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Show TEMPERATURES Statloa -, alas MlnSUttoa Mas Ma Provo ..... S 34PorlUn .. 12 4$ Salt Lako . C4 31 Seattle ... C9 45 Ofden 2 4 Boise 12 tl Logan ..... 2 37 Denver ... 83-52 St. George .-as 2 Chicago ... l C4 Lu Vtu St. LouU .. 3 l I,o Angeles 82 SZiNew York II S3 Albuquerque It 57 'Bolton 74 45 San Fran. . IX 49, Washington S7 GENERALLY CLEAR In the Provo area, Sunday. Rising daytime temperatures. Frost Sunday Sun-day morning. VOL 25, NO. 17 PROVO. UTAH COUNTY. UTAH. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1947 PRICE FIVE CENTS LaGuardia's Death Closes Colorful Life Services to be Held Monday; Thousands file Past His Bier By OTTO E. STURM United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (UR) Fiorello H. LaGuardia, three time mayor of New York, former director of UNNRA, and one of the most Colorful political figures of this generation of Americans, died today. His body was taken to the Monumental Mon-umental cathedral of St. John the Divine on Morningside Heights Saturday to lie in state until funeral fun-eral services Monday afternoon. The file of mourners from a public pub-lic to whom he was beloved as "Butch" and "The Little Flow-erV' Flow-erV' formed at once, and it was believed that hundreds of thousands thous-ands would pay their respects to the son of "an Italian immigrant who became a symbol of rugged, incorruptible American democracy democ-racy in action. Tributes from world leaders lead-ers deluge the family in their home In the Riverside section sec-tion of the Bronx where LaGuardia La-Guardia breathed his last at 7:22 a.m. after lying in a , coma since Tuesday. Death was due to a pancrea cancer. i He was 64 years old. Shortly before 7:30 a.m., his physician. Dr. George Baehr who had been at his side all night, stepped to the door and motioned to a group of reporters waiting on the rain-swept sidewalk and sadly sad-ly announced the end. . He is survived by his wife, Marie, their adopted children, Jean, 18, and Eric, 15. they and his sister-in-law, Mrs. Elsie Fisher, Fish-er, were at his bedside when death came. Although expected, the news was a shock to this city's millions. People on street corners and in their homes recalled his courage, his incorruptible honesty, and his. traits and antics that set him apart from all other figures in public life. They talked of what a showman show-man he ' was, even outstripping dapper Jimmy Walker in pyrotechnics, pyro-technics, if not in glamor. They (Continued on Page Two) Tokyo Seawall To Be Blasted TOKYO. Sept. 20 (U.R) Japan ese authorities today preparetd to blast portions of a two-mile "long seawall along Tokyo Bay to re lease flood-waters which were creeping up at the rate of a foot an hour along the west bank of the Arakawa drainage canal. Police doled out food to the women and children as many of the men built rafts to recross the canal and attempt to retrieve their household belongings. Virtually every member of Kat sushika ward's 200,000 population had been evacuated either west of the Arakawa canal or east of the Edo River into Chiba pre fecture. Evacuation of Edogawa south of Katsushika and adjoining the bay was proceeding feverishly, with truckloads of refugees taken across the bridges. Amencan military police made the bridges one-way, prohibiting eastbound traffic to speed the evacuation. Depth of the water in Katsush ika ranged from nine to 10 feet, while the newly flooded sections were under four to five feet of still-rising water. City authorities said six per sons had been drowned and seven were missing in Tokyo proper, but because of conflicting reports the home ministry had stopped estimating casualties in the floods which followed the typhoon "Kathleen." The reports vary from 2,000 to 7,000 dead or miss ing, including at least two Allied soldiers. News Highlights In Central Utah Three Announce Candidacy For Provo City Commission . . 4 & 5 -Orem to Form Permanent Traffic Safety Council 6 Provo City Dump to Remain, Will Be Modernized 3 Dixon Chosen President of Higher Education Group.... Intermountain Symphony Society Organized Here 4 Provo To Seek Federal Aid For University Ave. Viaduct 6 23 Concerts, Lectures Billed For Lyceum Season 4, sec. 2 Lehi, PI. Grove, Lincoln Springville Win Grid Tilts... 