’PLANE SMASH
SEVEN LIVES LOST IN NEW JERSEY. United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright (Received November 6, 9.20 p.m.) NEW YORK, November 5. A message from Shrewsbury (New Jersey) states that seven are dead as the result of a ’plane crash. George R. Johnson, a noted aerial photographer and explorer, and Sergeant Alfred Poole were killed today, when a National Guard aeroplane crashed Into a house. Five negroes were burned to death when the house caught fire. Johnson was a lieutenant in the Peruvian Army, and was the first photographer to fly over the volcano of El Misti.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19640, 7 November 1933, Page 7
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97’PLANE SMASH Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19640, 7 November 1933, Page 7
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