anaheim-gazette 1951-04-26

Divers Probe Sea for Plane Victims KEY WEST (UP)—Grim Navy divers recovered more wreckage and mangled bodies today from the shattered sections of a Cuban airliner and a Navy trainer plane which collided and killed 43 persons. By noon a total of 24 bodies had been brought to the surface, and taken to morgues in this sorrowing southernmost city in the United States. Nineteen were located yesterday after the crash. Nineteen divers worked in re-lays, two at a time, over the smashed pieces of the four-engined transport, scattered over a wide area on the sandy bottom 20 feet below the surface. Other divers located what was left of the Navy trainer plane about two miles away. The Big Wheel, the boat used for fishing trips by President Truman, found the wreckage with grappling irons. Navy Diver James A. Atkinson of Jacksonville, Fla., said the transport plane "looked like a junk pile on the bottom. You can walk all over the wreckage except for part of a wing which sticks straight up 15 feet from the bottom." No Sharks He said the divers hadn't seen any sharks. "The main danger is the sharp corners of the wreck- This Boy Is Better With (or Without) Wedding Rings Than With Boxing Ring Francis Albert Lassor, 29, of Santa Ana, known to the fight game as Jimmy Ladd, was regarded by the district attorney's office today as expert in two kinds of rings—boxing and wedding—as it charged him with bigamy and said he admitted to five wives. With no widowhood and only one divorce and one annulment in that score, it added up to bigamy, District Attorney James L. Davis contended. Either two or three of his brides are still current, Lassor is said to have admitted, as he gaily described his adventures along the matrimonial circuit. Three of them have borne him children, and the present No. 5 is expecting, he said. A sixth woman in a speed estimated by witnesses at 600 miles an hour. It landed a half-mile offshore, not far from President Truman's "Little White House." The Navy craft, disintegrating as it fell, crashed two miles west of the transport. Into Action Florida bore him a child, but they had never married, he added. He was first wed at 17 to Alice Sharland, 15, in 1940. They had a daughter and were duly divorced in 1943, after she also bore a child to another man. Lassor was in the Army when he married the second time, in 1944, to Evelyn Sechongsie, at San Francisco. She was older, about 40, he thinks, though she would never tell. He was in a hospital at the time and he never lived with her. They separated in Brooklyn. He heard she had a divorce but doesn't know. His next wife was Shirloy Stephens, wed in 1946 in a small village near Albany, N.Y. She was expecting a child when she annulled the marriage at Elko, Nev., a few months after the wedding. Later, his father wrote Lassor that a son had been born. She is in Vermont, Lassor thinks. On May 10, 1948, No. 4, Janet Sampson, 18, of Los Angeles, became Mrs. Lassor at Tijuana, Mex., after a six-day courtship which began when she was hitch- Navy Diver James A. Atkinson of Jacksonville, Fla., said the transport plane "looked like a junk pile on the bottom. You can walk all over the wreckage except for part of a wing which sticks straight up 15 feet from the bottom." No Sharks He said the divers hadn't seen any sharks. "The main danger is the sharp corners of the wreckage. That is more dangerous than sharks, anyhow." The largest section recovered so far was part of the forward portion of the transport. It was smashed and twisted. A woman's foot and shreds of bodies came up with it. Divers also found a skull, with the flesh torn away, apparently by the force of the impact. The four-engined transport, carrying 34 passengers and five crewmen from Miami to Havana, and the Navy plane, a twin-motorized Beechcraft with four aboard, collided with a noise like a bomb blast over Key West shortly before noon yesterday. Then, in full view of hundreds of shocked sunbathers and residents of the city, the airliner power-dived into the ocean at a speed estimated by witnesses at 600 miles an hour. It landed a half-mile offshore, not far from President Truman's "Little White House." The Navy craft, disintegrating as it fell, crashed two miles west of the transport. Into Action Marine Pfc Arthur Calogero of Jersey City, N.J., saw the planes come down with engines roaring and notified authorities at the Navy submarine base here. So quickly did Navy craft go into action that the first body from the Navy plane was recovered in 10 minutes and the first from the airliner in 15 minutes. Explosive noise of the collision shocked hundreds to attention. George and Charles Faraldo, operators