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University Daily Kansan Wednesday, Sept. 26, 1962
Ship, Aircraft Rush Survivors to Shore
LONDON — (UPI) — A Swiss freighter and a Canadian aircraft carrier steamed for separate ports today with the 48 survivors and 12 bodies recovered from the ditching of a Flying Tiger Lines airliner.
An air sea search for the remaining 16 passengers and crewmen was abandoned at dusk last night when British and American officials decided there was no more chance of finding them alive.
The Canadian carrier Bonaventure was due in the Shannon, Ireland, estuary to allow helicopters to remove to hospitals four of the more seriously injured survivors.
Also aboard the Bonaventure were Capt. John D. Murray, the 44-year-old pilot who so skillfully set the crippled plane down in the north Atlantic in high wind and seas, so that most of his passengers were saved.
The little Swiss freighter Celerina which picked up all 48 survivors and some of the dead, was expected to dock at Antwerp, Belgium, with the remaining 43.
Nine of these injured and two were burned so seriously that the British Air Ministry ordered a launch and two helicopters to meet the Celerina off southern Ireland this morning and remove the victims to land hospitals quickly.
Sgt. Peter Foley, Spokane, Wash., a staff member on the U.S. Armed Forces newspaper Stars and Stripes, messaged an account of the disaster and rescue.
Foley was among the 68 American soldiers and dependents being flown to Europe when the superconstellation went down Sunday night 500 miles west of Ireland.
"There was no panic." Foley said.
"Just everyone moving to the escape hatches. The seas were rough and the wind was blowing and in the black of the night nothing but struggling swimmers could be seen."
Peiping Charges Indian Attack
TOKYO — (UPI) — Communist China today charged invading Indian troops killed one soldier and wounded another in a "fierce" attack on a Chinese frontier post on the disputed border. It said fighting around the Che-Jao bridge continued today.
An Indian spokesman in New Delhi gave a different version of the clash yesterday near the bridge which has been the scene of fighting for more than a week. He said the Chinese forces "opened heavy firing . . . and our post returned the fire." He said there were no reports of Indian casualties.
WHILE PEIPING-New Delhi relations deteriorated, the Communists also found time to launch a savage propaganda attack on President Kennedy and his policies on Cuba and Southeast Asia.
Kuo Mo-Jo, vice chairman of the standing committee of the National Peoples Congress, in a speech reported by the Communist New China News Agency, said President Kennedy has "surpassed Hitler and Tojo in savagery and tryanny." Kuo, who also is chairman of the "China Peace Committee," spoke at a rally today to welcome a Communist Viet Cong delegation at which he pledged Peiping's support for the guerrillas of South Viet Nam.
In Taipei, the Ta Hua newspaper quoted Nationalist Chinese "intelligence sources" as saying the Red Chinese have massed a large number of jet bombers near Shanghai for possible new provocations in the Formosa Strait.
The China Post of Taipei said that Communist Chinese leaders, including Mao Tse-Tung, were secretly in Peiping and recalled that similar conferences preceded the massive bombardment of the Quemoys in 1958 and the big military buildup along the Fukien coast last May.
CHINA ALSO ISSUED its 216th "serious warning" to the United States over the alleged invasion of Communist air space by two American military planes yesterday.
A 20-man raft drifted by upside down and 51 persons jammed onto it. Three later died. To make matters worse, the raft was upside down.
"For nearly five hours this mass of humans were tossed around by the seas, often sprayed with cold water and most of the time waist deep in water."
The seas were terrible and the survivors had to bail constantly to keep from drowning in the raft.
"It was when the raft was caught between two waves and almost folded in half that hurt the most, for this movement jammed the mass of survivors even tighter together and caused the most cries of pain." Foley reported.
Planes overhead dropping flares through the next few hours kept hopes up and finally the Celerina found them, attracted by Murray who had the only flashlight on the raft.
Foley had high praise for the Celerina's crewmen who labored for two hours to get the survivors from the raft in the heaving seas.
"Now it is hard to realize one has lived through it and, with the rough sea and wind, harder still to know who to thank first," Foley said. "But it has been proven again when a disaster strikes there are many who rush to the aid of those in need."
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NEWPORT, R. I.—(UPI)—The America's cup, most sought-after trophy in yacht racing, will stay safely on these shores, thanks to a great boat, a magnificent skipper and a sparkling crew.
'Weatherly'Wins America Cup
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The 12-meter sloop Weatherly clinched the matter yesterday when she sailed to a half-mile victory over Gretel, the Australian challenger, to take her fourth race in a best-four-out-of-seven series for the 11-year-old cup.
"You were too damn good," said Sir Frank Packer, the Australian newspaper publisher who headed a syndicate which brought Gretel here. The Australian challenger won only one race in the series.
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IN STANDING OFF this 18th challenge for the bottomless silver pitcher which the United States won from England in 1851, the Weatherly, her skipper Bus Mosbacher and her crew scored one of their most decisive victories of the series.
"We'll probably be back, I hope we'll be back. And whether we lost
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or not, the sun will come up toorrow just the same," Packer added.
Jock Sturrock, Gretel's skipper, expressed the same admiration for the Americans and when asked for an explanation of trouble the Aussies had with a headsail yesterday said, "After all, the best man won the series."
FOR THE MOMENT it was not certain who the next challenger would be. Commodore H. Irving Pratt of the New York Yacht Club, sponsors of the cup series, said last night that no challenge had been received.
The contenders in yesterday's race sailed back into Newport harbor with thousands of cheering spectators lining the shores. Horns blared and sirens screamed as the two sleek yachts tied up at their respective piers about one mile apart.
Placement Makeups To Start Tomorrow
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Makeup placement examinations for those students who missed them earlier this month and during the previews last summer will be given at 2 p.m. tomorrow and Friday in the ballroom of the Kansas Union.
These examinations apply to all freshmen and new undergraduate transfer students who have not taken KU placement examinations earlier this year. Students must attend both testing sessions.
The university will cancel the enrollment of and withdraw from classes any student who has not taken these examinations before October.
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Ouack Tryouts Set for 7:30
Tryouts for Quack Club, the University of Kansas women's synchronized swimming club, will be at 7:30 p.m., Thursday in Robinson Hall pool. The pool area will be open at 6:30 p.m.
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