Salt Lake Telegram | 1941-02-24 | Page 2 | Insulin Finder Lost on Plane

INSULIN FINDER LOST ON PLANE MONTREAL Feb 24 P UP An P-An An In Intensive in search was under way Monday for a military airplane missing since Friday morning with Dr Sir Frederick Banting codis codis- coverer cover of insulin and one of Canadas Canada's Canadas Canadas Canada's Can Can- adas ada's outstanding scientists aboard as a a. a passenger Besides Sir Frederick a major Inn in inthe B n the Canadian army the plane carried car ried a Ii crew of three Members of the crew were Caplain Captain Cap Cap- tain lain Joseph Creighton Crelghton Mackey 31 formerly a test pilot with the civil aeronautics administration in Kansas Kan Ken sas Las City Navigator William Navigator William Bird of Kidderminster England and William of Bedford Nova Scotia Feared Lost In Sea Mackey left Kansas City last September for Canada to enter civilian service ferrying new bomb bomb- bombers ers to England An official announcement Issued here Sunday night described the missing air aircraft raft only as a military airplane being delivered by a civilian civilian ilian organization It gave no Indication of where It had taken off nor not its intended destination but indicated it may have come down somewhere In Inthe inthe inthe the sea along the eastern coast of Canada or in some remote section of the maritime provinces or New The plane had favorable weather conditions when last heard from the announcement said but it did not reach Its destination nor had its radio been heard since Friday morning Nobel Prize Winner Sir Frederick who devoted much of his time in the last two years to research in the field of aviation avia aviation avia avia- tion medicine served Jn in n the World war will and war professor of medical research In the University of Toronto Toronto To To- when he Joined the Canadian Canadian Cana Cana- dian army medical corps at the start of the war He was born In 1891 In Alliston Ontario The discovery of the insulin treatment for diabetes diabetes' was announced announced an an- In 1922 Besides Dr Banting Banting Bant Bant- ing those associated in the work were Dr J. J R H MacLeod and Dr C. C H H. Best The Nobel prize for medicine j fog 1923 was awarded Jointly jointly- to Dr Banting and Dr MacLe MacLeod d. d Dr Banting immediately announced he felt that Dr Best should have been included In the award and turned over half of his prize money to him The Canadian government voted Dr Banting an annuity of so he could pursue his research without interruption Subsequently the Banting Institute was formed as Os a research foundation Dr Banting was knighted in 1934 by King George V. V Search Starts t SIR FREDERICK Was knighted by George V I