Evening star., 1951-04-09
Morniingsiide
Bitter, Meeting
Set in Crash
Fire offieioI Says
Better Voter Supply
Could Have Saved Lif

Town Is Bitter.
2. Andrews base officials shoul
have needed repeated request
from the town to stop bringinI
planes in SO low over the com
munity.
Mayor william j. Spahr sal,
the whole incident will be dis
cussed and then the council ant
fire department will formulate al
action plan designed to proven
any possibility of a recurrence.
He said the town was bitter
and in an uproar about the crash
Lack of Water Blamed.
Gerald Glaubitz. assistant chic
Of the Moningside Volunteer Fir
Department, blamed lack of waite,
for firemen's failure to save th'
life of at least one Of the three
persons killed when the plant
crashed into the home of MfSergt
and Mrs. Samuel Snyder at 80.
Poplar road.
One of the first to arrive or
the scene, Mr.. Glaubitz said HI
and other members of the firt
department rushed into the burn.
ing house and saw a man pinned
beneath some wreckage. The mar
was Irwin Guyer of Crawford, N. Y.
who was visiting the Snyders. HI
was killed as were two of hi
nieces. Kay. 6, and Rena. 8 weeks
daughters of the Snyders.
"Just. his legs were pinned.
think it was under the cockpit
section" Mr.. Glaubitz said. "He
was conscious and crying, Help
help
Water Runs Out in 10 Minutes.
ST kept telling him, 'we'n get
you out I grabbed his arms and
shoulder and tried to pull him
out but he wouldn't move. Then
we set to work on the wreckage
with axes while other boys played
two hoses on the fire, keeping it
away from the man."
Mr.. Glaubitz said the water
ran out in about 10 minutes
water from the new 500-gallon
pumper of the fire department
and the smoke and flames drove
them out,
I'm positive we could have got
that man out if we'd had more
water" he said.
He said engines from other fire
companies arrived but it was toe
late to fight their way back into
the fame-flle house.
Has No Water Hydrants.
Mr.. Glaubitz said the town hae
no water hydrants with which
to fight fires. He said 24-incf
water main runs through the
town from Suitland road to the
air base.
The fire department has asked
the Air Force for permission tt
tap into the main to supply f1rt
hydrants, he continued, but have
been refused on the grounds j
was impossible"
The main in question Is a spe.
cial one Andrews base had bull
to supply its needs.
Andrews officials, however
denied they had prevented tht
tapping of the water main. They
said that so far as they knew they
had never been approached about
1t and that in any case it was
not under their control.
An official of Headquarter:
Command, United States All
Force, which controls Andrews
base, said that Offices files hao
been searched "for a year and g
half back" without turning ur
any request for tapping rights.
Hasn't Heard of Requests.
E. A. Schmidt of the Washing
ton Aqueduct-the water supply
system for the District and An.
drews said he has never knowr
of anyone asking for outlets fol
fire protection from the main 60
ing to Andrews.
He said the main-16-inches
not "a inches-is maintained with
Federal funds an drums from the
District line to Andrews. He addee
that il any request had been made
by Morningside or any othel
community, he would have knowr
of it.
Morningside itself gets Its watel
supply from an artesian well.
storage tank system installed By
the developers of the community
Mayor Spahr said there was on,
hydrant in the upper part of tn,
town but lack of pressure mad,
it useless for fighting fires of am
size.
1949 Petition Cited.
Concerning the base plane
which continually fly low over tn,
town in making their landing ap.
proaches, Mr.. Spahr said Andrew.
Air Force Base had been asked t,
stop bringing in planes over tn,
homes.
He said that two years ago 6
petition was drawn up by a nov
defunct citizens association ans
presented to the Air Force official,
to get the base to route the plane,
differently. Nothing happened. h,
added.
The Ladies' Auxiliary of tn,
Morningside Volunteer Fire De,
partment served coffee and sand
wiches to the flremen and voicet
IN bitter tones their attitud,
toward Andrews base.
"They seem to feel they wer,
here first. so to hell with u.s." on,
citizen said.
Where's the pilot of tina
plane? II he was here he ouph
tor be lynched," another said
Several chimed in with, THAT
right. he ought to be-"