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No. 147
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‘San Juan, Punto Rico, Saturday, April 23, 1960
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Hope ls Fading For 3
rom Capsized TMT Three Rescued From Ill-Fated Ship‘s Raft By HORST BUCHHOLZ Hope of finding three missing crewmen from the illfated TMT Lloyd faded late last night as Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Navy aircraft abandoned their search
for the men off Culebra island for the night.
Three survivors from the+— capsized 33-ton trailer vessel, including its skipper An-
drés
Villanueva,
Powell Tax ~ Trial Ends In Jury Deadlock
expressed
fear that their mates had found a watery grave when their ship turned over a few hours after midnight yesterday. However, Coast Guard cutter 83400, out of San Juan, late last night stood by the desolate TMT keel
NEW
Lloyd, still afloat with its up. And the Coast Guard
was preparing to resume search at dawn today. Missing were tagnes, 28, of
ry
THE
SURVIVORS—Half
of
their three missing mates. -Carrasquillo, crewman, and
“a
crew
of
the
capsized
TMT
Lloyd
ponder
the
fate
of
They are, from left, Angel Luis Pérez, engineer; Severo captain Andrés Villanueva. (STAR photo by José Garcia)
Capsized TMT’s Fate In Doubt By HAROLD
J: LIDIN
bor
An unknown destiny awaits the TMT Lloyd, the motor-vessel that capsized before dawn yesterday due to undetermined causes and sent three crewmen fate. .
“Enroute ship last
to an unknown
toward the night from
foundered San Juan
plowed the seven-knot tugboat Eureka, property of the Porto” Rico
or
in
its
approaches
and
be-
come
a navigational hazard. Musing Over Tragedy Aboard the tugboat, and ail along San Juan’s waterfront fast night, harbor men mused over the tragedy of the Lloyd. No one, not even the ship’s 22year-old skipper; Andres Villanueva, could offer a convincing explanation
of
why
the
97-ton
Lighterage Co. A spokesman for motor vessel flipped to port, and the firm said he ‘“‘couldn’t predict” spilled its crew and cargo into what would be done with the the fairly calm sea. Lloyd but mentioned the -posibility it might be beached on near-by
Culebra.
Another
the Coast
Guard
guess
was
might
that
sink it by
gunfire.
But the Lloyd will not be towed ¢o either San Juan or Charlotte Amalie for fear that the 65-foot vessel
might
sink
inside
the
har-
The
version
Villanueva
to
given
by
reporters,
Captainf
from
his
hospital bei at the Public Health Clinic, was! that the Lloyd sprang a bad leak, the ship listed, a con-
tainer van on deck broke its lashings, and its free-wheeling weight
tilted the ship into the sea. “The pumps worked but couldn’t
Highway Deaths Now 115 One person was killed and | 13 others injured in two auto accidents teported yesterday. The
| 1
death
raised
the
highway
fatality toll for the year to 115. In Vega Baja, José Serrano Pantojas, 65, was killed on Rd. »
Km.
34,
crossing
the
street
, hear his home. He was struck by a car driven by Jaime L. Velez Canaval, who
was with
charged in involuntary
district court homicide and
released in $1,000 bail. In San’ Sebastian, 11
workers, riding en by Ramon
49,were ly—when
in a truck drivRodriguez Diaz,
injured—none_ the
truck
with a station wagon
Pedro Acevedo
sugar
seriouscollided
driven by
Molina, 46.
handle nueva
the rush recalled.
the ship had Early
of water,’’ Villa‘‘In 15 minutes
capsized.” Version
Different
But earlier in the day, shortly after 11 a.m. yesterday, skipper Villanueva
allegedly
gave-.a
dif-
ferent version of the disaster. In that earlier account, the captain reportedly said that the ship was
smashed
broadside
by a wave
which whirled up from treacherous cross-seas. Then the cargo
(See
TMT
FATE,
Page
24)
lke, De Gaulle Talks, Review World Issues WASHINGTON
(AP)
—
Pre-
sident Eisenhower East-West problems
reviewed with Char-
les de ‘Gaulle, after French President a
giving the ceremonial
reception
yesterday
and
ed afterward it was good conversation.”
report-
a
A spokesman for the French soldier-statesman
“very tall said
he also was pleased with the initial, 70-minute talk in their (See DE GAULLE, Page 24)
Piedras;
engineer
more
ed
hearty
of
Villanueva
shock
but
both
he
meal,
most
this
a the
others were pronounced in condition and sent home.
good
for that Caribair-plane 306
we from
flashed word back at International Air-
port, who in turn alerted the Coast Guard. By that time the drifting on the raft
A
Coast
trio had been for six hours.
Guard
amphibious
plane,
already
in
routine
mission,
sped
to
of
the
and,
since
none
the’ air the
on
a
scene,
men
ap-
peared in immediate danger, decided not to go down on the water but to alert a Marine helicopter. The Vieques-based copter began
the rescue operation about 10 a.m. lifting the men to the craft with hoist lines, one by one. An hour and a half later they were in
safety at Isla Grande. Captain Villanueva, acting (See CAPSIZED, Page 24)
Judge Frede-
hours. of a verdict, strength as
Congressman
and
from
to be unre-election under in-
is regarded of
reelection
as
al-
again
5l-year-old
Negro
was
charged with falsifying the 1951 income tax return of his wife, Pianist Hazel Scott. She was not involved
in
the
case.
Conviction on the charge could meant
a
prison
sentence
have seriously affected Powell's career: There was no immediate indi-
cation whether Powell.
San Juan to St. Thomas discovered the three on raft about 9:15, immediately to the FAA
ju-
verdict.
year.
have
ence,” Villanueva said. “It all happened so fast. And if it hadn’t might not be here.” Caribair’s. flight No.
ended
of up to five years, which might
‘Harrowing Experience’ “It was a harrowing experi-
been
24
certain
The
show-
and
a
absence political
dictment
and Ser-
after
reach
Harlem was expected diminished. He won two years ago while
10:45 a.m., flown
dispensary.
signs
than
Democratic
Pe-
crewman of Santa
The trio was plucked from a bobbing raft four miles east of their capsized ship by a Marine
vice
trial
a deadlocked
district
Angel
into Isla Grande Airport taken to the Public Health
Repre-
Powell's
rick Bryan dismissed the eight women and four rien on the jury after they had been out for In the Powell's
Luis
evasion to
Captain VillaMango St., Rio
rez, 23, of Coamo, and Severo Carrasquillo, 43, Maria, Vieques.
helicopter about
unable
—
Clayton
with
Federal
Mate Santos MonPatillas, and two
were of 829
tax
yesterday
the
(AP)
Adam
income
crewmen, Roberto Cruz, 38, of Luquillo, and Felix Serrano, 32, of San Juan. Rescued nueva, 22,
YORK
sentative
: as
from of
the when
government it
will
re-try
Venezuelan
|
Revolt Leader ls Captured | CARACAS, Venezuela Peasaats armed with yesterday captured Castro Leon, leader day’s pocket revolt
(AP) — machetes Gen. Jesus of Wednesin western
Venezuela, the government announced. Castro Leon was dressed as a peasant. He was cornered at Cedralito, a village in Tachira (See VENEZUELAN, Page 24)