GRACE'S MOORE'S LAST WORDS
Received Tuesday, 10 a.m. LONDON, Jan. 27. A K.L.M. official told Reuter's eorrespondent at The Hague that the Dakota which crashed at Kastrup airport, causing the deaths cf six of the crew and 16 passengers, including Grace Moore, the worldfamed operatic singer and him star, and Prince Gustav Adolf, eldest son of the Swedish Crown Prince, carried about 3000 lbs. less than the allowable maximum weight. The crash could not oe caused by overloading. A theory iwas being investigated that there was some defect in the elevator control. Prince Gustav's remains are to be taken to Sweden jn a Swedish warship. Miss Grace Moore, in her last interview published in a Copenhagen newspaper today, said: "It is wonderful to live and sing. I want to play in a new opera where the heroine doesn't die. It is wohderful to be alive, isn't it?"
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Chronicle (Levin), 28 January 1947, Page 5
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