BOMB FOUND ON AIRLINER

Press, Volume XCIII, Issue 27858, 5 January 1956, Page 9

BOMB FOUND ON AIRLINER

Investigation By F.B.L (Rec. 11.30 p.m.) PITTSBURGH. January 4. An Army bomb disposal expert said today that a small metal object found aboard a Trans-World Airline plane carrying 32 persons at Columbus, Ohio, was “some sort of incendiary device” and that it was “loaded.” The expert. Captain G. A. Sather, of the 14th Bomb Disposal Detachment, said the object was similar to a shotgun shell in that it had to be set off. He said that no firing device was found in the instrument.

The device was discovered yesterday afternoon in an aisle of the plane by the pilot. Captain Lyle Ryan. He kept it with him until he reached Wheeling. West Virginia, when he gave it to an airport official. It was handed to police who called in the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Captain Sather said he had requested Trans-World Airline officials in Chicago to check the plane there for any further clues. The plane made a round trip from Chicago by way of Dayton and Columbus. Ohio, • and Wheeling, to Washington. Captain Sather said he had not been able to determine where the object was made nor the chemical content of the powder found in it He said his preliminary tests showed the powder “burned with a high flame.”

QUEEN SALOTE IN SYDNEY

(Rec. 11 p.m.) SYDNEY, Jan. 4. Queen Salote of Tonga, kissed the Rev. Roger Page on the cheek when she arrived at Kingsford-Smith Airport today from Auckland. Mr Page, a brother of Sir Earle Page, was Royal chaplain in Tonga for 20 years. He was a member of the official welcoming party to greet Queen Salote when she arrived for a month’s unofficial visit in Sydney.

About 60 persons waved a greeting to Queen Salote when she walked down the gangway. An official welcome was extended on behalf of the Gov-ernor-General by Group Captain Colquhoun.

Queen Salote was met at the airport by the president-general of the Methodist Church of Aifstralia, the Rev. R. B. Lew, and the general secretary of the department of overseas missions, the Rev. C. F. Gribble.

TOUR BY LEWIS HOAD

(Rec. 10 p.m.) SYDNEY. Jan. 4. The Australian Davis Cup player, Lewis Hoad, said tonight that he would play in tennis tournaments in Cairo, Rome, and Paris before Wimbledon—but he would miss the United States national titles.

Hoad, who will make a private tour with his wife, Jennifer, said he could not afford to play in America. "They do not give visiting players too much help financially in America.” he said. He plans to leave Australia at the end of February and to return after Wimbledon.

Pay Rise for British Actors.— Film actors in Britain, under a new arrangement approved by their union, the British Actors’ Equity Association, will receive a minimum of £3O a week or £7 a day. This represents a respective increase of £lO and £1 10s. —London. Jan. 3.