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-Demonstrators dash for cover as Security Guards (extreme left background)
one during rioting here Dec. 12th. Rioting broke out anew in Oran Dec. llth
lie .su-iings that President Charles De Gaulle was determined to "smash" riot eaders who
li his peace mission into a near-insurrection. Two thousand European youths tried to in-
■the Arab quarter in Oran, but were driven back by police.—(UPI Photo).
ES«t
ight Wing Forces Take
Over Laotian Capital
BRUT. RUSSELL
HASH Laos (Reuters)-
|;'Ji? wel leaders Prince
Oen. Phoumi No-
entered shattered Vien-
du-sk Friday and an-
i'.s  "'ihcralion"   from
c into this Lao-
e capital, tanks
i>-an force were
s-mhhorn remnants
C.*pt. Kong   Le's
:'i pro-Communist
ct illns from thcir
a? vital Vientiane
I said they believed there werejrowly escaped death Thursday
I many more. when the forces of Capt. Kong
Meanwhile, eight Americans took them prisoner after firing
told how leftist soldiers had bazooka rocket launchers on a
threatened to kill them. floor of their apartment house
The Americans said they nar-1 here.	
Mother Was
Waiting
By IRISH DONNELLY
NEW YORK (AP)-"Mother
. . . she's waiting for me."
These mumbled words camt
from the lone survivor of Fridays double plans disaster, 11-
year-old Stephen Baltz, as he
lay seriously injured in Brooklyn's Methodist Hospital.
He was aboard a United Airlines jet plane from Chicago
when it collided over New York
with a Trans World Airlines
Plane, and crashed into a
Brooklyn residential area.
He apparently was hurled
free from a tail section.
Louis Viericki, of Brooklyn,
found the youngster lying unconscious on the pavement,
and with the aid of a policeman
got him to hospital about six
blocks away.
He had been on his way here
to join his mother, who had
flown here earlier to visit relatives.
He recovered consciousness
long enough to murmur that
his mother was waiting at Idle-
wild Airport for him.
And he-was right. She was
there with a number of others.
They were in tears. When the
news of her son's survival was
given her, she broke into a
great smile of joy.
The youngster had serious
burns, and an undetermined
number of broken bones. His
condition was critical.
His wrist watch had stopped
at 9:37, presumaby Chicago
time. That apparently fixed the
time of the crash at 10:37 a.m.,
New York time.
The boy is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. W. S. Baltz. His father is
vice - president and general
counsel of the Admiral Corporation.
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TWA   Plane   Explodes
Crashes  On  Staten
In   Air
Island
NEW YORK—AP—Two airliners, one a jet, collided above the city in a snowstorm Friday, and only
one of 132 persons aboard survived their flaming crash to earth. Burning debris scourged a block-long
area in Brooklyn, killing five persons on the ground, as the jet plummeted into the city. The other plane
crashed on Staten Island, across New York harbour from Brooklyn.
The big jet narowly missed a Roman Catholic school in Brooklyn with 1,700 children in it. Brother
Brendan of St. Augustine's School, next to his church, said: "It appeared the pilot made a deliberate effort
to avoid striking the spire of the church."
The 132 known dead made it the worst metropolitan air disaster in the history of Americai aviation.
The two planes were supposed to have been at different altitudes. For some unexplained reason, they
weren't.
mat mma-. em* a  m occurred   over   open   country• Dayton time and *>a'
C -.^1 I I above th* Srand ean>°n 'n MSB-110*40am   with   *
\r on a I It H Ar tm u ciaird;he ^ives vi ■**- «* - ss L.
stJLCI IC      \J I I I Ul I Ul   isons aboard a Trans World Ail'- the crash but all died
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NEW YORK (AP) - The scene' first I thought it was a strange * «™ rwn 'frni tvre •   As il came aPart in the air'tbe
ass   nn»  nf  e„nl,   •hnfs.ri'rsif  Ws-/sr I r-lnsiri T  onssHnt  hollo.,., ms, oune     i"*'u,!'   l"*>  AlKLIi^lta
The worst previous U.S. crash  —	
occurred   over   opcm   country! Dayton time and was due In at
passengers
Six survived
•ash, but all died soon after.
