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II ■! ilHlMri n flin'VOLUME LXXVIII—29NMMiitfMmMMGALESBURG, ILLINOISFEBRUARY 4. 1959PRICE SEVEN CENTSmmmmmk**i»,iMn,irin «iiriMH ,mliilaWn • illA gl 11.0MM/n Four-Power PactPITT T fTTITVTCLJLLjdIIIiHKIMSTEDT, Ger. (UP!) — The four-irtirk American convoy held by the. Russians since Monday was released tonight after 56 hours detention.WASHINGTON (UP!) —President Eisenhower said today the United States is lodging a vigorous protest with the Soviet Union against the continued detention of five American servicemen and four U. S. trucks at a check point on the roadIffI T^liof the Allied access corridor toBerlin in stopping a four truck convoy which was bringing jeeps out to Western Germany from the former Gorman capitalRecalls Terms Tic recalled that Russia and the other three major powers which defeated Nazi Germany had agreed on stationing forced from the four countries in Berlin. This agreement necessarily gave each country the right to support its forces there. He said the United States has always felt it had the right to ship through the 110-mile access corridor to West Berlin the kind of supplies it wanted and also to remove them from Berlin when it wished.The United Stales, he continued, has never acknowledged thated Democratic congressional leaders 'today to raise taxes if they pass costly housing and airport bills.The President, told a news conference that raising taxes would be the only straight-forward thing to do if the Democratic leaders insist on what he called reckless spending programs such as their pending housing and airport construction bills.He emphasized that he does not believe the United States, wantshigher taxes 'unless there is some emergency which demands them.The President opened his meeting with reporters by volunteering an attack on the Democratic housing and airport bills. Boththe Russians have any right to | call for much larger spendingPLANES MAKE NEWS—Accidents and near-9rrirllt;tnl^ nnniirrn/1 u/ithin a nonn/t nf a (avointo East River at New York with only 8 of72 ohnnr/l surviving Thrpi» airman HipH¥¥*¥Misses Runway As Fog Covers FieldNEW YORK (UPI) — A new American Airline jet-powered Electra airliner missed its La Guardia Airport runway in fog and rain and plunged into the East River just before midnight Tuesday, apparently killing 65 of the 73 persons aboard.A passing tugboat plucked nine persons from the water and the wreckage. One died later in a hospital. By midmorning, 19 more bodies had been recovered from the shallow fnuddy waters of thetidal river.The plane, a new two-million-dollar jet-powered aircraft put into service only 10 days ago, was the airlines’ Flight 320 out of Chicago. The Civil Aeronautics Board said the jet was making a “stan-Officers Die In Crash ofmdard instrument approach” to Runway 22.Its last contact with the airport tower was a routine acknowledgement of permission to land, made from less than three miles away.Two Pieces of WreckageThe plane apparently smashed into the river in landing position, broke apart and sank quickly in about 26 feet of Water. One survivor said he believed the pilot had made several passes over the field before the crash, but the CAB statement made no mention of any unsuccessful landing attempts.It appeared likely that thelt« ■.yi 1,1 \\m»'lyWff•' *1 «r i .1f!SURVIVES — Joan Marie Zeller, 21, of Riverside, R.I., survived the crash of a huge airliner that plunged into the East River near New'York early today. She was taken to a hospital, but the extent of her injuries was not reported.UNIFAXBoeing JetsIan\T
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Wed, Feb 04, 1959
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