Show 11 5 tic runt Il beta Riff It CUTTING DIES ith ct chOOk t IN AIR CRASH Is It n Three Others Are Killed L Six Movie Officials Hurt I 1 I ATLANTA T NTA ST si JOSEPH MACON r 11 I II I f 4 I oj KANSAS CO COLUMBIA CITY JEFFERSON CITY CITY SI LOUISA Above is a a. map of northern MIssouri Missouri Mis MIs- lIs- lIs arrow pointing to Atlanta where plane crashed early Monday carrying Senator Bronson Cutting of New Mexico and three three others to their deaths Below Senator Senator Senator Sena Sena- tor Cutting W t C it 1 c f I I i i Sister Ship of Record-Holding Record Transport I Runs Out of Gas Wh While WItHe ile Trying Trying- to Rea Reach h Emergency Field and Plunges to Earth By Associated Press ATLANTA Mo May 6 Senator 6 Senator Bronson M. M Cutting of New Mexico and three other persons were carri carried d to their deaths in a fogbound V T A transport plane near here there early this morn morn- ing Nine six of them members of persons a motion picture production production production pro pro- unit eastbound to make a film at Annapolis were in injured in- in and taken to a Macon Mo hospital 15 miles from the scene of the crash The dead U. U S. S Senator Bronson M. M 1 Cutting Santa Fe FeN N. N M M. Pilot Harve Harvey Bolton Kansas Cit City Copilot K H H. Greeson Kansas Cit City v Miss 1 Jeanne Anne Hillias 20 Kansas City The injured Richard Wallace prominent Hollywood motion picture director director- suffering from severe chest injuries Paul Wing Hollywood father of the film actress Toby Wing critically injured his chest crushed C C. C Q Gt Drew Santa M Monica nica Cal chief chief oi 1 tri for lor Paramount Paramount Para Para- ara- ara mount studios critically injured his jaw and left leg fractured suffering from heavy loss of blood William Kaplan West Los Angeles Cal assistant producer of Df Paramount studios broken leg condition reported favorable Mrs Kaplan probably permanently injured with fractured back paralyzed from irom waist down CAMERAMAN IAN CUT BRUISED Henry Sharpe Los Angeles Paramount cameraman superficial superficial superficial super super- cuts and bruises Mrs Dora Metzger Los Angeles broken right leg and face and body cuts Baby Metzger old month daughter of Mrs Metzger broken left leg and cuts about the face and body Mrs D. D L L. L Kansas City wife of a TW A pilot slight injuries a Senator Cutting was hurrying to Washington from New Mexico to vote on the bonus bill His body was identified b by a la a billfold in his pocket All in the hospital were r reported ported seriously injured except Kaplan Kapla whose hurts were described ed as superficial CRASHED IN RUGGED AREA The accident occurred about six miles west of here in rugged country where emergency landing conditions had been rendered hazardous by recent rains Eastbound nonstop from Albuquerque to Kansas City th the ship arrived over the Kansas Cit City airport at a. a m m. 20 minutes minutes min mm- utes late at an altitude of feet D Dispatcher Kors advised Pilot Bolton there was only feet of ceiling here due to low-hanging low fog and smoke and ordered th the ship on to seek the department of commerce commerce emergency emergency emer- emer emer erner- gency landing field at Kirksville or Knoxville Mo About miles northeast of Kansas City just 15 miles es short of the field at Kirksville fuel gave out and an immediate immedi te landing was necessary MOTORS 1 DIE OUT This much was reconstructed from final radio reports a and d reports of Charles Bledsoe farmer who lives near the scene ceri p of the crash who said the motors of the big wing low-wing mo monoplane sputtered out just before it fell s. s The Transcontinental Vest Western ern Air offices in Kansas Cit City said this was the first accident reported anywhere t to on one of it these twin-motored twin Douglas ships The line itself had bad flown J. J them miles since May 1 1934 It was a sister ship of No uNo the transport th that t only last week set a new transcontinental speed record between Lbs o Continued d on Pate Pale Three r CUTTING KILLED I i IN PLANE CRASH t Continued from Pate rut One I and New York Bledsoe e said ald the crash cruh occurred i pout 30 3 a a. a m m. on a rolling pasture s a fourth rth mile from rom his farm larm home t is six miles mUC west and one and a hilt half miles south of Atlanta a I I heard the crash said aid Investigation A half haU t l' but ut made de no Mir i-Mir hour bout later Bland Gentner a neigh neigh- Sg boring farmer lanner came to my house houseP The wo- wo ith a woman p passenger en er r house to tom tort to t P mati n had bad gone m Urt rt the thc accident but he had no rely telephone We put In calls to Atlanta id rod Macon for lor ambulances Brine In Injured Seven even Injured were brought to m my One was brought in on a 1 aW anick ho house aye e. e and aed the others on stretchers t l trUck nick tr W in were unconscious or too badly 1 1 A AU All to tell leU what had happened Tie Ibe injured were taken to a ho hospital pital it t Macon acon Bledsoe e said ad the nc airplane was de- de troed There was no fire tire f Officials of the T W A said nid it was the first fatal crash on one of the ther thes r j ii ne s 's m revenue carry- carry air ju March larch 31 1931 when In since Knute Rockne Notre Dame