TWO MORE VICTIMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXII, 31 January 1939, Page 5

TWO MORE VICTIMS

ONE A SON OF SIR GEORGE JULIUS SYDNEY. 30th January. Another aeroplane accident was reported to-day from Katoomba. Two are dead, one of whom, Roderick Julius, aged 33, is a son of Sir George Julius. The other victim has not been identified. Mr Julius and his companion were flying the Taylor “Pup.” in which the pilot recently flew round Australia, and were on the way to the Orange Air Pageant, which was to have been held on Saturday. The plane crashed in an inhospitable part of the Blue Mountains, and was not discovered until to-day, when a local farmer, attracted by the glistening sides of the machine in Megalong Valley, organised a rescue party and to-night visited the wreckage, finding the two occupants dead amid the ruins. NAME OF PASSENGER (Received 31st January. 11.0 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. The second victim of the Blue Mountains’ crash was Clarence Edward Stumbles, aged 32, a passenger. PLANE MISSING A report has been received from Darwin that a Qantas Moth is also missing between Normanton and Mitchell river, in charge of Captain D. Pennant, and conveying Dr. Jean White to the Australian Inland Mission.