NEW YORK VP)—The world's newest, largest aircraft carrier, Constellation, nearing completion at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, was swept by an inferno of raging flames yester day. Forty-two persons were known dead, and a police offi cial said the toll could exceed 100. The fire started in the main deck when a small hoisting Investigation Finds Jet Off Course NEW YORK (EP) -- The United Air Lines DCB jetliner involved in history's worst aviation disaster Friday was 11 miles from where it should have been when it collided with a Trans World Airlines Constellation, the administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency said yesterday. The collision, with the DCB jet liner falling in Brooklyn and the Constellation on Staten Island, re sulted in the deaths of at least 135 persons. In Washington, Gen. E. P. Ouesada, 'FAA head, said he had advised President Eisenhower that one of two electronic navi gation aids aboard the DCB was out of commission at the time. However, he said, this should not have caused the plane to stray froM its course and it should not have been over Staten Island where the collision occurred. Meanwhile, Time magazine published recorded conversations between the traffic controller and the TWA pilot. The magazine said that at 10:35 a.m. an unidentified blip showed tip on the LaGuardia controller's radar as he nursed TWA's flight 26(3 through the falling snow and overcast to a landing. "Unidentified target approach ing you at four miles, 3 o'- clock" (a 90-degree angle). Time quoted the controller as saying. The pilot. David Woolman, ac knowledged. Seconds later, the tower again warned the pilot and again he acknowledged. Time said the LaGuardia tower checked Idlewild winch reported there should be no aircraft in the TWA plane's path. Then the con troller watched as the two blips merged and became one. Quesada and Chairman Whit ney Gilliland of the Civil Aero nautics Board met with .Eisen hower and White House aides for an hour and 10 minutes to relay an interim report on the investi gation of the accident. Later, Quesada met reporters in the office of press secretary( James C. Hagerty •to relate "the, facts as we know them." COME JOIN the FUN This EASTER at the FT. LAUDERDALE BERMUDA HOLIDAY ROLIC 1. March 29 - April 5 ONLY 91 .50 209 All inclusive RATE New York to Bermuda •Chartered Bus •8 days and I nights 65 days & 41" nights • Fly via Eastern Airlines Jet *Stay at the lovely •Bermudiana & Princess Hotels BEACH CLUB HOTEL •Full breakfasts and dinners ' • Afternoon leas There's FUN in *Transfers from airport to hotel FLORIDA! •All College Week attractions PNN s*TA . 1R02 1 2, Suite 23. 111 S. Allen St. In the Metzger Building AD 8-0529 Fire Dead truck sheared off a plug on a tank of volatile jet aviation fuel. No planes were aboard but the fuel was being used to flush the ship's piping system. The liquid gushed along the deck and into a well where a welder's torch Ignited it. At first there seemed some hope of con trolling the flames, but the fire suddenly exploded out of hand and ravaged the sleek, missile carrying carrier from stem to stern. The blaze raged out of control from mid-morning until long aft er dark as firefighters, in a slow and agonizing battle, gradually confined it to narrowing sections of the huge ship. The report of 42 known dead came from th! Navy. Most of the victims were civilian workers aboard the $250-million carrier. Police placed the number of injured at more than 200. Hospi tals in the area were clogged to overflowing with choking, burnt survivors. More ominously, of the 4200 persons aboard when the fire broke out, an uncounted number were trapped below red-hot deck plating, at the mercy .of flames and deadly fumes, their fate un certain. IF IT'S A 800 K... 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And against the background of lengthy House and Senate service of all the others present, Rayburn dropped a crisp one-word remark that made it clear he expects no interference from them in run ning the House. Rayburn who has served 16 years as speaker, more than any lother man in history told re porters at the airport that the way the House Rules Committee operates is "utterly" a matter for the House to handle. Cuba, USSR Sign New Trade Pact MOSCOW (io—Proclaiming their solidarity in foreign affairs, the Soviet Union and Cuba signed yesterday a new and bigger trade agreement that promises Soviet aid to build Cuban industry. The Soviet Union also announced it is ready to buy 2.7 million tons of Cuban sugar roughly half the crop if "the!buY Cuban sugar to help replace United States persists in refusing lost U.S. markets. to buy sugar from its Caribbean A communique distributed by neighbor. The Soviets now buy the official news agency Tass said a million tons annually under a pact signed Feb. 13. the Soviet Union will build an Returning from a bout with iron and steel mill and power the flu, Premier Khrushchev plants and send technicians to aid met Ernesto Guevara, Cuba's in the exploration for iron and economic chief in the Kremlin. other minerals. No over-all fig- Then Guevara and Deputy Pre- J ures on the size of the trade pact mier Anastas I. Mikoyan signed were given a communique. Looking , tit. Khrushchev showed up later at a reception for Guevara. The pact goes beyond the one signed in Havana by Mikoyan under which Soviet oil began flowing to Cuba in the deal to TUESDAY. DECEMBER 20. 1960 There are indications that cave dwelling Indians lived in Utah as long ago as 1500 B.C. To Our PENN STATE FRIENDS Our Sincere Wishes for a JOYOUS HOLIDAY SEASON Your Stanley-Warner Theatres . .. .; .1., r 4. 0 .1.1. Cr - IV 4PA , 'FA' • - ,' , 'S ••,- r .., , T.. ' . 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