co coach ch others killed near end and seven even were Bizar Bazar Kan in log foggy weather much the same yme as that carl early today over Missouri ISo 1 Miss Hillias was returning to Kantas Kana Kan- Kan a tas City from Long Beach Cal where when the she had visited relatives on onh J h her r vacation Her trip west was her j t first flight At the airport early earh today were and bro brother her They h her lu r mother sister il I heard hard the ship roar overhead then thenA A speed peed on OD seeking a landing place Walled Waited Anxiously The three waited waiLed anxiously at the airport until 4 o'clock and o'clock-and and then came word the ship was as down Mrs i Hillias left lelL by motor for Macon still uncertain then whether she would find her daughter a pretty blonde dead or alive while the rest of the f family grouped anxiously around the telephone at home Cliff McCarthy of Washington D. D C. C was at Ka Kansas City last night to meet Senator Cutting at the airi airport air air- i port and confer with him McCarthy rushed by motor car to toA A Macon when he learned of oC the ac accident acci i. i i dent and collapsed when he was told the senator was killed I The object of the conference and McCarthy identity were not learned i I Immediately teh 1 Gives First Aid Aid I At Macon Dr T. T P. P Grono of I J It Macon gave the injured emergency tr treatment at the Samaritan hospital 1 C 1 while Dr A. A L. L Cambre of oC Atlanta went to the scene of the accident and a administered first aid there Only 30 minutes before the doomed 1 c ship cruised overhead at Kansas Cit City municipal airport the first section of M light flight six ix arrived and dropped in safely fely after cruising for several minutes min utes by radio with the ground crew Within a few lew minutes the ceiling s-d s J here had fallen lallen from 1500 feet led to only feet Pilot Filot John Graves of ot the first sec see section t-j t j tion also was flying with a full lull load I of p passengers I When the second section was he heard rd overhead the ceiling had dropped another an an- another other feet leet and Dispatcher Earl t Korf deemed it unwise for lor a 1 landing to be attempted and so adv advised ed Pilot Pilo Bolton r Gave Gac Piano Plano Orders T r told him hed he'd better go on to j I Kirksville ille and I heard the usua usual ws J response 0 O K K from Bolton said Korf Kort 1 That was the last word from the a ship He Hc gave us no signal of distress distress dis dis- I dis-I 1 tress tren and did not indicate in any any 1 other way that there was any ny danger dan dan- dan I ger cr 1 i When Graves Craves brought the first r section in safely he hc had gallons gallons' of f fuel el left in his tanks The firm 1 j reported Bolton and Graves left Albuquerque with the same goon quan quan-I quan lity of gasoline aboard each ship Bolton did not mention low fuel tanks and it was vas taken for granted at the field ho he had enough to go goon on said Chief Dispatcher Bland Centner Gentner a farmer who was the first to reach the the scene found the dead and injured scattered scattered scat scat- over o the hillside He built a afire afire afire fire as it was cold and foggy Out of Gasoline Most frost of the injured were too badly badly bad bad- ly Injured to talk One of ot the passengers passengers passengers pas pas- however told him the tho airplane air air- plano plane had run out of ot gasoline Another Another An An- Another other asked what state it ft is A la large ge crowd gathered around the wreckage after alter the victims had been removed Gentner Centner went from the scene of ot the crash to the Bledsoe home and help was called Bledsoe accompanied accompanied Gentner Centner back to the crash scene where they tried to make the injured as comfortable as possible Bledsoe described the scene The plane had stopped near near the edge of ot our pasture not far from a dirt road Tho The cast bank of ot the road oad showed a mark where the ship had lad hit and there were marks on the west bank also Struck Tree I Then the plane tore on through the he fence into the pasture breaking break- break Ing ng down a small tree in its path noticed the top of ot ota a tree near icar the road also had been struck before the ship crashed Pieces of ot the engine engino and plane were thrown beside the road and andover andover andover over part of ot the pasture Most fost of ot the injured seemed too shocked and dazed to talk as we wc reached the scene The pilot kept saying he ran out of or gasoline More neighbors came up and helped get the injured to our home We Ve finally had seven in our living room Two doctors came Most of at the Injured insured could not remember renumber just what happened Their minds mind seemed to be blank Some Somo of ot them were suffering in In- tensely Tho The baby did not cry at atall atall atall all though They all aU were in our living ro room m about two hours before the ambulance ambulance lance came They were brave all of th them m We Ve did what we could I Trying to I Land and o ml Mrs Bledsoe said It appeared as I I though the pilot were trying to tomake tomake j make male an emergency landing in the pasture The ship tore tor itself to o pieces fn jn I she he said paid y X r r i OJ v 1 4 |