9 BYU Whips Western State In College Football Opener .10 Nation Mourns " ' ft 7 FIORELLO LA GUARDIA Special Session, Other Problems, Facing Truman WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U.R) President Truman returned today to-day from a three-week South American "good will" trip and and promptly tackled perhaps the most crucial problems of his White 'House career spiraling prices at home and a deteriorating deterior-ating economic and political situation sit-uation abroad. Four hours after he docked here, the chief executive held a 45-minule conference with his White House staff. In order to catch up on the heavy backlog of work, Mr. Truman cancelled plans to attend the , president's cup regatta here tomorrow . and scheduled no appointments for the week end. The biggest Immediate decision de-cision confronting Mr. Truman Tru-man is whether he should call congress back Into spe- . . ... ill. il. . high price and foreign relief situations. An answer may be forthcom ing after he confers Monday with Secretary of State George C. Marshall and any other cabinet member who requests a conference confer-ence with the president. Sen. Styles Bridges, R., N. H., chairman of the senate appro priations committee which heard reports from army, state and treasury department officials during the day, said he would not be surprised if a special session ses-sion is called any time after Nov. 15. While he has no present plans to do so Mr. Truman also may meet Monday with his special cabinet food committee which.J besides Marshall, includes Secretary Secre-tary of Agriculture Clinton P. Anderson and Secretary of Commerce Com-merce W. Averell Harriman. There also was speculations that Mr. Truman may call in congressional leaders before he makes any decision as to a special spe-cial session. Marshall will make a quick trip here from the United Nations Na-tions general assembly meelii.k in New York to give the president an up-to-the-minute report -on the international economic and political crisis. Marshall has made it plain that he . feels a special session of congress is necessary to approve' stop-gap aid to hungry western Europe countries coun-tries before the end of the year. On the other hand, Republican Repub-lican leaders of the GOP-controlled' GOP-controlled' ' congress insist they see no need for a, special spe-cial session. They have tossed the responsibility for calling such a session into Air. Truman's lap, although they have power to summon legislators to an emergency session. Sen Homer Ferguson, R., Mich., said after' the senate aopropri-( aopropri-( Continued on Page Two) 4 1W V 1 1 Weber College President to Head Conference on Higher Education; Provo Parley Ends President H. Aldous Dixon of' of students, declared Dr. Francis Weber junior college was elected president of the Utah Confer ence on. Higher Education as the group completed its annual session ses-sion at Brigham Young university Saturday. Mr. Dixon, former superintendent superintend-ent of Provo city schools, succeeds suc-ceeds Dr. Wesley P. Lloyd, aean of students at BYU, as head of the organization which comprises college facultymen of the stale. Other officers elected were Prof. V. D. Gardner of Utah State Agricultural college, vice, president; presi-dent; and N. Blaine Winters, state department of education, secre tary. Several department officers also were named. Colleges and universities in the decades ahead must prepare for services in new areas of education as well as unprecedented numbers. Leaders urge Rationing, Price Agency ADA Board Calls For Action to Cut Short Inflationary Trends j CHICAGO, Sept. 20 (U.R) : Leaders of Americans forj democratic action, including5 two former OPA administrate ors, today urged establish- ment of a new price and ra tioning agency, as further harp drops in grain prices gave consumers hope that the cost of living was coming down. While the price of wheat, corn and oats plunged for the third consecutive day on the bie srain exchanges, the ADA executive board drew up a .statement asking ask-ing resumption of rationinir and calling upon President Truman to summon a special session of congress con-gress to act "on the foreign and domestic crisis confronting the nation." The board declared that "paralyzing "par-alyzing inflation precipiateted by the premature destruction of wartime war-time controls already engulfs the country." "The threat of a disastrous bust is intensiifed every hour," the board said. Among the board members who issued the statement were Leon Henderson, the first administrator administrat-or of OPA, and Paul Porter, who presided over the liquidation of the wartime price and rationing agency. Henderson told a news conference con-ference that unless "deflation" "defla-tion" were controlled by a government board, a sudden drope In the cost of living of as much as 20 per cent might throw 8,000,000 men out of work overnight. There was no indication, meanwhile, mean-while, that grain prices would continue dipping long enough to cut significantly the retail cost of meat, bread, milk and other basic foods. But housewives took hope n th tar. .r9n. kj j bushel since last Monday, when new all-time records were set. A warning of a possible increase in-crease in federal regulations came from Washington, D. C, when J. M. Mehl, chief of the commodity exchange authority, warned the nation's grain exchanges to clamp down on "unhealthy speculative spec-ulative tendencies." Many forces beyond the orbit of the exchanges have played their part in the making of the present speculative cycle," he said. "Yet it is within the power of the markets to mitigate some of the ravages of speculative fever." fev-er." Mehl suggested that if the exchanges fail to act, public opinion may force the government