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Died. Marine Corps Captain Charles William ("Charlie") Paddock, 42, track star dubbed the onetime "world's fastest human" in the '20s, peacetime manager of California newspapers; in the crash of a Navy plane; near Sitka, Alaska. (Killed in the same crash: Marine Corps Major General William Peterkin Upshur, 61, commander of the Marine Corps Department of the Pacific...
...Powder, etc.) last week announced that he would ask his 115,000 common stockholders to convert every four shares they now hold into one share of new stock. Brokers raised interested eyebrows: reverse splitting had hardly been heard of on Wall Street since the dog days after the 1929 crash, when some companies used it to give their collapsing shares some semblance of dollar value...
...nearly severed. The pilot shouted to the bombardier to forget the bombs, but he leaned over, dripping blood on his bombsight. and let them go. An Me-109 approached. The wounded sergeant dragged himself to his gun, shot down the Messerschmitt, then picked up a camera and photographed the crash. Two other gunners gave him a shot of morphine, put a tourniquet on his leg, nursed him safely back to base...
...Fred Kreiger, band director, and also editor, printer and advertising salesman of the Boise City News, had had a hard day at the print shop. He got to bed after midnight. Fred heard the drone of a plane, a whistle, a crash, an explosion. He pulled on his britches and ran for the street. Said he: "My first thought was an enemy plane. Then I thought, why in heck. . . ? After I saw how deep the bombs bored into the pavement, I was glad I hadn't hid under that big paper cutter at the office...
After Polish Premier Wladyslaw Sikorski met death in a plane crash (TIME, July 12), Soviet Russia's official Izvestia had good things to say of him. The late Polish Premier and Commander in Chief "understood and appreciated the full significance of the struggle of the Soviet Union against Germany, for the common cause of all freedom-loving peoples." It was to be regretted that Sikorski's "desire for a strengthening of the friendship and collaboration between Russia and Poland was frustrated...