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77th Congress, 1st session } HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES { Report No. 1403 MRS. EDDIE A. SCHNEIDER November 7, 1941 to the Committee of the Whole House and ordered to be printed. Mr. Keogh, from the Committee on Claims, submitted the following REPORT [To accompany H. R. 5290] The Committee on Claims, to whom was referred the bill (H. R. 5290) for the relief of Mrs. Eddie A. Schneider, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. The purpose of the proposed legislation is to pay teh sum of

It appears that on December 23, 1940, a private plane piloted by Eddie Schneider was struck by a Navy plane, piloted by Ensign Kenneth A. Kuehner, United States Naval Reserve, in the vicinity of Floyd Bennett Field, Brooklvn, N.Y., causing the death of Eddie Schneider and completely demolishing his plane. The evidence that the first contact of the Navy plane with the private plane was when its propeller cut through the tail of the private plane and out the tail completely olf. This was confirmed by the fact that th_e tail pf the ‘private were After the própeller of Ythe Navy plane severed the tail surfaces of the private plane, the private plane pulled ahead for an instant. The Navy plane swunglslightly the overtook the prîvnte_planc, again cutting one of its wings causing it to imrnedíately spin bo the waters below. An inspection of the Navy plane revealed that the leading edges of both bla/des of the propeller had been gouged and nicked, apparently at the time the