gov-ernment to tighten its controls con-trols ever the grain market. Mehl several days ago request-continued request-continued on Page Two) Occupation Costs To Exceed Appropriation by 500 Million .WASHINGTON, Sejt. 20 (U.R) Administration spokesmen said today that high prices and British Brit-ish poverty will cost Amencan taxpayers about $500,000,000 more for occupation costs this fiscal year than has thus far been ap- propriated by congress If congress approves the administration admin-istration estimates, then the total occupation bill for fiscal 1948 will amount to $1,100,000,000. These figures were presented to the senate appropriations committee com-mittee which met he in emerg-ncy emerg-ncy session at the call of Chairman Chair-man Styles Bridges, R., N. H. Bridges told reporters that wnile the United States probably would assume most of Britain's occupation occupa-tion costs in Germany, the United States should foot the bill only if J. Brown, staff associate of the American council, as he addressed Saturday's concluding session of the three-day conference. "We have come to a time when colleges must free themselves from inhibiting traditions," the Washington educator declared. "They must substitute - flexibility of organization or-ganization and of curriculum patterns for their present rigidity. They must serve people, not subject matter." The speaker forecast a minimum mini-mum enrollment of three million American college students by 950 double the number enrolled in 1939 and 50 per cent more than the numbers "that already crowd our campuses ' this fall." These (Continued on Page Two) Austin Says Vishinsky Falsified Motives Of U. S. In His Speech Denies U. S. Planning Charges Russia With RrppH Hat and War: B ROBERT MANNING United Press Staff Correspondent UNITED NATIONS HALL, FLUSHING, N. Y., Sept. 20 (U.R) The United States flatly denied tonight it was planning for aggressionaccused Soviet Vice Foreign Minister Min-ister Andrei Vishinsky of "absolute falsification of American Ameri-can motives" and charged Russia with using tactics which breed hate and war. The American denial and counter-charges were, hurled by Warren R. Austin, permanent U. S. delegate to the Russia Clashes With U. S. On Italian Treaty By RICHARD WITKIN . United Press Staff Correspondent UNITED NATIONS HALL, Flushing. N.Y.. Sept. 20 (U.R) A new clash between Russia and the United States erupted in a United Nations general assembly committee tonight when Russia opposed and the United States backed a proposal aimed at modifying modi-fying the Italian peace treaty. France promptly lined up with the Soviet in debate in the general or steering committee on an Argentine proposal for a General Assembly recommendation recommenda-tion calling on the signatories to the Italian treaty to allow Italy to state her case for revision. Russian Delegate Andrei Grom-yko Grom-yko said the proposal, which is supported by six other Latin- American nations besides Argen Una, was completely unjustified and violated the UN charter. Questioning whether the nations sponsoring uie prooosai were of justice," Gromyko insisted that the Italian treaty provisions were perfectly just and added that the charter bound all UN members to respect international undertakings. undertak-ings. United States Representative Herschel Johnson replied by lending wholehearted support to the move for revision, saying, "We particularly favor adoption of a General Assembly resolution encouraging the signatory states to consider modification to rectify the onerous provisions of the treaty on the Italian people. "The United States," Johnson John-son continued, "never tried to conceal its dissatisfaction with the terms of the Italian peace. We agreed to the treaty in its present form only when it became obvious thai no other agreement was possible in the council of foreign ministers." it is "permitted to run the show." "We don't want to underwrite the British and still let them manage the occupation," he said. Secretary of Army Kenneth C. Royall said an additional $265,- 000,000 will be necessary to meet occupation all over the world be cause of price increases an i an appropriation of $235,000,000 will be necessary if the United States is going to absorb most of the costs of dollar-short Britain in western Germany, Royall told the comimttee at a closed session Britain now shares 50-50 in the costs wtih the United States. But the British say that their economic eco-nomic crisis will force them to cut such expenditures sharply in the near future. No formal action can be taken on the administration request un til congress meets. However, Royall hoped to obtain an advance commitment from the appropriations appropria-tions committee that it would approve ap-prove the increased occupation outlay. Administration officials already have discussed the occupation cost problem with Rep. John Ta-ber, Ta-ber, R., N. Y., whose house appropriations ap-propriations committee would have to act first on a deficiency appropriation bill. Royall summarized the