Aeronautics: Safety in Numbers

¶ At Croydon, England, a befogged French freight plane struck a wireless mast, skimmed housetops, wrecked two garages, killed the pilot and mechanic.

¶ At Colon, Panama the motor of an Army amphibian exploded, hurled a jagged piece of metal into the stomach of Private Ralph H. Lawson, killed him.

¶ At Yarrellton, Tex. two Army privates from Randolph Field died when their plane crashed.

¶ At Hodgkins, Ill. Edwin Weatherdon, Chief Pilot of American Airways, onetime-New York University fullback, crashed to death in a blind-flight training plane.

¶ At Managua, Nicaragua an...

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