Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-01 | Page 1 | Smoot Seeks New Dam Bill

I SMOOT SEEKS 4 i NEW AM BILL N. N Y MEMBER Of HOUSE CRUSHED BENEATH PLANE Thaddeus Sweet Meets Instant Instant Instant In In- stant Death in Forced Landing PILOT PILOT- IS UNINJURED Plane Strikes Rut in Field and Overturns CORLAND COPLAND N. N Y May 1 AP AP- AP Thaddeus Sweet of Phoenix N. N Y V. member of congress was instantly killed when an airplane in which he was flying from Washington to his home made mad a forced landing landin near Whitney Point this afternoon on Representative Sweet left Boiling field Washington at 1020 a. a m. m for Phoenix in an airplane piloted by Lieutenant Bushrod Hoppin Approaching Approaching Ap Ap- Whitney Point the plane ran into a rain min squall squaB making malting a landing necessary necessary- The aircraft came down in ire a field near the Broome County Agricultural society fairgrounds and as it rolled along the rough earth it struck a hummock hummock hummock hum hum- mock and overturned o Mr Ir Sweet was crushed to death The aviator was unhurt Representative Sweet succeeded the late Luther W. W Mott as the representative representative representative rep rep- in congress of the Thirty-second Thirty New York district In January 1924 He was born at Phoenix Oswego county November 16 1872 He was elected to the state as assembly assembly as- as i ir In 1909 In 1916 he was elected elected elect elect- ed speaker d of- of assembly the assembly a position position position tion he held until his retirement from the legislature In 1922