Missing Airplane Located

Northern Advocate, 29 July 1938, Page 5

Missing Airplane Located

(Received 12 Noon.) NEW YORK, July 28. The New York office of Mr J. P. Bicknell, a Toronto mining magnate, announced that it has received word that the party in his ’plane, which included the Premier of Ontario, Mr M. F. Hepburn, Mr Bernard E. Smith, a noted New York stock market operator, as well as himself and the pilot, James F. Towne, of Toronto, which was long overdue at Juneau, Alaska, is safe. The men spent the night at CarcrOss. Information reached Toronto by telephone from the Yukon, but no details have so far been given. The United States army signal corps report that they have received a radio message from Skagaway stating that the ’plane turned back from Skagaway to Carcross on account of fog. Grave fears were held earlier that the ’plane had crashed. The territory in which the plane was missing is rugged and mountainous. There are several emergency landing grounds, but all are lacking in means of communication with the outside world. Mr. Smith, who is known in Wall Street as “Sell 'em Benn,” made £2,500,000- during the 1929. stock market crash, and was recently reported to be attempting to negotiate for petroleum from the wells which Mexico, has expropriated.