PLANE CRASHES
TWO IN UNITED STATES WEALTHY MANUFACTURER A VICTIM (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) NEW YORK, 20th May. Harry Williams, aged 47 years, a wealthy aeroplane manufacturer, and the husband of Margaret Clark, a star of silent pictures, was killed when his 'plane crashed into a swamp near Baton Rouge and burst into flames. His pilot, .ijbhiL Wortb|en, wqjs also bjumed to death. In manufacturing aeroplanes, Williams was associated with the late James Wedell, who was killed in a crash in 1934. There was another aeroplane fatality to-day when a seven-passenger seaplane crasiied into Penobscot Bay, Maine. The six passengers were rescued, but the pilot was drowned.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 22 May 1936, Page 5
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