The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-09-14
TWO BEREAVED
BY AIR TRAGEDY
Betty Stowell and Susie
O'Brien Victims Of
Fate's Caprice
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sGr'o p'Brion, youthful sweetheart
of Tommy Tucker. who shared the
boys ambitions, encouraging him
.ln bis desire 10 become stunt flyer
while fenrluR for his safety. found
ia piumI naturalization OF their
hopes and plans when she responded
|TuoFIoy uIEht 10 call from the
|morguc whore lay the horribly man
Igled body ~ the youthful flyer.
Just Completed one Stunt.
l.. Is Kennedy. Goa South Quaker.
who HIth party ~ three others.
lriahahiv obtained th. clnarssi view
|of tho accident. stated that he WAS
uHHa.uE lu a car about u quarter
milo from the place whore the ma
chine fen when hc first noticed u
liza the mir. Tho filters had succcag-
|uIIy completed one stunt and were
going into H sort uf side loop a. an
altitude Of between $50 and 500 feet
when. apparently from lack Of power
ur Improper control the machine
turned completely upside down and
.f"u To- earth. Kennedy expressed
tho belief that the death plunge ala
not result from gas shortage, as wus
L Q .
cause of the fact that tho men we're
apparently making every effort to
fright their machine during the fan
and that volumes OF black smoke
were pouring from the exhaust. Ken
'ucdy advanced the opinion that the
men had simply gotten into n posi-
| ton from which they were unable 10
IoxtricHtc thcmHolves Kennedy stated
that cloud Of dust and debris rose
more than fifty feet IN the air above
tho spot where tho plane crashed
into the field.
Stowcll Experienced Filler.
StuWcll had had several years
. flying experience, serving la the
aerial service overseas during the
war. after which no took up COM
mcrcial flying. Mrs. Stowcl said
Wednesday that she had taken many
air trips with her husband and also
stunted. Sho accompanied him Ia
Independence. kan. for his three
days flying circus August iB.
Tho only major aerial accident
which ever occurred to Stowcll nc-
ordlnE To his wife. was crash 20
earth at an aviation camp during
the war, when the cadet he was
instructing suCCumhcd to heart fail
ure al n high altitude and Stowell
was unable TO wrest tho controls I'm
time from the cadets death grip
Stowell enlisted at Omaha. Neh.. and
was an aviation Instructor at Camp
Dix, Love fleld and Kelly field No
2 He was commissioned a second
lieutenant I'm the aviation section
signal reserve corps May O, 1918
! Stowells varied experience I'm Com-
morclal flying, which he took up fol-
| lowing the war. has included acting
AZ pilot for James Wilson and Glen
| Borryhill OF Sapulpa. Theodore Ber'
ryhill Of Clarcmorc, plotting a Bria-
/ tol for w, NJ. Graham of Tulsa. EN-.
/ ployment at the paul Arbon and
the Curtis Southwest company fields
performances at fairs and simiiaI
events. while at Kelly field M
reached a heighth OF 24.600 feet fl
an attempt to establish an altitud
! record. He was the pilot in an en-
dcavor to restore her hearing I,
Imogeno Price. 12-year-old daueh
ter OF william Price, by higl
flight.
lie was employed on the Tulsi
police department under Chic
George Blaine last year.
HIS birthplace was Hartford, Mich
His mother, Mrs. Mary r. Warrilow
/ hIotntl, tiofry StOWell ana grand
mother, Mrs. Mary T.. Moore, llv,
nt Hartford ana another brother
X. ID. Stowcll, and two sisters, a
Enderlin. N. II.
Funeral Services Today.
Funeral services will he hell
Thursday af,ernooH should tina
brother II. u. Stoweli from Enderlii
arrive early Thursday morning, 9th
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