TWO PLANE CRASHES IN AMERICA
Throe Men Lose Lives SEAPLANE PASSENGERS RESCUED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright. (Received May 21, 7.50 p.m.) New York, May 20. Harry Williams, aged 47, a wealthy aeroplane manufacturer and the husband of Margaret Clark, star of the silent pictures, was killed when his plane crashed into a swamp near Baton Rouge and burst into flames. His pilot, John Worthen, was also burned to death. In manufacturing aeroplanes Williams was associated with tlie late James Wedell, who was killed in a crash in 1934. There was another aeroplanefatality to-day when a seven-passenger seaplane crashed into Penobscot Bay (Maine). The six passengers were rescued but the pilot was drowned.
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Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 201, 22 May 1936, Page 11
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