occupa tion situation in a statement which included a promise that the administration "would use every reasonable effort in our conversations conversa-tions with the British to obtain the maximum contribution" from them. But whatever happens, Royall said, the Germans must be fed adequately if Europe, as well as occupied Germany, is to be revived re-vived economically. "Food is not only essential to prevent unrest and disorder hi Germany to give this nation a chance to develop a workable democratic government; but it is also important to the economic recovery of Europe as a whole," Royall said. for Aggression and Using Tactics Which Rins Tntn Vishinskv .United Nations, in reply to Vish' insky's claim before the UN gen eral assembly last Thursday that the United States was war-nion-gering. Austin said the United States would not be frightened by Vish-i insky's accusations and would continue to believe that "peace is the purpose of all countries, both governments and people. Austin, making America's first top-level answer to the angry tirade levelled against the United States by Vishinsky Vishin-sky In the general assembly last Thursday, charged the Soviet Union with "obstruction "obstruc-tion of the will of the majority" major-ity" all along the line In the United Nations. The American answer to Vishinsky Vish-insky was delivered to the nation in a radio broadcast (NBC) and later repeated by Austin when he received the United Nations service serv-ice award from the American Association As-sociation for the United Nations at a dinner in New York. Austin ripped into the white-haired white-haired former prosecutor whose assault on American foreign policy poli-cy went so far as to name nine American "war mongers," including includ-ing John Foster Dulles, a mem ber of the American delegation to ims year s assembly session. VishlnrtrychaTgerKata Atil-tin Atil-tin in effect, did not scare the United States. "The speech made in the general assembly by the deputy dep-uty foreign minister of the Soviet Union, Mr. Vishinsky, probably reached Its mark: namely, the people of the Soviet So-viet Union," he said. "Doubtless it frightens them into the belief that the United States intends to make an armed attack on Russia." "In the United States," Austin continued, "the fact was the reverse re-verse of the Soviet spokesman's purposes." Bluntly he charged Vishinsky with "intemperance," "absolute falsification of American motives" and,. . . "libel of individuals and institutions' 'in this country. The entire attack, he said, dis- i courages many Americans who I have consistently believed that the Soviet purposes are peaceful." Bidault Hurls Lie At Russia In UN Speech UNITED NATIONS HALL, FLUSHING, N. Y., Sept. 20 (U.R) Foreign Minister Georges Bidault of France hurled the lie at Russia Rus-sia today for its attack on the Marshall plan and told the United Nations general assembly there seemed to be no hope for reconciliation recon-ciliation of the views of the United Unit-ed States and Russia. Bidault said gloomily that the positions assumed by the world's two greatest powers at the start of this crucial meeting of the 55 United Nations had left no room for a meeting ground. "It is but honest to say that ?ne does s how. they can be reconciled," he said. Bidault castigated Soviet Vice Foreign Minister Andrei Y. Vi shinsky, accusing him of speaking against the truth when he repeated re-peated this week Russia's claim that Secretary of State George C. Marshall's plan for European re covery was an American plot to "enslave Europe." Speaking only 48 hours before President Truman and his cabinet cab-inet will make decisions vital to the $20,000,000,000 Marshall pro gramand to France, one of its chief beneficiaries Bidault rejected re-jected Vishinsky's criticisms and characterized the proposed American Amer-ican aid as Europe's only hope of recovery! Bidault deplored the refusal of Russia and the countries of Eastern East-ern Europe to join in the Marshall Mar-shall aid program. "We have chosen this path;" he said, "and ' we shall not -turn back on this path which we deliberately follow in spite of aU kinds of difficulties diffi-culties ' toward a better future." fu-ture." In contrast to his warm support for the American aid plan, how-continued how-continued on Page Two) H uimcanc G.ulfp'Qrt;; Stricken Gulf Coast Town in State Of Martial Law; Dusk-to-Dawn Curfew Put On Community Staggering Under Disaster By HAROLD FOREMAN United Press Staff Correspondent GULFPORT, Miss., Sept. 20 (U.R) A dusk-to-dawn curfew was imposed tonight in hurricane-ravaged .Gulf-port .Gulf-port as the gulf coast counted a mounting toll of dead, injured in-jured and missing from the' worst disaster in its modern history. At least 53 persons were known to be dead or missing or reliably reported among those lost when the gulf hurricane hurri-cane curved against the half moon shaped coast and left the most punishing havoc of its long swirl of terror. Gulf port was virtually in a-state of martial law that Stimson Warns Of