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Near Long Island's Mitchel Field one last week, Lieut. Roy W. Scott of the Air Forces saw sudden trouble on the instrument board dials of his swift Bell Aircobra. With his Allison engine revving at critically high speed (ground witnesses his suspected his propeller control had gone of whack), he headed for home, was too late by a tragic few seconds...
...days later, Mitchel Field's officers read their neighborhood newspaper, found themselves the objects of bitter denunciation in a letter which subsequently got into other papers. Eloquent with grief, written with telling effect it was addressed by Mrs. I. Arthur Kramer, mother of one the children, to Eleanor Roosevelt...
...face of this indictment, Mitchel was cautiously closemouthed. Yet it had a telling answer for every charge was made...
...flying is not experimental. Mitchel's are officers in combat squadrons assigned to the job of defending New York City and vicinity. At places like Hempstead pilots are forced to fly low over the city in landings or takeoffs. And 24-year-old Mitchel Field, representing an investment of millions, could not reasonably be abandoned nor could most of the Army's other great bases, which are cities...
After Pilot Scott's crash, Mitchel Field's Chaplain Paul J. Giegerich visited the next day attended the funeral as Air Forces representative. Because the Kramers are Orthodox Jews he advised fellow officers to send no flowers in keeping with Orthodox custom. But flowers were sent to the funerals of the two other victims of the crash, who were Roman Catholics. The request for a so-called damage-to-property report was routine, if undiplomatic at the time. It called for no waiver of damage rights...