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ARMY FLIER DIES INCRASH OF BOMBINGPLANE NEAR JEROMElt;sPreparations To Fly AirMail Costs Lives Of TwoArmy Aviators In UtahOfficers Carrying Out War Department’s Order Crash In Blinding Snowstorm 60 Miles East of Salt Lake City; Military Board Goes to SceneSALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 16 lt;tf»)—The United Statesarmy’s first casualties in its preparations to carry out the war department’s air mail flying orders were recorded tonight when two pilots crashed in a blinding snowstorm 60 miles east of here in Summit county, Utah, SO miles south of the Utah-Wyoming line. They were en route from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne in a speedy*- -attack type plane. They had flying operations, from Salt Lakebeen ordered to the Wyoming city to assume their air mail flying posts.The dead:Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Witness of Air Tragedy at Barrymore, Gives Description of Fata! AccidentSecond Lieutenant Jean D. Gren-City.The bodies of the men were taken to Kamas, Utah,The two pilots had hopped off from the Salt Lake City airdrome at 9:30 a. m. today.Late in the afternoon army officer of the third attack group, Port ers became alarmed when they didCrockett, Galveston, Texas.not hear of their arrival at Chey-Second Lieutenant Edwin D, \ en£p'White of March field, Riverside, California,The bodies were found in the cockpit of the plane by Orson Maxwell, miner, near the head of Weber river, shortly after 5 p. m.Officers Ordered to SceneA military board consisting of Major S. E. Brown, medical corps; Captain E, D, Jonea and First Lieutenant Minton Kays, air corps, was ordered to the scene of the-crash by Lieutenant H. H. Arnold, commanding the western zone of the army'sThe first word of their fate was phoned to Salt Lake City by Maxwell, who drove a sleigh from the scene of the crash to Oakley. The call was received about two hours after Maxwell discovered the bodies In the wrecked craft.Lieutenant Colonel Arnold immediately selected the military board members and ordered them by automobile to the scene.The vicinity of the crash is somewhat isolated and no person is known to have seen or heard It.Snow and sleet have been falling most of the day, residents said.Pennsylvanian Names Cities Ferdinand Pecora, Senate(Special to The News)JEROMJC, Feb. 17—An aviator, identified as Second Lieutenant James Y. East-ham, Seventh Bombardmentgroup, March Field, Riverrside, California, was burned to death when his plane crashed near the side of the road at Barrymore, six miles southeast of here, last night.The plane crashed at 10:05 o’clock. It caught fire as it struck the ground. A half-hour later it was still burning, illuminating the countryside, and radiating heat so intense that it was impossible to get near it.Identification came ip Associated Press dispatches 'from Salt Lake City, stating that Lieutenant Easfc-ham had left there yesterday en route to Seattle.He was flying on business in connection with the war department's preparations to fly the air mail.The plane was a Douglas bomber, twin-engine craft.Notifies AuthoritiesFirst word of the crash came to authorities here from Mrs. Clarence Wilson, Barrymore resident, who saw the piano fail and burst into flames.Coroner J. B. Wiley, Jerome, said after viewing the burning plane that what seemed to be part of a man’s body was visible in the flames. It was his opinion, based on Insignia on the tail, that the plane was an anny(Continued on Page 8, OoL a).‘Si■ -
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Twin Falls Daily News
Twin Falls, Idaho, US
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