of a Key West flying service, said the left wing tip of the transport fell off and it went into a tight spiral. "The pilot turned on full power and managed to pull out of the spiral," George related. "But then the plane nosed over in a straight dive and hit the water with the engines wide open. On May 10, 1948, No. 4, Janet Sampson, 18, of Los Angeles, became Mrs. Lassor at Tijuana, Mex., after a six-day courtship which began when she was hitchhiking with another girl near Laguna Beach. Lassor and his buddy were swimming there. That marriage lasted two months, when he told her of his former marriages, and left her. She became a mother the next year, he said. Last Jan. 13, at Detroit, he met 16-year-old Betty Ann Ball—and the inevitable happened as usual. There was a marriage ceremony, and he used the name Jimmy Francis because he expected to fight under that name. Two months ago they came to Santa Ana. 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Wagner, member of a pioneer Placentia family (left) was sworn into office yesterday as a director of the Orange County Water district, succeeding the late Lewis Lemke, of Placentia. President Jack W. Crill of the water district is shown administering the oath to Wagner and welcoming him to the board of directors. ‘Beautiful’ Boy Saves Life by His Lusty Cries RICHMOND, Calif., AP—“Oh, he's a beautiful baby—a really lovely boy!” The "incinerator baby" was thus described today by attendants at Oakland's Permanente GOP Fights for Telecasting of Korea Hearing WASHINGTON (AP) — Senator Russell (D-Ga) rallied Democrats today against a Republican demand for televised public hearings into the policy clash behind the ouster of Gen. Douglas Mac-Auther. Russell met a GOP drive for an all-out, open-door inquiry into the MacArthur case. Any such inquiry method would risk the security of fighting men in Korea, Russell said. Chairman Taft of Ohio announced the Republican policy committee will fight for public appearances by MacArthur and others. He said questions involving military security could be reserved for subsequent private sessions. MacArthur made it known yesterday through an adviser he has no objection to the televising of his scheduled May 3 appearance before the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. Russell, who heads the combined groups, said he will force a showdown vote at a meeting early next week. 'Beautiful' Boy Saves Life by His Lusty Cries RICHMOND, Calif., (AP)—"Oh, he's a beautiful baby—a really lovely boy!" The "incinerator baby" was thus described today by attendants at Oakland's Permanonte hospital. He was listed merely as "Baby Doe" while offers of adoption poured in from at least 25 families. He was made a ward of the Contra Costa county welfare department. His lusty cries probably saved his own life yesterday after he had been abandoned in a trash burner behind a housing project. The cries were heard by an attendant who was getting ready to burn the refuse. The hospital placed the infant only a little more than three hours old when L. was found, in an incubator merely as a precautionary measure. He weighed 7 pounds and one ounce, and is blue-eyed and brown-haired. Police still were searching for the baby's mother. Broadway (Continued from Page 1) tia ave. City limits are approximately 200 feet west of Placentia ave., so marginal landowners and the county body would have to be consulted. Right-of-way for the proposed extension would have to be donated by property owners concerned. Murdoch said, but pointed out that the extension would substantially enhance the value of properties facing the new street. 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Los Angeles Wins Traffic Safety Cup _CHICAGO (AP)_ Pennsylvania and Wichita; Kans., won the grand awards in the 1950 national traffic safety contest, the National Safety council announced today. Seven other states and 24 other cities won divisional honors in the council's contest in which all 48 states and 648 cities participated. States which won first place in their divisions: were Minnesota, midwest; Washington, western; Arkansas, southern; and Massachusetts, eastern. Los Angeles won first place among cities of more than 1,000,000 population. Other winners in their population group were San Francisco, Minneapolis, Denver, Syracuse, Wichita, San Jose, Calif., Dubuque, Ia., and Stillwater, Okla. Remember Speed Killis! An Invitation to the People of Anaheim... We have recently been appointed the Buick dealer in Anaheim. We are proud to be a part of this fine community. We want to know you and An Invitation to the People of Anaheim... 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