NOTED SCIENTIST KILLED
SIR FREDERICK BANTING PLANE CRASH IN CANADA. Received Feb. 25, 5.5 p.m. OTTAWA, Feb. 24. The Minister of Finance (Colonel Ralston) has announced that Sir Frederick Banting and two companions were killed in an air crash. The fourth member of the party is alive and is being rescued by two trappers. The Minister of Munitions (Mr. C. D. Howe) stated that the plane was located in a bay between Canada and Newfoundland. Sir Frederick Banting has been Professor of Medical Research in the University of Toronto, and has won many Canadian find British honours for his work in medical science. He and Dr. C. H. Best (also of Toronto University), understood a special investigation of insulin which, following certain discoveries they made in 1921, resulted in insulin treatment for diabetic disease.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 85, Issue 48, 26 February 1941, Page 5
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