16 May 1932 Tonawanda News
6 Lives Lost In Plane Crashes Over Week-End
By United Press
Six lives were lost in scattered air disasters over the week end.
The victims included: William A. Clark III, 38, grandson of the late Senator W. A. Clark of Montana and Jack Lynch, 40, co-pilot of Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, killed in a crash near Cottonwood, Ariz.
Gordon Brown, 23, Rochester, N. Y., and his sister, Mrs. Barbara Bowes, 27, St. Charles, Ill., killed near Chicago.
Crashes While Stunting
Richard Crabbs, 25, Orlando, Fla., second lieutenant in the Army Air Corps from Selfridge Field, Mich., crashed while stunting at Davenport, Ia.
Richard Spencer, 28, Alhambra, Calif., passenger in a plane which crashed at Los Angeles.
Clark died in an attempt to learn “blind flying.” He and Lynch were flying the plane from a hooded cockpit when it went into a spin at 2,000 feet altitude and crashed.
4 Deaths in One Family
The death of Brown and his sister raised to toll of air fatalities in the Brown family to four. A brother and brother-in-law had died in two previous crashes.
Roy Behrens, Los Angeles, pilot of the plane in which Spencer was killed, and Behrens’ brother Ray, also a passenger, were seriously injured in the accident.