Howard Hughes, movie maker and builder of airplanes, clung precariously to life today in the hospital after the crash and explosion of his latest creation, the AF-11, unofficially reported to be the fastest long-range craft ever constructed.
A Santa Fe streamliner crashed into this light delivery truck today in Richmond, injuring the driver critically, 10 minutes after an anonymous telephone call for an ambulance had predicted the accident. Police said they would investigate possibility of a suicide accident. A girl was hurt by a piece of metal that flew across the street.
Expert opinion that the blast which snuffed out the lives of some 425 school pupils and teachers near here yesterday may have been generated in the very walls surrounding their classrooms spurred investigation of the disaster tonight as the community prepared to bury most of its next generation.
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