Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1942, Page 4

"A-4 8 Hollywood Shocked By Carole Lombard's Sudden Death in Plane Stars, Studio Magnates And Laborers Voice Grief at Movies’ Loss By the Associated Press. HOLLYWOOD, Jan. 17.—The film capital, shocked and saddened by the plane-crash death of Carole Lombard, was quick today to pay tribute to the actress it counted as one of its favorite daughters. Elsewhere, too, were heard expres- slons of sorrow and esteem. From Secretary Morgenthau came the simple eulogy that she died in service to her country. Mr. Morgenthau sent this tele- gram to her husband, Clark Gable: “My deepest sympathy goes to you | today. Your wife died in the service of our country. Her brilliant work for the Treasury this week in sell- ing Defense bonds in Indianapolis will be long remembered and hon- ored by us all” Here studio magnates and labor- ers on the big stages joined with the movie-going public in voicmg‘ genuine grief. Miss Lombard's roll of friends was as diversified as her acting ability. One of her closest friends was | Madeline Fields, or “Fieldsie,” who was Carole’s secretary and inti- mate friend for years before becom- ing Mrs. Walter Lang, the wife of a director. She was reported pros- trated with grief. Actors Are Shocked, “There is nothing one can say—it | is too terrible,” commented Robert Taylor. “The hand of every actor in Hol- lywood is extended to Clark Gable, their associate and friend,” said Ed- ward Arnold, president of the Screen Actors’ Guild. “It is doubly tragic as Miss Lombard was returning from important patriotic duty in connec- tion with national defense.” Spencer Tracey added, “So little can be put into words when a trag- | edy of this kind strikes.” A som- ber-faced Walter Pidgeon agreed and said. “I am too shocked to ex- press anything but the deepest grief.” Ginger Rogers, whose dressing | room adjoined Miss Lombard’s at R-K-O studio, said, “The world has lost a star who brought joy to mil- lions and her associates have lost a wonderful friend.” - THE SUNbAY .STAR, WASHINGTOi\' LAS VEGAS, NEV.—SCENE OF FATAL CRASH—View of Table Mountain showing spot (arrow) about 500 feet from fop where T. W. A. airliner crashed killing 22, including Film Actress Carole Lombard and her mother. tonight, expected to leave for the | toss of a coin with Mr. Winkler, who Can Never Be Replaced. Harold Lloyd, who had known Miss Lombard for many years, ob- | served, “Like all great personalities | in pictures who have passed on, she | can never be replaced.” Another | old-time friend, Lupe Velez, cried, | “It's too awful. The film world | will never forget her.” | Gloom was cast over Columbia Studios, where the star was to have started work February 1 on a com- edy with Melvyn Douglas. At Palm Springs, William Powell, Miss Lombard’s former husband, | was “so unbelievably shocked that I don’t know what to say.” | “My wife and I have been up all night waiting for reports,” Mr. Pow- | ell said. crash scene at daylight. It is an wanted to come back by train and 11-mile trip up from Good Springs, | she by air. Their eastward journey at the mountain’s base. Trails are was by train. few. Mrs. Hamilton was en route to Five Bodies Recognizable. join her husband, Lt. Linton D. G. C. “Buck” Blaine, fleld worker | Hamilton, aviator stationed on the foreman at Boulder Dam and for- | West Coast. mer cowboy, gave this account of | The Air Corps ferry pilots were his trip to the wreckage: | en route back to their Western base “1 got within one-half mile of | after delivery flights of new planes the wreckage with my horse. im Eastern points. “The snow was up to the animal’s Pilot Was Veteran. belly and she could go no farther. So I tied her to a tree and started climbing the red rock. It was straight up about 50 feet. “It appeared that the plane had ’ Crew victims on the {ll-fated | plane were Pilot Wayne Williams, 41, | of Reseda, Calif.; Morgan A. Gil- | lette, 25, North Hollywood. and Alice | Getz, 25, hostess. Glendale, daugh- “Our deepest sympathy | needed either 250 or 275 feet. more»l ter of Fred Getz of Mineral, Til. goes to Clark Gable and Carele’s | altitwdé “to™ cléat thié mountafd| T..W. A. said Pilot Williams had two brothers.” Miss Lombard and Mr. Powell were married in 1931 after playing together in films. She divorced him two years later in Reno. Indiana Grieves. “No daughter of any State has made a more glorious contribution to her Nation.” was the message of condolence telegraphed to Clark Gable by Gov. Henry F. Schricker as an expression of Indiana’s grief over the death of the Hoosier-born film star. The governor, who two nights ago shared the platform with Miss Lom- | bard at a State-wide Defense bond | The nose had hit the precipice and | fiown the Las Vegas-Burbank route | had skidded around in a narrow | “off and on for years.” | ravine until the tail had alse hit| Maj. H. W. Anderson, executive the cliff. The occupants were | oficer at the Air Corps gunnery thrown out on the left hand side | school here, said inquiry into the! | of the plane and were scattered for crash would be left to regular au-| | 150 feet, . “Recognizablé” were the bodies | of a lieutenant, a sergeant, an en- | Hecause