Communists; Chides Vallace WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 Former Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson declared tonight that "those who now cnoose to travel in company with American communists com-munists are very clearly either knaves or fools." Stimson, who will ' be 80 tomorrow, to-morrow, expressed this belief in a birthday message to Americans published in the magazine "Foreign "For-eign Affairs." He also gave sup port to the trumari doctrine of stopping communism by aiding Imperiled nations to resist it. Stimson singled out former Vice President Henry Wallace for a gentle chiding. ' Asserting that It Is impossible for this country to make common cause in world affairs af-fairs with communitm, Stimson added: "A very large part of what I believe to be the mistaken think ing done, by. ray. friend Henxylfn" vaccine to the stricken area, fWaUacefcout Soviet Russia re- sults-simply from a goodhearted insistence that nobody can dislike dis-like us If we try to like them." But Russian .leaders, committed to the doctrine belief that democracy democ-racy and freedom are doomed, have been rebuffing American efforts at friendship and cooperation cooper-ation ever since the early spring of 1945 when 'the late President Roosevelt was still alive, he said. Stimson said the United States must resist Soviet expansion. ex-pansion. But he rejected the notion that this can be accomplished ac-complished by "strong-arm methods." "Even if it were true that the United States now had the opportunity oppor-tunity to establish forceful hege-money hege-money throughout the world," he said, "we could not possibly take that opportunity without deserting desert-ing our true inheritance. Americans Amer-icans as conquerors would be tragically miscast." In any event, geographic and military facts, plus the conscience of the world, make war between Russia and the United States unlikely, un-likely, Stimson said. He warned, however, that "Soviet "So-viet leaders might in desperation resort to war." Against that possibility, pos-sibility, he added, "our military strength must be maintained as a standing discouragement to aggression." ag-gression." Truman Ridiculed By Soviet Paper MOSCOW, Sept. 20 (U.R) The Literary Gazette, the monthly publication of the Russian writers union, today described President Truman ' as a little man in Short trousers and a bow tie, a colorless, color-less, frightened messenger for Wall street. In the most critical profile- of the head of any allied government since before the war, Boris Or-batov Or-batov said Truman's voice is shrill and provincial in the way Missourians talk . . . but more and more he's beginning to roar like a lion. Quick Thinking of Woman Saves Life of Engineer SHANNON CITY, la., Sept. 20 (U.R) The quick thinking of Mrs. Flora Denner, 31, Leavenworth, Kan., was credited today with possibly saving the life -of an engineer trapped in his locomotive after a train wreck. ' Fireman O. L. Abrahason, Des Moines, was killed. The engineer, who was injured seriously, was Herbert Herb-ert Giles, Des Moines. An expressman, Levern Clark, suffered minor cuts: " They were the crew of a Great Western train. The locomotive and four coaches wjent off the track and the locomotive overturned, killing Abrahanson and trapping, Giles near the boiler i ' Mrs. Denner" was riding in the first coach. She ran forward to the locomotive, pulled Giles out and gave him first aid. A physician said her action probably prob-ably saved his life. An observer said a rail spread apparently caused the wreck. . lacked only the signature of Gov. f ielding Wright to make it official. of-ficial. National guardsmen in helmets hel-mets and carrying bayoneted rifles were ordered to shoot looters loot-ers if necessary. They rigorously imposed the curfew. The latest list of dead included 11 Cuban fishermen who were reported to have drowned. Their fate was told by 16 of their mates in a fishing fleet who arrived ar-rived tattered and hungry at Fort Myers on the southern west coast ofFlorida. Gov. Wright after a tour of the devastated coastline ordered state health commissioner Felix J. Underwood Un-derwood to -rush typhoid and tet- WASHINGTON, Sept. 20 (U.R) The Red Cross announced an-nounced tonight that It has provided food and shelter for more than 100,000 victims of the gulf coast hurricane. . The Red Cross said that casualty lists were "comparatively "compara-tively small" because of widespread wide-spread preparedness measures. meas-ures. It added that damage reports were coming in from field workers. Wright said he feared that a health menace may follow in the wake of the storm. Chlorination units were also sent to the territory ter-ritory to insure fresh waters. As the gulf coast dug out from the shambles, the weather bureau reported that another tropical disturbance of limited force would cross extreme southern south-ern Florida tonight and Sunday. The - disturbance "was moving northwest between Jamaica and Cuba with winds up to 40 miles an hour in