The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-12-06


n. Delaware-st, will officiate.
The clergyman for the Men
denhall funeral has not been
announced.
Saturday night. the Indianapolis
Medican Society, of which both men
were members, will hold memorial
services at Methodist Hospital. and
the Boy Scouts. for whom DR.. Car
mack had done much, also are plan
ming a memorial.
Pilot Maxwell was prominent in
National Guard and commercial
aviation and has flown Governor
Paul v. McNutt on many OF the
Governors speaking tours. Mr..
Maxwell was thrown clear of the
wreckage by the crash.
Death Severe Blow
The deaths of DR.. Mendenhsll and
DIR. Carmack we're des ribbed today
as a severe blow to the medical pro-
feSsion by a spokesman lc: TIE cltys
physicians and surgeons.
Both were national figures, as is
attested by the fact that. Wien they
met their death. they were return
ing from a meeting of the Wayne
County Medical Society. Detroit,
Mich, to which they had been in
vited to speak ON their respective
specialtieS.
DR.. Willis D. Gish. Indiana Uni
versity School of Medicine dean, had
been invited to speak on the same
program with Dr. Mendenhall and
DR.. Carmack, but did not attend the
meeting.
Or. Mendenhall was one of the
ranking obStetricians of the coun-
try: DR.. Carmack one of the rank
ing eye, ear, nose and throat Spe-
cislists.
Working in Richmond
Miss Mendenhau, an honor stu
dent in the University of Missouri
Journalism School. from which she
was graduated in 1882, had worked
as a columnist on The Richmond
Palladium for a little more than a
year.
1t was DR.. Carmack's second air.
plane ride. the trip to Detroit yes
terday morning having been his
first air experience. He is believed
to have decided to travel by air
after a close friend of his, DR.. Ralph
A. Fenton, Portland (Ore) phySi-
clan. flew here last month for the
annual meeting of the Indiana
State Medical Assn. for which DR..
Carmack had been arrangements
committee chairman.
Daughter Nervous at Start
DR.. Mendenhall. described by his
friends as air minded" had flown
many times. His daughter. how
ever. had been nervous when she
entered Pilot MaXwells plane in
the morning to so to Detroit and
had tested with her friends on The
Palladium'S staff about the posi-
bility of death through a crash.
Mr.. Maxwell told Coroner Russell
Hiatt of Wayne County today that
he had lowered the plane over the
airport in an effort to see what con-
ditions were and had not intended
to land at that time.
When I tried To regain altitude,
he said. the right wing hit a tree
and the plane Immediately crashed"
Jean Smith and James Burke,
farmers who lived near the airport.
were the first on the scene of the
tragedy. 500 feet west of the field.
and found Mr. Maxwell 10 feet from
the wreckage, where he had been
thrown by the impact through
window of the plane.
Heard Two Explosions
AS they approached the wreckage.
already in flames, they heard two
explosions. they said.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howard Hammer.
Richmond. had taken Miss Men
denhall TO the airport in the morn
ing. Mrs Hammer was the former
Miss Mildred May of indianapolis,
a friend OF Miss Mendenhal. Mr.
Hammer is an advertising solicitor
for The Palladium.
While they were az the airpor;
in the morning. Mrs. Hammer said.
Mr.. Maxwell had casually mentioned
that. II she came TO meet them on
their return that night. she might
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