of the soldiers aboard,| listed man, a T. W. A. employe and | Army guards were sent to the scene | a woman. The plane had burned | to take charge. A patrol also barred | and molten aluminum had dripped | the highway into the mountains to ‘ over the rocks for 25 or 30 feet. sightseers. Enpgage Strewn Afar- Ousted Ones Cheat Death. “Luggage and other equipment .y, 15 goldiers of the ferry com- nicia, Calif.; Mrs. Florence Sawyer, Portland, Me., and Mrs. Carl Brand- ner, Holton, Kans. They all con- | tinued their trips on later flights. ‘Woman Here Is Aunt Of Plane Crash Victim Pvt. Martin W. Tellkamp, one of those who lost their lives in the air- liner crash near Las Vegas, Nev., Friday night, -was the nephew of Mrs. A. Judson Findley, 3401 New- ark street N.W. Mrs. Pindley. said Pvt. Tellkamp] | wilg 19 of 20 years old and had en- 1 listed in the Army immediately af- ter his graduation from high school !in his home town of Lamoille, IIl. | He had been in the Army about a year and a half. After taking the Army radio erator in the ferry service. Fre- quent letters from his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Tellkamp, to Mrs. Findley kept her informed of his activities. She said he was in Wash- ington around Christmas time but was on secret work and was not allowed to get in touch with any rally in Indianapolis, said when | Were strewn for 500 to 600 feet. ... a1 boarded the plane at Al- ' ©One. told of the plane crash: | The snow is about three feet deep | “She came out here to do her on the north side of the mountain | buquerque, where it was necessary duty. I am profoundly distressed about it.” | In his message to Miss Lombard's husband, Gov. Schricker said: | “I am profoundly shocked and | grieved to hear of the airplane tragedy. * * *Her return to Indiana | not only endeared her to the people here, but her gracious presence at the first great national Defense bond rally struck a blow for victdry that will never be forgotten “No daughter of any State has made a more glorious contribution to her Nation. Such unselfishness and heroic service will live forever in the hearts of our people.” Sold Two Million in Bonds. The blonde screen star, born at | Fort Wayne, Ind., October 6. 1908, | as Carol Jane Peters, sold $2.-| 017513 worth of Defense bonds | Thursday at the Indiana Statehouse | and spoke that night to 12,000 per- sons at a war rally. | She was accompanied there from Hollywood by her mother, the for-| mer Miss Elizabeth Knight of | Logansport, Ind., who became Mrs. Frederick C. Peters of Fort Wayne.| Miss Lombard left Fort Wayne when | she was 7 and had lived since in Los | Angeles. A plaque marks the house in Fort Wayne where she was born. | At New York, Will H. Hays, presi- | dent of the Motion Picture Pro-| ducers and Distributors of America, | said, “Carole Lombard has given her life in the service of America. She is a first-line casualty of the war.” Sends Wire to Gable. Mr. Heys disclosed he had talked with Miss Lombard just before she left for the airport at Indianapolis, where she had opened a defense bond sales campaign which netted | more than $2,000,000 the first day— four times the quota set. | In a telegram Thursday to Mr.| Geble, Mr. Hays said he told the; film star’s husband, “Carole was| perfect. She was gay and radiant, | but tears came to her eyes as she voiced her appreciation of the re-| ception she had received from the people of her home State. “Miss Lombard wented to serve| and help her Nation in this hour of its greatest crisis,” Mr. Hays said. “She gave her life for the cause. I am shocked and grieved and sad-| dened.” Airliner (Continued From First Page.) for the almost inaccessible crash scene. Word that the bodies had been| found, however, met Mr. Gable on his trip, and he returned, heart- broken, to his hotel. The bodies will have to be brought out by horseback, & matter which may require a day er so. A party with extra horses, being rounded up > | for four passengers to surrender | their seats to accommodate the Army men. where the plane is located. “It will be necessary to carry the 1 i ?:;j le(sml ;OZ;;E':HS: 22"5 led:‘.uor One of the four was Joseph Szigeti, | 4 ™ | concert violinist, returning to his ntil they int | :'hte:e t:?, C:: lerevac};‘ be ::m", home in Redondo Beach, Calif., be- gl ave horses. FIOM | i oen engagements. He boarded | there it will be about two miles to ichita, Ki 1t | the place where the cars can be the ipians st WicHlA S appearing at nearby Winfield, and | left. i . j nd Miss Lom- “The location of the wreckage ::Sdz::'}:eiu;:ox: i Jiee is in the saddle of an almost preci- . s t: ly. p_ltwus mountain. Rescuers must He d?;“:;?kz:;,i:;’:mis Lom- Zig-zag to make a path so that off- |,y wag until he arrived in Los clals can walk up to the scene. It| o Angeles on a later plane today and probably will take from daylight|,.;rq o the accident. As pas- ::‘dflr::?; XS::O;;;‘X:;_.O, Pt s sengers do, however, he said he studied her carefully during his part Miss Lombard on Defense Trip. of the night flight. The 32-year-old Miss Lombard,| «I did not know her name,” he formerly Jane Peters of Fort lenehk said, “but I pictured her to be an| Ind, was returning to Hollywood | artist-colleague of mine. I watched from Indianapolis, where on Thurs- ‘ her as she walked up and down at| day she sponsored saies of Defense the airport at Wichita. She was| bonds totaling nearly $2.500,000. 