Evening star., 1948-01-13
A Hurt, 7 Badly,
On Craft Coming
In for Landing
Eastern AirIiner
Hits Wooded Knoll
In Prince Georges
Pictures OF, Page B-l.)

Five men were killed and four
injured, two seriously, when an
Eastern Airlines twin-engined
transport crashed early today on
a wooded knoll on the Maryland
side of the Potomac River in
Prince Georges County as 1t
was making an approach to Ma
tional Airport some 8 miles to
the north.
The dead, three passengers and
two pilots, were identified by police
and airline officials several hours
after the crash as:
William A. Moorhead of Gold
vile, s. c., vice president and gen.
eral manager of the Joanna Cot
ton Mills there, who boarded the
plane at Goldville, S. c.. en- route
to Boston on business trip.
Shelburne M. Warner, Clinton,
S. c., who got on the plane at
Greenville en- route to Washington.
Lynn A. Brandt, of the Shelton
Hotel, New York City, who had left
Atlanta last night on his way to
New York via Newark Airport.
The pilots were Capt. Paul j.
Saltanis, Great Neck, N. Y. and
Atlanta, and the co-pilot, Ralph B.
Sandborne, jr., Atlanta.
Identified at Funeral Home.
Identification was made at Gasch
funeral home at Hyattsville this
morning by Edwin H. Peterson,
traffic and sales representative of
Eastern for Washington, and 1t.
C. N. Thompson of the Prince
Georges County police, and Edwin
c. Cissel, Identification officer of the
county force.
The victims were pronounced dead
at the scene by James j. Boyd.
Prince Georges coroner.
Mr.. Morehead was said to be well
known in the District. He was
described as close personal friend
of Representative Bryson, Democrat.
OF South Carolina.
Among the injured was Capt.
Lucian A. Moebus, commander Of
the Aircraft Carrier Saratoga during
the Two Jima action, who served
here from l945 to 1947 as director Of
aviation logistics plans in the office
of the deputy chief OF naval oper-
ations for air. Capt. Moebus Is now
serving on the cornnlandant's staff
at Air University, Maxwell Field.
Ala
Crashes Near River.
The accident occurred shortly be-
fore am. in the rain and darkness,
after the aircraft had let down for
the approach to National Airport.
The plane began to cut through the
trees on top of a hill at an eleva-
ton of about $50 feet above the
Potomac and plowed into the
ground several hundred yards from
the waters edge between the river
and Fort Foote road.
The most seriously injured sur
vivors, who were all taken to Cas-
ualty Hospital, were:
Morris Naples III, "a, an automo-
bile salesman of 1868 Nassau street,
Princeton, N. j., serious burns about
the face, neck, arms and legs and
i front of body.
i Eugene Stone, 40, a photographer.
Of 424 Gibbs road. Naval Point,
Pensacola, Fla, who received pos
sible fractures Of the ribs and .
head injury.
Capt. Moebus was less seriously
hurt as was Peter L. Philios, %.
flight attendant, of 1441 Thirty first
road, Astoria, N. Y. His condition
was described as favorable"
There was no fire, and it was
believed that Mr.. Naples may have
been burned by coming in contact
with the engine exhaust.
Men in Rear Section Escape.
The plane fuselage was virtually
torn in two just behind the pilots
compartment and the rear section
of the fuselage turned over after the
plane struck the. ground. Those in
the badly-smashed farward COM
partment apparently were killed in-
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