The Archive · 1929

JAPANESE FLIER'S BAD LUCK

Crash on Mountain Neat Bober City — X.GOX, SRECIAL SERIN

San Francisco, July 9.

Local Japanese believe that the aviator whoge aeroplane ereashed last night on a mountain near Bober City, Utah, was Masashi Gotto of Los Angeles who, unable to finance an attempted flight across the Pacific ocean, had built a small aeroplane and left Oakland on July 3 with the intention of going home to Tokyo from west to east.

He refuelled at Salt Lake City on July 4 and continued, expecting to Progress to New York by easy stages and thence ship his-plane to Europe and fly across Europe and

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