Arizona republican., 1921-05-14
THIRTEEN DEATHS IN AIR SERVICE
 ARE CHARGED TO
 MISMANACEMENT
FORMER LIEUTENANT IN AIR MAIL SERVICE CITES THIRTEEN SPECIFIC CASES WHERE EMERGENCY WAS CAUSE OF FATAL ACCIDENTS
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CHICAGO, May 12. - Specific charges that thirteen men have been killed in the air mail service because of what he termed gross misman- agement ,inefficiency and criminal negligence" by officials, were made by Lieutenant c. C. Eversole, in tes- timony presented to the government today through a federal committee which has been conducting a secret investigation of air mail conditions. Lieutenant Eversole's testimony, which has extended over several days, made statement of more than 100000 words. He was discharged from the air mail service Tuesday, the day after his first testimony was given before the committee.
 Members of the committee today said they had appealed to Washing ton for his reinstatement.
 Included in the evidence were af- fjdayits from several pilots and me !, chanics now in the service. all of which confirmed Lieutenant Ever soles charges, and the mute evidence of a statement written by Pilot J. P. Christensen previous to his death in fall at Cleveland a few weeks ago Christensen is one of the men whose death Lieutenant Eversole lays to all legged negligence by air mail offi- cials.
 The transcript of Eversole's testi- mony referred only briefly to the charges made known yesterday that air mail field officials were drunk while on duty and staged wild parties which incapacitated them for duty ~gt dealt chiefly with deaths and ac- { cidents alleged to have been due to inefficiencv by the men in charge and remedial recommendations
 The thirteen men killed and the reasons ascribed by Everso1e's evil dence for their deaths, follow:
 l. Carl Smith. pilot. Killed in fall at Elizabethtown, N. T.. said to have ficient training and to have been as- signed to a DeHaviland four, oi which he knew nothing.
 2. Pilot Stoner. Said to have beer forced to fly in a dense fog against his judgment and that of other pilots Hit tree at Goshen, Ind.
 g. Pilot Bryan McMullin. Killed ir three days previously and was or a fall at Batavia. III. Had faller dered by physicians not to fly agail until completely well.
 4. Pilot Sherlock. Killed whel plane hit smokestack near landing field at Newark. N. J. Eyersole's affi davit alleged field was too small fo safe landing by type of ship Sherlocl was compelled to fly.
 and 6. Pilot Max Miller an Mechanician Pierson: Killed in fall a Morristown, N. J. Were flying Jun ker type of German built all meta monoplane which contained numer ous gas leaks.
 and 8. Pilots Stevens and Thom as: Were forced to fly a plane whic had the same defects as that in whic Miller and Pierson fell and no at tempt was made to remedy thes defects. They were killed in a ia in Ohio.
 g. 10 and Il. Pilots Rowe. Carrt and Mechanician Hill: Killed Junker plane at Lacrosse. Wis. Ev dence presented by Eversole incluo ing affidavits from witnesses of ia alleged that false reports as 10 tf cause of fall were made to Wasl ington. It was charged that a ere of mechanics all of whom were il toxicated, overhauled the ship at Il
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