FOUR KILLED.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 106, 7 May 1935, Page 9

FOUR KILLED.

IN 'PLANE CRASH. Fatal Forced Landing in Fog. ESCAPE OF FILM PEOPLE. idnitcd P.A.—Elcctric Telegraph—Copyright) * , (Received 2 p.m.) KANSAS CITY, May 0. Senator Bronson Cutting', aged 40, of-New Mexico, and three others were killed early to-day when a giant Douglas monoplane of the Transcontinental Western Airway crashed in making a forced landing in fog near Atlanta, Missouri.

The other dead are the pilot, Harvey Bolton; the co-pilot, Kenneth Greeson; and Miss Jeanne Hillias, aged 20.

The remaining nine passengers were injured. Among them was a group of Hollywood motion picture people, who were en route to Annapolis, Maryland, to make a motion picture at the United States Naval Academy. They included Richard Wallace, the famous director; Paul Wing, father of the actresses Toby and Patricia, who suffered a crushed chest; William Kaplan, assistant-pro-ducer; C. G. Drew, technician; and Mrs. Kaplan.

All were seriously injured, and Mrs. Kaplan will probably be permanently paralysed.

After a non-stop flight from Los Angeles, en route to New York, the craft arrived over Kansas City airport at 2.30 o'clock in the morning.

The fog was so dense that the machine was unable to land. Radio control on the ground ordered the 'plane to proceed to an emergency landing at Kirksville, Missouri, 135 miles to the east.

After covering 120 miles, the fuel supply was apparently exhausted, and it was necessary to make a forced landing in a rough held. r lhe 'plane ciashcd into a bank and turned over;

Senator Cutting was instantly crushed to death.

In Washington of Congress adjourned as a tnoute to the dead Senator, who was one of the leading Republican Progressive members in Congress. He was frequently mentioned as a possible Presidential candidate in 1930 or 1940.