;*>!fii*i*il report indicated*
'"" tronos. under attack
s rr.^n vince the bat-
'Vientiario 'lesnn Tuesdav
^eatin; ■.*.i*h their Soviet-
' ■•'.-tillery along a I
, , north toward thc
If A royal capital of Lu-
iwrnior nt the new rebel
■** •'•ct up during lhe.
"tthstrusclc for control of I
-" expected to start try-
Wore order here after
*w by the leftist forces.
^tiadtriodtohoIdVien
•the neutnlist govern-
"Premier (Prince) Sou-
fwiuma. now in Cam-
N CAPTURED
?*»e ol the airport was
_Vf imnortant by mili-
r"ers. Thcy said bridges
V"*y hetween Phoumi's
r,[°r«s aid the .main
Pal Paksan. making
£*" necessary for the
r1** «f a supply line.
E*«badyW»bylhe!
jr"* thai raged here
•Tncd throughout the
r"ands *crc homeless
EJ*« of known casu-
XT and *ounded-stood
■7^ hospital officials
tOl'NTRY PARSON"
Loyalists Crush
Ethiopian Revolt
By FRANCA DI SASTRI
| ASMARA, Ethiopia (Reuters)-
Emperor Haile Selassie returned
here Friday night as reports
from the Ethiopian capital ofj
Addis Ababa said loyalist troops
had crushed a revolt against his'
regime.
Reports reaching this, provincial capital near, the Red Sea,
450 miles north of Addis Ababa,
said the leaders of the attempted |
coup against the emperor either
had been arrested or were in
flight.
Gen. Abye Abebe, the emperor's son-in-law and repreenta-
tive in Amara, aid Haile Selassie's return to Addis Ababa was
"imminent."
There was no immediate report
on the whereabouts of Crown
Prince Asfa Wassen the emperor's eldest son, who was installed
as ruler by the leaders of the
coup Wednesday.
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WELCOMED BY CROWDS
Huge crowds cheered Haile
Selassie as his plane landed in
Asmara Friday. Thcy waved:
palm branches and shouted
greetings as the bearded emperor
stepped from his plane.
Authorities here said most of]
the armed forces in the capital
now support the emperor and
rebels were reported fleeing from
Addis Ababa.
Abebe said he had received assurance from the army chief,
Maj. Gen. Kebede Guebre, that
"apart from a smal portion of
traitors, the whole army and police are still faithful' to the emperor.
He said only a "few minor imperial body guard units" had
been involved in the revolt
against the emperor. The population of Addi? Ababa and army
detachments in the capital had
not joined it, he said.
2 Canadians
Die In Crash I
NEW YORK (CP)-Two Canadians are missing and believed
dead following Friday's crash of!
two big airliners.
Beverley Parks of Halifax was!
reported aboard the United Air!
Lines DC-8 jet which smashed!
into a residential area of Brook-, j
lyn after the mid-air collision. I
Miss Parks, 22, was a stewardess!
I for Pacific Northwest Airlines, j
i Thomas Rapkin, whose family
lives in Toronto, was aboard the
Trans World Air Lnes four-engined Constellation. Rapkin had
been working at a Columbus,
Ohio, radio station as a producer.
one of such shocking horror
that many of the residents of the
normally quiet park slope neighborhood in Brooklyn walked
stunned into their homes and
pulled down the shades.
An entire city block was left a
smoking rubble of bricks, plaster and splintered wood today after a United Air Lines plane
plunged into it out of a snowy
sky. The plane and a Trans
World Airlines craft had collided
earlier, Ihe TWA plane falling on
Staten Island.
