U.S.A. ’PLANE CRASH

Greymouth Evening Star, 8 May 1935, Page 7

U.S.A. ’PLANE CRASH

LEADING SENATOR KILLED

PETROL EXHAUSTED [by CABLE—PBES3 ASSN.—COPYBIGHT.] KANSAS CITY, May 6. Senator Bronson Cutting, aged 4G, o£ New Mexico, and three others were killed when a giant Douglas monoplane of the Trans-Continental Western Airway crashed in making a forced landing in a fog near Atlanta, Missouri. The other dead are: Pilot Harvey Bolton, co-pilot Kenneth Greeson, and Miss Jeanne Tlillias, aged 20. The remaining nine passengers wore all injured. Among them were a group of Hollywood motion picture men. en route to Annapolis. Maryland, to make a motion picture at the United States naval academy. They included Richard Wallace, director; Paul Wing (the father of the actresses Toby and Patricia), who suffered a crushed chest; William Kaplan, assistant producer; C. G. Drew, technician; and Mrs. Kaplan. All were seriously injured. Mrs. Kaplan probably will be permanently paralysed. All the picture people were of the Paramount Studios.

After a non-stop flight from Los Angeles, en route to New York, the craft arrived over Kansas City airport at 2.39 in the morning. The fog was so dense that it was unable to land. The radio control on the ground ordered . the plane to proceed to an emergency landin" ground at Kirksville, Missouri, 135 miles eastward. After covering 120 miles, the fuel supply apparentlv became exhausted, and it was necessary to make a forced landing in a rough field. The plane clashed into a bank, and turned over. Senator Cutting was instantly crushed to death.

Filet Bolton gasped before he died: “I was forced down because of a lack of gasoline.” Before the-crash, he shouted: “Buckle your belts tight!” In Washington, both House of Congress adjourned as a tribute to the dead Senator, who was one of the leading Republican Progressives . in Congress, and frequently was mentioned as a possible Presidential candiadte in 1936 or 1940. TASMAN MAIL. (Recd. May 8, 10 a.m.) SYDNEY, May 8. J. Percival, who. organised the Jubilee air ntail, and freight flight to New Zealand with the “Southern Cross” and “Faith in Australia,” announced that both machines will leave Richmond aerodrome for New Plymouth about 3 a.m. on May 14. The official piail bag aboard the “Southern Cross’’ will convey greetings from the Governor-General to the Gover.norGeneral of the Dominion. It is expected there will be a record mail from New Zealand on the return flight, which will constitute the first through air mail to London, regarding which the Sydney postal authorities issued a special poster yesterday. '■ ....