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University Daily Kansan
Monday, Oct. 19. 1953
2 Killed, Many Injured In Constellation Crash
New York—(U.P.)—Two persons were killed and 25 others narrowly escaped death today when an Eastern Airlines Constellation crashed in flames at fog-shrouded International airport only seconds after taking off for Puerto Rico.
Only one person among the 22 passengers and five crewmen aboard the huge four-engined plane escaped uninjured. The injured were taken to three Queens hospitals, which reported at least five in critical condition.
The plane had attained a height of about 25 feet when it dropped suddenly and skidded into a swamp at the south side of the airport, flames spurting from its inboard engine. Authorities said only the fact the fuselage remained upright prevented a much higher death toll.
The CAA said the plane received clearance to take off at approximately 12:56 a.m., after waiting more than an hour for a heavy fog to lift.
"When the aircraft was approximately half way down the runway, control tower personnel observed a burst of flame from the aircraft," the CAA said. "The field emergency and city fire equipment were called. Shortly afterwards, there was an explosion and the aircraft appeared to swerve to the left, burning as it came to a stop at a point about 1,500 feet off the runway."
Capt. Cecil C. Foxworth of Summit, N.J., pilot, said he noticed the fire in his left inboard engine almost the moment he became airborne and immediately "threw the switches," cutting off the fuel.
When the plane skidded to a flaming stop in the soggy marsh, he and co-pilot E. M. Engle of Great Neck, N.Y., ran back through the plane looking for passengers but saw none, he said. They fled the ship through the flight engineer's hatch.
Survivors praised the calm courage of stewardess Ann Krause of New York, who led several passengers from the flaming cabin to safety.
Thomas Cullen, assistant district attorney of Queens county, took the uninjured members of the crew to his office for questioning immediately after the crash.
Prof. Surveys Food Supply
The geometrical increase in the world's population in face of an arithmetical increase in the food supply is a bar to world peace, Dr Barret Sure told a University audience Friday.
Proteins are the base for proper nutrition but there isn't enough land in the world to grow enough animals to meet protein needs from that source, he said.
"Two-thirds of the world's population goes to bed hungry every night," said Dr. Stuart chairman of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at the University of Arkansas.
Mechanized agriculture throughout the world by which crops can be doubled at a labor saving is the basic solution, Dr. Sure proposed. The Chinese or Indian farmer, using the methods of a thousand years ago, has only 1-14th of the productivity of the American agriculturist.
Other suggestions by Dr. Sure were the production of yeast indoors, greater exploitation of the virtually unused buckwheat herb, and use of a low cost protein type food that he has developed.
But in the United States the problem is one of over-eating, he concluded. Thirty million Americans are overweight, which is a primary cause for the upswing in circulatory and metabolic diseases.
Ninety-three per cent of all the bituminous coal produced in the U.S. last year came from nine states—Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.
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French Close In on Rebels
Hanoi, Indo-China—(U.P.) —French infantry and armored columns closed in today on 40,000 Communist-led Viet Minh rebels now dug in behind limestone hills in the Red 304th division of their lair.
French Union and loyal Viet Nam soldiers moved up the Mandarin highway that, in peacetime, linked the Indo-China city of Saigon with the Chinese border.
The troops advanced to within 13 miles of the Communist stronghold of Thanh Hoa while a second column pushed down from the north in a pincer drive to within 25 miles of the surrounded Red bastion.
A third French unit followed provincial Route 39, cutting across tungsten-stein hills on the Tongkin-Annam border that protect the Communists in a 65-mile triangle south of Hanoi.
French Union officials described the three-pronged drive toward Thanh Hoa as the key maneuver of the entire eight-year war.
The French threw in more than 30,000 French Union troops in a daring attempt to strike at the heart of Red-inspired Viet Minh's power.
French commandos made an amphibious landing in north central Viet Nam last Friday as part of Gen. Henri Navarre's win-the-war of offensive.
Icebox Claims 27th Life of Year
Oroville, Calif.—(U(P)—Nine-year-old Thomas Kiely suffocated in the ice box of a vacant housetrailer last night, bringing to 27 the number of children who have died in such tragedies over the nation so far this year.
The boy's widowed mother. Mrs. Nellie Kiely, said she had not seen her son all afternoon and assumed he was at a neighbor's home watching television. Later in the evening she sent her eldest son, John, 14, to look for the boy.
John looked in the trailer and then opened the small ice box.
"I can't explain why I looked in there," he said, "but there he was."
The refrigeration industry group recommended that locks or doors be removed from abandoned ice boxes, that the doors be placed or wired shut, or that the box be stored with its doors to a wall or floor.
A compilation made recently by the refrigeration service engineers society showed that 81 children have died in abandoned ice boxes in the last five years. The average age of the victims this year was five, the report said.
The society said California, Illinois, New Jersey, Nevada, Massachusetts, and Michigan have laws requiring discarded ice boxes to be destroyed and predicted all states will have such a law within two years.
Kansan classifieds bring results
Ames, Iowa—(U.P.)—Rioting Iowa State college students—about 4,000 strong—blocked a trans-continental highway for about four hours and held police at bay early today as they demanded to be excused from classes.
