The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-02-20

 can aviator in the same English plane were in the village where Redfern Is supposed to be. Williams proposes Q new expedition to liber- ate the aviator Redfern, seeking our aid. May we count on your col- Liberation to obtain permission from the Brazilian government
 "'Pilot Williams has been In the village where Redfern is supposed to be. The Indians were friendly but distrustful. When asked for Redfern they ordered him to depart (signed) Pojucan.'
 The British foreign office tele- graphed Aguir to furnish all possi- ble support and collaboration in helping find Redfern if he is alive.
 A second telegram from the em. bassy in Rio de Janeiro said:
 "The British embassy in Brazil re- ceived a telegram from British Guiana saying partly.
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 Williams, and American aviator resident here (Georgetown) recently returned from the interior of north Brazil south of Dutch Guiana where he was searching for traces of Red- fern states his conviction that the wreck of Redfern's place is near the village of Sopokat, where the In- dian headmen denied knowledge of Redfern in conversation with Will Hams. Williams also thinks Red- fern may be alive at Duniya, the vil- lage near which communications of the Brazilian boundary commission pass.
 "'The British boundary commis- sion considers 1t desirable tha the Brazilian authorities should be in- formed"
 Gibson thanked the Brazilian for- eign office and the British embassy for their aid.
 Convinced He Lives
 William Lavarre, explorer. visited the state department in the same month and said he was convinced Redfern is alive. He suggested an expedition by airplane.
 Several such expeditions have been organized.
 A man who claimed to nave seen Redfern, was arrested in Para, Bra gil in 1883, charged with trying to defraud Redfern's uncle, Richard Redfern of Rochester, N. Y, with false information about the avia- tors whereabouts.
 Redfern, son of the Rev. Dr. Frederick c. Redfern of Raleigh, N. C., started from Brunswck, Ga. In August of 1927 on an attemted flight to Rio De Janeiro. He was sghted off the Venezuelan coast by small ship and asked for direc- tions. The ship signalled the way to the coast by changing her course. and indicated the number of miles by waving flags.
 Never Heard of Agan
 Redfern wais never heard of again. Wreckage of plane which might have been his was reported to have been found by indians on the Goijara Peninsula, between Columbia and Venezuela and far to the west of British Guiana.
 Or the various expeditions r- ganzed to search for Redferni. the most persistent was that headed by Art Williams, American aviator who taught Redtern to fly. The various reports convinced him that Redfern was alive, and he set out with a party by plane last December and flew far into the interior of south- eastern British Guiana. near the Brazilian border.
 Word came back a month ago, however, that he had not been Suc- cessful and was returning. On his arrival in Georgetown. however. he said the party had found definite traces" of Redfern. He said he did not wish to raise any false hopes but the search had been 'promis- ing"
 Many Reports
 Redfern was variously said to be a prisoner of natives, and also to be their guest, revered as a white god" It was said that both his legs were broken when he crashed but they had been set by native doctors and he was able to gel about on crutches.
 iDr. Morton c. Kahn. associate pros lessor of public health at Cornell University medical college. returned to New York last week from Dutch Guiana and said he believed from f native reports that a white mar was alive with. a native tribe ir northern Brazil.
 He had been told the story of q man with broken legs who caEns from the slgy. However, he said there was no certainty that the mar Is Redfcrn. He might be an escaped