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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 10, 1948
Page
2
Seven people died and 17 were injured when a string of blasts hit the Kansas Power and Light main plant near Topeka. Fires raged as rescuers searched the wreckage amid shattered windows and twisted steel, with debris scattered and the basement left in a shambles.
James Gilmore 43 of near Comus and Manuel M. Weinberg faced larceny facts in Peoples Court. The magistrate suspended a year of the Maryland House of Correction given Weinberg’s prior good record after a guilty verdict on double larceny involving a shotgun potatoes and gardening gear.
Gilmore testified to finding a gun in weeds near Dixon's home and claimed no memory of selling it to Wiles while intoxicated. The weapon valued at about $3. Sheriff Anders noted the accused was taken on a local Montgomery County warrant. Forfeitures of collateral listed by multiple individuals with amounts $1145 each.
At White Sands Proving Ground New Mexico on December 9 the Army fired a V-2 rocket reaching 87 miles height in a bid to improve upper atmosphere weather data. Ground cameras captured the smoke trail at intervals to study winds and movements in the upper stratosphere.
The report describes a launch reaching between 100000 and 200000 feet, carrying a shadowgraph to photograph shock waves at nearly 3000 miles per hour. Additional cameras aimed to capture the sun’s relative position for reconstructing flight history.
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