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MONDAY, NOV. 15, 1948

Planes Collide As Lead Craft Slows Down

Damaged Fighter Runs Wild in Field - Indiana Air National Guard officers today began a full-scale investigation into the cause of an air accident here. yesterday

which resulted in the death of

8 28-year-old Indianapolis pilot. Capt. Philip Edmund Benner was killed almest instantly at 10:16 a. m. yesterday when his single-engine F-51 was struck by another IANG fighter during

take-off from a runway at Stout Field. Flying ivities at the local

field were suspended for four hours until salvage crews could clear away the wreckage. The planes were part of the 113th Fighter Squadron of the 122d IANG Fighter Group, based here. Control tower operators, who were the only ones to see the crash, reported that Capt. Bonner’s ship slowed down about a quarter of the way down the runway for an undetermined reason. ' Both Planes Spin In their report they said another Mustang, piloted by 2d Lt. Thomas C. Costin, Martinsville, had already started its takeoff run on the southwest runway when Capt. Bonner’s ship began to lose speed. Lt. Costin’s single-engined craft, traveling approximately 80| to 90 miles per hour, crashed into the lead ship. Both aircraft spun around once on the runway and Lt. Costin’s ship then came to a stop. But the other plane, with Capt. Bonner at the controls, began spinning about in the open field, its throttle jammed. Crash crews, flight personnel and State Trooper Raymond H. Thompson rushed to the accident scene. Trooper Thompson emptied his pistol into the tires of the gyrating plane in an effort to halt it. He finally stopped it when

he used a riot gun to blast the tires. First Fatality > Col. Allison Maxwell, com-

manding officer of the 122d Fighter Group, said the death of Capt. Bonner was the squadron’s first fatality in 7000 hours of flying since the IANG began its post-war training. After the death ship was brought to a stop by Trooper Thompson's bullets, Sgt. Steven Kropelnicki, 27, Lake Taxaway, N. C., jumped onto its wing and cut the ignition switches. Approximately 15 men spent nearly 20 minutes in an effort to halt the runaway plane, witnesses said. Military Police cleared a crowd which was gathering in Minnesota St. out of range of bullets from Trooper Thompson's

gun. National Guard officers said Capt. Bonner probably never knew what hit him. He was lifted from the plane and sped to Gen-

eral Hospital in an Air Force

State Trooper Raymond H. Thompson won the praise of National Guard officers by shooting out the tires of Capt. Bonner's

plane with a riot gun to stop it the ground.

ambulance, escorted by a state police car.

Lt. Coston, who is 23 and works 2 for an insurance company here, §

was shaken but uninjured in the crash. Hé climbed from his plane by himself after it came to a rest at the edge of the runway.

Cleared of Blame National Guard officers cleared him of blame in the accident. They said his plane waited 10 seconds as required by regulations to begin its takeoff roll after the lead ship started down the runway. And they added that because of structural characteristics of the F-51 he was unable to see that the ship ahead of him was in troublé until too late. The long nose of the plane

|blocks out vision to the direct

front if it is in a landing attitude. Therefore, it is impossible for the pilot to see anything but the edges of the runway until the plane gains flying speed and its tail rises from the ground. Services for Capt. Bonner, who

- |lived at 875 N.. Grant Ave, will

be at 1:30 p. m. Wednesday in Flanner & Buchanan Mortuary. Burial will be in Washington Park Cemetery. Survivors include his wife, Mary; a three-year-old daughter, Marsha Lyn; his mother, Mrs. John C. Pile, Kalamazoo, Mich.; his father, Fred Bonner, Dallas, Tex., and a brother, Russell L. Bonner, Grand Rapids, Mich.

Recently Promoted A resident here since his discharge from the Air Force in February, 1946, Capt. Bonper had just been promoted to the methods and standards department at the Ely Lilly Co. He married his wife the day he got his wings in October, 1941, at Luke Field, Ariz. The couple was together during his entire career in the service, which was spent in this country training Chinese fliers. Mrs. Bonner said she had never worried about her husband's flying until yesterday. At the breakfast table she said she asked him not to fly that day because she was afraid something would happen to him. She said he told her there was no cause for alarm and left the house, telling her to “take good care of sweetie-pie,” the affection-

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diana Air National Guard plane, its throttle jammed, gyrated

and canopy of Capt. Bonners plane and struck him at the base crazily on the ground at Stout Field after being struck yesterday of the skull. Lt. Costin was shaken up but uninjured in the Stout

by another F-51, piloted by 2d Lt. Thomas C. Costin during a Field crash.