"I was standing In the door of
the women's shop where I work,"
said Mrs. Ann Cairetta. "It's
just half a block from the crash.
I saw the plane coming, It
seemed, directly toward me. At
cloud. I couldnt believe my eyM. ""Z^riZ^ZnM™™ n, ;TWA plane sPewed an a"a °*
When I realized what it was, I ,*/J ™ T " S°- T*6;Staten Isla"d with flaming de-
screamed. If I "hadn't screamed J"," J , T^Sfa 10-37 ^ Mercttu,,y' * Came doWtl in
I would have had a heart attack fi vlfL L?™ JL ?w'an open area of fields and trees
right there." \ Lm> f 1     u'y S eJ ^kie,s ,^at i after skimming over  a row of
Mrs    Constance   Ciano   was\™ '"J** *"™«%J^ bungalows,
looking out the window of the \ ™J£&&£?L™\ ."» horror o_f. its plunge was
flower shop where she works.
st? »*ftr !•=**w=:»
arate landings at the two New,0	
"Probably the worst thing .^ ^^^^JZf.^riU
the accident with blood running tV Snf JL liv ^n w  ' gin? on..th.?. *" sid? b!«w «P
e engine on the right
down his entire face," she ^j^jSff ^SSfA^ as * ^ * WeW the tai'Sec"
„TT .     ...   ...    iplane lhat came down on Staten
•He was screaming, "Oh those;Island apparentlv cxplodcd in
people   arc   burning to   death.' |air aftet. the cojlision
My husband tried to grab him.
tion to pieces. I saw a couple of
j people falling out of the plane as
' it was falling. The Diane was on
,,..,, .,    ..   . fire from thc time it blew up to
"nnll^L*! llrlP?SSf":ithe «w i1 «>ashed."
The TWA Constellation was be-
Like Giant Bomb
but he kept running  as  if he|ger.c aing jet to crash  =
couldn't stop.  He  was  injurediu.S. since  the inauguration  ofi. ,    J J    A  .
and I think he went out of Ins: the jet age of tj s   commerciai i mg monitored on  radar during
**>"*■"_ I aviation two years ago. ! "s aPProach to La Guardia. Sud-
! The jet was United's flight 826'den,y ults >ma?e disappeared
I which left Chicago at 8:11 a.m !from the screen as contro1 toweI
!CST. It was bound for Idlewild j Personnel looked on helplessly.
: on the south shore of Long Island; :
NEW YORK (AP) - A Staten i through the sky."
Island housewife said Friday the'   Clifford Beuth, an oi
explosion of a Trans World Air-.man, said  he heard
lines plane following an air eol-jpeared to be a plane
lision with a United Air  Lines;and looked up.
and was due there at 10:45 a.n
EST with 76 passengers   and  a
'crew of seven,
delivery-(STRUCK CROWDED AREA
vhat  ap- j   R came down in  a  crowded
i distress j Brooklyn   area of   shops   and ,
apartments, setting 10 buildings
Commons Approves
Productivity Bill
OTTAWA (CP)-Formatlon ofi
a IB-member produc ivlty council
to tone up Canadian Industrial efficiency was approved by the
Commons Friday after a sustained opposition battering.
The bill, fourth piece of a government package introduced as
job-making tools, was approved
by a vpte of 151 to 2 on third]
reading with only two CCF members dissenting.
"If we cannot have a loaf or|
even half a loaf, we are not going to reject a crumb," declared
J. W. Pickersgill (L-Bonavista-,
Twillingate) In setting out. his
party's reconciliation of its attacks on the measure and, its|
vote for a bill he called a farce.
But the -council measure, and
"wholly inadequate" to meet a
problem in which 429,000 Canadians were jobless at mid-November. Over the long haul, the
bill might do good.
The council, drawn from the'
ranks of industry, labor, business
and the public, would cut sluggishness from industry,, make the
public productivity conscious and
provide a better quality-of goods
at better prices in a highly-competitive, world, retorted Paul
Martineau, parliamentary secretary to "Prime Minister Diefenbaker.
