Show GEORGIA AIR CRASH KILLS 7 9 OTHERS HURT AS SKY GIANT l i HITS HILLSIDE l i i 1 J. J c I I World War Ace t Among T Those ose Badly Injured ATLANTA Feb 27 AP AP- AP Dropping away from a radio beam an Eastern Air Lines plane ripped itself to pieces in is ina isa a pine woods near here Thursday Thursday Thursday Thurs Thurs- day killing seven and injuring injuring injuring ing nine nine- others including famed Flier r Eddie Ricken Ricken- j backer backe The passenger 14 sleeper banged against a wooded knoll shortly after after after aft aft- er 1 a. a m. m est while attempting a beam landing after a run from New York but searchers didn't find the wreckage until shortly after dawn when an an injured passenger r made his way to a phone to to- call for help Five miles from the airport and loo yards from the nearest dirt road rescue work was painfully slow and it Was las as not until mIdmornIng midmorning midmorning mid- mid morning that seven bodies had been removed from the smashed cabin and nine injured taken to I I hospitals At one time Divisions Operations Manager L L. H. H Pabst told newsmen that the death list was 10 but a recheck of hospitals and undertakers ers showed only seven dead al although although al- al though two or three of the Injured were in critical condition The casualty list in the crash as established by hospital records records rec ree- and the passenger list DEAD Captain James Perry New York Copilot L L. L E. E Thomas New York Steward Clarence Moore New NewYork York Representative William D. D Byron D D. D Md Nd Williamsport M Md I A. A Leibowitz Peachtree street Atlanta B. B C. C M. M 17 Sage Sare Terrace Scarsdale N. N Y Y Another passenger unidentified fied fled but believed by E A L officials officials to be Juan Maria Marla San Salvador Salador Salvador Sal Sal- vador ador Central America The Injured available information information mation matlon on their injuries and the hospitals to which they were Mere taken President Eddie r t Continued on OD pare Page T Two Y Column Thru Three J Nine Persons Came Out o of This Tangled Wreckage Injured but Alive 0 r rv v Rp I e Z ZI 2 aka a t w e ew ek a w k H I i I k ii r h E EAv Av R x Z 1 hh t k a Associated Press CROWD SEARCHES RUINS OF AIR LINER WHICH CRASHED NEAR ATLANTA EARLY THURSDAY MORNING Plane overturned after alter crackup Note one of motors half taU buried beneath fuselage Georgia Plane Crash Kills Seven Injures Nine in Radio L Landing Continued from Page Pege One of Eastern Air Lines broken brokenleg brokenleg brokenleg leg back injuries injuries' forehead gash serious Piedmont hospital Roy B. B Sewell Habersham Road Atlanta left eye injured not serious Piedmont hospital P. P L. L Brady 07 Lewiston Ave bills N. N Y broken right leg not serious Piedmont hospital hos hos- pital George Fineburg Riverside Riverside Riverside River side Drive New York no details not serious Piedmont hospital J J. J S. S Rosenfeld Vincennes Vincennes Vincen- Vincen nes place New Orleans not serious serious serious se se- se- se rious Piedmont hospital H. H A. A Littledale Hardwell road Short Hills Bills N N. N J. J no details details details de de- de- de tails not serious Piedmont has has- hos hos- pital Mrs H II A. A Littledale e serious Crawford Long hospital C C. C M M. M Tappen Broadway N N. Y serious condition from shock and exposure Grady hos hos- pital M M. Hansell Waldo Ave Bronx N. N Y walked away from the plane talked to an an Associated ed Press reporter at the scene and was not reported at an any hos hos- pital Identification of the dead passengers passengers pas- pas engers was made difficult by the fact act that they were dressed in pajamas pajamas pa- pa jamas amas some of them having been asleep in the planes panes berths J. J S S. S Rosenfeld of New Orleans and M. M Hansell Hansen of the Bronx N. N Y both were able to walk away from rom the shattered plane the former former former for for- for for- mer giving the alarm that brought searchers to the isolated crash scene which is about five miles southeast of the airport and some 15 miles from Atlanta The first doctor to reach the scene scene climbed aboard the over half turned cabin to administer hypodermics hypodermics hypo hypo- to the injured including The one time ace war flier was conscious and calmly gave directions directions directions for removal of himself and arid some of the other passengers I lay all night on top of poor Moore and couldn't move he said Moore the steward apparently was killed outright After being removed he asked for or a second hypodermic and when I stretcher bearers started carrying him ilm down a ravine the stretcher started to buckle and he said Easy boys dont don't dump me me me- doesn't anyone know how to work this thing While the injured were placed on stretchers for the laborious trek to the waiting ambulances the dead were laid in a row beside the torn remains of the Douglas monoplane The ambulances bearing the I II I wounded howled through early morning mist to Atlanta hospitals their speed increased by police cars that hat served as escorts and blocked side roads along the winding J Jones Jones- ones ones- boro Atlanta boro-Atlanta Atlanta highway Air line officials were reluctant to discuss any theories on the ned accident accident acci acci- dent pending fuller Inquiry The retractable landing gear stood away from the fuselage but it could not be told whether this had been seen lowered for a forced landing or whether it was was torn loose by the impact Mrs Littledale was trapped Inthe in inthe inthe the wreckage pinned down by a fallen tree tree- but when rescuers approached approached approached ap ap- ap- ap she told them Im all right see what you can cando cando cando do to help the others Byron was elect elected a to the house houseIn In 1938 and reelected last fall over Republican Walter Johnson the Big Train of baseball pitching fame He was en route to join his wife In New Orleans where she had attended attended attended at at- tended the mard gras gran celebration and they planned to go on together to Mexico for a vacation trip tip and to spend some time with Josephus Daniels United States ambassador to Mexico He was the father of five lve boys When Mrs Byron received word of the accident she left teft New Orleans Or- Or leans at once for Atlanta Mrs also started at once for Atlanta from Charlotte N N. NC C C. where she had been visiting was en route to Birmingham Ala where he was to have addressed a luncheon of the Aero club today in preliminary celebration of an extension of Eastern Eastern Eastern East East- ern Air Line service to the Ala- Ala barn city Despite the early hour and the thinness of population in the area of the crash scores of curious gathered gathered gathered gath gath- ered within minutes after the wreckage was located The position of the wreck am and the crumpling of windows am and doors made it difficult for men working In mud and a light rain to get into the cabin Automobile jacks were used to lift some of o the debris from the injured am ama and anda anda a truck finally was used to pull the hull around so liO it could be entered On On Vacation Vacation Trl Trip O f Littledale and his wife Wite who is editor of Parents' Parents Magazine were en route to Mexico on a vacation trip Air line officials said the plane came in at feet over Stone mountain some 20 miles east of Atlanta dropped down dawn to 1800 over the airport and reported it was wason wason wason on the beam Since the ceiling was only feet because of low clouds and rain it was decided to bring the sleeper in on a radio triangle and it was not heard from again by the field after swinging away on these invisible guidelines used for landings when weather cuts visibility When the plane failed tailed to return to the airport E EAL A L officials quickly organized searching parties and sent them to Jonesboro while planes were made ready to take taketo to the air at daylight |