1936-08-07 [P A-4]

hearing Include Dennis Mulligan, so- Field radio operators called Zier at licitor for the Commerce Department; 10:02 p.m., but received no answer. Crash Victim MaJ. R. W. Schroder, chief of the Air The pilot’s watch, smashed in the SMALLWOOD HAS Park Provides Peaches PLANE WRECKAGE Commerce Inspection Service; Charles crash was stopped at exactly that I. Stanton, chief engineer of the air time. navigation division, and B. M. Jacobs Two farmers reported seeing tha Woodley Road Residents Watch Fruit and E. P. Kerr of the Air Commerce plane, and one said he heard it crash. APPENDIX OUT UNDERGOES TESTS Bureau. The alarmed fanners notified the HIS men were Ripening Across the Street. Taming of Plane Mystery. airport and all available Why Pilot" Zier turned and started immediately ordered Into a search. It was more than three hours before the .>-■“'“H back to the airport, within a few min- U. S. Runner Under- J. I Rites for Aviator Wifi Mark Twofold Investigation In- scattered, mass of Olympic utes after taking off for Chicago, was tangled wreckage was found. Close of Famous Ro- on the question to which they sought an goes Successful Emer- cludes Inquest Eight answer. While weather conditions were James studied closely by inspectors, it was mance of Air. Dead Near St. Louis. Benedict, pilot who flew the gency Operation. plane into St. Louis from New pointed out that although a heavy mist over the the the Associated Press. £y the Associated Press. Ry ut Associated Press. Orleans, told investigators the ship hung field, pilot was In probably could see the ground, as the BERLIN, August 7.—Harold Small- Phoebe Omlie, technical assistant ST. LOUIS, August 7.—A two-fold perfect mechanical order when the National he landed. two persons on the ground said they Wood, quarter-miler from Ventura, to Advisory Committee investigation was pressed today in an The battered instrument saw the plane clearly. Calif., today underwent a successful on Aeronautics, flew from Washington attempt to unravel mysteries sealed in board and retraced were Ground markings indicated the left for removal of to Memphis, Tenn., late yesterday to near landing gear examined emergency operation the crash in a fog-filled valley struck as a possible source of but of- wing first and the plane turned his appendix. bury her husband-flyer, Capt. Vernon here Wednesday night of a Chicago clues, ficials declined to discuss end over end. The ship did not catch Stricken this morning for the sec- Omlie, whose death In the crash of a & Southern's airliner, The City of whether the United afforded much to a solu- fire. ond time since he left transport plane near St. Louis Wed- Memphis, in which eight persons lost they hope American tion of the fourth States with the rest of the nesday night ended one of the fa- their lives. major aircraft was taken in the United States and Olympic team. Smallwood mous romances of the air. Company officials and Air Com- tragedy End near the Mexico this year. BUS VICTIMS IN DANGER to the West Hospital, Capt. Omlie had telephoned his wife merce Department inspectors headed D. M. the Commerce Bu- Olympic village. just a few hours before she received by Eugene L. Vidal, director of the Rainey, An examination revealed the reau’s radio-beam Three Still in Critical possi- news of the crack-up that took her bureau in Washington, were to make expert, dispelled Condition of a bursted appendix and an others. any possibility that the directional bility husband's life and seven another survey of the wreckage strewn After Fatal Wreck. was radio beam was “off course" when he emergency operation performed •‘Darling,” he had said, “I'll be up In a plowed field 3 miles northwest of chief stated he found the by Dr. Erich Neupert, surgeon the first of the week and then we're BETTY SNOWDEN STANLEY. the Lambert-St. Louis Municipal Air- Chicago-St. Louis HUNTINGDON, Pa., August 7 UP). Of the Dr. Herbert Lawson, beam In order. of —Three of the hospital. going to celebrate our 16 years of —Underwood Photo. port, and confer with persons who last perfect Accuracy persons recovering of the American Olympic the beam also was established the from received in a physician married life.” saw the ill-fated 10-passenger plane by injuries Greyhound team, was in attendance. fact that two other airliners, one a bus wreck in which two were killed Fishing Trip Planned. on the ground and in the air. Both doctors agreed that Small- T. W. A. transport and the other an 12 miles west of Huntingdon, were re- wood had stood the operaton well and They had planned a fishing trip Stanley Inquest Set for Today. American Airlines ship, came to the ported still in critical condition today. coast. Mrs. that his condition was satisfactory. off the New England Coroner Luke B. Tlernon of St. airport “on Instruments” between 9:57 They are Mr. and Mrs. John Kelly