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Weather DUtribnlibn •awreri iMri|kL Htfi today, «. twr tMfcbt k the rnitm* 24,275 row, pertly cloudy, Ugh 1B the / Ma. Wednesday, fair. See t I NORTHERN MONMOUTffS HOME NEWSPAPER DIAL 741-0010 iMiud dilly, Moadir throuzb Friday. Moond Clui Poitan VOL. 87, NO, 101 Plld tt Red Bull tad it Additloo»l Mtiltar OKIct!. MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1964 7c PER COPY PAGE ONE 4 Critical After Plane Crashes Near Shrewsbury Homes By BILL HAGEMAN pilot attempted a landing at Red the plane hit the ground a scant to approach the wreck. After, wreckage when they arrived, Bank Airport, overshot his mark, 20 feet away. dousing the flames he opened the Ambulances from Red Bank, SHREWSBURY - A single-en and stalled as he made a too- There was hardly any noise, she cabin door. Mrs. Campbell got a Little Silver and New Shrewsbury gine airplane with four passen steep climb to regain altitude for said, "but I screamed/' chilling glimpse of the passengers, rushed the Injured to the hospital. gers aboard crashed in a resi- a second landing approach. Flipped on Back suspended by their seat belts and Riverview Hospital reported jfll dential neighborhood here yes- The craft apparently clipped the After the impact, the craft bleeding profusely. She ran out- four crash victims in critical con- terday. top of a tree in the yard of Gerald flipped forward and slid across side with blankets and a butcher dition. Mrs. Moser, least Injured Its occupants — two Pennsyl- E. Tramitz, 140 Birch Dr., and the Campbell's front lawn on its knife to cut the belts. of the four, suffered a concus- vania couples — were critically severed power and telephone lines back, taking a light standard with An alarm brought police, fire sion, cuts, bruises and possible injured as the craft nosed into a leading to the Campbell house. it. and first aid equipment from sur- internal injuries. Her husband front lawn and flipped on its Mrs. Campbell was an eye wit- Mrs. Campbell said her hus- rounding communities, but Mr. was admitted wilh a skull frac- back at 2:40 p.m. It narrowly ness. Sitting in her living room at band, a volunteer fireman and Campbell and his neighbors had ture, a broken wrist and multiple missed the home of Mr. and a large picture window, she saw trained first aidman, was the first pulled the victims from the (See FOUR, Pags 3) Mrs. J. M. Campbell of 130 Birch Dr. Fighting for their lives in Riverview Hospital, Red Bank, through the night were Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Moser of Bala Cynwyd and Mr. and Mrs. Wil- liam D. Taxin of Philadelphia. Demand Flight Curb Mr. Moser was the pilot. Fast Action NEW SHREWSBURY - Bor- to preclude the re-occurrence of operating from It have been the accident were two telegrams That the four were alive when ough Council, meeting in an plane crashes such as the one subject of complaints and the drafted by council here last night. they left the scene of the acci- emergency session called by that critically injured four per- target of citizens' committees in One was sent to Mr. Loeb. It dent is a credit to Mr. Campbell Mayor John E. Lemon, Jr., last sons in nearby Shrewsbury yes- Shrewsbury and New Shrewsbury requested full details of the crash who rushed from his home and night called for curtailment o terday. for years. and urged Mr. Loeb to "limit MOVED FROM WRECKAGE — Four critically injured passengers are moved from the applied a fire extinguisher to all operations except those o! In Shrewsbury, Mayor Frederic Homer E. Coonce, chairman of the use of Red Bank Airport to wreckage of a single engine airplane that crashed on the front lawn of a Birch Dr. home flames sprouting from the cabin. Red Bank Air Taxi at Red Bank Messina said he would urge crea- Shrewsbury's airport committee, Air Taxi operations only, effec- Airport. tion ol a north-south runway at said he was certain the accident tive immediately." . „ In Shrewsbury yesterday. The craft hit the ground nose first and flipped to its back Police were not able to ques- tion the victims, but Chief Ray- The session also urged avia Red Bank Airport so his borough would precipitate new action. The second wire was directed shortly after a touch-and-go landing and takeoff at nearby Red Bank Airport. mond Mass surmised that the tion authorities to take action might escape the approach path Airport owner James Loeb said to the Federal Aviation Agency, of the east-west strip that was he had no plans to. curtail op- the Civil Aeronautics Board and being used by the plane that erations because of the incident. the state Aviation Agency. It crashed. He admitted there would be "a said the accident had "aroused Problem for Years lot of noise" but