Mr. Smith, however, revealed his own disbelief in the hope by saying that "we are trying to be intelligent about it, If Tommy has gone down he went down trying the biggest thing of his life."
He revealed that his son had sent him an airmail letter a few hours before taking off from Old Orchard Beach. His son wrote that he was keeping his plan for the flight secret because he did not wish to worry his mother. 5 The secrecy, however, was futile for a local newspaperman advised his parents of the flight just before the daring young aviator took off.
Mr. Smith tried to telephone to the Old Orchard Beach airport but was nasuecessful in his attempt. He revealed that he had wanted to ask Mobile Unit Charged his son not to try the flight.
Mr. Uchida linked the Haimen "We were unable to get through Mobile Unit, another Chinese or-because all the lines were busy," his father said. ganization, with the assassination on May 11 of Mr. Hung Li-hsun, chair-"Finally we contacted the hangar man of the Chinese Chamber of Com-but it was foo late. They said that merce of Amoy, in Kulangsu. This Tommy had started an hour before, his father related.—United Press. group, the Japanese official continued, had been engaged in disrupting the power system on Amoy by cutting wires and to have plotted the murder
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