Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-14 | Page 8 | Speed Flight Ends in Crash

SPEED FLIGHT ENDS IN CRASH MEXICO CITY July 14 P JP- JP James N N. Crofton millionaire president president dent dent of the Agua Caliente Amusement Amusement Amuse Amuse- ment company of Agua Caliente Lower Low I er California who was seriously injured injured in in- last night when a plane in which he was flying lyIng to Mexico City crashed on a mountain top west of here said toda today the desire to make a single da day flight fliCht from Guaymas to Mexico City was responsible for lor the accident The pilot Carl GIlpin president of the GilpIn Air Lines of Los Angeles was killed in trying to land the monoplane monoplane mono mono- monoplane plane in the dark and rain and ond Gilpin Gil Gil- pin s Wife W was perhaps fatally in in n lured Miss Mona n Ri Rico il Mexican mo motion motion mo- mo tion picture actress of Hollywood suffered suf suf- severe cuts and bruises All AJl the victims were rushed to the Red Cross hospital in Toluca capital of the stale state of Mexico where Crofton Crof Crof- ton was vas reached by telephone after he had received tr treatment for a broken brok brok- en right leg and hand and a gash over his left eye He said the party left San Diego Tuesday spending that night in Guaymas Guay mas from where they decided to fly to Mexico City in one day After lunch at Guadalajara the party cond continued con a and d found themselves over the dangerous Toluca mountain range as dork dark set in and with a torrential rain falling Gilpin decided to try to land in the high ridge mountains and brought the plane down cautiously The landIng landing land land- Ing gear was stripped off oft however and the plane staggered into the thi again acain collapsed and rolled over Ie ley kv eral times finally dashing Itself bits bib to toA A fifth firth victim was Carlos J. J rj a Mexican interpreter who suffer severe hurts B