The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-05
PLANE VICTIMS
 STOOD BY SHIPS
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Flying at an altitude to 1,500 feet, the planes were changing forma- tion from Echelons- a step-like maneuver-to "" when two of the ships in the second section locked wings, broke apart and streaked to- ward the earth.
 One of the planes crashed into the roof of an Edgemont-road house. The pilot, Lieutenant Commander Waldo H. Brown, 43, U. s. N. Re- serve, a Milton socialite and father of five children, leaped from the plane seconds before it crashed. Though his parachute opened part ly, he hit the earth SO violently that his body dug foot-deep hole in the ground in 8 yard 100 feet away.
 The mechanic, Walter Kirk, 40, of WollaSton, 8 chief carpenters mate at the Squantum base and father of three children, was cremated when the plane burst into flames and fired the dwelling into which it had crashed.
 Occupant Led to Safety
 The only occupant of the house, William Madden, "A, was led to safety by neighbors. He was under a physicians care today for a heart attack and scalp and hand burns. His house was destroyed by fire.
 A quarter mile away, pretty Mrs. Herbert BeSs heard the crash, look e dout a window and saw smoke rising from the wrcekage. She ran upstairs to the second floor bedroom where her 21-month-old daughter, Beverly was asleep and had just reached the crib when the second plane sheared of the room of her cottage, snapped a hydrant and crashed into the corner of 8 bun galow across the street.
 Two Were Cremated
 The pilot, Aviation Cadet Els worth Benson, 25, of Newton, and his mechanic, Chief Machinist's Mate John Ausiello, 38, of Revere, father of four children, were cre- mated. Their bodies were burned so badly that at first Investigators be- lieved that only one man had died in the plane and a searching party was organized to hunt for the sec- ond victim.
 No one was in the house, the owner, Mrs. John Bjormson, having left to attend the launching. In a neighboring dwelling, however, Mrs. Mary Davis of Quincy, visiting 8 friend, suffered a heart attack and was treated by a doctor. Mrs. Bjormson's house was partly dam- aged by fire.
 Mrs. Brown, who was on the launching platform at Fore river with Assistant Secretary Wilson and other guests, did not learn that her husband was among the victims un- til she went to Squantum to drive him home.
 Two Boards Named
 East Braintree, Mass, April (UP) -Rear-Admiral William T. Tarrant, commandant of the first naval dis trict, today appointed two boards to investigate the mid-air collision of two naval reserve scout bombers that killed four flyers near the scene of the launching of the $30,000,0 ,000 airplane carrier Wasp yesterday.
 The first board, to determine of- ficially the cause of collision, con- SistS of Commander w. J. Morcott of Boston Navy Yard, Lieutenant Commander H. M. Weber of the Medical Corps, Lieutenant, J. J. Shea of the Squantum Naval Re- serve Air base and Second Lieuten- ant J. 0. Bennett of the U. s. Mar inc corps.
 The second board, to fix the amount of damage caused by the crashing planes, consists of Lieu tenant Commander s. c. Stengel of the civil engineer corps, Lieutenant Commander Michael H. Kernodle of the Squantum Base and Lieutenant Junior Grade J. F. Staniunas of the civil onrinear coync