Evening star., 1942-07-02
80 Soldiers Lose Live,
In Transport Plane
And Bomber Crashes
II Die in West Virginia
Mountains; Nine Killed
In California
BY the Associated Press

By the Associated Press.
WEIGH, w. Va. July 2.-Only
splintered metal debris remained
! today for investigators hunting the
cause of flaming Army transport
plane crash which killed 81 men
yesterday.
Identifcations of II victims were
announced by the Army today in
Dayton, Ohio.
The transport lost wing at 500
feet and plunged into garden at
Premier, miles from here. 1t was
a former American Airlines flag
ship piloted by Second 1t. Walter
Baugh of Paris, Tex.
Army Identifications.
AS provided by the Army at
Patterson Field, the identif1cations
were:
Staff Sergt. Salveston Barone,
Morris, N Y.
Russell A, Carter, Meridian. Kans
Leon A. Olin, Big Tinder. Mont.
H. M, Dickson (no address avail
able).
Second 1t. Walter Baugh, Paris
Tex.
Claudius Haywood, Amber, Mont
gomery County. Pa,
Lester S. Erickson, Smith Ridge,
Miss.
Elma G. Edmonds, Payson. III.
Staff Sergt. Anthony w. Belcher
(no address,.
Leo Thomas Colburn, Tuscaloosa,
Ala.
Edward F.. x. Carr (no address,.
Denver w. Hoppe. Columbus, Ohio.
Kermit Masters, Greenwich, Mont.
Elmer J. Campbell, Luray, Va.
Chester Petranski, Auburn, N. Y.
1t. E. A. Harness, Laporte, Ind.
Archie w. Chamberlin, Leaven-
worth. Kans.
Nine soldiers were killed in an
other mishap yesterday in California
when a four -motored Army bomber
crashed and exploded on low knoll
with a roar heard for miles. Army
men at March Field said the craft
was on a routine training flight.
West Virginia State troopers,
guarding wreckage Of the airllner at
Premier, said the bodies were beyond
recognition but they bellevd Is
could be identified by tags, another by
clothing and 18th possibly by a
ring.
Army equipment and personal ef-
fects strewn near the wreckage bore
the names of Erwin Stratman,
Corpl. jackson. Russell A. Carter,
Elmore Edwards, Floyd Hyet and
Guy S. Hill.
Hyet and Hill, however, were re-
ported safe at Kellogg Field, Battle
Creek. Mich. where both men are
stationed. They notified newspapers
after noting their names in accounts
Of the crash.
A scorched post card found near
the wreckage bore this message !:
"All that birthday can hold OF
jov-thats what I am wishing Tor
NV dear boy" 1t was signed Pop.
Ohio Soldiers Take Charge.
The plane was believed en- route
from a Northern armed 10 a oase
In the South. A detachment OF
soldiers from an Army post in Ohio
arrived to take charge OF the wreck
age last night.
Ten bodies were removed by res
cuers from the hull OF the still
blazing ship shortly after the crash
lust after noon. Later another oooy
was found and 10 more were taken
from the plane by State troopers
after the wreckage had cooled. All
bodies we're brought to WEIGH.
Dead In the California crash were ::
First 1t. Robert K. Murphy. %,
Twin Falls, Idaho, pilot; Second
1t. Jack w. Green, "a. Kansas City,
Kans., co-pilot; Staff Sergt. Charles
H. Davis, 27, New Boston. ONO;
Staff Sergt. Norman S. Anderson
Is, Enderlin, N. OAK; Sergt. John
E. Rice, 25, Higbee, Mo-; Corpl.
Harry Scuffos, jr,, l9, Spartanburg'
S. c.; Pvt. James r. Stephens, %,
Remington. Va; Pvt. Jack Hearall
20, Eldorado, Kans.. and Pvt. Bill
Rosser, 27, Anson, Tex.