UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN, LAWRENCE, KANSAS
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WEDNESDAY, NOV. 2, 194
Officials Seek Cause Of Worst Air Disaster
Washington, Nov. 2—(U.P.)—Bewildered officials today sought to determine what caused a 28-year old Bolivian air ace to ram his P-38 fighter into a packed transport in history's worst airplane disaster.
There was nothing in the flying record of Eric Rios Bridoux to explain his deadly role in Tuesday's crash here which cost the lives of 55 or 56 persons—38 men, 15 women, and two or three children—aboard a four-engined Eastern Air lines passenger plane.
But the U.S. authorities already knew much about Rio's competence as a pilot. A U.S.-trained former lieutenant of the Bolivian air force, he is his country's finest airman, and widely known south of the border as "the Lindbergh of Latin America." He holds a U.S. commercial pilot's license. He had planned to fly the P-38 to Bolivia today or Thursday and deliver it to the Bolivian air force, which bought it.
Rios himself, sole survivor of the tragedy at National airport, was unable to give investigators much help. Suffering from severe back, head, and possible internal injuries, he lay dugged in an Alexandria, Va., hospital. He was dimly aware that he had been in an air collision but was mercifully kept in ignorance of its frightful cost.
The civil aeronautics board said it would conduct a public inquiry as soon as possible, starting perhaps this week. Its job will be to find out why Rios either did not receive or did not obey frantic radio orders directing him away from the airliner.
C. A.B. officials who interviewed him said he gave only mumbling and incoherent answers to their questions.
By early morning 46 bodies had been transferred to Alexandria mortuaries and the Washington city morgue. Of these 37 had been identified.
Chairmen Set For Meeting
Peggy Baker, engineering senior, and Harrison Madden, journalism senior, have been designated as cochairman of the steering committee. for the Student-Faculty conference to be held at the University, Saturday. Dec. 10.
The committee consists of nine students from Sachem and Mortar Board, senior men's and women's honorary societies who are sponsoring the conference. Six members of the faculty and four from the University administration who have not yet been selected will also serve on the committee.
Tuesday, the committee decided to conduct the conference similar to the one this past spring, with panel discussions, sub-conferences, and open forums. The aim of the group will be to bring about wider student participation in the conference.
The other students on the steering committee are Bernadine Read, fine arts senior, Helen Piller, Doris Then, Dean Collins, and L. Edward Stollenwerck, College seniors and Ralph Brock, first year law and Charles Hoffhaus, College law and law senior.
The play, as yet unnamed, will be presented Tuesday, Dec. 6, through Friday, Dec. 9, under the direction of Allen Crafton, professor of speech.
Player Tryouts Today In Green
Tryouts for the University Players' second three-act play will be held at 7 p.m. today in the Little theater of Green hall.
Tryouts for the cast of eleven are open to all University students.
Candidates Chosen For AWS Senate
The Associated Women Students senate has chosen the following College freshmen as candidates for freshman representatives to the senate: Lois Meridith, Marion Mussatto, JoAnn Van Petten, Suzanne Foot, Jerry Hesse, and Mary Patricia Ronev.
One of the first three listed will be elected independent representative, and one of the last three will be elected Greek representative.
The election will be Wednesday.
Three Students Will Give Recital
Three piano students and one voice student will appear in the weekly student recital of the School of Fine Arts at 3 p.m. Thursday in Strong auditorium.
The program follows: "Sonata int E Flat" (Mozart), Dorothy Shoup, pianist; "Nocturne in G Major, Op. 37, No. 2" (Chopin), by Georgianna Bennington, pianist; "Three Gypsy Songs" (Dvorak), by Dagmar Hasalova, soprano; "Rhapsody, Op. 119, No. 4" (Brahms), by Martha Heck, pianist.
Swarthout Attends New Orleans Session
D. M. Swarthout, dean of the School of Fine Arts, left Tuesday for New Orleans where he will attend the annual meeting of the Association of Music Executives of State Universities today through Saturday.
The first meeting will be in New Orleans and will include a tour of the city. The remainder of sessions will be on the University of Louisiana campus, Baton Rouge.
Clayton Fowler To Lecture
The first in a series of lectures on art will be given by Clayton Fowler, assistant professor of drawing and painting, at 8 p.m. Thursday in the Museum of Art. The title of his lecture is "Early Mediaeval Symbolism."
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