A grief-stricken father today poignantly related how he had made a last minute attempt to halt his son, Mr, Thomas Smith, from taking off on.his daring and fateful trans-Atlantic flight and failed because all the telephone lines to the airport were engaged.
Mr. Harvey Smith, retired attorney and 68-year-old father of the luckless young American who failed in his bold bid to cross the Atlantic in a tiny plane, and the youth's 60-year-old mother refused to believe that their son had crashed to his doom.
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