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WALTER R. BRACKEN | a. white woman about 50 years I of age.- Another was identified | only as a “Mr. _Wang.”) There were at least 44 persons ? aboard the big plane, including f three infants. However, UAL of- |; ficials were not certain whether |i the infants were included in the I, total number of passengers. |5 Cause of the crash, which oc- §> curred at '4:31 a.m., MST, was I) not determined. One source said K> the .crash occurred as the pilot I sought to make a forced landing, I after developing engine trouble, j: All emergency equipment was | rushed to the scene of the crash, I one mile north of the Cheyenne I airport. The plane did not burn. ' i Pilot of the plane was Captain f?- Leonard H. Smith, Atherton, Cal- > if&rnia". His co-pilot was First ft Officer Jerome S. Buchman, 31, | Menlo Park, California, also of Sc Phoenix, Arizona. Stewardesses |i on the plane were identified by ii- UAL as Margaret Ford, 23, Mill- fi. brae, California, and Mary Len |- Cemey, 21, Pacific Grove, Cali- fe. fornia. UAL officials in San Francisco E said Captain Smith suffered a >f broken arm in the crash but that i the other crew members were not Bracken Retires Rounds Out 45 Years with U. P. Walter R. Bracken, special rep­resentative of the president of the Union Pacific railroad for Nevada and vice president of the J Las Vegas Land & Water com­pany, a subsidiary, today an- nounced his retirement effective October 31, completing 45 years of continuous service. Bracken came to southern Ne- i vada at the turn of the century as a civil engineer in charge of. surveys for the qew railroad then being projected through this l area. When the Clark interests purchased the old Stewart ranch ‘ as the location’for its devision shops and the new’town that was to house company workers, Bracken was named superin­tendent of the property. •He became Las Vegas first' . postmaster in 1904, distributing ; mail from a single room at the ~ ranch. At . the opening of the. townsite on May 15, 1905, at which more than $250,000 worth of lots were sold at auction, he: moved the postoffice to the cen­ter of the new village and occu­pied a large tent at Main and 4 Fremont streets where the Sal I Sagev hotel now stands. When the First State Bank building was completed at First and Fremont,j the postoffice Was established in ; that structure. Bracken continued as postmas- f ter until 1914 when he resigned to devote his entire time to his duties as manager of the Las Vegas Land & Water company, Which tinder his supervision had built 64 houses, also the company rooming house to provide quar­ters for railroad employes in this area. He has maintained his of- t fice in the latter building since its completion. Now a third-third ’degree Ma­son, Bracken was a charter member of Las Vegas Lodge No. 32, and has been active in that fraternity the better part of his life. He was one of the group who started “Stray Elks,” forerunner P of,Las Vegas Lodge 1468, of 1’which he is a charter member, having served as treasurer until 1938. In 1905, when the First' State bank was incorporated under the presidency of J. Ross Clark,