TRAGIC CHOICE.
NEW \ r ORK. Jan. 18.
The airliner in which Carole Lombard, the film star, was a passenger, crashed on the 8500-ft Table Mountain, and exploded in flames, scattering the bodies for hundreds of yards. Clark Gable, her hushand, was attempting to reach tiic isolated scone of the wreck when the news of his wile’s death readied him.
A Press agent accompanying Carole Lombard wanted to return from Indianapolis by train, but she desired to fly. They tossed a coin and she won the toss but lost her life.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LXII, Issue 43, 20 January 1942, Page 5
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