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Show f " " IftJ' ' .(.'- ' &V ...' x !'' S$WS8ts: ..s." ss.v-,.- :v sCi:.;:,'' v-- ;. Vv 'Airliner Stalled Then Slammed Into The Houses - s, s.s s , V - CHICAGO (UPI) Marvin Anderson tightened his seat-beand leaned back in his seat after the pilot said. Everything is all right, we'll be landing in a few minutes." It was shortlv before 2:30 p.m. CST Friday. Less than three minutes later the huge United Airlines Boeing 737 tore into a string of homes on Chicago's southwest side. Authorities say they have not determined the cause of the crash. Firemen using steel saws today freed the bodies of two lt y.v VMv:;' ' V V2 YS s umv . S V s 'A? X UPI Telephoto Smoke pours from burning homes, airliner wreckage after Boeing 737 plunged into Chicago residential area. DESERET MEW SSI11 :ss 8 SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH VOL. NO. 378, 48 138 PAGES 1 DECEMBER SATURDAY, Oc Now Hear This, Astros, Wake Up (UPI) -- either he had the volume turned down or the astronauts slept through earphone had slipped off. The first wakeup call was sent at 9:09 a.m. when Mission Control broadcast the opening strains of the University of Kansas Jayhawks football fight song. It was repeated twice, along with voice calls and finally the warning horn. Despite all that, the pilots slept until a repeat of the song finally woke up the crew. SPACE CENTER. Apollo 17's HOUSTON voice calls, the Kansas fight song and even a wailing warning horn before finally being awakened more than an hour late today on the last leg of their wrapup flight to the moon. Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans and Harrison H. Jack Schmitt stirred at last at 10:14 a.m. EST and mission commander Cernan said, Were asleep. Thats the understatement of the year, ground communicator Gordon Fullerton replied. That was some party last night, Cernan quipped. It was a humdinger. While the astronauts were sleeping, Apollo 17 started accelerating toward the moon. Their landing craft was reported in great shape for Mondays descent into a mountain valley believed blanketed with ashes from an ancient volcano. The astronauts were 67,000 miles from the moon when they awakened. They will brake into lunar orbit Sunday evening. Our biggest problem this morning is keeping Ron from going back to sleep, Cernan said. Evans was supposed to have had earphones on while he slept during the night, and a Mission Control spokesman said it appeared that Even though the pilots started the day behind schedule, they made up time quickly. Cernan and Schmitt returned to their landing craft about 12:30 p.m. for a second systems check. Its just like a refrigerator, Schmitt said from the lander cabin. Controllers told the astronauts earlier that time was not critical today and there was no need to hurry. It was the final mission in the S25 billion Apollo project that pushed back the frontier of the solar system, and the astronauts seemed to be set on making it the most productive. Schmitt, a professional geologist and the first scientist to fly to the moon, has been radioing back descriptions on earths swirling weather patterns and ragged land forms at every opportunity. At one point, astronaut Thomas P. Stafford stepped in at Mission Control in Houston and said Schmitt was becoming a good weather observer. Kissinger, Tho Jaw, Jaw In Paris - U.S. presiFRANCE (UPI) dential peace envoy Dr. Henry A. Kissinger and North Vietnamese negotiators met again today in another attempt to bring the Vietnam war to an end. The meeting here in a villa owrod by the Communist Party between Kissinger and Hanoi special counsellor Le Due Tho got under way at 3 p.m. (9 a.m. EST). Full teams from both sides drove 15 miles south of Paris to the villa that was to the French bequeathed Communist Party by a Communist artist. long-dea- d Xuan Thuy, Whos aide, smiled and raised both arms in the air in salute to onlookers as the Vietnamese arrived shortly after the Americans. After handshakes all round, the two sides went into the house to start the 29th hour of bargaining. Kissinger went early today and strolled bareheaded in the bright sunshine sight-seein- g from the U.S. embassy residence to a famed Paris art gallon, the Jeu de Paume. In the meantime. French Minister Maurice Foreign Schumann said the world's press was too pessimistic about the prospect of an early peace in Vietnam. After a meeting with President Georges Pompidou. Schumann said: "I fully maintain the statement I made last week, that I found the general tone of the international press too pessimistic on Vietnam. close of Friday's r session. Kissinger escorted Tho to his car and gave him a long and cordial But handshake. the news blackout held fast and neither side would make any comment on the progress of the talks. At the 44-hou- 19. Nov. arriving President The said, Kissinger has sent