The Abilene Reporter-News (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 184, Ed. 2 Monday, December 24, 1951 Page: 9 of 48
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Oklahoma A&MPrexy, 8 Other
Americans Killed in Iran Crash
TEHRAN, Iran, Dee 24. —Dr.
Henry G. Bennett, U. 8. Point Four
Program director, and seven other
Americans were killed Saturday
night when their plane crashed in
a heavy snowstorm north of this
capital. All 21 aboard perished in
the disaster, worst in Iran’s
history.
The crash came when the four-
engined plane owned by Egypt’s
Mur Airlines, struck the base of %
10,000-foot granite range north of
Tehran.
Among the victims was Ben-
nett's wife, who had accompanied
him to Tehran for an offiial five-
day visit to connection with the
Point Four Program of technical
aid to underdeveloped countries.
The Iranian government sent a
message of condolence to the Unit-
ed States government. P
In Washington, President .Tru-
man paid tribute to Bennett as “a
great teacher of the simple ideas
of cooperation and brotherhood."
Mr Truman spoke of another of
the victims, Benjamin H Hardy,
chief public affairs officer of the
program, aa one of the creators of
the idea of helping * -
expressed grief over the tragedy., said he heard a piano flying
The American Embassy here, I through the mist, but left the air-
which had prepared elaborate port when told the ship had turned
plans to entertain the Christmas | back and landed safely at Bagh-
visitors, was plunged to gloom. dad.
Other Americans aboard the A check yetserday showed the
plane were James T. Mitchell, au-plane had not come to Baghdad,
in dio-visual specialist: A C. Crilley. Maj. John Wayne Freese, U. S. as-
air Bennett’s special assistant; Louis sistant air attache, waa dispatched
I Henrik Jordal, University of Mich- in an American C-4T transport
| igan botanist believed to have been plane to search the countryside.
on a mission for the United Na- A short time later he spotted the
lions Food and Agricultural Organ- wreckage at the foot of the Alban
ization (FAO); Jesse Lee Smith, Mountains.
Columbus, Ga., representing the Henderson and a party drove to
Centennial Cotton Gin Company, the scene and identified Bennett’s
and Mrs Emijean Shneidesgat. body.
(Address unknown).
The other victims were six Ira-
Maj. John Wayne Freese, U. S. as-
A short time later he spotted the
areas.
mans, and five Egyptian crewmen,
one German and one Indonesian.
The plane crashed after the pilot
—tryint to pierce the overcast-
had been ordered to go to Basra,
Iraq, or return to Baghdad, Iraq,
where the plane had taken off for
Tehran.
Search parties later found the
charred wreckage in a desolate ra-
vine The bodies of most of the
occupants were burned beyond rec-
ognition
underdeveloped LEFT AIRPORT
Bennett, 65, who was on leave
from Ms post as president of Okla-
homa A. and M. College at Still-
water. Okla, once served as tech-
nical adviser to Emperor Halle Se-
lassie of Ethiopia in the study of
problems of controlling the Nile
waters.
TOOK POST IN 1950
He became bead of the technical
assistance program in November.
1950.
EXPRESSES GRIEF
Secretary of State Acheson also
U. S Ambassador Loy Hender-
| son, ho was waitins at Tehran’s
Mehrabad Airport to greet Bennett,
F MA LITTLE o SONS Day Phone 2-2330
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2326 Butternut Abilene Specializing in Oil Field werb
He served as the first U. S. dele-
gate to the FAO in 1M5. On his
latest trip he was the U. S. dele-
gate to the FAO meeting in Rome.
The Bennetts are survived by
three daughters and two sons. Ben-
nett was born to Nevada County,
Ark.
Crilley was born in Waynesboro,
Pa. He joined the State Depart-
ment to 1045 and was chief of its
foreign reporting service from 1947
until he became Bennett’s assist-
ant.
Hardy was born at Barnesville,
Ga. He was with the War Depart-
ment in 1946-47 then joined the
State Department where be served
as special assistant of the Office
of Public Affairs.
Mitchell was born at Fort Smith,
Ark. His family now lives at Still-
water. He served for a while to the
State Department with the office
of the coordinator of Pan Ameri-
can Affairs.
2d Mystery Blast
Rocks Dallas County
DALLAS, Dec 24. * - The sec-
ond “mystery” explosion in two
weeks shook Dallas County early
Sunday, but searching sheriff’s of-
ficers were unable to find the blast
scene.
Police dispatchers and firemen
reported inquiring calls from
points in the county 20 miles apart.
The explosion rattled windows and
shank houses about 1:15 a. a.
A similar blast Dec. 1 was trac-
ed to a river bottom where some-
cue had blown apart a giant pecan
Ted Miles
tree with a heavy charge of ex- THE ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS
plosives. A Abilene, Texas, Monday Evening, ue- 24, 19510 27
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Abilenian, Former
Oil Editor, Passes
Bar Examination
AUSTIN. Dec. 24. — Thirty-seven
Uni veratty of Texas law students
and graduates passed the recent
State Bar examinations and re-
ceived licenses to practice law in
Texas.
They include:
ABILENE — James Brooks Pe-
den. Peden was formerly oil editor
of The Reporter-News.
BROWNWOOD - Gordon Grif-
fin. Jr., 2609 Vincent.
POST — Curtis A. Neal.
SAN ANGELO—Carl Runge, Jr.,
1306 South Monroe.
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EL PASO, Dec. 24. (n—Mrs. Sal-
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school librarian, died here yester-
day. She was 78 years old.
Funeral services were held here
today. Services were private.
Mrs. Smith was a member of a
pioneer West Texas family. She
was the widow of Dr Willis R.
Smith and sister of the late Dr. R.
B. Homan..
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