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T Page Eight THE CLINTON CHRONICLE Thursday, Jonuory 15, .1948 'lion why'the airliner was flying so' First wore!'of the crash camc5 fi-orn ed ihe plant at about 6 a.tn., they low. The bluff rises only about 100 Mrs. Jarre SchUman, 26, wife o{ a • found Philios standing un-deFThe tatT .1 feet abo\ c the Potomac and visibil- Marine — corps musician! who live? r assembly trying to shelter himself jity at that - low altitude was fairly alxrut 250 yards from the scene. from the rain. He was bleeding pro- iclear, despite the rain. But the land- , 'She told reporters she was awak- 1 fusejy from a head wound)‘but re- > :ng wheels were down, suggesting.! ened shortly after 4:30 a.m. by'the fused h^lp until the three other sur- Increase Made In County Taxes Collected sonal property taxes to. January 1 1 the pilot believed he was nearing the, rending crash- She looked out her j.vivors had been removed from Uw>.j ^3]^ tota i QO nectionsl3d'last year, airport. Civil Aeronautics investigators sa-id , one of the ship’s two barometric alti- ’ meters indicated a height of 1,200 | feet when it' was' photographed after window' but saw nothing and was about to go back to' sleep when she heard faint voices, calling for help. She decided to call the army air station, at nearby Bolling field,' She the disaster. The second, which had 1 was told there, she said, that she j been torn from the damaged panel! “must have been dreaming,” because registered 1 the field had no repoft of a missing and obviously 8,600 wreckage. One, apparently Mafcfle.jnot including delinquent taxes, ac- was pinned between a trunk and the | coding to figures released by County body of a dead man. * 1 Treasurer Sam M. Leaman. Another living man was extricated i _, . . . . , , . . by firemen who used metal cutters ' The total amount collec,e<i t0 J ' ir " ta free his right hand from a wedge erf wreckage. Stretcher bearers carried the three j bonas and duplicates have been do ducted from this sum, he said, very" little w’ill remain to be collected th.? —* ’ • ... year. f Collection of real estate and per- Mr. Leamaiy ascribed the early payment of taxes this year partly to the fact that statements Were mailed out this year for the first time. “Peo ple knew exactly what they had to pay,” he said, “and were able to think of it when first they came to town.” uary 1, he said, was $284,340 as against $272,758 collected to the end of the tax period last year, he said. ) feet.- _ Thq pilot^was heading north along Mrs Shuman called the naval air swam, P- v terrain to the highway 1 the river, apparently on course but stat - 10n next and wag told again thail^ here t ambulances waited to take ^ $330 4!2, was larger than •descending^ a slow glide when t.ie no one kn ^. 0 f an y plane being ^ t ^f iH ^ Spita ' RllhljS mjde ;last year,’ he said, but the total of !r:gif. Wing smashed intp the pino overdue. But the naval station callcvi. ^ trtk unaided. ^ uncollected taxes at the first of the L - Lon S and Representatives Walter ‘tree. It sheared off the foot-thick Maryland police/* who dispatched a Four of the deaa were i-otlhd Inside; year w£s $5000 less than la*' 1 'Martin, Robert C. Wasson and ; trrfnk about 20 feet from the ground. patrol car t0 the ai;e£t the crushed plane, . The fi th, was, y6ar ’ ■. , Charles L. Milam, left Monday for and the terrific impact snapped the ; j n ra i n and darkness,. the po- hurled out of the ship against the} The total remaining to be collected ‘■ iv& opening session of the general , big plane over on its back. ^ 1 lice at first failed to Jocate the wreck-1 trunk of a. tree. All five were be-;^ er January 1, when the one per'j assefWbly on Tuesday. In point of Gasoline sprayed over a wide area age. Finally, one of the policemen ' lieved to have been killed instantly. cent" penalty went on, he ‘ said.' ^ rvk ‘ e - Re P resentative ^-.the Civil Aeronautics 'authority in- arnoun t s * to $46,102. -After the nulla oId - c9 ‘ meipber of the delegation and j plane. County Delegation injured over a half-mile of rugged; to JanUd ^ y . 1 lds4 GoCS to Columbia The amount assessed for taxation The Laurens coUnty legislative 'last year, he said, but the "total of | delegation composed of Senator O. TAYLOR Taylor To Address Presbyterian Men surrounding the wreckage,* but the sounded his siren, and the injured quick action of the dying ffiers pfe- survivors began shouting for help. vented fire. When rescue squads finally reach- speetors and Eastern Air Lines of- 1 —* fieials refusecT to comment on the 1 cause pending a CAA inquiry. he term. serving his seventh two-year The Men-of-the-Chureh of P: csbyte: .:>n church will hold-..Uiejr | dinnor-meeti'ng- this evening at >:30j at ;hc' lu'rch. The Rev. 11 Kerr Tay- Dl'). e-iu.':irional secretary of! ■ :b a. ;.