Evening star., 1947-06-14
located on Mountain Top;
nom DC. Area Listed Aboard
Head of Red Cross
Medical Section
Is Passenger

dents, including the three crew
members, were listed as aboard
the Capital Airlines DC-4 which
crashed in the mountains of
nearby Virginia last night.
They were:
Capt. Horace Stark, pilot 4507
Four Mile Run drive, Arlington. Va.
r. N. Creekmore, co-pilot, 1887
South Abingdon street, Arlington.
Miss Margaret Walls, hostess,
Plattsburg Court, Mclean Gardens.
DR.. Courtney Smith, 1901 Edge
hill lane, Silver Spring, Md, ma
tional medical director of the Amer
ican Red Cross.
David P. Goodwin, 1407 Thirty
first street NV, national fire-con-
troll chief for the Forest Service.
Miss Minnie Harman, 1717 Mas
sachusetts avenue NV, a Red Cross
worker since 1918.
P. J. Ness, Cavalier Apartments,
$500 Fourteenth street NV.
c. H. McCafferty. 2704 Allison
street, Mount Rainier, Md.
Edmund j. Stone. 1921 Argyle
drive, Alexandria, an employe OF the
Public Housing Administration.
Allen Coe, 3435 Eight street, Arl-
ington, a former OPA employe.
Air Veteran of rs Years.
Capt. Stark, 46, has been flying
Is years, starting with the Curtis
Aviation Co. in 1921. He Joined a
predecessor of Capital Airlines in
1928, and few the mail run be-
tween Pittsburgh and Cleveland and
later between Pittsburgh and Wash
ington.
A veteran of more than $4,000
hours in the air, he was in the
group of Capital Airlines pilots with
total of 62,000,000 miles to their
credit, who recently were honored
for their outstanding achievements,
Capt. Stark is widely known also
as an inventor of safety naviga-
tional aids. One is the Stark posi-
ton finder, all electronic device
adopted by the airlines universally
for their pilots in 1889 Recently
he has been working on an orienta-
tion deYice which coraaines navi-
gational aids with development
Of his own, assuring the pilot OF
further knowledge OF his where
abouts at all times.
His wife lives at their Arlington
address.
Former ATC Pilot.
Mr.. Creekmore, %, the co-pilot, is
native of Wolfe, Tex, and, as an
Air Transport Command flyer, spent
more than 1000 hours in the air
during the war, seeing service In
Mexico, Costa Rica and in the
China India Burma theater. He
joined Capital two years ago.
Mr.. Creekmore, married, is the
father of two sons, Tony, 6, and
Charles, 2.
Miss Walls, %, the hostess, came
from Guntersville, Ala, and was
employed by the Civil Aeronautics
Authority and the Army Air Forces
here before joining the airline.
She was accepted for WASP
training during the war, but in
stead, got a private flying license
and then decided to become a
hostess.
Her parents are Mr.. and Mrs.
y. H. Walls of Guntersville. A
brother, 1t. Col. John H. Walls, is
in the Office of the assistant chief
of the air staff at the Pentagon.
Was Planning Plasma Program.
DR.. Smith was reported to have
been on his way home from a Red
Cross convention in Cleveland
where he was engaged in planning
a new Red Cross blood donor pro-
gram to provide free blood and
plasma to citizens needing trans
fusionS.
Red Cross officials said he had
been serving with the organization
since May, 1914, as deputy medical
director and as director of the Dis
aster Medical Service. He was ap-
pointed administrator of medical
services April l. 1916.
Born in South Haven, Mich, DR.
Smith, At, came to Washington in
January, 1914, as assistant to the
national medical director of the
Office of Civilian Defense In May,
1945, he was assigned to the Army's
Strategic Bombing Survey in Ger
many. after which he resumed his
Red Cross post.
Had Worked in Many Disasters.
Miss Harman, about so, was one
OF the veterans of the American Red
Cross national Office here. She
worked in relief operations for a
great many disasters since she first
began volunteer work for the Red
Cross at Camp Meigs during World
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