me here for what he ' hopes will be the final phase of the negotiations to end war in Indochina. Upon tv Inside The News SECTION A SECTION T Jean Wins In WASHINGTON (UPI) -Mrs. Jean Westwood won an upset victory today in her battle to retain the chairmanship of the Democratic National Committee on a razor thin vote of 105 to 100. Committee National The turned down a motion to oust the Utah woman who was the personal choice of Sen. George S. McGovern to head the party but even with that victory, there still was a possibility that the Democrats would wind up with a new national chairman before the day was out The outcome was a defeat for Robert Strauss of Texas, former party treasurer, who is the candidate of old iine regulars to recapture control from the new politics group backing Mrs. Westwood. But Mrs. Westwood announced in advance that no matter how the ouster motion fared, she still would resign if the national committee could agree on a compromise candidate who was not symbolic of the warring Democratic factions. She said that would require Strauss to drop out of the race as well as herself. Too Cold For Ice B ice. Obituaries automatic switches on the making machine. . BW a ice- "Right after the pilot said well be landing in a few minutes, the plane stalled." Anderson said. It just stalled there, and we slammed into the houses." Callaham discounted a my mind. The dead included George W. Collins. 49. re- port that another plane had been responsible for the crash. An unidentified ham radio operator told a Chicago radio station the airliner was to instructed its abort approach because a business jet was making its second try for a landing and was too near the UAL plane. Rep. .. Truman Didn't Like Making Potsdam Trip Minister Churchill had a veto over any decision Dad might make, because in 1S43 at Hyde Park the prime minister and President Roosevelt had entered into a secret agreement which stated "the suggestion that the world should be informed about Tube Alloys (British code name for the bomb) with a view to international agreement regarding its not is and use control By MARGARET TRUMAN North American Newspaper Alliance by Margaret Truman Daniel. Reprinted by permission of William Morrow & Company, Inc. from HARRY S TRUMAN by Margaret C1972 U Truman, Part 7 AT.iNf; . One thing is evident from my talks with my father and Steer x S , s - Vj nfr . aaaffe&M; Composite photo shows splendor of Christmas lights to flash on at 8 tonight on Temple Square. 'SQUARE' AGLOW TONIGHT A Yule Spectacular Five thousand voices will ring out in Christmas praise tonight as spectacular lighting on Temple Square will be the turned on once again highlight of the holiday season in the Mountain West. At the flick of a switch, the historic Square will suddenly be transformed at 8 p.m. into a glittering w orld of Christmas light and beauty honoring He who is called The Light of the World. Sixty thousand tiny colored and clear bulbs will sparkle branches from of wintering trees and shrubs of effect an producing transcendent beauty. Majestic Temple spires, statuary, buildings and fountain will also be illuminated in a spectacle of snow-covere- d light. Christmas message will be delivered by the Rev. Elias Stephanopoulos. pastor of Holy Elias Tnnily and Prophet Greek Orthodox churches. A Cilv. Neil Callaham. spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration. said the pilot was making a visual landing without electronic guidance and was probably a minute away from his landing at Midway Airport when it crashed." Hospital. "When the top of the plane started to fall in on us I thought. This is the end of us all, really the end.-- " Harold Metcalf. 34. Tinley Park, 111., who also survived the crash, said much the same. "I was sure I was going to die. There was no doubt in O Demo Vote It SALEM. Ore. (UPI) was so cold Friday that the Zero Ice Co. couldnt make SECTION 1972 105-10- 0 - Spoils Church Pag Otv, Regioi 9, more persons from the snarled and James Krueger. Omaha. wreckage, bringing to 45 the Neb., an attorney for Northern number of known dead. EightNatural Gas Co. A company een persons were injured. Two spokesman said anothr comparesidents in the Southwest ny attorney. IvJph Blodgett, Side neighborhood were bewas believed killed in the lieved among the victims. crash, but that seven other Some witnesses specula.ed company lawyers had missed that the pilot, once the crash the flight. CBS news said a was imminent, might have let Chicago-base- d reporter. the plane down in the cluster Michele Clark, was killed in of bungalow-typ- e houses to the crash. avoid slamming into a school Police roped off the crash about a block away. School site on Chicago's south side was in session at the Hurley and stationed guards to keep Elementary School, unauthorized persons out of houses "I remember the the area. coming up. Then I remember When