CATHCART JONES
IS HE FIGHTING IN SPAIN?
LONDON, January 29
Where is Owen Cathcart Jones, who made flying history in 1934, when he and Ken Waller flew from England to Australia and back in 13ft days, after having gained fourth place in the big air race to Melbourne? The famous airman failed to appear at his first meeting of creditors at London Bankruptcy Court this week. Mr C. T. Newman, Assistant Official Receiver, said’ that Cathcart Jones had failed to surrender under the proceedings. A distress was levied at his flat last December and goods were sold in January.
A representative of the petitioning careditor said that Cathcart Jones took a plane to South America for demonstration purposes. It was alleged that he sold the machine and failed to account for the proceeds, and a judgment for £660 had’ been obtained against him. Mr Newman said that last August Cathcart Jones was alleged to have landed in Czechoslovakia with two Spanish nationals and to have subsequently disappeared. “Whether he is in Spain, or not, I don’t know,” said Mr Newman, "but I believe that he was in this country on December 22.”
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 February 1937, Page 3
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