Another Plane Crash

PRESTWICK, Scotland, Oct. 21 (AP)

--Thirty-nine persons were dead tonight from the wreck of the Dutch airliner that crashed near here in an early morning fog today. The plane had forty aboard . . .

In 1927, Vincent Gaman, a restless Czechoslovakian fanner, set out for America, promising to send soon for his wife, Marija, and their three daughters. He settled in Oregon, went to work in the sawmills, and in six years had saved enough money to bring them over. But Marija was not ready to come yet. She wanted to build a brick house on the old farm (that way it would bring a better price). Two of the girls were grown up and ready to marry. She could not leave until--well, until they were established.

Vincent went on working and saving. Once Marija asked him to come back to Czechoslovakia. "I couldn't do that," he replied. "I love this country." When the war came, he left the sawmills for the shipyards. He prospered. By war's end, he had earned enough to buy a small apartment house on the fringe of downtown Portland. Once again, he begged Marija to come. It had been 21 years now.

Marija, still torn between her daughters and her husband, still hesitated. She missed one ship, then another. At last, she wrote that she was coming. Happy and impatient, Vincent sent her the money to fly. He scrubbed his apartment until it shone.

Among those killed in the crash was Hendrik Veenendaal, managing director of the Royal Dutch Air Lines, Prince Alfred Hohenlohe-Schillingsfuerst . . . and Marija Gaman.

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