Urge County Ui School SY

| “Study Commission

Hits Township Plan. “The Indiana school study come mission recommended today that the township be abolished as s unit for school adutulguation, The commission, in a report, said that Indiana “should make the entire county one unit Sake school administration, except for city school systems.” 3 The 57-member commission, which has studied the Hoosier school system for the past eight months, said the : was “in the interests of : and an improved educational program,” The commission said that township school administration costs two or three times as much as |schools of “adequate size.” It ladded that they provide for 2 “narrow” school program that “does not fit the pupils’ needs for living in a modern, complex world.” :

Changes Urged Two recommended changes were that county unit administration be turned over to a fivemember board of education, to be elected. on a non-partisan ballot, and that county superintendents of education be appointed by the board. The report added that “ade. quate building facilities for small-

Capt. Philip E. Bonner, assistant operations officer of the IANG's 113th Fighter Squadron here, was killed almost instantly yesterday when another plane crashed into his craft

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Here Is Official Tabulation Of Indiana's Vote on Nov. 2

INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 15 (UP)|8 990; Raym —Here is the official Nov. 2 vote|christopher D. in Indiana for 11 state offices Garnet Jewel] (Proh.},

Schricker's Hat Sold at Auction

Gov.-elect Henry F. Schricker’s battered but famed white cam-

er schools also call for a per-pupil investment that, is practically prohibitive at present construction

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paign hat was sod for $25 Frida ne tried it on once before when night to the highest bidder at the|Schricker Was governor and Engineer Honored “Annual Work Sale” sponsored by wasn't looking.” Oral H. Hert, 358 8. Audubon the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran| The Rey. Walter C. Maas, pas-|Rd., today was enrolled as a junChurch. tor of the church, said Mr./ior in the American Society of

Everett (Pat) Patterson, an|Schricker promised to “give some-| Civil Engineers, according to an

a4. 995; linton

Sion Ginsberg Prisbie (Prog.), 6205; William Rabe (Soc.),

For Lieutenant-Governor—John A. Watkins (D), 840,451; Rue J. Alexander (R), Charley Lynch (Soc.-Lab), 6 r (Prog.), 6314; Roy L. Farr (Soc.),

of State—Charles F'. Flemiy (R),

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ond M. Morris (Proh.), 910. Ninth District—Earl Wilson (R), 50,787; Moritz o> 55,333; Rev. TRICT—Ralph Harvey (R), C. Oliver (D), 67,081; LeRoy STRICT—George L. Denny ®= 98.451: Andrey Jacobs (D), 103,046; A.

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pionships, held last week-end in Cincinnati, O. Third place in the open pair event (70 entries) was won by Joseph E. Cain, 5204 N. Meridian St., playing with Frank Weis- | { bach, ‘Cincinnati. Fourth place was taken by Ralph Ittenbach,|5 4014 N. New Jersey St.,, and Dr.|q

ington Blvd. In the team of four events (22

teammates, won first place. Seccomposed entirely of Indianapolis], players. Other Winners Listed Second place: Mrs. Reba Buck,

Comas Jr, 3534 Stanley Ave.; Jerome Jacobs, 2724 Talbot Ave.

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The official vote in Indiana for Congressional candidates in the state’s 11 districts: Second District—Charles A.

First Distriet — Theod: R), 50,194; Ray J. Ralston Miller (Proh.), 7 71,907; Theod:

7,245; F. W. Loi oO Bron. oy on » : , . Ui a) Third District—Robert_ A.’ Grant (R.), 8,935; Thurman C. D), 383;

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(8oc.), For Auditor of State—James M. Pro st {D), mn, 672; Gilbert EB. Ogles (R), 780.3 14,111; Vivienne "817; Bdna Jo

—For the amendment, 282533; ggainst the amendment, 151,302. (Does not include vote from

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tate taxation exemption over a pe-

riod of years, 69,312; favoring

gross income tax exemption over

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Canada's Governor

Receives Resignation OTTAWA, Nov. 15 (UP)— Canada completed the formality of changing Prime Ministers to-

Louis St. Laurent was‘directed to form a new government. Mr. King, 73, ended 21 years in Canada’s highest elective office

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and Richard W. Lee, 124 W. 44th Street. Third place: Mr. and Mrs. V. R. Rupp, 4125 Ruckle St, playing

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later in the day.

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SUPPER PLANNED Past presidents’ parley of Wayne Post 64, American Legion, will hold a pitch-in supper at 6:30 p. m, Wednesday in the post home, with Mrs, Elmer Lester as hostess.

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