European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes monday january 30, 1950 36 passengers a Board c54 identified by of 33 on lost place Are servicemen Washington Jan. 29 a the air Force released last night the names of the 36 passengers aboard the ass of the alaskan air com Mand which has been missing since Jan. 26.the passengers Are Eldon v. D o 1 a n s Fly . Mrs. Joyce m. Espe a Imendorf air Force base Alaska and her son Victor t sol Jack p. Faris Houston s sgt Robert e. Ahearn chars Tonicity mass. S sgt Burnis t. Lively Long Branch w. A. S sgt Raj Monde. Mangold Bodney. Ark. S sgt John 3. Mcdonald Lowell mass is Sutcli Sion d. Tompkins Langley Wash sgt Kay a. Ase los Angeles sgt Donald w. Dagle. Hawarden Iowa sgt Noel b Jones Harlingen Roy f. Jones Marietta a. Sgt Junior Lee Moore. Montgomery. Harold r Neil Nebraska City. Neb also sgt Tommy e. Rhoads Funi Mich. Set Julian c. Thomas Lak City s. C. Cpl Albie f. Baughman Tioga Tex. Cpl Henry s. , a. Cpl Jeff d. Johnson. Allentown n. J. Cpl Raymond , Mekenzie Tenn. Cpl Bernard Portrey. Preston neb. Cpl Richard l. Suggs Crossville Tenn Cpl Thomas j. Young Sulphur . Pfc John a. Halopka Bra Chanona. To. Pfc Charles w. Cook Van . Pfc Billie c. Cummins. Corbin by. Pfc Francis d. Hofer Seattle pfc Herman l. Lawson Pauline s c. Pfc Loyd e Lowry Mustoe a. Pfc William w Crisnor Dallas pvt Robert m. Hiatt Toppenish Wash. Pvt Blaker. Maxwell Lynn mass. Pvt Robert j. Reitmeyer St. Louis to. Cap Frank e. Gregory Edison air Force base Alaska and s sgt Jack . Dunsmuir Calif. Expectant Mother infant among 44 on ship Edmonton Alberta Jan. 29 a an expectant Mother arid her infant son were aboard a . Air Force c54 plane which has Bee missing with 44 persons since thursday in the Yukon wilds it was disclosed last Anchorage Alaska where mrs. Joyce m. Espe and her son Victor a boarded the plane it was re ported she was expecting another is the wife of m sgt Robert e. Espe of the 57th air installation so at Elmendorf air Force base where he is the noncom in charge of the firehouse. One source said her husband has been trying to Board every plane going out of Here to join in the wine merchant uits East zone ministry Frankfurt Jan 29 a term As finance minister of the East German state of Thuringia was too much for Leonhard Moog Neffew Here yesterday to go Back into the wine business and forget poli tics for arrived by air from Berlin where he resigned from the ministry and from the soviet zone free democratic party while convalescing from an automobile acc dentin a West Berlin Hospital. Now i want to get far away from All that and never be re minded of the Days in the soviet zone he said. Air Armada scours Yukon area com. From Page 1 the blizzard swept wasteland which was a wartime graveyard for 35 planes flying the great Circle ferry route to the area is a bewildering expanse of 8,000-foot peaks and rugged Bush and Forest land lying along the alaskan Highway from White horse in the Yukon to great fall son the Canadian Border two Days of gruelling Low Altitude flying Over what one Veteran Bush Pilot called some of the worst country in the world have proved . Transport plane carry ing air Force personnel and de Pendents to Elpaso Tex., was believed to have crashed somewhere within a 200-mile strip of sub Arctic wilderness bordering the great Alaska search was intensified with grim determination in the face of bitter weather handicaps while Hope gradually faded that any of the passengers would be found alive. Yard by Yard Hunt after a discouraging Day of scan Ning the rugged Snow blanketed terrain Pilot capt p. A. Weddle of Portland ore., declared we did t sight a blessed thing but that is every reason for Multi plying the search today. We will cover every Square mile that the plane possibly could the missing plane vanished after making a routine radio report thursday Over Snag in the Yukon territory one of the coldest see tors on the North american con remained relatively mild ranging from 20 degrees to 36below, and paratroop units equipped for Arctic Rescue work stood by to drop to the Aid of possible survivors when the crash site is pin Crews worked through the predawn hours in Simi Lar temperatures to ready the vast search Fleet which is composed of bombers fighters Navy patrol planes cb2 flying boxcars and even two clue the two Day search has turned up no Trace of the missing Pune and the Only slim clue provided to Rescue coordination Headquarters at Edmonton Alberta was the report of a Yukon Forest said1 he saw a Large plane thursday afternoon flying about 6,000 feel Ner Minot in the Yukon territory. The Ranger said he heard a Dull thud shortly after the plane disappeared from poring Over Aerial charts of the area speculated on the fat of the missing c54. There were two principal theories i the plane vanished so Sud Denly and completely it might have been destroyed