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Show Filers Killed Trying Giant Biplane Newport News, Va. Lieutenant Commander Com-mander Noel Davis and Lieutenant Stanton Wooster, naval aviators, were killed when the giant biplane, In which they had hoped to cross the Atlantic, flopped over in making a landing in a marsh near here. Both airmen were trapped In the cockpit, which was submerged sub-merged in mud and water. Officers from Langley field, who reached the machine a few minutes after it had turned over, said they found that Davis had been crushed about the face and that Wooster's neck had been broken. A naval court of inquiry convened con-vened in executive session in an at-I at-I tempt to ascertain the cause of the accident, a step that is always taken under the circumstances. |