New Britain herald., 1929-12-20
Huge Tn-Motored Folk ker Crashes in Take off at Boiling Field, Wash., on Christmas Trip Home-Cause Un- explained.
Stanley B. Lowe, Arthur A. McGill, Capt. Harry A. Dinger and Pvt. Vladi- mir kuzma Other Vic tims-House Pays Trib- ute.

Washington, Dec. 2O.-tP-The lives of five men, including Repre- sentative William Kirk Kaynorss. Of Springfield Massachusetts, were snulfed out today in the worst air plane accident in the history of the national capital.
 i A powerful army three motored 1 Fokker airplane assigned to the use Of Assistant Secretary F. Trubee Davison. hurtled to the ground from a height of 300 feet, instantly killing all of its occupants, who in addition | to kaynor were; Captain Harry A. Dinger crack army aviator, Of Mayport. Pa.
 Stanley E. Lowe. secretary to Representative Kaynor of Spring 1 field, Mass
 Arthur A. McGill, well known re- publican political worker. whose nearest kin was listed as Mrs. Sulli- van Burgess, of Scarsdale. \. Y. Vladimir kuZma, an army private. of STA Myrtle street, Shelton, Conn.
 Tried to Make Turn 1 Observers agreed that an appar- cnt attempt was made by Captain | Dinger to make d left turn after the l plane had ascended to a height of 800 feet on taking off. It crashed after moment of hesitation in mid air, burying it's engines three feet into the hard ground. Those aboard were killed instantly. Their bodies were removed without difficulty and the wreckage was . burned within an hour after the big machine struck the ground,
 It was the first airplane flight for Representative Kaynor. who was go- ing home to Springfield to surprise his family at the Christmas holidays. McGill was to have been married soon in Boston and he was on his way to that city. He was a special guest of kaynor, who had urged him rot to make the trip by air with an- other party yesterday,
 House Mourns Death
 News Of the crash threw a damper on the activities of the house, where Kaynor. although a new mem- Der, had become popular. He was the second mGmber of that branch | Of congress to meet death in an air. ! plane accident, the other being Rcp- l resentative Thaddeus Sweet. of New 1 York, who was killed in that state a year or two ago The house de- 1 cided 10 adjourn out Of respect for ! him.
 Neither the Kaynor nor the Lowe , families were advised of the surprise visits planned to them in Springfield. put which ended in disaster. An immediate investigation of the accident was begun by Mr. Davison. who had travelled thousands of miles in the plane, known as one of the best in the army. Dinger was cred tied with being the most expert ] pilot of three e-motored machines in the air corps
 The most direct account Of the crash Was given by Lieut.. Leland $. Stranathan, who said the craft had l reached an altitude of at least 800 l feet and was over the far south end of the field when it started to turn to the left.
 Plane Dives Earthward
 Then for some reason it swerved suddenly and dived earthward.
 All the passengers and pilot were pronounced dead when field atten- | dants reached the wreck. Strana- than ga iI ba rnuId moi understand why the ship failed to complete it's | turn, He said he did not believe Captain Dinger would have attempt ed to return to the field if only one motor had stopped, since the ship could fly easily with only two motors l operating.
 Dinger was the first officer 10 1 pilot a transport ship to the Pacific | coast.
 Boiling Field officers Immediately | closed sources of information penl- ing an inquiry, but news ot the ac- 1 cident reached the capitol first from a woman who made the trip by au- 1 tcmobile. She was in hysterical state and could not immediately 1 identify any of these who were kill ed.
 Reports then spread like wildfire 1 over the city, highly exaggerated Tn most instances. some Of them plac- ing the number of congressional vic tims as high as five. Representative l (COntinued on Page Twol