The Waterbury Democrat., 1932-01-26
TRAINER OF THE FLYERS IN WAR
 MET HIS DEATH
Eddie StinsOn Died To-day
 After Plane Crash and Three Companions Hurt

Chicago, Jan 26-(UP)-Ed- ward A. (Eddie) Stinson, who trained most of Americas World war flyers, and had flown 1,750,. 900 miles without serious mishap died to-day after a plane crash In which three companions were hurt.
 His death ended an unequalled record of nearly two years actual flying time in the air. He died without regaining consciousness a few hours after his plane struck 8 15O-foot fiagpole and crashed dur ing an emergency landing in Jack son park after dark last night.
 Stinson failed to see the high steel pole which ripped a wing of the plane causing the ship to nose- dive.
 others hurt in the crash were:
 Clark Fields, 80, Kalamazoo, Mich, chief salesman of the Stin- son Aircraft corporation; Fred M. Gillies, 36, Chicago and John Tompkins, 36, Chicago, a mechan- ic.
 stinson, officially credited with 16.OOO flying hours which is more INan dHy OLHCI AAAAoAs AAOsSA AA~-~s suffered a serious plane accident since he entered aviation as a r. year-old pupils of the famed Or vile and Wilbur Wright at Day ton, O.
 He took off in a new Stinson Junior De Luxe plane of his own design when the fatal crash oc- cured. He left his factory field at Wayne, Mich. yesterday morn irg, stopping at South Bend, Ind, and continuing here where he demonstrated his new ship at the municipal flying field. :,
 Just before dark he again LOOK off to demonstrate the plane to Gillies, a friend and former war ace. Over Lake Michigan 1t was believed motor trouble or a scanty gasoline supply caused Stinson to head his ship back. Witnesses reported the plane was gliding smoothly toward the ground when the right wing struck a tall f1agpole. The plane shud- dered and dropped to the earth nose first.
 Stinson's chest was crushed. Physicians administered oxygen vainly. He died just after X-rays had been taken.
 stinson had been in aviation since his boyhood. He was Wrtu- ally instructor to the American air corps during the war time training days for no American pilot was allowed to go overseas without recommendation.
 Just after the war he entered manufacture of commercial air planes with a factory at Dayton, o. later transferring his activities to Detroit with the Sttnson-Detroit concern.
 His present company is a sub- sidiary of the Cord corporation.
 The flyer was always pioneer III aviation. In his early days he gained fame as a transforming rilot. In 1921 he set a worlds en- durance flight record at Mineola. Long Island. remaining aloft 26 hours. At one time he held the world altitude record.
 His sisters, Marjorie and kath. crime, entered aviation also and were among the earliest women pilots.
 posed aviation "stunts' bitterly refusing to build planes for pros pective transatlantic flights and similar enterprises.
 Gillies, an official of the Inland Steel Go, is a former Cornell all. American football star. He suf' fered a serious spine injury. The injuries to the other two were slight.
 Mrs Stinson had prepared to fly to her husbands bedside but can celled the trip when physicians told her she could not arrive be- fore the aviator died.