'l‘hej very animated, but I had a !eeunq trip was an assignment by Mr. | she was not very gay, not very hap- | Gable, chairman of an actors’ com-| py. I looked at her and had a feel- | mittee handling personal appear- Hollywood friends heard the re- turn trip by plane resulted from the ances to boost bond sales. i ! ing that she was melancholy.” | Others who gave up their seats at | Albuquerque were listed by T. W. AA‘ as Miss Mary Anna Johnson, B"i i Mother of Son in Fatal Air Crash| By the Associated Press. PITTSBURGH, Jan. 17.—The mother of one of four Pennsylvania soldiers killed with 18 other persons in the crash of a TWA air liner near Las Vegas, Nev, today of- fered another son, her youngest to feplace his brother in the armed service of her adopted country. Two of the other Pennsylvania victims were brothers, seldom separated in life. ‘When Mrs. George Belejchak of North Braddock was notified that her son, Staff Sergt. Albert M. Belejchak, probably was killed in| the crash, she brushed away a tear and said: “He's dead—I know it, but what can a mother do in a time like this. Andrew (her 19-yead-old son) wants to go to the Army now. It is so hard for me, his mother, to let him go * * * he can go. though,’and maybe he can take Albert’s place.” Sergt. Belejchak, second eldest of three brothers, had been in the Army since 1934. The eldest son is in the Navy. The brothers dead in the crash were Staff Sergt. Edgar Allen Ny- gren, 25, and Sergt. Rgbert F. Ny- gren, 20, both of Summitt, Fayette 'Offers His Brother to Country companionship. Both had received | patallel assignments during the past two years. Edgar joined the Army Air Corps flve years ago; his brother enlisted in 1840. | The fourth Pennsylvania soldier | victim was Corp. Milton B: Affrime, 25, of Philadelphia, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Affrime. Corp.| Affrime was a former student at West Philadelphia High School. He | enlisted in 1940 and trained at Chanute Field, Il1., and the propellor | school at Bangor, Me. i American Radiator Co. [atica) B written Guarantes T L R T Coal, Oil or Gas Estimate Pree. Day or Night County. X Fred Nygren, the brothers’ fath- er, said his sons were “al- most constantly” and that Army service had not interrupted their ) : ROYAL NEATING 00, 733 15th St. N.W. NAd. 3863 Night ond Sen, Rend. 8529 The front is where you are! 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NEW YORK, Jan, 17.—Wendell L. ‘Willkie called upon Republicans to- day to lend all their efforts toward | finding more effective means of | winning the war and declared that the Republican party “will surely return to power if it becomes and remains a constructive force in this country for the saving of freedom.” Addressing the 21st annual lunch- do you not want the Republicans to adopt similar methods?’ Don’t Do It, He Says. “My plea is don't do it under any circumstances. Don't do it because this country is at war. Don't do it because freedom is at stake. Do constructive things.” Gov. Dwight Griswold of Nebraska told the Repubiican women that the party could best serve the Nation by giving wholehearted support to the prosescution of the war, but at the same time pointing out the weak- nesses and shortcomings of the ex- isting leadership and demanding that they be corrected. Mrs. Anne O'Hare McCormick, & Pulitzer prize winner in journalism and & member of the staff of the New York Times, asserted that “to- day we all belong to one party.” That party, the speaker said, was “the American Party.” Escapes Death Penalty Pipi Katene, 28-year-old laborer, eon meeting of the Women's Na- | was sentenced to hard labor for life tional Repubiican Club, the 1940 for slaying a 79-year-old store- G. O.P.presidential nominee praised | keeper when he faced the court as President Roosevelt’s selection of | the first person to be tried for mur- Donald M. Nelson as chairman of | der since New Zealand abolished Plane Death List 19 Passengers, Crew Of 3 Died in Crash | BY the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Jan. 17.—The| complete crew and passenger list lon the plane which crashed nenr’ | Las Vegas, Nev., as announced today | by Army authorities and T. W. A.: Capt. Wayne Williams, 41, pilot, Reseda, Calif. | Morgan A. Gillette, 25, co-pilot, | North Hollywood, Calif. Alice Getz, 25, hostess, Glendale, Calif.. daughter of Fred Getz of | Mineral, Il Carole Lombard, 32, Hollywood. Mrs. Elizabeth K. Peters, Holly- wood, Miss Lombard's mother. Otto Winkler, Hollywood, M-G-M and 31. | The United States Coast Guard | with a needs men between the ages of 18 than I do. the War Production Board and said | that during and since the 1940 cam- | paign he, Willkie, had publicly called | 124 times for the appointment of a | single production director. i “The very focal point of the Re- publican presentation of issues (in the 1940 campaign) was the neces- sity of making America strong through production,” Mr. Willkie | asserted. 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