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Treasure Hunt. Few weeks ago Pilot William H. Graham and Mrs. Edna Christofferson, widow of the early barnstormer Silas Christofferson, took off from Seattle to seek the Baychimo, icebound, abandoned, somewhere in the Arctic Ocean. Aboard it, they believed, was "a million dollars worth of furs." Last week airplanes were sent out from Vancouver to hunt for the treasure-hunters, missing somewhere in British Columbia. Meanwhile Captain Sydney A. Cornwall, master of the Baychimo, arrived in Fairbanks and revealed that the fur cargo had already been salvaged by crew and natives, that he was sure his ship had since sunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: Flights & Flyers, Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

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