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pa g e FORTY-FOUR — MANCHESTER EVENING HERALD, Manchester, Conn., Mon., Dec. 22,1975 The weather Search for mysterious World War II pilot continues Partly surniy, windv, high in low to Today And Everyday mid 30s. Partly cloudy toMgfat, low In teens. Sunny Wednesday, high in mid to itanrifpHtpr lEiipning HrraUi •n | wreckage and sent them to mysterious pilot and 19 loaded with one 500-pound nowhere and divebombing upper 20s. National weather forecast vestigate. The intercepting While serving with the Only 2 Days Til Christmas By WARREN TALBOT other Americans were bomb which the the base,” Norris said. map on page 17. pilots were a man known Kienow airbase. old Army-Air Force in 1945 Manchester—’A City of Village Charm PROVIDENCE, R.I. stranded in Japanese mysterious pilot dropped as Costello and Col. Robert “The letter were mailed. The 48-year-old former in Bataan, Norris—then 18 (UPI) — For more than 30 territory on the Philippines on a Japanese base near E. Scott Jr., now a retired We believe they were newspaperman now with years old — talked to men years Curtis Norris has bound for Massachusetts. island of Mindanao. ’Their Formosa on his way out. MANCHESTER, CONN., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1975- VOL. XCV, No. 71 TWENTY PAGES — TWO SECTIONS PRICEt nFTEEN CENTS Air Force general. the Brown University news who heard about the inci been attempting to team And it is from the diary only chance to get out was '"rhe fact that he dropped According to a later ac bureau, says the men were dent but no one who knew the identity of a that we can reconstruct to reconstruct a plane from the bomb has been substan- unable to find any useable cover ®iSSK'SS-:W>X*>X-X*:S!iSSSS;I:iSWS^S;WS:5!S‘^^ count by Scott, the plane the pilot or his other bud courageous and mysterious what went on before the other wrecked aircraft tiated by Japanese parts for landing gear. “So was bullet riddled, had no dies stranded on Mindanao. World War U pilot whose flight,” Norris said. around them and select one records. There are they came up with the idea landing gear, had outdated To this day the fate of V nMids body supposedly is buried From the diary it was pilot to fly it out. Japanese accounts of a of bamboo skids. And he those men and their names Kidnapers of oil ministers surrender United States insignia and beside the wreckage of his learned that the ’The makeshift plane was single plane coming out of took off that way.” remain unknown. News “ home-made" plane in the pilot’s face was bloodied. Communist China. exhausted from criss-crossing the past, other terrorist gangs simply Three persons were killed in the dle east to the Iraqi capital of He did not answer radio ALGIERS, Algeria (UPI) - Pro- The search for anybody summary Arab world, said they were too tired have “disappeared” — apparently takeover. Baghdad, where they had hoped to calls and appeared to be Palestinian terrorists who kidnaped who may have known the to fly any further. allowed to return to their guerrilla The terrorists demanded an end to find a welcome. dead. But ^ e plane kept the world’s top oil ministers in a pilot’s name and the actual Algerian and Austrian officials at bases. Arab cooperation with Israel and But Libyan authorities refused to flying, in a straight path iii Compiled from bloody shootout in Vienna sur story behind his incredible Algiers Airport then negotiated the Among those released today were called on oil-rich Arab lands to con provide the new plane and the weary towards allied territory. United Press International rendered quietly today, freeing their feat of bravery has hostages unharmed at the end of a 25- surrender. two prize prisoners: Sheikh Ahmed tribute money to the Palestinian crew refused to continue the flight The intercepting pilots had resulted in bits and pieces hour hopscotch flight around North After the gang gave up, Algerian Zaki Yamani, the oil minister of cause. after it returned to Algiers in the ear no choice but to shoot it of information but nothing State I Africa. officials whisked the commandos to Saudi Arabia, and Jamshi The Austrian government met ly hours. Facing a stalemate, the substantial enough to lead down. police headquarters in an official Amouzegar, the oil minister and in their demands for a plane to fly the gunmen freed their remaining 15 to an identity. In a letter to Norris from The guerrillas — four men and a HARTFORD-A state fact- | Algerian government car! terior minister of Iran. Both are guerrillas and almost three dozen hostages and surrendered. “Every war has its Scott the following