by an explosion.2the plane strayed off course and crashed into one of the Tower ing Mountain peaks in the area. Suffering from a deadly breath ing infection be caught on a plane ride from South Africa Albert a baby Gorilla is fed multivitamins syrup at a Pearl Kiver n. Y., Hospital. He recovered with the Aid of a neomycin a Miracle drug and is expected to live to a Ripe old age. He was flown Over for the san Diego Calif., zoo. In a levies a to Aid strike Detroit Jan. 29 apr a special la week assessment was levied on All working members of the United Auto workers Cio yester Day to help finance the costly Chrysler strike. Over the maximum 12 weeks the assessment could pour a total of nearly �10,000,000 into the Union s War Chest. It will become effective As Soontas the strike has been in Progress two weeks. The strike now is in its first week. The assessment levied under anew provision in the Union s Constitution is expected to bring i about 8850,000 a week at the Start. That is based on a total membership of 1,000,000, Canadian members will not be asked to . About 30,000 Law members have been idled in addition to the 85,000 who walked out last wednesday other Law members Are Idle be cause of scattered disputes around the country. Chrysler workers Are losing an estimated $1,500,000 a Day in received to sir last full and state labor mediators Are expected to press their requests this week for a resumption of com Pany Union talks. Twins born 8 hours mile and a half apart , pa., Jan. 29 a twins were born Here eight hours and a mile and a half apart. A daughter was delivered to mrs. Dalton Keefer at their Home in South Connellsville. A son was born to them eight hours later in Connellsville Hospital a mile and a half Distant. Artiss seek Complete Berlin mule Taylor says cont. From Page blockade last year the Russia shave now directed German communists to harass the west4_the .-directed seizure of b e r j i n s rail Headquarters gave these communists the Chance to tee off in their Campaign to Force the West out you won t see Many russians around Taylor said the East Ger Man state is their most effective weapon in that respect i am quite sure they noted very encouraging signs in Western Ber Lin s Economy and want to give the impression that these signs will not continue Taylor said Taylor said intelligence estimates that the russians will not reimpose total blockade Here still stand. They win just use the East German government As a front he explained. Berlin traffic slowdown ending officials believe Berlin Jan. 29 of . Authorities said today they believed the russians May be lifting their 11-Day traffic slowdown. An average 10 trucks an hour roiled through the soviet autobahn checkpoint at Hermstedt to soviet guards and East German police relaxed their "go-slow1 Examina Tion of documents. That is ample to care for truck traffic during the month of Janu Ary an american official said. Western sources believed traffic might even reach an average 15 or 20 trucks to Berlin tomorrow after what East German police de scribed , documentation Orienta Tion a reported backlog of More than 100 trucks this morning dribbled to an estimated 40 this afternoon West German police at Helmstedt said. Although there was no official indication from East German or soviet authorities that restrictions were being withdrawn . Trans port chief Charles a. Dix said the increase in traffic permitted to Berlin probably meant it was finished. An opens Nurnberg link today Hochst Jan. 29 special it col Philip m. Johnson chief of an announced that the new an Broad casting studios at Nurnberg will begin operation tomorrow at 6 pm. With an on the air 1 broadcast of official opening ceremonies Johnson added that in opening these new studios an would Beible to offer localized radio productions to . Personnel stationed in the Nurnberg Furth Bay Reuth areas through Public service programs and newscasts of regional interest. Neucom officials invited to take part in the in Tiu broadcast include Brig Gen David l. Ruffner. Cd Nurnberg military Post Brig Benroy v. Rickard Neucom chief of special services col Otis Mccornick. Chief Neucom army air Force tie division Johnson and Louis Adelman the network s chief of operations. Construction of the new studios located in the Nurnberg Gran hotel began during the latter part of 1949 with plans approved for the building of one production studio one combination record and news studio and a master control an recording room. An personnel assigned to Nurnberg include the acting program director Don Brewer staff announcers Cpl Jim Davis and pfc William Carrigan radio Engineer pfc Frances Cerniglia and Roberta Mes who directed the construction of the new studios. Mantz out to break own coast to coast air sped record new York Jan. 29 a Speed Pilot Paul Mantz took off from Newyork International Airport at 11 37 29 am
