TRANSPORT: One of Those Things

In bed at 10 o'clock one night last week Farmer George Behlmann, who lives three miles north of the St. Louis Airport, heard an airplane overhead. Said he next day:

"The motor sounded very loud and suddenly stopped. My wife said, 'That's funny. I wonder if it crashed.'... I dressed and went out. Other people whom I met said the plane had crashed. It was very foggy and I couldn't see 20 feet ahead of me ... so I went back to bed." Had he pushed on to the boundaries of his farm, George...

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