Evening star., 1946-01-18
j. S. STEEL REJECTS TRUMAN PAY PROPOSAL
16Die in Crash
Of Air Transport
In Connecticut
E. A. L. Plane Was
En- Route to Boston
After Stop in D. c.
Ey the Associated Press.

Ey the Associated Press.
CHESHIRE, Conn, Jan. ia
big transport plane, carrying 13
passengers and a three-man
crew, crashed in flames here
today, carrying all aboard to
their death.
The Army flight service at Bos-
ton identified the plane as flight
l6-B OF the Eastern Airlines, en-
route from La Guardia Field, N. Y.
to Boston.
Eastern Airlines said the plane left
Miami, Fla, at 1;43 am, stopped
at Charleston, s. c.; Washington
and New York.
Can Eastern Air Lines spokes-
man in Washington said that no
passengers boarded the plane
here when it took off from the
National Airport at $40 am.
He said several passengers left
the plane in Washington but
their names were carried on the
ship and he had no record of
them hereD
The passenger list was not i'm
mediately available, the airlines said.
Papers of Arlington Man.
State police said that among
papers taken from the wreckage
were Navy leave papers issued to
1t. Winfield Scott Faron, U. S. N. r.
The papers listed 1t Faron's leave
address as 4861-A Twenty-eighth
street, Arlington, Va, and had been
issued for January 16 to February
4 by the Office of Public Informa-
ton.
Cit. Faron has lived in Arling-
ton for the last two years while
he has been in the Navy, accord
ing to his wife. He formerly was
publicity manager for the Curtis
Publishing Co. in Philadelphia.
The Farons have a 14-month-
old baby.
CThe Navy said 1t. Faron left
yesterday on an 18-day leave.)
Another set of papers were labeled
Property of S. j. Cohen" There
was no recognizable address on these
papers, police said.
Partial Passenger List.
In New York, Eastern Airlines
announced the following crew mem
bers and a partial passenger list:
| Crew:
Capt. R. E. Kuser, pilot, Tren-
ton, N. J.
R. S. Knight. co-pilot, Omaha,
Neb.
Willard Basset, flight attendant.
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York.
Passengers (no addresses avail
able):
K. G. Voetelin, Mr.. and Mrs. @. S.
Miller, P. McVeigh, Mrs. C. Ludwig.
j. B. Mitsch, P. Maynard, H. Berger.
N. E. Falt, Mrs. Charlotte Sturman
and baby and Barbara Thompson,
nurse.
Airline officials said Mrs. Stur-
man and her bapy and Miss Thomp-
son boarded the plane in Miami for
Boston. The other passengers
boarded the plane at La Guardia
Field for Boston.
Representatives of the Eastern
Airlines at New York told the
New Haven Register that radio
contact had been lost with one of
its New York-to-Boston transports
at about the time the accident was
reported here The plane, the off,
clals said, carried 13 passengers and
three crewmen.
Plane Breaks in Two.
The big ship, first seen with
flame and smoke spouting from its
engines, broke in two as it came to
earth not far from the Cheshire
State Reformatory and about Is
miles from New Haven.
Lester Harris, Cheshire real estate
operator. said he saw the plane burst
into flames as it passed over the
town. Mr.. Harris said he saw three
bodies near the wreckage while at
least 40 or IL others" were piled
up in the flaming fuselage.
At about 1890 pm, Bob Andrews
of the A & D Flying Service, at
the Wallingford Airport few out in
search Of the wreckage and said the
plane lay about IL miles north of
the Cheshire Reformatory in an
open field.
Smoke and some small flame was
still issuing from the wreck, but only
a portion of one wing and the tail
still remained whole He identified
the plane as a CAT such as is in
general use among airlines flying
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