The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1930-11-20
FUNERAL OF REBBY SHAW,
KILLED in CRASH, HELD
Woman Hears His Screams As
Ship Burns Near KingwoOd
Airport Saturday Afternoon
SLIPPED INTO TAIL SPIN

Funeral services for Reginald Shaw,
%, local aviator, who was trapped in
his blazing plane and fatally burned
following a crash near the airport at
Kingwood, w. Va, on Saturday after
noon, were conducted from the home
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver
F. Shaw, Kingwood, Tuesday after.
noon at two o'clock. Rev. M. o. Mag
nuson, of Weston, former pastor Of
the Kingwood Presbyterian church,
officiated and interment was made in
the Kingwood cemetery.
The young aviator is believed to
have lost control of his ship while at
tempting a difficult turn at an eleva-
ton of approximately six hundred
feet and fell to his death in field
less than 300 yards from the King
wood airport.
Goes Into Tailspin
The plane slipped into tailspin,
crashed and exploded Immediately
upon striking the earth, becoming a
flaming torch from which arose the
frantic screams of the victim. Mrs.
Stone, in whose field the plane struck,
said she plainly heard the young man,
strapped in the cockpit, cry out for
assistance and water.
Several persons were burned in ex-
Treating the lifeless body from the
wreckage even after the flames had
somewhat subsidized. Witnesses of the
affair said that just before the plane
fell Shaw unanswered it through a
sharp right turn and then pointed the
ships nose upward.
The dead aviator had been flying
during the past summer and this fall
from the airport at Oakland, had
taken hundreds on pleasure flights,
was accredited with number of fly
ing hours and was considered a cap
able and cautious pilot. He was
licensed in Pittsburgh about one year
ago. ....
"Rebby," as he was Familiarity
known here, took his plane from the
Oakland airport Saturday morning
and after circling the airport at King
wood, headed for Wheeling, West Va.
On the return flight he landed in Nor
gantown and spent few minutes
there and then took off on the fatal
trip. He passed over the home OF
; his parents in Kingwood and waved
to his mother, going on to the land
ing field half mile distant.
Young Shaw was particularly well
liked by the people of Oakland, es-
pecially by the young boys and girls
of the town, who looked upon him as
high class, well-behaved and honora-
BILE man. Joe Bill Ours, young local
aviation enthusiast, was his constant
companion on flights in this vicinity.
Work at the Ours home Saturday
morning kept him from accompanying
Shaw on his last flight.
Survivors other than his parents,
are a sister, Mrs. Betty Mckee, OF
Kingwood, and brother, Archibald
Shaw, local superintendent Of the
West Penn interests in Oakland.
The fatality was the first of its
kind recorded in Preston county and
occurred about AS o'clock Saturday
afternoon.
Those attending from Oakland in
cluded Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Shaw
and family, Mr.. and Mrs. A. S. Ours,
sons Winston and Joe Bill, Miss Max
inc Martin, Miss Edith Bolden, Mrs.
Emroy Bolden, Mrs. Barnard Gender
and son Bernard, Jr., Mrs. E. r.
Utterback, Miss Helen Enlow, Mes
srs. Ernest C. Liller, Otto Shultz,
George Hanst, Harold Harmed, Har-
old Dawson, H. C. Sincell, Lawrence
Fraley and Hugh Echard.
! Otto Shultz acted as one of the
pallbearers, and H. C. Sincell, Harold
Harmed, George Hanst, and Harold
Dawson as honorary pallbearers.
Ernest C. Liller blew taps at the
grave of the deceased, just before the
interment.