Twelve Die In
States Plane Crash
CHICAGO, </P) — A Delta Air
lines DC-4 plane crashed and
burned explosively late Wednes
day night a few seconds after it
took off from Chicago’s municipal
airport. Twelve of 13 aboard were
killed.
The only survivor was a 33 year
Old mother whose seven year old
son perished in the fiery wreck
age. She screamed hysterically for
her child as she was pulled from
the flames.
The woman, Mrs. Tripolino
Meo, of suburban Oak Lawn, 111.,
suffered severe bums. Both of her
legs and both of her arms were
broken.
All four members of the crew
•were killed. The plane was bound
for Miami, Fla. It splashed into an
Orange-colored, flaming mass on a
nearby prairie at 10:58 p.m., from
a height of 500 to 1,000 feet, dur
ing a snow flurry, witnesses said.
It was Delta’s first accident in
scheduled operations since 1934.
Last year the airlines received a
special ‘citation from the national
safety council.
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Much-Needed
Nickel Lies Idle
SEATTLE, (/P)—Large deposits
of nickel ore, vitally necessary in
the manufacture of steel products,
are lying idle in Southeastern
Alaska because the U. S. govern
ment refuses to develop the mines.
S. H. P. Vevelstad, veteran Jun
eau, Alaska, mining figure said to
day.
The United States at present ob
tains the largest part of its nickel
ore from Ontario, Canada, mines.
Vevelstad said, but the United
States should develop the Alaska
deposits “in the interest of nation- j
al defense.”
“Stockpiles of nickel ore are
dangerously low in the United
States today,” Vevelstad asserted.'
“I have proposed to plan for the
development of the Alaska mines
to the Reconstruction Finance
Corporation and the army-navy
munitions board, but both have
been rejected as ‘unwise’ ven
tures.”
The Alaska miner added that to
tal production of nickel in the
; United States has not changed “at
i all” since 1937.
Garsson Brothers
Indicted
BALTIMORE, iJp) — A federal
grand jury yesterday indicted
Henry N. and Murry W. Garsson,
operators of a war-time Illinois
munitions combine, on charges of
filing falce financial statements in
connection with their government
contracts.
A three point indictment against
the Erie Basin Metal Products
company, Allen B. Gellman, its
president, Joseph T. Weiss, Harry
S. Click, and the Garsson broth
ers, was returned after a two
month investigation into their mu
nitions dealings.
A justice department announce
ment said charges against the in
dividuals, all from Chicago, are
that “criminal offenses were com
mitted against the United States
involving false statements on an
overall conspiracy to defraud in
contract renegotiation and related
matters.”
The Garssons and former Rep.
Andrew J. May (D.-Ky.), wartime
chairman of the House military
committee, were convicted in
Washington last July on charges
of exchanging $53,634 in bribes.
All three have appealed their
Threaten Bombing
Of U. S. Consulate
JERUSALEM, (/P)—An anony
mous bomb threat today emptied
the United States consulate build
ing, 300 yards from the blasted
Jewish agency headquarters where
13 were killed and nearly 100
were injured.
American personnel returned to
their offices after an hour-long
search by police failed to turn up
any explosives. The consular staff
had moved out after a telephone
caller said in English:
“Get out of the Duilding—it will
be blown up in five minutes.”
The building also is used as a
residence by consul general Rob
ert B. McAtee, consul William
Porter and vice consul Wells
Stabler.
The death in a hospital of an
other victim raised the death toll
to 13 in yesterday’s bombing of
the Jewish Agency building. In
Tel Aviv, the Jewish agency an
nounced its raification of a merger
of two Jewish fighting forces, Ha
ganah and Irgun Zvai Leumi.
sentences, which range from eight
months to two years.
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