Show T Inventor Actress Pie Die in Plane Crash SHIP Ek 8 BY i LiGHTNiNG ONLY NU NUI I 81 A ns Film Player Was Learning to Fly Under Tuition of Scientist ON WAY TO COAST Couple Warned Not to Go Because of Weather POTTSVILLE Pa July 12 AP APA APA A bolt of lightning today was believed to have caused the plunge of an airplane in which Morris M. M inventor of the earth inductor compass and Mrs Bernice Gamble Andrews movie actress met death This theory was advanced by Charles Gilbert on whose farm the plane crashed yesterday esterday from Jom a height ot of 1000 feet feel He was the only witness to the accident The pla plane e w was S a mass of wreck wreckage ge when n Gilbert reached the scene and its two occupants were dead The plane had taken oft off from Curtiss Field N. N Y 7 35 years old was wasa a ap experienced avIator and vice ot of the Pioneer Instrument ment company of Brooklyn N. N Y His earth inductor compass was used by Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind- Lind bergh In his flight to Paris Puis and sInce then by other long distance fliers lIers PLAYED EXTRA PARTS Miss Andrews was known as Patricia Perr Perry In moving pictures plc- plc lures tures in which she played extra eitra parts and comedies She was 23 years rears old and w was s divorced two ears ago from Fred Andrews She is Es survived b by a son Fred Andrews An- An drews Jr She had been learning to fly for forthe forthe the last two tivo weeks under Titter Titter- Ington's Instruction but the latter was In the pilots pilot's seat yesterday when the crash occurred jil pocket were found two insurance policies for tor each in which Mrs Andrews had iad been named as the beneficiary A A. bank book also was found for fora a L joint account of and SIrs Irs Andrews Mrs Andrews was a daughter of SIr fr and Mrs George A. A Gamble of Pat Pa He father tather said she and had been I on page 5 SHIP STRUCK BY LIGHTNING ONLY WITNESS STATES Continued from page 1 I planning to stop stop at Williamsport and Dallas Tex on a flight to California CHANGED MIND The bodies of the victims were being held in the morgue at Sn Snyders ders dels near here pending the arrival ar- ar rival of relatives The father ot of the Brooklyn inventor was making making mak- mak ing arrangements to have ha his sons son's body shIpped to Dallas their former home At Curtiss Field pilots said they had warned against a takeoff due to unfavorable weather wea- wea veather ther conditions and he at first had decided to postpone the flight After r telephoning Harrisburg Pa and several other points along his route and learning that the weather weather wea- wea ther was fairly good he changed his mind and took off was one of three partners who formed the PIoneer Instrument company about ten years ears ago his associates being Charles H. H Colvin and Brice Goldsborough Goldsborough Golds- Golds borough who was lost with Mrs J Frances ances W. W Grayson in the transatlantic transatlantic trans trans- atlantic plane Dawn D wn |