Through the sky Death continued to dog the Army Air Corps carrying the mail. All in one day last week the following occurred:
¶ Lieut. Otto Wienecke, a seasoned Army pilot who had flown less than 24 hr. in the last 18 months, was ramming a planeload of mail from, Newark, N. J. through a snowstorm, toward Cleveland. About 20 mi. short of his goal, he groped for a landing. His plane crashed on John Hess's farm near Burton, Ohio. Farmer Hess ran to the wreck, shook the pilot's shoulder. Lieut. Wienecke did...
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