ends of It was a heart-breaking setback for Omlie was cleaning up tag (Continued Prom First ) Louis County was to hold an inquest p.m. and 10:30 p.m. of Buffalo and Mrs. Martha Gray of Ad- Page the University of Southern California work at her desk In the National today into the deaths of Pilot Carl The City of Memphis, a $50,000 Washington, Pa. on Aeronautics, athlete. He had qualified for the visory Committee bedside when she died. With other Zier, and his co-pilot, Russel C. Moss- all-metal Lockheed-Electra monoplane, The bus skidded and crashed on a when aemi-finals of the 400-meter run after where she is technical assistant, members of the family, he had been man, and the six passengers. They took off at 9:56 p.m. on the last leg of mountain side early yesterday while Her first running two preliminary heats yes- the news came. question in constant attendance since early were Vernon C. Omlie, widely-known its regular New Orleans-Chicago run. en route from Pittsburgh to New York. terday. was whether her husband had been airman and husband of Mrs. Phoebe today. tutt /////// ////f/////////////f////// relieved Smallwood's withdrawal left Jimmy at the controls. She seemed Stafford suffered only minor cuts. Omlie, former racing pilot and now a Archie Cali- had been a Lu Valle and Williams, when told he passenger. Mr. Stanley was appointed an As- Bureau of Air Commerce official. to on in the first met on his re- fornia Negroes, carry Ever since they sistant Attorney General soon after W. S. Bartlett, Chicago, associated “The 400 and they responded by finishing turn from the World War. Fly- inauguration of President Roosevelt, with the Great Lakes Coal & Coke Co. familiar cne-two in the event. ing Omlies” had been figures and served until July, 1935, when he B. R. McDavitt, Chicago, a commer- made. Smallwood first was stricken on wherever air history was being resigned. He has been practicing law- cial artist. _ »___A*-,, rtmlia team sU oubv\.«jtuH — July 15, the day the American X Alice UUivO in this city. C. B. Wright, Hinsdale, 111., Western left New York for Berlin. He was flew the annual Cross Country Derby Miss Stanley had been extremely representative of the Lake Tankers Dr. Lawson when she treated on shipboard by to win first place. Always, popular in the younger group of Bal- Corp. of New York. and apparently had fully recovered. landed, the captain managed to strug- timore society. News of the serious- George Grieshader, Oak Park, 111., crowd around gle through the cheering ness of her injuries resulted in many manager of a dental supply firm. her to whisper, “good work." anxious inquiries at the hospital. Arthur R. Holt, Newton Center, They were Introduced at a Memphis She was a Bryn Mawr graduate. Mass., New England Trust Co. officer, Mrs. Omlie was an enthusi- Olympics airport. -•- Boston. jumps Looks like a Georgia orchard, doesn’t it Luscious peaches, astic youngster doing parachute All of the victims, except one. had to earn money for flying lessons. been (Continued From First Page/) ripening to a mellow tinge beneath the Southern sun WOMAN IS INJURED thrown from their seats. Appar- It,” the grinned, freckled-faced “farmer’s daughter” smiling at the old planta- “Forget captain ently all were killed instantly. "I’ll teach you." Other officials here to conduct a finished eighth and fourteenth, re- tion’s bumper crop, etc. As a matter of fact, the picture was Suffers Fracture of Hip When in a small on All-Around Avlatrlx. spectively. snapped park plot Woodley road at Twenty-ninth street. The is Alice Youth Runs Into Her. Meanwhile, Lu Valle won his penul- young lady Bartley, daughter of Maj. W. L. He not only taught her to fly but to 2841 timate 400-meter trial in 47.1 seconds, Bartley, Twenty-ninth street. Star Staff Photo. repair her own plane. Mrs. Lula Howard, 56, of 1326 Fair- As became more while Williams was one-tenth of a flying popular they mont street, suffered fractures of the second slower. of the 2800 dropped stunting and started to spread block had never seen such a bumper crop left and left wrist when a of air travel. they hip yesterday Harold Smallwood, the third sched- of Woodley road looked for- before, although the trees have been gospel Always, safe a colored youth? employed as a uled American starter, who qualified ward today to having peaches there as long as they can remember. preached flying. When the 1927 flood inundated In yesterday's preliminaries, was in a Residentsfor dessert for some time— Previous yields have been too small "jumper” on a newspaper delivery an for towns along the Mississippi, the flying f*^i,lheSfat \ hospital undergoing operation peaches grown right in their front to warrant counting on the fruit for truck, ran into her, knocking her to Omlies were drafted to carry the mail 1 appendicitis.

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