Evening star., 1950-08-31
TWAAirIiner
Crashes Near
D. c. Lowyer Among
q Americans on
Bombuy-Rome PIone
BY the Assoeioted Press

CAIRO, Aug. 31.-A Trans
World Airline Constellation plane
carrying SIS persons, % of them
Americans, crashed and burned
today north of Cairo, killing all
aboard.
The airline announced there
were no survivors among the 48
passengers and seven crewmen.
Reports from the scene said the
plane was so badly burned that
only a small section of it re-
manned intact.
The bodies of the victims, many
of them notableS and represent
ing a dozen countries, were so
badly charred that identification
at once was impossible.
Mallory Reynolds Smith, 80, an
attorney, of Washington. was list
ci as aboard the airliner.
Plunged in Flames.
officials Of the district gover-
nor's Office in Behaira Province
placed the scene of the crash near
Etay Barour, about rs miles north
west of Cairo. Eyewitnesses said
they saw the big four-engine Star
of Maryland plummet to earth in
flames.
Earlier the district governors
office had held out hope that six
of those aboard had survived, but
this was dashed by messages di-
rect from the scene, to which
rescue teams had been rushed as
soon as a TWA search plane
spotted the wreckage in the Nile
delta area. TWA said the bodies
are being remived by plane to
Cairo.
Five of the crew of seven aboard
the plane, bound from Bombay to
Rome, were Americans. The other
two were French. Eighteen of the
48 passengers were Americans, and
the remainder represented II
other nationalities. Two pessen-
gers were Indian nationals en-
route to a United Nations meeting
in Paris. Another passenger was
the Egyptian movie star Lilianne
Cohen. whose screen name is Ca
melia. She is known as "the Lana
Turner Of the Middle East
Other Americans listed as
aboard included Aubrey william
Schof1eld, So. a native Of San
Antonio. Tex. who has been living
in New York. He has been mana
ger Of the Eastern Hemisphere
Foreign Production Division Of the
Golf Oil Co.. Recently he has
been filling in as manager of the
Kuwait Oil Co.
M. /. T. Dean Aboard.
Also listed as a passenger was
Everett Moore Baker, 40, dean of
students at Massachusetts, Insti-
tute Of Technology. and chairman
OF the International Student Sery-
ice with headquarters in Geneva.
Switzerland. He had been in
Bombay to preside over the inter-
national organizations annual
conference.
Another American was listed
as William c. Gist, son of Justice
Erwin Gist of Lake City, Iowa.
The senior Gist is administration
services and transportation officer
at the United States Embassy in
Cairo.
Three other Americans on the
passenger list were identified as
from the United States Air Force
base at Dhahran, Saudia Arabia.
The names were listed as Melvin
Hanson, Derek Owen William and
Harry Richard Woods. No ad-
dresses were given.
The Paris Office of TWA listed
the crew as follows:
Capt. Walton B. Webb. a 10
year veteran of TWA, pilot; Hal
don Hammitt, first officer; Harley
B. Hackett, navigator; Melvyn C.
House, flight engineer; Herbert j.
Stiles, radio operator; Jose j. G.
Bernard. purser, and Jeanne
Claire Lorenzie, hostess.
Probers Dispatched to Scene.
TWA said another of it's pilots
was aboard as a passenger, on
vacation with his wife and two
children. They were identified as
Francis Pope. his wife Helanita,
a daughter, Mary Louise, and a
(See PLANE, Page A-5.)