>:;s in Me -Southernj •Pres vteru n -hurch. with headquar- \'a ’.0, Ten!i.. wal be \\ !. c ak oyteriun at 7 30. an arch. .n the :ty. Dr.’ Taylor will the co’.H'gti, chapel service 1n:t. at Me Sunday, morn- > v\ ■ i at the First Pres- church. and Sunday evening at the Tnornwell- Memorial Moorhead Killed In Airplane Crash • (C ntinued fn'in page one) daughters', Mrs. Julian Bolick (Mar garet) of this city, and Mrs. Caldwell Hcndcr. >n (Annet'e) .at Lireenwoud. tiiree sisters, Mrs.' Belle Moorhead Crawfoni ot Go!d\'ille: Mrs. Ella Moorhead Howie, of Char. itte. N. .C., Mrs. R. W. Hughes of Beaufort, three grand-daughters and one grandson. r Account of Plane t rash The following United Press account was given of the accident which cost; the lives of Mr. Moorhead and Mr.. Warner: Washington, Jan. 13.—-A twin-en gine Eastern Air Liner crashed on a wooded bluff almost within sight of Washington National airport before dawn Tuesday killing five of the nine! passengers and crewmen. Flying through -a- heavy, - ra.ns.torra.1— the liner cracked -into a towerV..’ pine tree on the north bank erf the I Potomac ri-v?r and 1 lipped’ oier rm its back in a mass of sodden un dergrowth. ■ The pilot and co-pilot were crush ed to-death in tneir compartment, but not before-one qf them cut the, engines and averted a fire that might! have cost the lives of all aboard. Stopped In Greenville The .b-g silver ship' was en route' from Houston, fex-ts, io B ^ had left Winston-Salem, N. C , at 3 a.m., EST. and was due at National' airport at 4 a.m. It stopped in! Greenville about 1 a.m. 1 The crash occurred 'shortly after, 4 30 fern about five miles south-! east of Washington on a river bluff known as "Treasure Cove." * The four survivors, one of whom Was pinned beneath a body inside the c umipled 'fuselage, were located 90 m.nukes Jater by rescue workers and taken to Washington hospitals Lade today their condition was de> <y-rbed as ‘satisfactory.” Eastern Airlines identified the dead as: W A. Moorhead, Goldville, S. C., v.ct- resident and general manager of the Joanna Cotton mills at Goki- ville, S. C. S. M. Warner of Clinton, S. C., an dngrv er of the J. O. Jones Construe-j . tron Co. He was on his way to a | construction job in the Pacific, L Brandi >f the B’ltmore* hotel,! Atlac.'.a, (. > i^so^.aied a, .h Lr 1 c Cappell-Ma: Donald Co.. Dayton, O. Co-P:lot -Ralph C. Sannborn, Jr., 1 Bayonne N. J. P.Iot Captain Paul §altahis, Great! Neck, L. 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POUND 49c ♦j tnmuarsanaa CAMPBELLS TOMATO 47 OZ. CAN Lu. ill! (Ljcky i- MueoU-^ T —47,' a S. Navy captain now attached Maxwell field’ Montgomery, LL to | Ala-, j who commanded the aircraft tarrier j Saratoga during the war. Miartin Maple, III. 24, of Prince-' ton N.* J.. an ex-Mprine * now 4 op-, crating the Maple Motor Sales Co., { at Princeton. He was returning from a business tii-p to Atlanta. Eugene C Stone, 40, of Pensacola, Fla. Peter Philips, -22. the steward, of Astoria;'N Y. Moebus, who was only slrghtly in jured, said the plane appeared to be settling rapidly, heading 'in foi a landing after a rough flight from Winston-Salem. „ “I adjusted my seat belt, and the next thing I knew I was -upside down on the deck with the seat on top of me,” he said. Delayed by the driving rain, which later changed to snow,, the plane twice reported to the Washington conftrol tower, at 4:26 and 4:33 a.m. Bach tijne, Sanniborn said he was flying on instruments at 2,500 feet and he gave no indication of trouble. At 4:40 a m., the airport control tower tried to contact the plane, and SO’minutes later it flashed a,general alarm. There was no immediate explana- SWIFTNING 3 POUNDS 1.24 2 CAKES LAVA Soap PERSONAL CAKE IVORY 8c MEDIUM 2 CAKES IVORY 23c SP1C SPAN Cleaner 23e Juice 29c CtmpbtlW Potk a. No. 1 Co* 2 Pov Beans 31c C»iyb»Bi Tomato No. 2 Com 2 Pm Juice 25c CAMPBELLS % NO 1 CAN Soup 16c Cbtckaa VagMabl^tof Clam Cb«w4«( CAMPBELLS ^ NO. 1 DAN Soup 13c Vaf. — Gmaa Paa — Baa* aa4 Bacaa AUSTEX BEEP S TE W KINGANS K. P.^ MEET BLUE LABEL PENNANT 24 OZ. CAN SYRUP 19c SWEET GRAPEFRUIT 44 OZ. CAN ^ JUICE 19c v SOSTON 1U1T FORK ROAST POUND 59e LARGE GREEN Shrimp POUND DRESSED PAN 1 1 11 " ■ POUND DON'T BE A BULB SNATCHER. Buy 75 or 100 watt G E. 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