Six Killed, 100 Injured by Midwest Tornadoes
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a(m Arangt IhUy Net Prem Rim For tho WMk Bndod April 11, I M i 13,943 OeoMiowd bowers l^ b o r of tbo Audit tomorrow, ta Mo. Buruku o f OIroulatlon iKanrl|Pstpr Euptttttg llrraUi tenlflit Manehmete^-^A City of Village Charm T O L. L X X X m , NO. 165 (TWENTY PAGES) MANCHESTER. CONN., MONDAY. APRIL I t , 1964 OB V i « o I t ) PRICE SEVEN CENTS Events In State Six Killed, 100 Injured !i High Flying Bird Downs Airplane By Midwest Tornadoes HARTFORD (AP) — A high flying Canadian goose forced a C-119 flying box- car to make an emergency Kansas City landing over the weekend at Bradley Field, Cruising at 2,500 feet, the Bracketed by twin cn^ne airplane o f the 337th Troop Carrier Squadron' was on a night mission over | Storm Lines Norwich when the migrating | bird adopted the same line of | KANSAS CITY, Mo. flight In the opposite direction. I ’The impact, said Capt. Hor-1 (AP) — Dazed survivors ace Crow of Wilbraham, Mass., j picked through the rubble sounded like a minor explosion.' of homes and business Declaring an emergency, he was buildings today in the wake cleared for landing at Bradley. The ill-fated goose was of tornadoes that slashed wedged between the nose section | through eastern Kansas, and the pitot tube. (’The pitot western Missouri and tube measures air speed.) southwestern Iowa. MaJ. Harold Ostrander, oper- Six persons were killed and ations officer at Bradley Field at least 50 were injured. for the 905th Troop Carrier Most of the twisters snaked Group, said “geese have been ob- out of thunderstorms that could served as high as 8,000 and 9,000 be seen (or miles In the late feet when migrating to their afternoon — otherwise the toll Canadian summer grounds.’’ could have been greater. Thi* picture was taken of Soviet Premier Khrushchev yesterday just before his Captain Crow, who despite his ’Two lines of the storma name has nothing against geese, bracketed Kansas City—one to televised speech to East and West Europe and Scandinavia in which he -de- reported the Impact was "severe the northwest, the other south- nounced the Red Chinese, (AP Photofax.) enough to make the crew think east—and rolled rapidly to the an explosion had occurred on northeast. the aircraft.” Copilot on the mission was John Hansom of The dead were: Two-Man, S-Orhit Mission Cheshire. Mrs. Jack L. Wilson, 24, In- dependence, Kan.; Warren Ken- Nikita on TV The plane received minor damage. yan Sr., 43, Neosho, Mo., and Tornado wrecked upper story of the Edward Shaw farm home about four miles his wife, Ella, all killed near Asks ^Rebuff west of Lawrence, Kan. The twister cut a swath through the area yesterday Garnett, Kan. Grissom, Young 2 Fall to Deaths (Jharles Hedger, 18. killed In HAR-TFORO (AP) — A man afternoon, but no one here was injured. (AP Photofax.) a bam near Pleasant Grove, To Red China and woman, both hospital pa- M o. tients, fell to their deaths In Victor Kerns, 50, killed near MOSCOW (A P )- Polish Com separate Incidents yesterday. his home northwest of Lee- Chosen for Flight Quake Slams ton, Mo. munlst leaders arrived In Mos- Police said that Mrs. Leah E. cow today (or talks to strength' Scott, 73. of West Hartford, Sunken Sites Hit Flora Eichhorst. 90, killed in on Soviet Premier Khnishchev committed suicide by leaping East Europe, her home at Yorktown, Iowa. in his bitter dispute with the HOUST, Tex. (AP) — M a j.f Schlrra, now tl, is the oldest from a seventh floor window at One twister sucked up a line Chinese Commimlsts. Virgil I. Orlssom and Lt. Cmdr. of the original seven Mercury St. Francis Hospital, where she of traffic on U.S. 69 five miles astronauts now that Lt. Col. had been a patient since Feb. 16. south of Garnett and hurled a Polish Communist party lead- John W. Young wore selected 100 Injured By Alaska Tides or Wladyslaw Oomulka ^ d on John H. Glenn Jr., has re- They noted that she had to cut 50,000-pound truck, a pickup his arrival with Premier Josef today as the astronauts who will signed from the program. through the screen to get out truck and six cars in all direc- C^ranklewicz that the Polish pilot the nation’s flrst two-man Glenn is 42. of the window. BELGRADE, Yugoslavia, tions, killing the Kenyans and and Soviet Communist parties space flight—a throe-orbit Qem- Schlrra, while concentrating Quintino Bottoni, 64, a patient (AP)—An earthquake struck a ANCHORAGE, Alaska (A P)—i^sUlI stands at 114 dead or miss- Mrs. Wilson and injuring eight Quake-torn south-central Alaska **have the same views of the