Show tJ PLANES l C CRASH IN J r S. S Six IX Aviators A e Die De Ie II HY f f xv In Flaming Ships q Over Island Post Disastrous Explosion of Ga Gasoline Supply i 1 r 1 I Tanks Averted by Ground Cre Crew r Bo Board r-d r Inquiry Is Ordered j. j JL I t I By United Press 1 HON HONOLULU uLU T H H. Jan 25 An 25 An army boar army board of inquiry inquiry i was summoned today by Lieutenant nant Colonel Asa ican Du Luke field commanding officer to 0 investigate a midair c coir l l- l r which sent six men to their deaths in the blazing wreckage of two army bombers last night The board will examine the two survivors who wh parachuted para para- to safety as soon as the men are able to testify The collision occurred a as aJ darkness dark dark- ness nes was vas falling last night The big five place airships apparently tangled tails taU Wien their pilots mis mI ju judged e distances li exp exploded in midair mid mid- air airan nd plunged in flames 1000 teet to the ground I Explosion Averted Y Directly over the two gal Ion naval gasoline storage tanks when they crashed th the pl pline rl s missed the t were consumed by fire while army army fire tire patrolmen fought desperately to prevent nt the tho flames from touching off oft an ex ex explosion which officials said might have laid the entire army and navy base in ruins ruin One thousand pez persons ons awaiting the referees referee's whistle in a basketball basket ball pavilion near by heard the tho ships shipS' collide and rushed out to watch helplessly while one of the three fliers who cleared the falling wreckage wreckage wreckage wreck- wreck age in his his his' parachute dropped to an edge of a tank hung suspended for for- fora a moment then dropped to death in the Inferno of his wrecked ship Two vo occupants of the piano plane pa parachuted parachuted para para- to safety but were injured InJure in landing List of Dead The dead Lieutenant W. W G G. Beard San Francisco survived by a wife and and- baby daughter In Honolulu Staff Staf Sergeant ergeant B. B F. F Jablo Jablonsky k survived by a wife and daughter daught r. r In Honolulu 1 Private B B. E. E T Taylor I. I Private Truman J. J Gardner s Private J John Hartman Private Parkhurst t first fIrt name un un- listed The Injured Lieutenant Charles Fischer FIcher of gf March field broken leg t Sergeant Thomas Lanagan lacerations lacera lacera- and bruises Prepare to Land Tho The airships preparing preparing to land after an evenings evening's routine maneuvers maneuvers' maneuvers maneu- maneu maneu maneu- vets vers vers' vers with U. U S. S Army Array squadron No 23 collided over ovex Luko field army air and navy air station on F Ford rd Island and important unit 1 in Pearl harbor defenses Three men took to parachutes parachute after tho crash As horrified spectators looked on Private Taylor crew chief on one of ot the planes drifted downward struck the roof root of the storage tank and rolled oft off to his death in the flames flame of ot his wrecked ship b below low Lieutenant Fischer and Sergeant Lanagan escaped the flames Fischer r c was saved when his parachute which failed to open fouled orio OnD one of the tanks Lanagan landed in the water Officials widely acclaimed the theL Continues Continued oi on P P. P Page S Two o Column ElihU ight I BOMBER CRASI CRAS FATAL TO Si S' S Continued from P Pr n Oar judgment of ot Captain Frank I Larmy L i army fira fire marshal who averted explosion which might have d c the entire air base and d cIa clai hundreds of lives live j j Futile Attempt h Realizing that It was utile futile ta b tempt to save the planes plants Cs Cj ci Cook directed all available at the base of the thi fuel Sue tanks tank tanks I them from the Intense of or the burning planes Planes Involved were wee and No Although they J peeled to achieve little th the th swiftness with which the tb a aa dent occurred officers indicated I court would report Testimony of the two IU survivors rode in different planes was wai wa to provide the sole cIu t the cause caust The ships commanded by Plc and Beard were keystone born bon recently reconditioned They hey w w the two rear ships in a eight which had taken off at It 1 p. p m. m and were preparing to after about two hours' hours flying |