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Show . . Officials Probe -'Near-Miss' Of Veep Plane WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (UP) Civil aeronautics officials Monday Mon-day were investigation a "near-Bliss" "near-Bliss" at the National airport. In which Vice President Alben W. Berkley narrowly escaped death last Thursday night. ST. LOUIS, Nov. 14 MTV i Mrs. Carletea 8. Hadley was driving around la a shek new automobile today, a wedding present from Vice President Alben W. Berkley. They are to be married Friday morning. The car, which eoet around tSOOS, Is a black convertible with red leather seats aad a tea top. William Vaugbaa a '' crvUlaa aid ta the vice preet-deat, preet-deat, drove It trees Wssbiag-toa, Wssbiag-toa, arriving yesterday. Ta thrilled with it," Mrs. Hadley said. . The Boiling air force baas first disclosed the incident, saying a converted B-17 bomber flying Berkley hers from Paducsh. Ky cam's "within 60 feet" of ramming an advertising blimp owned and operated by the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co. while approaching for a landing "la the normal traffic pattern." i It quoted the plane's crew as saying no lights were visible on the blimp until they were directly over It. The blimp's pilot said his lights were "blinking all the time." The near-collision occurred at 1100 feet near the sprawling Pentagon building, only a abort distance .from the spot where s P-38 fighter plane knifed through an Eastern Air Lines transport See Page 4, Cehuna CAA Investigates Near-Miss Of Veep's' Plane, Blimp hearing Friday and Saturday and "completely exonerated" the blimp's pilot. Waiter Mastic, and gave the company's blimp operation opera-tion "a clean bill of health." But CAA officials said there has been no decision on whether any regulations had been violated and their investigation is continuing- Coatlnaed from Page One Nov. 1 and plunged 93 persons to their deaths in the worst civil air crash In history. It also was In the same general area that another Eastern transport trans-port with 54 persons aboard narrowly nar-rowly missed colliding with a B-2S bomber practicing Instrument flying fly-ing last week. Besides Berkley, there were six crew members aboard the converted con-verted Flying Fortress. The blimp carried a crew of three. Neither the vice president, his pilot nor the pilot of the blimp knew of the near crash at 'the time although Boiling officials quoted three of the plane's' crew as saying the big ship passed so close to the blimp thst Its exhaust flames refleted on "the top skin of the balloon." Denies Notice Barkley, In Hartford, Conn, Sunday night for a fund raising drive of the Hartford Jewish federation, fed-eration, contradicted an air force announcement that he had been told of the incident Friday. "I knew nothing about It until I was informed tonight," ha told a United Press reporter. Frank Getty, a spokesman for the Good year Co., said the Civil Aeronautics administration held |