the plane went down, it quiet. Everything w as dark until the flames broke out,, it hit the roof of one house, smashed through three garasaid Anderson, 43. South Holges. hit three more houses and land. 111. He was returning from a plunged to a halt in the John business trip in Washington to Saldewski home, the plane's nose sticking out one side of his job as research assistant the house and the tail from at Illinois Institute of Technolthe other side. Several of the in He treatwas ogy Chicago. ed and released at Holy Cross hoir.es burst into flames. Coming from 34 Utah high schools, singers in the fifth annual Youth Songfest will be directed by Armont Willaids-en- , veteran musical conductor. He will be assisted by several high school music instructors. Dr. Ralph Laycock will conduct the Brigham Young University Symphony Orchestra. The holiday lighting and on exhibits other special Temple Square will be open from dusk to 11 p.m. nightly through Jan. 1. Other programs scheduled tor the Christmas season in the Tabernacle include: The Light of the World, a new presentation teliing of the story of the birth of Jesus using readings from the scriptures. will be given Dec. 16, 19 and 2C at 8 p.m. Dr. Harold I. Hansen, BYU professor and director of the Hill Cumorah Pageant, will direct (he production, sored by the Primary Association of the church. Musical store was written by Dr. Crawford Gates, composer of "Promised Valley. A former Utahn, he is conductor of the Beloit, Wis., Symphony Orchestra. The 57th annual producThe Messtion of Handel's iah by the Salt Lake Oratorio Society is slated Dec. 17 at 2 p.m. in the Tabernacle. It will be directed by Dr. Gates, guest conductor. The Christmas Concert by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. Dec. 21 at 8 p m will be directed by Richard P. Condie with Dr. Alexander Schreiner at the organ. And the Mormon Youth Symphony and Chorus Concert, Dec, 23. Three hundred vocalists and 100 instrumentalists will be conducted bv Dr. Jay E. Welch. from reading the memoranda and letters that he wrote at that time: he did not want to go to the Potsdam conference. There were several reasons for this. High on the list was his political instinct that the American people did not like to see their Presidents cavorting abroad, at state dinners in royal palaces. His close association with Congress also made him aware of how deeply many members suspected and resented President Roosevelts habit of making agreements at secret conferences, that were revealed to the Congress fionly piecemeal if at all. accepted. My fathers reluctance was visible in a letter he wrote to his mother on July 3, 1945: I am getting ready to go see Stalin and Churchill and it is a chore. I have tc take my tuxedo, tails, . . . high hat, top hat, and hard hat as well as sundry other things. I have a briefcase all filled up with information on past conferences and suggestions on what Im to do and say. Wish I didnt have to go but I do and it cant be stopped now. On July 15 Dad and his party arrived at Babelsberg near Potsdam, about 25 miles Finally, there was the problem of how to tell the Russian dictator about the atomic bomb, if the July 16 test should prove successful. It would be almost insulting to Stalin not to tell him about it. This in turn raised the sticky question of what do to do if he began asking questions. Prime from Berlin. By nightfall Dad was settled in a three-stor- y yellow stucco house, which formerly belonged to the head of the German movie indus- try. The next morning my father learned that Stalin would be a he had suffered a day late slight heart attack. Dad took advantage of this delay to spend several hours with Win- HST Precarious ' But Improving ston Churchill. This delighted the prime minister, who had wanted to meet Dad in London before they met Stalin. But my father had turned down this idea, because he felt it would only feed the Russian dictators paranoia by giving him another chance to claim, as he had frequently done in his. cables, that the British and the Americans were "ganging up on him. Friendship was instant between Mr. Churchill and Dad. KANSAS MO. CITY, Although fighting (UPI) an extremely precarious heart condition, critically ill former President Harry S Truman today was reported improved and calm. The former Presidents cardiac situation is slightly improved as indicated by the lowering of the pulse rate, said Trumans personal phsysician, Dr. Wallace Graham. His pulse is 96 and is He much regular. calmer. But the doctor said the aged and ailing former chief executive still was gravely ill. His temperature is 100 degrees. The following day, after spending more time with Dad, the P.M. told his physician, Lord Moran: "He seems a man of exceptional charm and He has direct ability methods of speech and a ... , great deal of and resolution." Several days See TRl'MAN on Page Ajf |