Tear gas, clubs and an army of police failed to break up the riot, which started with about 400 students in front of the residence of James Hilton, college president and mushroomed across the campus.
The students demanded a day off to celebrate Iowa State's homecoming upset victory over Missouri Saturday, 13 to 6.
But* college authorities said
classe: will be held as usual.
Ames police chief Orville Erickson said rumors of a protest against classes circulated about the campus Sunday afternoon.
One student was reported jailed No one was reported injured.
He said reports were spreading that additional demonstrations may be held during the day unless classes were dismissed.
I-State Students Riot for Holiday
Activity started about 10 p.m.. when 400 students converged on the president's home, got no response, marched about the campus and gathered reinforcements. The students marched a second time on the president's home and again received no response.
Mr. Erickson said the situation calmed down about 2:30 this morning. However, small groups of students were still milling around later, he said.
Then a sit-down strike on Lincoln highway, U.S. 30, was attempted and the riot started, the police chief said. He said the situation quickly got beyond control of Ames and campus police as hundreds of students, men and women, poured onto the highway.
Mr. Hilton said he refused the demand that classes be excused because "students had part of Friday and Saturday off for homecoming celebrations."
Red Cross Meeting PlannedOct.23.24
The American National Red Cross and University Extension will present a Red Cross leadership training program here Oct. 23-24. The enrollees will be the volunteer workers whose efforts are the backbone of the national organization.
William Overton Jr., of Dallas Tex., who has accepted the national charismahip of the 1954 Red Cross will be one of the principal speakers.
Other addresses will be by Joseph R. Stewart, Kansas City, Mo., former chairman of the Jackson County chapter and now a member of the board of governors of the American National Red Cross; Mrs. Phillip W. Pillsbury, Minneapolis, Minn., vice chairman of the Hennepin county chapter; Francis Hawk, Fort Worth, Tex., public information chairman for the Tarrant county chapter; and Peter J. Murphy, St Louis, assistant manager for the midwestern area.
Chancellor Franklin D. Murphy, also a member of the national board of governors, will welcome the Red Cross workers. All meetings will be in the Student Union.
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3 Captured Americans May Be Red Prisoners
Washington — (UP) — The State department is trying to verify reports that two American newsmen and a yacht captain, seized by the Chinese Reds last March, have been placed in a Shanghai political prison.
So far there is no solid evidence to confirm the reports and department officials say they still have no real clue as to what has happened to the trio.
The three are Richard Applegate, correspondent for the National Broadcasting company and former United Press reporter; Don Dixon, reporter for the International News Service, and Ben Krasner, Brooklyn
Olathe Faces Bad Water Shortage
Olathe—(U.P.)—This community of 9,000 persons faces exhaustion of its water supply about Nov. 1 unless heavy rain comes in the meantime, Mavor Lloyd Squires said today.
The reservoir, normally fed by Cedar creek, has dropped 11 feet in five months, and now is only 11 feet at its deepest point, officials said. By month's end the level will be too low to permit pumping, they believed. The lake currently contains only about one tenth its normal volume of water.
He revealed the city commission was planning to buy water from Kansas City and transport it in railroad cars to the site of Olathe's nearly dry reservoir. It then would be dumped into the lake, to be fed ultimately through the mains.
No rain of consequence has fallen in its watershed in about five months, and no excess water has flown over the spillway since the flood year of 1951.
The plan to buy water from Kansas City involved purchase of 300,-000 gallons daily, but officials said it could serve only as a temporary solution. In cold weather, they pointed out, water would freeze in the tank cars.
The Adjutant General's office of the United States Army operates 368 soldiers' service clubs in various parts of the world. Dances, parties and other entertainment are given in these clubs to provide off-duty recreation for men and women in the Army.
Merchant Marine captain. They were captured while sailing Mr. Applegate's 42-foot yacht from Hong Kong to Portuguese Macao.
The State department said last Sunday that it is "very seriously concerned" about the "continued imprisonment, detention and maltreatment" of these three and 30 other Americans held under arrest by the Chinese Reds.
The department has been trying since last March 21 to get the Chinese Communists to tell what has happened to the three men, but all efforts have been ignored.
An informant who recently left Shanghai told the English-language China Mail the three Americans were being held in Nantao political prison in Shanghai. He did not know what charges had been placed against them.
The U.S. consul general in Hong Kong so far has been unable to verify the report and indicated that it has begun to look as though the report was wrong.
The State department officials said the trio's being placed in a political prison rather than in an ordinary jail might indicate that the Chinese consider the Americans spies.
In Pamunjum, Red correspondent Alan Winnington, returned from a honeymoon in Communist China, denied all knowledge of the imprisoned American newsmen.
Allied newsmen thought he might sound off on the fate of Richard Applegate, who had taunted Mr. Winnington about his effemacy, during early stages of the truce talks.
Officials said British diplomats in Peiping will continue to handle the case for the United States, but it is unlikely they will take any special action unless there is confirmation that the Americans actually have been thrown in the Nantao prison.
The British handle the case because the U.S. does not recognize Communist China and therefore does not have diplomatic relations with it.
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