DEATH AT SEA
AN AMERICAN BANKER HONOLULU, May 30. Mr George F. Baker died early this morning. His estate is valued between 200,000,000 and 500,000,000 dollars, A message received on Saturday stated: “Friends of Mr George F. Baker, a noted banker, said his life was saved when his yacht Viking hailed the Niagara and the liner’s physician performed a peritonitis operation. A turn for the worse later occurred, and a coastguard cutter at Honolulu was ordered to rush medical supplies to the Viking, which afterwards also asked for blood donors, indicating that transfusions were necessary, but the cutter had already left. A naval aeroplane was, therefore, ordered to carry serum to the Viking, to be used instead.”
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 9
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117DEATH AT SEA Otago Daily Times, Issue 23205, 1 June 1937, Page 9
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