[10] The clipping (right) is from the Alviso (California) Advocate and was found in one of 12 boxes of old company records recently donated by Barataria Industries to the Cutter Air Museum. Although the clipping is undated, other company records indicate that Jack Panzer was hired by the Barataria Boat Works in November of 1905. A computer analysis of the clipping's photograph revealed that it is the same man as in the photograph with Jake Cutter.

[11] I have interviewed two persons who recalled being in the Monkey Bar when this photograph was taken. (Unfortunately, my copy of those interviews--along with other documents studied in preparing this article--has been temporarily misplaced in my recent, unanticipated move from the Seiber Islands to the Marivellas.)
They each also confirmed that the man's name was Jack Panzer and that he and Jake Cutter spent a great deal of time together over the course of at least 2 or 3 days. They report that he arrived in a flying boat similar to the Pan Pacific Clipper (i.e., a Barataria Bonavista) but painted a flat black with the following name painted in pale grey: "Barataria Black Bird"!
Their recollections are undoubtedly remarkably clear and credible due to Jack Panzer's tragic disappearance on the flight of this aircraft from the Marivellas to Guam. The date of his departure can be accurately fixed since he loudly (and perhaps unfortunately) announced his intention to fly to Guam to join the Pan American Hawaii Clipper which coincidentally happened to have "disappeared" on July 29, 1938. (An "alternative" explanation of the Hawaii Clipper's so-called "disappearance" is found in the book Fix on the Rising Sun: The Clipper Hi-jacking of 1938 and the Ultimate M.I.A.'s by Charles N. Hill or his website. Mr. Hill claims that the Hawaii Clipper was hi-jacked in flight by renegade officers of the Japanese Navy and diverted to the Imperial Japanese Navy's Fourth Fleet naval base, at Truk. There, her fifteen passengers and crew were murdered and entombed, reportedly face down, within the poured-concrete foundation slab of the infamous naval hospital, being built on Unimakur Mountain, at Dublon Island, overlooking the fleet's Eten Anchorage.)

Ironically, if Jack Panzer's own Bonavista had not itself disappeared (flying a course over the same Japanese controlled island--Truk--to which Charles N. Hill believes the Hawaii Clipper was hijacked) he would have died anyway on the Hawaii Clipper.

In yet another irony, the old company records recently donated by Barataria Industries to the Cutter Air Museum also reveal that Jack Panzer--a long time member of the Alviso Duck Club--was originally scheduled on the final flight of the Pan Pacific's Tagataya Clipper which went down in the ocean between the Marivellas and the Seiber Islands, presumably due to mechanical failure and was never found. (However, for information about a Seiber Island's colonial Department of Commerce report on the loss, click here.) Panzer like, most of the other members of Alviso Duck Club, was planning to go to the Seiber Islands to participate in the annual competition of the Seiber Islands Schützenverein ("Shooting Association"). Literally at the last minute, Panzer was called away to a meeting with representatives of a still unidentified government and, therefore saved from the fate of his fellow Duck Club members.