AMERICAN AIRMEN

Evening Star, Issue 21667, 12 March 1934, Page 9

AMERICAN AIRMEN

FOUR MORE DEATHS ALL ENGAGED IN MAIL SERVICE Pr»M Asiociation—By Telegraph—Copyright. NEW YORK, March 9. Two more army aviators were killed while carrying mails to-day, making a to Ml of nine who have lost their lives. tenant Otto Wieneeko crashed near Chardon, Ohio, during a heavy snowstorm and was instantly' killed, while Private Floyd Marshall, one of the crew of a large bomber, died from injuries following a crash in taking off at Daytona Beach, Florida. Two of his companions wore seriousy injured. Two army pilots were killed to-night at Cheyenne, Wyoming, when their mail plane struck an electric power line and was burned near the airport. The four .deaths to-day stirred an acrimonious debate iu Congress at Washington, where the Administration’s Rill for the return of mail contracts to private concerns was introduced in the Senate. Senator Foss laid the responsibility for the deaths of the flyers to President Roosevelt. Representatives Bacon and Fish, in the House, reiterated charges of “ legalised murder.’’ Representative Mrs Rogers vainly tried to get consideration for a resolution demanding immediate discontinuance by the army of the carriage of mails, the House adjourning without taking action. PRESIDENT CURTAILS SERVICE WASHINGTON, March 10. Because of the loss of ten lives since the United States Army _ started to carry'the air mails, President Roosevelt to-day ordered immediate curtailment of the service, except “on such rentes and under such weather conditions and equipment and personnel as will ensure as far as possible against a recurrence of fatal accidents.”