account woman calling themselves the “Arm finder has recommended Hart- Some Algerian officials said the powerful figures with international hostages out of the country. The identities of the gunmen were stories of bravery. But I was given: of the Arab Revolution” — stepped ford policemen get two pay slowly from the Austrian Airlines commandos might be put on trial. clout. The band unloaded seven oil not known, but a hostage told an think this pilot’s story is “It kept going right Others said they might be handed The guerrillas originally seized II ministers and a number of their aides Algerian reporter they were four one of suj^r patriotism, straight on the course we raises of three per cent in a DC9 and handed over their machine two-year contract. The city over to the Palestine Liberation oil chiefs and a numter of their aides Monday during stops in Algiers and Palestinians and one (Jerman. A something you wouldn’t had originally seen it in the .'1 ^ . ' i •• guns to Algerian police. was offering 2 per cent and the Organization, which has condemned in a daring raid Sunday on the Vienna Tripoli, Libya. At Tripoli, the sixth gunman was seriously wounded find today,’’ Norris said.’’ approach. We first fired The terrorists decided to end the their action. headquarters of the Organization of terrorists tried to get a long distance in the Vienna shootout and was “All that I know about tracers. It kept right on, police union was asking for 8 siege after airline crew members. per cent. The recommendation Other officials recalled that in the Petroleum Exporting Countries. jet to take them across the hospitalized in Algiers when the the man is that he may and so we then fired into it, 1 . is not binding on either party. | Mediterranean and much of the Mid plane first landed Monday. have been from my shots aimed at where Massachusetts. He was the wing on the right joined probably in hfs early 20’s the fuselage. I think I knew HARTFORD - Rudolph | when he made his flight even then the pilot was i- Supina, maintenance chief of and that he probably had dead. I kept thinking about the state Transportation First family leaves dark hair,’’ Norris said. it for all the rest of the ■ 4 ’ ' * ■ Department, said the state had The mysterious pilot’s year.” to dig deep into its $10 million story takes place on Dec. 8, The plane crashed in a annual snow removal fund this week. Clearing the highways | for skiing vacation 1942, exactly one year after rice paddy high in the cost $598,872, he said. The state | the Japanese attack on the eastern China hills. WASHINGTON (UPI) - President fuel prices and allows a rise over 40 Philippines and months Chinese guerillas later plans for about 30 storms of varying strength each winter, Ford left today for a week-long skiing months. after all American and found the wreckage, buried He also "reluctantly” vetoed a bill -.'i- vacation with his family at Vail, allied resistance in the the body and took a partial Colo., where he will also sign a tax expanding union picketing rights in islands had ceased. ly destroyed diary and Regional cut extension bill and work on his the construction industry, primarily Reports were picked up several letters from the State of the Union address to on grounds he felt it could lead to by the Chinese Warning BLACK AND BOSTON — The Boston City Congress. “greater, not lesser” conflict Net that an unidentified P- Council has extended rent con- Air Force One, the President’s between labor and management. 40 was flying off the China ALL LEATHER WITH ANTRON LlNlHai trol for four years in the city jetliner, took off from Andrews AFB, The President already has said he coast from the direction of ^ ■■ A , ■ S ! with the exception that units Md, at 8:20 a.m. for the four-hour will sign the $6.4 billion tax cut exten Japanese territory in For Fi vacated after the beginning of night to Vail. sion bill, which arrived on his desk mosa. It would have been $ 1 9 0 0 January will be exempted from White House Press Secretary Ron late Monday. highly unusual for an control. A state rent control Nessen said the trip “is a chance for Ford was expected to put in some American P-40 to be flying To Order bill is pending before the the President to get away for six or time on the State of the Union ad out of enemy territory and r leglislature. seven days and relax with his dress he will deliver to Congress Jan. a Japanese ruse was Chrutmas family.” Nessen said Ford has been 19. Nessen said it would be "a broad Ad$ -I suspected. BOSTON - In a divided, | working hard lately, spending 77 look at where the country is and Americans at an airfield BAi ET..