disclaimed re- the entire community" and de- The accident was a long-dread- sponsibility for visiting aircraft. manded an investigation and re- ed fact come to pass. The airport Telegrams Sent port, including recommendations 28 Aboard lies in this borough, but airplanes The first direct effects of the for safety. Missing Hotel Holdup Fizzles, Airliner Marines Seize Pair FREEHOLD — Two men ac- the clerk made good his escape of tha guard, the corporal ot the cused of taking part in an Mr. Hooper returned a few guard notified the sergeant of the IAI.VEGASlNeMAP) - A propjet airluier wiuWper- aborted armed robbery at the moments later with another of- guard, the sergeant of the guard ton* aboard disappeared last night in a desert snowstorm south American Hotel early yesterday ficer, Patrolman Herman Struve, notified the officer of the day, and tf tu Vegas. Said an airline official: had their freedom until shortly but the bandits had called it quits the officer of the day called state *%« taust assume the plane is down." after dark. and fled without the money. police who notified local police. ' A motorist told sheriff's officers he saw the twin-engine , .After.-bungling the early morn- Freehold police broadcast Capt. Harry Lefkowitz took plane skimming th$ ground in a whirl of show eight miles south ing holikip, they made their sec- descriptions of the outlaws, and charge of .the; investigation. He of the city. • " :' ond mistake. They sought a hid- just after dusk got results. said the suspects 'had the .38 cali- Sheriff's units concentrated a search for the missing plane ing place, at Earle Ammunition Stopped by Marines ber police pistol, they had taken in the area. The witness said the plane had one wheel down, Repot which is guarded by Ma- Marine Lance Corporals Harry from Patrolman Urbelis that as if it were trying to land. rines. N. Holmes and Jerry M. Morton morning. The Fairchild F27, Bonanza Airline's Flight 114 from Phoe- The Marine sentries, accord stopped the suspects on the base. They were held for arraign- nlx, Ariz., was three minutes from a landing at McCarran Field Ing to police, made the arrests The sentries notified the corporal ment today. when it vanished from the radar screen at 8:27 p.m. (PST). on (he Naval reservation because At the time the plane was heading northeast, dropping down the presence of the two, who al- Into the mountain-rimmed Las Vegas valley for an instrument legedly had to climb a fence to landing. be where they were, was suspi- State Medical Schools Sheriffs officers said Bob Baker, a Las Vegas man, told BIRCH DRIVE DRAMA — First Aid Squads and firemen from surrounding communities cious. The story that they were them: came to the assistance of Shrewsbury authorities in getting the injured to Riverview lost on government property did "I was driving-on Highway 91 between 8 and 8:30 p.m. not hold water, police said. Hospital after yesterday's plane crash on Birch Dr. Men from the neighborhood acted To Top Hughes' Talk when I saw a Bonanza plane, 70 to 100 feet off the ground, The names of the prisoners are heading southeast. There were no landing lights on. One land- quickly. They had a fire extinguished and the victims extracted from the wreckage as being withheld temporarily at the TRENTON — Democratic Gov. "There are both constitutional Ing gear was down." the ambulances began to arrive. ' request of police who gave this Richard J. Hughes, in fine trim and moral dangers envolved," he Baker's location was about where the plane was last sighted account of the robbery attempt: after a Bermuda vacation, ad- says. on radar. But his sighting gave the plane a different direction: Around 3 a.m. yesterday, two dresses a joint session of the Re- The governor added that he south instead of north. men entered the American Hotel publican controlled legislature considers "weighted voting a Sheriff's jeeps and squad cars gathered on Highway 91— and held up the night clerk, Jo- this morning. mere device to give a semblance the road between Los Angeles and Las Vegas—near the rail- seph Hooper, with a 12 guage Fairfield Airplane Crash The governor's speech will deal of compliance with the U. S. Su- road-siding settlement of Arden, where Baker said he had seen pump shotgun. with bills calling for the acquisi- preme Court's 'one man, one the plane. ...;.• Down Went the Cash tion by the state of ailing Seton vote' rule." , The season's first snow was falling heavily as the search Hall Medical School, Jersey City, Hughes has said fie favors re- was launched. Soon after the F27 disappeared McCarran Field While preoccupied with the Kills Three, Injures Two task of binding the clerk, one of for $4 million and for providing apportionment which would was closed to traffic.