Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-12
VALUABLE NAVAL
PAPERS SALVAGED
FROM PLANE RUINS
Contain Secret Formulate.
Carried by One of Seven
Victims.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
LIVINGSTON MANOR. N. Y. June
12.-The giant airplane which carried
seven persons to their deaths on the
rugged side of Mongaup Mountain
near here Saturday, carried valuable
naval papers which were salvaged.
DR.. ". G. Burke, Sullivan County
coroner, disclosed the fact that the
papers were aboard as he went ahead
today with preparations for an inquest
to determine the cause of the disaster.
He said the papers had been in pos
session of William Bader, Buffalo, one
of the victims of the crash: that they
had been salvaged and were now in
his possession.
Company Seeks Papers.
DR.. Burke said strong representa-
tionS we're made today by T. H. Ben
nett of the Semet-Solvay Co., en-
ployer of Bader, for possession of the
papers. but that the request had been
refused pending the completion of the
inquest late tomorrow.
Burke said Bennett told him the
papers were valuable naval documents
for which the company was respon-
sible, and Bennett asked the coroner
to turn them over to him at once.
He implied, DR.. Burke said, that
the papers were valuable secret docu-
ments of the Navy Department"
Then DR.. Burke said Bennett told
him the papers included secret for
mulae, some the property of the Navy
Department and some the property OF
the company. There were 80 or 40
such papers, Dr. Burke said. and Ben
nett was very anxious to obtain pos
session of them.
The coroner declined to say whether
he intended to make the papers pub
lie at the inquest, stating he had the
matter under Amusement
Three bottles of chemicals, carried
bv Bader and found intact in the
Wreckage. also were in the possession
of the coroner. Bennett also asked for
possession of these, and likewise was
refused
Dr. Burke said Bennett volunteered
to have chemists present at the in
quest to identify the contents of the
bottles, which were the property of the
Semet- Solvay Co.
Bader's body was claimed by his
father, William Bader of Buffalo, who
arrived in Liberty early today. The
body of William Cass, also of Buffalo
was identified by a dentists chart OF
his teeth, sent from Buffalo
The body of the third Buffalo man,
Harold Coppins, was not badly burned.
The body of the fourth passenger
Harry Pinsley of New York. was
brought here and sent to a Brooklyn
NJ Y, undertaking establishment to
be prepared for shipment to the home
of his parents, in Chicago.
The other dead were the crew of
the plane, Clyde Holbrook, pilot; John
Barron, jr, co-pilot, and Miss Ada
Huckeby, stewardess.
DR. Burke said Bennett told him
Bader had carried another bag which
he was very anxious to find"
There was no trace of it left" said
DR. Burke.
Describing the contents of the bag
which was salvaged, the coroner said:
I'VE found lot of literature on ex-
plosives. There was a bulletin issued
by the Bureau of Mines on physical
testing of high explosives and one on
the quantitative estimates of am
monium picrate. There was one,
which Bennett said was secret in
formation, entitled Nays Specifica-
tions of Explosive D."
Twenty State policemen and noun
tain climbers worked their way care
fully down the mountainside carry
ing the bodies, their progress made
slow by the baskets they carried and