Word: delon
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Missionary. To Kotzebue, Alaska last week proudly flew the Very Reverend Philip I. Delon, head of Indian and Eskimo missions in northern Alaska, to show the new missionary plane Marquette to Father William F. Walsh...
...jaunt. The plane, a Diesel-powered Bellanca, circled the field, dove, crashed, killed pilot and priests. A gift of the Marquette League of New York, which has spent $750,000 upon missions for Indians of the southwest U. S. and of Alaska, the Marquette was intended to enable Father Delon to visit in three weeks missions scattered over 500,000 sq. mi., a trip that formerly required a year's travel by dog team...