ini mission late this year. on the Gemini program, has at the Veterans Hospital In wide region of northern Yugo- ing and the damage is estimat- other persons. tasks of the Socialist camp, of ’The back-up crew for the first been a coordinator of operations Rocky Hill, was found fatally coastal communities. Jolted by ed at *750 million. "It felt like the truck was and training. Injured on the railroad tracks slavia and part of southern another sharp after-shock Sun- Land in places along the rim the strategy and tactics of the manned flight of Project Gem- Hungary today, killing at least lifted up off the highway,” said tntemational movement." ini will be Cmdr. Walter M. Young has specialized on the beneath the west end o f the day, battled floods of sea water of the Gulf of Alaska, on the Stephen A. Miller, 29, of St. Jo- design and development of en- Founders Bridge. He suffwed one and Injuring more than lOO from high spring tides today. Kenai Peninsula and on Kodiak Any actions directed against Schlrra Jr. and Capt. ’Thomas persons. Panic spread in the seph. Mo., who was hauling the unity of Communist coun' P. Stafford. severe head injuries in a fall The sea, pulled into high tides Island is believed to have sunk 25,000 pounds of m eat to Dallas. (Bee Page ’Ten) from the bridge, police said. two neighorlng countries and about tlflo ttog M ch year by tba tMm throe to rix toot places. triaa "aro harmfid ind Irrespon- Gemini is the intermediate damage apneared widespread- * "I hould see the trafier eticliF phase, of . tba longursnga training eofnblned otnmotlon o( ttie moon fltqh tldeo lapping th* west- alble," Gkimulka said. DOWRtdWm’riku^dliigS Swayed and sun, has been moving up ing straight over my head as Khnialmhov In a apoech tel^- program that has an objectlva ern tip of the Kenai Peninsula I looked out of the cab," Miller Face Job Loss and some craokM in downtown into areas which sank in the Sunday came within inches of 1 ^ e d on both sides of the Iron of placing Project Apollo astro- HARTFORD (AP) — A Belgrade, where thousands fled said, "but I don’t know if it was nauts on the moon within the disastrous earthquake of March buildings along the waterfront Chirtaln Sunday night appealed 100 Doctors state unemployment commis- into the streets on a warm, sun- 27. really up there or whether I for a "resolute rebuff" to Pe- decade. of Seldovia, sioner and a workmen’s compen- ny morning. Schools and many ’The highest (or April are ex- was up there and just didn’t klM. Of the four men selected to- The water rose high enough know where the ground was." sation commissioner could be factories and offices closed. ’The pected today and ’Tuesday, and Ihe Poles had been thought to day at the Manned Spacecraft one block Inside the waterfront ’The truck was dropped upeide Halt Strike out of jobs if the general as Budapest radio said the Himg- owners of business buildings in be the vanguard of a group of Center, the training base for at Kodiak so a large barge, down in a 40-foot ravine about semibly at a special session next arian capital also was shaken. the sunken areas have been try- foreign Communist leaders com- astronauts, only Schlrra has week adapts a congressional re- tossed there by the Udal wave 36 feet from the pavement. Mil- By CARL HAR’TMAN ’The first death was reported ing to protect them by Jacking | which followed the big quake. for the celebraUm of Khru- made an orbital flight. districting plan In its present near the epicenter of the quake BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)— them up or building dikes was almost floated again. Two Grissom made a suborbital form. about 126 miles west of Bel- (See Page Ten) ’The government announced to- around them. bulldozers pushed, and a fish- (See Page Eight) ^ flight of 142.1 miles down range ’The redistricting proposal, grade. A 13-year-oId girl was from Cape Kennedy Sept. 13, day about 1(X) doctors in the Flooding is the big problem ing boat pulled to fry to get it b " which has bipartisan leadership killed as a staircase collapsed at now. Sunday’s after-shock 1961, and Schlrra followed with Mechelen area, midway be- approval, would abandon the back to deep water. a school at DJakovo. didn’t make much impression a six-orbit mission Oct. 8, 1962. tween Brussels and Antwerp, present post of Oongreyman The sea flooded an area about Reports reaching Belgrade on the residents of this shaken SEATO Is Told Young and Stafford, former have ended their strike. at-Large and reshape 6n7 state two city block.s long and two said more than 1(X) persons were state.