Show L J uI l r I 4 i a I Cb I I lI 4 d 4 L I 4 I I fi SEVEN PERISHED P IN WRECK OF THIS ARMY PLANE top fop airmen Col Raymond E E. ONeill O'Neill and Col George A. A ej Tt and five fhe other filers perished Tuesday night when this B 25 Airmen Killed 1 I Illinois Crash CHAMPAIGN May ay 21 UP Two UP-Two Two Two top army flying officers five other soldiers were killed Tuesday night when a B 25 25 It bed ed iI in hl a cornfield during a violent thunderstorm the army ed Wednesday The d dead d' d included Col CoT Raymond E. E ONeill O'Neill 52 a year 30 Ve raa n of both wars and a balloon expert and Col George A. A Whatley 45 who had served in the army since 1925 and headed headed headed head head- ed the mobile training unit at Chanute field near Champaign ONeill O'Neill who was wa a brigadier general in World War II 11 II commanded com com- Chanute field from 1940 toJ to o 1 1944 44 and later lae was yas executive ye officer He was was' born In jn Port ort Townsend Wa Wash h. h Whatley was wai a a native of ot Texas J Th Their ti- ti ship w was wa s bound for bound for Ch Cha Chanute nute flute field from Cheyenne Wyo at the time of the crackup Tu Tues Tu- Tuesday s- s day night The army rin did not ot m make Kep public b l the names of ot the other five victims pending notification of ot n next of kin The ship was last lut heard from at 1047 pm p.m. by radio contact as asIt ast It t pa passed ed Burlington I Iowa wa I crashed on a farm north of or Champaign Ill HI I. I The plane was en route I from Cheyenne Wyo to Chanute field in Illinois AP I I |