79 Miners Trapped
In English Coal
Mine Explosion
EASINGTON, England, (!P)— A
violent explosion entombed 79
miners early Tuesday deep in the
Easington coal pit. Hours later,
rescuers recovered eight bodies
and brought one injured man to
the surface.
Teams of rescuers toiled in non
stop shifts to move tons of rocks
and debris shaken loose by the
blast 900 ft. underground in hopes
of rescuing alive the 70 men still
1 trapped.
By early afternoon rescue par
ties had driven through more than
300 yards of debris. Mining offi
cials said the coal face, where it is
believed the majority of men are
trapped, was another 700 yards
away.
Fresh air was being forced
through neighboring seams in
hopes it would filter through to
the men.
The violent blast blew two* men
clear of the tumbling debris. One
said he was lifted and tossed 60
yards down the tunnel. Another ^
said he was thrown 20 to 30 yards.
“A great cloud of black gas”
poured down the shaft, said George
Williams, twin brother of 1 9
year-old Matthew Williams, who
was the first brought out alive.
% The explosion caught the miners
just as the day shift was relieving
night workers about a mile and a
quarter from the bottom of the pit
hoisting shaft.
One of the rescue workers told
reporters “It is unlikely that any
of the miners still in there are
alive.”
Crowds of relatives and friends
waited anxiously at the pithead
in a cold wind blowing off the
North Sea.
Head of Seattle Non-Sked
Airline Involved In Suit
For Custody of Child
PITTSBURGH, (JP) — A thrice
wed former air force major who
heads a Seattle, Wash., airline,
today won custody of his son by
his first wife.
He is Richard L. Burke, presi
dent of the New England Air
lines at Seattle, asked the Alle
gheny County court for custody of
Michael James Burke, four. The
r boy had been living with his mat
ernal grandmother, Mrs. Ellen
Birch, in Pittsburgh.
Burke’s first wife, Jeanne, died
in 1947. Burke later remarried.
Judge Michael A. Musmanno
called Burke “a gay Lothario of
the skies” who has “come down
to earth.” Mrs. Birch had charged
Burke’s “misbehavior forfeited his
right to the child.”
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Bitterly Fighting Reds
Bog Down UN Advance
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killed, wounded or captured—in
the single battle.
A delayed and heavily censored
dispatch from AP correspondent
Tom Bradshaw said a powerful
U. N. task force bogged down
Monday northeast of Inje.
“Allied casualties in Inje itself
were heavy,” Bradshaw reported.
Reds poured sporadic fire from the
surrounding hills into the town.
“The ungodly smell of dead
flesh” hung over Inje and along
the streets of the town lay bodies
of Chinese Communists so bat
tered by the passing vehicles that
they could hardly be recognized
as human beings.”
Bradshaw reported the task
force had rumbled across the
bodies in the night “with a dull
crunching of human bones.”
In two costly spring offensives
that have failed, the Chinese have
paid the price of 150,000 casual
ties. The Allied forces have won
back most of the territory taken
in the Reds* second smash south
ward.
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Alaska Public Works Fund
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suitable public utilities are not
available.
“We all know we can’t have
housing without light, water and
sewage disposal. And yet we are
expecting the cities and communi
ties of Alaska to* provide housing
for soldiers and airmen and de
fense workmen, when the utilities
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are just not available because
money is not available.”
He said Fairbanks was one of
“many examples” where builders
lack the utilities needed for any
housing development.
Referring to the $10,000,000 as a
“minimum” requirement, Magnu
son asserted “Any reduction, even
though seemingly small, results in
one or two fewer schools, one or
two towns without a safe water
supply.”
The House, in slashing $3,000,000
from the appropriation, accepted
its committee recommendation that
the program be held to only those
projects in which the sponsors
have qualified and have participa
ting funds ready to put the project
in effect.
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Famed Baseball Scout For
Yankees Critically 111
LA CRESCENTA, Calif., (JP)—
Bill Essick, 70, famed baseball
scout for the New York Yankees,
has been critically ill since he en
tered a private sanitarium here
May 16.
During his years with the Yanks
Essick signed some of the great
est names in baseball. They in
cluded Joe Di Maggio, Tony Laz
zeri and Lefty Gomez.
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announcing the opening of court,
was introduced into England by
the Normans.
JUST CHECKING
EL MONTE, Calif., </P) — Mrs.
Josephine McAdams, municipal
librarian, reports the following
conversation ensued when «he an
swered her office phone:
“Mrs. McAdams, public li
brarian.”
Unidentified woman—“Who?”
“Mrs. McAdajns, public li
brarian.”
Woman—“Oh,” (pause) “Well, I
found this phone number in my
husband’s pocket and I was just
checking.”
Mrs. McAdams said the woman
didn’t bother to say goodbye.
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