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Newspaper
Butler Herald
Location
Butler, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1947
Page
7
A week’s Georgia coverage notes light pecan crop outlook and Columbus beauty contest entrants, plus Georgia delegates at a Chicago PTA Congress. Other items include university graduations, a Merger move for Georgia Power, and Jekyll Island purchase interest by the state.
A 16 year old farm boy Oliver Terpening confessed to killing four children of a family near Lapeer Michigan to see what it felt like to kill. He said the thrill did not come as expected and that he had considered killing his stepmother but did not act. He spoke calmly to Dr. Snyder a state medical legal expert and showed no clear remorse.
In Bolingbroke near Macon on Sunday a Central of Georgia freight engine exploded at 40 mph, killing Engineer C. S. Simson and Fireman H. Cannon of Macon. The blast hurled the boiler 18 feet from the rails and scattered debris in Bolingbroke. No other injuries were reported. Service resumed soon after. investigators probe cause.
Terpening was captured in Toledo Ohio after hitching a ride with a painter who recognized him from a broadcast alarm, leading to his arrest in Glendale California.
A cascade of plane crashes worldwide over two days killed 174 people and wounded at least 26 others with three missing. Major incidents included Eastern Airlines DC-4 near Port Deposit Maryland killing 53, United Air Lines crash in New York with 40 dead, and an army transport crash near Tokyo killing 40. Additional wrecks occurred in Iceland, the Netherlands, Argentina, Alaska, Colombia, and England, highlighting varied causes from weather shifts to visibility and bird strikes.
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