Show PLANES PLANE'S RADIO WAS OUT T LOG I OF SHIP SAYS SAY Toll of Crash Raised Raise to 5 as Injured Woman Dies th Dr United Press MACON Mo May 7 The i-The The log Jog o c of the demolished Sky Chief luxury night airliner of ot Transcontinental Western Air Inc revealed toda today that tha its radio equipment functioned improperly im in properly almost from the time it lelLos lef lel elt Los Angeles until it crashed cr hed In a pa pas lure ture ure near here Five persons Including Senator Bronson Cutting Cuttin of New Mexico pe perished per in the accident The Thc fifth death deaU that hat of Mrs William Kaplan of 01 Los LOJ Angeles wife of a Hollywood Film Fun company official occurred early to to- lay day Lo Log Introduced The log of ot the airliner was va Introduced in tc testimony at today's session ses sion ion of the inquest A witness withes Evertt Ever Ever- ett tt a grocer at Barnesville near the scene of the crash said he hi talked with one of f the passengers 2 C. E. E Drew of Hollywood who told toh him firm t radios radios- cant can These damned you radios you ou depend on them The log related trouble with ith ith the thi radio adio throughout hout the trip which started Sunday niJ night t at Los Los' Angeles S Sand md nd ended in a fog log at nt a. a m. m yes yes- erday on the C. C 0 O. O Bledsoe Biedsoe farm sear near Atlanta Mo Under the heading Los Las Angeles Angela to 0 Albuquerque Leg was this entry Radio will not work on night frequency Under Albuquerque to ItO Kansas Kansa City ity Leg were these entries Radio transmitter out Two way Two wa receiver very weak Starter button buttor sticks ticks in Ri Right ht engine requires two inches more more manifold pressure The log also revealed hat that trouble had iad been experienced with the radio radi II on in the ships ship's trip to the Pacific coast Under WInslow to Los Angeles Leg Legit Legs Leg's I w was s this notation Radio off aU O. O R. R Haueter T. T W. W A. A dispatcher Jt at Lt Kansas Cit City testified that although the he transmitter was out between Albuquerque Al AI and Kansas City the ship shii was vas receiving radio dispatches That Thai was vas checked by requesting the pilot lo to 0 flash his lights over Amarillo anc and Wichita The plane did this he said Bland Gentner Centner who was the first firs person erson at the crash said he heard the he crash but did not investigate Later ater he heard William Kaplan one af of f the less seriously injured passengers gers en call caU for help from the barnyard I talked to tD Pilot Harvey Haney ho Bolton Bol Bol- ton Centner said lie He told me mc he had bail run ruo out of ot gas and md that th thwing the ulo wing cau caught ht on something in landIng land land- Ing and that the plane turned over The fog log was awful Bolton Boiton told me ne Wi gans who followed Gentner Centner to tc tche the he stand said Id that Drew told him U We passed something and then thea theae we e hit That's all I remember 1 Get People Out Out For Gods God's sake Bolton Bollon told me get et some doors and get these people out ut of 01 here They're hurt badly When left the stand the tearing hearing was adjourned to the scene o f the wreck near Barn Barnesville Charles Fower a member of the man bc-man coroners coroner's jury and an m old old- time lime me pilot who ho once looped the loop bog round around the Eades bridge in St SL Louis asked numerous questions of ot the wit wit- cries Coroner W. W H. H Gooch said he had hadeen been een advised that the department ol ot commerce inquiry would start late today day at the scene scene- of the crash The inquest this morning technically was vas vasto into to the death of at Senator Cutting His is body bedy was taken laken to the railroad I station tation at ot noon to be sent to Wash ington Earlier testimony indicated a blocked locked fuel uel line from an nn emergency gas as tank might have caused the crash T. T W. W A. A officials of Ii cia Is reasoning from th the the act fact that the planes plane's retractable landing land ing g wh wheels els still were folded in the thi wings rings and 30 gallons of gasoline re rc in the emergency tank decided Pilot Bolton Bollon was attempting a belly landing when the crash oc cc |