WEEK-LONG DEBATE
Debate on tiie productivity!
council occupied almost all of the
Commons' week since an introductory resolution was placed before tha House Monday.
Says Israel
Making Bomb
LONDON (Reuters)-The mass
circulation Daily Express reported Friday that British and
United States intelligence authorities believe Israel i making an
experimental nuclear bomb.
A spokesman at the. Israeli Embassy here said: "I have no comment whatsoever. Th s is the first
I have heard of it."
The Daily Express science correspondent, Chapman Pincher,
claimed that Allen Dulles, head
of the U.S. Central Intelligence
Agency, called a meeting ofl
American intelligence chiefs and
politicians — including Presidentelect John Kennedy — in Washington last week to discuss the
matter. . *
Pincher said British and U.S.
defence chiefs were especially
concerned because of existing
tension in the Middle East and
the danger of a nuclear war
starting there.
Gar Stolen
Mrs. Merner, Goulds, reported to city police yesterday that
her car had been stolen from
its parking place on Hutchings
Street between 5.30 p.m. and
6.30 p.m.
The car is a 1958 Vauxhall;
color, yellow; licence number,
28141.
MONTE CARLO (Reuters)-A
British £1 ($2.70) stomp featur
Ing the Queen and'Windsor Cas
tie won the International Philatelic Art Society's gold medal
Thursday as the best stomp
printed in 1958-59.
plane was like a giant bomb go- \ "I saw the engine on the right, afil'e and demolishing a churching off. ! side blow up. I only saw one ironically named Pillar of Fire.
Mrs. Ethel Walker of New; plane . . . then thc second en-; The superior ot St. Augustine's.
Dorp on Staten Island said shejgine on thc right side blew up.the spared Catholic school, saw-
was in her home near where the! and when it did, it blew the tail' ^ Plane cash- He immediately
plane fell. ! section lo pieces. ;'°°-< over the public address sys-
"I heard the explosion andj "I saw a couple of people fall-'tcm and 'ed the 1.700 pupils in
looked out. It was like a huge i ing out of the plane. It was on recitation of the rosary for the
bomb. I saw a big cloud ofi fire from the time it blew up to vlctims «f the crash.
smoke, a mass of flames falling1 the time it crashed." A huge mass of flames and a
 .  i billowing   cloud   of   oily   black
I smoke marked the jet's bier and
, spread ruin through the area.
! Incredibly, out of this holocaust
there was one known survivor
among the airborne passengers-
Stephen Baltz, 11, of Chicago, on
his way here to join his mother
in a visit to relatives. He was
badly burned. His watch had'
stopped at 9:37, Chicago time. !
One Canadian was listed
among those missing and believed dead. She was Beverly
Parks of Halifax.
So far as could be determined
by Fire Commissioner Edward
F. Cavanagh, there were no casualties in the 10 Brooklyn build-
Relatives Spend
Tense Moments
Let Em Dance
OTTAWA (CP> - "If they
want to dance in the nude
where it's 20 below zero, that
is okay with me." says
Mayor - elect Charlotte Whitton of thc plans of Les Ballets
Africans' scheduled appearance in the capital next
month.
"It's a problem for the present administration," she said
when asked about the ballet
companies plans to dance
bare - breasted. Miss Whitton
take* over from M ay o r
Cseorge N'elms Jan. 1.
NEW YORK (API - ln a high-
ceilinged room with potted plants
and modern decor, a group of
people, young and old, quietly
spent the most agonizing minutes of their lives Friday at Idle-
wild airport.
never arrived. It nad crashed in
Brooklyn after a collision with a
Trans World Airlines Plane. Only
one survivor was known from the
United plane.