gusts. Verified dead and missing on the gulf coast included three dead at Gulfport, four dead at Biloxi, six dead and eight missing mis-sing in the Bay St. Louis and Waveland area, five missing and one dead in the New Orleans area, five missing in two fishing boats in Bayou La Lougre off Shell Beach, Miss., five dead at Long Beach, Miss. The Red Cross reported that at least five persons per-sons were drowned at Pass Christian. Eleven Cuban fishermen fisher-men were reported drowned off Florida. The 8th naval district at New Orleans received a report from one of its pilots who flew over the area that Bay St. Louis and its surroundings were in "deplorable" "de-plorable" condition. Mississippi national guardsmen arrested several persons charged with looting shattered stores, and as darkness fell' on towns without with-out electricity the troops were, ordered to shoot if necessary to halt pillaging. From end to end, the storm raked the old Spanish trail between be-tween Biloxi and Pass Chirstian, sending whole buildings collapsing col-lapsing into the road or into the surging gulf that rolled in over the smooth white sand beaches. Soldiers who were stationed in the area during the war knew the gold coast beach as a gay highwpy lined by swanky, hotels, casinos, night clubs and eating spots. Armed national guardsmen pa-troled pa-troled tonight in front of the' few buildings that-were left undamaged undam-aged after the storm to prevent thieves from helping themselves in the darkness. Electric current (Continued on Page Two) Sin k 41 Rescued in Crash Landing Of Airliner Big DC-4 Catches Fire in Spectacular Emergency Landing NEW YORK, Sept. 20 (U.R) A Pan-American four-en-gined airliner, developing engine en-gine trouble 300 miles out on an ocean flight from. Bermuda Bermu-da to New York made an emergency em-ergency belly landing and caught nre at the navy s Hoyd Bennet field m Brooklyn Brook-lyn tonight but the 41 Dersons aboard were unharmed. The tail of the big DC-4 caught fire as it ground to a stoD on the runway and the passengers, frightened but calm, scrambled and were pulled from the cabin. Several women among them fainted. The 36 passengers and five crew members were taken in ambulances to the field's sick bay where an examina- , tion by navy doctors revealed reveal-ed that no one bad been even scratched, all were released. The pilot, Capt. Carl W. Greg of Oak Grove, Mo., had radioed when he was 90 minutes put of LaGuardia field that two of his engines were failing and that he was losing. altitude rapidly. He made preparations for a landing at open sea but nursed the plane along In hope of reaching Floyd Bennett in Brooklyn, on the south shore of Long Island. The 3B passengers, mostly New Yorkers returning from a vacation vaca-tion in the British colony resort island, were given life preservers, preserv-ers, strapped in their seats and told to prepare for a crash landing. land-ing. Crew members said they displayed dis-played an amazing calm. Dropping closer and closer to the sea, Gregg nursed the big ship along. Two of his propellors "feathered." Finally Fin-ally he spotted the patchwork of runways that meant he had reached Floyd Bennet and he radioed the control tower to clear the field for a crash landing. He circled .the field once as five fire trucks dashed to the No. .1 runway which he selected for the belly landing. Then he brought the airliner down, a great shower of sparks flying as the underside of its fuselage (Continued on Page Two) 3 Dead, 11 Missing In Crash of Army Transport Plane NAZCA, Peru, Sept. 20 (U.R) Three persons were known dead today and 11 were missing in the crash of a U. S. army transport plane carrying 14 persons, nine of them Americans, while en route from LaPaz, Bolivia, to the United Unit-ed States. At least four of the missing may have survived. Reports received by the Caribbean Carib-bean air command in Baiboa, Canal one, said four men, possible pos-sible survivors, had been sighted on the beach of San Juan bay. A life raft was seen in the bay. Three bodies were recovered from the bay, where the plane crashed Friday. Among the Americans aboard were Lt. . Col. William A. Sullivan, Sulli-van, head of the American air mission to train Bolivian pilots; Sgt. Harry T. Boerel, Sgt. William W. Knisley and Mrs. Wilitam Pool. The three bodies were tentatively identified as those of Mrs. Pool, Boerel and Col. ' Juan Antonio Aivera, inspector inspec-tor general of the Bolivian air force. Rivera and four other Bolivian army officers were flying to the United States upon invitations from the American embassy in La Paz. k American members of the crew were Lt. George Hammer and Sets. Stokowitch. Hazlip, Hen dricks and Cincert, all stationed at the Panama ait base. Mrs. Pool was the wife of the American army instructor at; Cochabamba, Bolivia. 3ecause she1 was seriously ill she was given at the last moment the seat originally origin-ally reserved for Sgt. Boerel'g Bolivian wife of a few days, Mrs., Elvira Aramayo BoereL whose Dead life, was thus spared. . |