LIGHTNING STRIKES ’PLANE
MEXICAN AVIATOR KILLED
Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyrighl
NEW YORK. July 13
A message from Chatsworth, Now Jersey, states that Captain Emilio Carranza", the Mexican Lindbergh, was killed when lightning struck his ’plane while he was on his way to Mexico. The ’plane crashed into a pine forest, where the body, of the aviator was found by a berry-picker. Captain Carranza was recently received at Washington as an official goodwill envoy of the Mixicun Government. lie was lavishly entertained, and received glowiug tributes in tho American Press. He expressed a desire at his departure to return to Mexico City to his bride of less than a month.—Australian Press Association.
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Evening Star, Issue 19919, 16 July 1928, Page 9
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