Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-05
IA I. AIR LINERS
FATE IS MYSTERY
Eight Were Reported Killed
When Plane Crashed
in New Mexico.
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Painted Desert is such. veteran flyers
said, that plane might be almost In
visible upon It.
Aboard the City of San Francisco
when it left Albuquerque were:
Mrs. Corina Raymond, wife of George
B. Raymond, Glendale, Calf. Raymond
is q clerk in the T. A. T. Offices here.
A. 8. McGaffey, 712 Cooper avenue,
Albuquerque
william Henry Beers, 425 Fifth
avenue, New York City.
Harris Livermore, 81 Besner place,
Boston.
M. M. Campbell, 1888 HerscheI avenue,
Cincinnati
Members of the crew:
J. B. Stowe. chief pilot: E. A. Dietel,
co-pnot, and C. F. Garfield. courier.
Reports that another plane carrying
two men from Albuquerque to Los
eral vicinity as that where the City of
San Francisco was lost, complicated
the situation. Whether Indians who
had reported finding airplane wreckage
In that area yesterday had referred to
the air liner or the plane carrying thee
two men could not be determined here.
Statement Is Issued.
Becks' announcement that no wreck
age had been found followed an official
T. A. T. statement made by him ear
lier in the night with authority from
the st. Louis general offices which said:
The T. A. T. plane lost September
3 between Albuquerque and winslow
destination of the liner, was just re-
ported found by a mail carrier % miles
south of Gallup In the Black Rock
port, delivered to a Santa Fe agent.
and authenticated by the Santa Fe and
Western Union, states that apparently
the plane was struck by lightning, and
all passengers killed. T. A. T. men from
Winslow are proceeding Immediately to
the scene OF the accident to make a
thorough investigation. 1t is impossible
to make more detailed statement until
their report is received"
Col. Hendersons statement was one Of
regret over the unfortunate accident
to one Of our transcontinental passenger
planes, which caused the loss of eight
lives in New Mexico"
Although we have no definite in
he said. early reports are
that the accident was caused by bolt
of lightning striking the ship"
W. nuuuICQ S6dTCtleTS ITOn Oallup.
N. Mex, combed the Black Rock Wash
country. but did not find the plane.
Complications Develop.
While this search was under way
complications developed to throw. in
vestigators again into a quandary with
q denial by the postmaster at Gallup
that any Of his carriers had reported
sighting the wreck and the receipt Of
. Tr.li
Zuni reservation. This story. told to
the reservation superintendent and re-
layed to Albuquerque, was thought pos
sibly to have concerned a plane piloted
by Earl Gordon, with Lindsay Gillis Of
Los Angeles, president of the Angelus
Aero Corporation, as passenger. ellis
and Gordon left Albuquerque yesterday
morning. failed to arrive in Los An
geles and were not reported as having
landed at any point en- route.
Stowe, chief pilot of the plane. was
20 years old, married, and a resident of
Long Beach, Calf, but was reported to
have lately moved to Clovis, N. Mex
He received his aviation training at
Brooks Field and Kelly Field, Texas.
and was a United States Army pilot
from 1928 to 1928. In 1925 he took up
commercial aviation, joining the T A.
T. this year. He had 1000 hours flying
time to his credit.
Dietel. co-pilot. IS. was unmarried
| He came here from New Braunfels,
! Tex. He also received his flying train
| ing at Brooks and Kelly Fields. He was
! a graduate of the Electrical Engineering
! COLLEGE, Texas A. Il NJ, and had q rec
! ord Of 1000 hours flying time.
Little known Of Courier.
Canfield, the courier. was transferred
here from the East three weeks ago
and was little known by Western Off
Gals of the line.
Mrs. Raymond, only woman on the
air liner, was the wife of George D.
Raymond, a clerk in the T. A. T. ofiices
at the Grand Central Air Terminal.
her father, G. c. Horton, at Albu-
querque, N. Mex
McGaffey, so years old. was wealthy
lumberman. He was on a pleasure trip
to Los Angeles, where he had planned
to visit relatives.
Beers was editor of Golf Illustrated
and was flying to the national amateur
tournament now in progress at Pebble
Beach, Calf. He had been editor Of the
golf magazine for three years. and for
merly was editor of the Fourth Estate,
. newspaper trade journal.
Livermore, wealthy bank director of
Boston. was considered to be one of
the best known shipping men In the
United States. He was q member of the
Boston Port Board, president of the
Coastwise Transportation Co. and
chairman of the Maritime Association
Of the Boston Chamber of Commerce.
He was on a combined business and
pleasure trip to the Pacific Coast
Campbell was sales manager of the
Richardson Paper Co. at Cincinnati aid
was en- route here on business. He left
Cincinnati last week and, after several
stops in the Middle West, boarded the
plane at Albuquerque. 80
INDIANS SEARCH FAILS