About 20 of them were clustered in the line's "VIP" room
on the second floor.  A  tearful,
Handel's
"Messiah"
On VOWR
Lovers of good music will be
treated to a performance of
George Frederick Handel's
great oratorio "The Messiah"
which will be heard over Radio
Station V.O.W.R. this Sunday
afternoon at 3.45 p.m.
"The Messiah" is presented
, . ,-. ,, i ».. recording under the direc-
They were relatives and j red-haired"«"« an'air-' '"^SCt- "^ hy.th? m[m% T,he ition of sir Malcolm Sargent
friends of passengers on a United £™ £"agert stood**uard• ™im m the ?r?.et wf Cl!arlesf with the Huddersfield Choral
Air Lines jet liner,, due at Idle- ^T S guard: Cooper, a sanitation department Sodet   and the u . phil.
__*_______* ,^!at"w1 toW'them what has hap ^ZSZSSVZ g^ harmonic Orchestra.
i pened," she said, tears pouring , "	
from her eyes. (NOTE:   Four other   persons]   HAVANA (AP)-City treasurer
An airline nurse scanned lhe>ere later reported killed.) | Jorge Garcia Bango, now visit-
tense faces of- the men, women, The other plane in the collis-1 ing Warsaw, Poland, has lost
and children waiting for dear j ion, TWA's Lockheed Constella- j his sub-machine-gun. His wife re-
ones. I tion, flight 266, was headed for ported to police Wednesday that
Occasionally a' m a n or a i La Guardia field on the north unknown persons broke into their
woman slumped in a chair, and ■ shore of Long Island from Day- home and stole the gun and sev-
Cool Bandit
MONTREAL (CP) - A bandit
entered a Provincial Bank of
Canada branch about noon Friday, waited patiently in line with
10 other customers, and when he
finally reached the wicket.
' ' 'ed a "this is a holdup" note
to the teller.
The cool thief pocketed $1,500
and sauntered from the bank at
Ogilvy and Querbes Avenues in
north-end Montreal, Only when
he got outside did he move
quickly.
CLAMS HEIGHT MARK
WASHINGTON <AP> - The
U.S. Navy claimed a world altitude-record Thursday of about 17
miles for a jet attack plane carrying a payload of slightly more \
than onejton. The height reached
was 91,450.8 feet, wh ch would exceed the officially recognized record of 67,098 feet set last year
by a Russian pilot. The flight was
made Tuesday at Edwards Air
Force Base, Calif.
then a sob would break out.
Last Out
TORONTO (CP) - Premier
Frost commended Speaker William Murdoch of ihe Ontario legislature Friday- for his prompt
action in extinguishing a fire
which broke out in the Speaker'
apartment early Thursday. .
Speaking in the legislature,
Mr. Fropt said the fire could |
have been a serious one but for
Mr. Murdoch's quick work,
chesterfield, chair and carpet |
were burned.
Thursday night Mr. Murdoch
was host at a dinner for members of the legislature and the
press at his apartment in the
I legislature building.
After Mr. Frost's remarks, one
unidentified member shouted:
'The Liberals were the last
ones out." I
ton, Ohio. It took off at 7:40 a.m.,'eral clips of ammunition.
Worst Air Tragedy
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Friday's plane collision in New
York City was the second in the
United States involvng coir
cial passenger airliners. Planes
of the same two companies were |
involved.
The first collision occurred
over Arizona's Grand Canyon
June 30, 1956, when 128 persons
hurtled to their deaths.
Until Friday, the worst
tragedy in history was the death
of 129 soldiers in the June 18,
1953, crash near Tokyo of an
American Air Force transport.
It was only the second in-flight
collision in the United States.
The last was Over the Grand
Canyon in Arizona in 1956 when
all 128 persons died in a collision
between a Trans World Airliner
and a United Airliner.
Weather,
Overcast with  intermittent
rain.  High today 45.
Toronto ...
Ottawa ...
Montreal ..
Moncton ..
Halifax ...
Sydney ...
Yarmouth .
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