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Died. Major Rudolph William Schroeder, 66, who in 1910 graduated from homemade gliders to airplanes, went on to become a barnstormer, test pilot and high-altitude pioneer; of a cerebral blood clot after long invalidism following a stroke in 1941; in Maywood, Ill. The first man ever to penetrate the stratosphere in an airplane, gangling (6 ft. 2 in., less than 150 Ibs.) "Shorty" Schroeder set a world altitude mark of 38,180 ft. in 1920 (he blacked out, and came to only after the plane had dived over six miles). His pet saying: "There is no place for heroes...
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Necessity. In Maywood, N.J., Mrs. Carol Kaufmann reported to police the disappearance of her husband and her car, begged them please to find...
...Park, Ill., Mrs. Abraham Katz heard the news that her son, Charles, "was saved, and said quietly: "I wish all mothers of prisoners could share my joy." But in Maywood, Ill., families waited in vain for word of 85 of their sons who had been with the 192nd Tank Battalion at Bataan. For most of the families of some 12,000 American soldiers and sailors taken by the Japs-and still unaccounted for-the waiting and suspense only became sharper...