Evening star., 1947-06-15
Capitol Officials
Among 10 Dead
From This Area

ton officials were among 10 resi-
dents of this area who lost their
lives in the crash of the Capital
Airlines DC-4 in the mountains
of nearby Virginia, a check of
friends and relatives disclosed
last night.
Also rerried to their deaths were
a Sta&S Department employe re-
turning to work here from China
and the Philippines a former mo-
tion picture executive stationed here,
and the husband of a congressional
secretary.
Capital Area Victims.
Washington area residents killed
in the crash were:
DR.. Courtney Smith, 1901 EdgehIl
lane, Silver Spring, Md, national
medical director of the American
Red Cross.
David P. Goodwin, 1407 Thirty
FIRST street NV, national flre-con-
troll chief of the Forest Service and
chairman of the forest committee
of the National Fire Protection As
sociation.
Allen Coe, 3435 Eighth street
South, Arlington, Va, former War
Goods Price Co-ordinator of the
OPA.
Edmund Jefferson Stone, 1921
Argyle drive, Alexandria, Va, econ
omist in the Office of the Housing
Expediter.
Miss Minnie Harman, TIT Mas
sachusetts avenue NV, American
Red Cross executive and veteran of
20 years with the organization.
G. H. McCafferty, 2704 Allison
street, Mount Rainier, Md, former
Maritime Commission official.
P. j. Ness, Cavalier Apartments,
$500 Fourteenth street NV, re-
gional manager for heating equip
ment company.
Capt. Horace Stark, pilot of the
Inflated airliner, 4507 Four Mile
Run drive, Arlington.
r. N. Creekmore, co-pilot, 2887
South Abingdon street, Arlington.
Miss Margaret Walls, hostess,
Plattsburg court, Mclean Gardens.
Others With d. G. Connections.
Others on the plane with Wash
ington connections were:
c. E. Pepiatt, of Philadelphia,
Eastern division sales manager for
Goth Century Fox Films and former
manager of the company's Office
here. .
Mrs. Dorothy Peters De Cray,
State Department employe since
1941, just returned from overseas
service, who formerly lived at 1907
Montello avenue NE.
James E. Terry, electrical engineer
whose wife, Mrs. Clara Dele Terry,
is secretary to Representative Ben
der of Ohio.
A victim of the crash from near
by Virginia was Francis A. Georger,
jr., of Warrenton.
DR.. Smith was on his way home
from a Red Cross convention in
Cleveland, where he was planning a
new Red Cross blood donor program
to provide free blood and plasma to
citizens needing transfusions.
Before joining the Red Cross in
1914, DR.. s6mith was territorial
health officer for Alaska. He be-
came deputy medical director and
director of the Disaster Medical
Service in May. 1914, and was ap-
pointed administrator of medical
services April /, 1916.
Survived by Widow and Daughter.
He also served as assistant to the
national medical director of the Of
flee of Civilian Defense and left
the Red Cross during part of 1945
to serve with the Army's Strategic
Bombing Survey in Germany.
DR.. Smith, who was At, was born
in South Haven, Mich. He is sur
vived by his widow and a 20-year-
old daughter, Courlyne, who is a
receptiohist at Red Cross national
headquarters.
Mr.. Goodwin, 55, pioneer in the
of the smoke jumper
was to have been guest
of honor at a dinner party his
friends planned to give to celebrate
his return from Chicago.
He was married five years ago to
Thelma Strabel, well-known maga-
zine and fiction writer.
Born in Virginia, Mr.. Goodwin
went to California as a guard in the
Inyo National Forest: He became
a ranger and then forest super
visor in the Mendicino National
Forest in California. In 1915, he
(See PASSENGERS, Page A-4.)