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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Dec 04, 1938
Page
3
A two motored transport plane carrying 21 passengers and three crew was forced down about 10 miles south of Baltimore in heavy fog. Residents report the craft circled in mist for ten minutes before landing cleanly in a corn field near Jacobsville, about 50 feet from a road with power lines.
Union, Washington dispatch reports 12 year old Ernie Ahrens discovering a golden eagle in his goose pen. He seized the bird by the neck with one hand and the feet with the other, caged the eagle, and remained unscathed.
Railway Express Agency reports October records in gross revenue and shipments for a nationwide air express service. Revenue rose 16.2 percent from October 1937 and 8 percent from September 1938. Shipments reached 73 758, up 9 percent from October 1937 and 11 percent from September 1938. Through ten months of 1938, air express shipments were up 4.9 percent over 1937.
Home Sweet Home Chicago reports a break in at Leo Kowalski's garage. Thieves stole 86 of his 300 homing pigeons, risking their return as the birds are trained to find home. The story also notes a curious aside about Russian women smoking.
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