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...Crash. In Butte, Mont., Theodore Cerise's car plummeted 250 feet down an embankment. Out stepped Theodore, happily clutching an unbroken bottle of milk...
Married. Osa Helen Johnson, 46, explorer, author (I Married Adventure), and film producer, whose husband, Martin Johnson, died in an airplane crash in 1937; and Clark H. Getts, 47, her manager for the last five years; in Manhattan...
...Louis crash. Pat McCarran stood up in the Senate and announced the news. "I bring this matter to the attention of the Senate." said he, "in order that they may know that we were right in the first instance when we passed the act creating an independent agency. . . . When the Safety Board was abolished, when the CAA . . . was sent back into the Department of Commerce, chaos and confusion resulted...
...shattered fo'c'sle. men scrambled up on deck. Some, trapped below, drowned amid frozen fish, cluttered gear, shattered planking. After the crash, the schooner sheered off; the barge was swallowed up in the darkness. With the desperate hope of beaching his ship before she sank, Captain Fred Wilson swung her inshore. But the schooner was settling rapidly, nose down; the water was knee deep on the deck. The nested dories, welded together by ice, were useless. As their ship sank under them, Captain Wilson and the survivors swarmed up the icy rigging...
Said Sussex villagers of five Nazis killed in a crash near Steyning: "We don't want them in our churchyard. These Germans are antichrist. They acknowledge no God but Hitler. Why should Christian burial be given pagans?" Required by law to bury all who die in his parish, Vicar E. W. Cox compromised, had graves dug in a distant corner of the churchyard, near the vicarage...