(This is an entry from the journal entitled “Mexico Summer” written by Elizabeth Whipple Lancaster Carsey 80-years-ago)

Left for Albuquerque about 12:15. Mrs. Johnson fixed us a lovely chicken lunch.  Just the other side of Encino we found the wreck in which Mary Wingford’s car collided with Francis Schulty’s.  Pauline Regensberg , Rosamund Dean were with Mary and a negro maid with Francis.    Rosamund was worst hurt, her chin bone broken and many teeth lost!  Pauline came next with a broken arm, swollen eye, severed artery just under the knee and sprained ankle.  Sounds worse but weren’t so disfiguring or permanent.   Alyce Claire took Rosamund and Pauline to Encino – Betty and I stayed with the cars till some men came to take care of them.  The two had to say in the hospital.

Here’s what else was happening 80-years-ago today:

Nazi Germany announced a general inspection of all vehicles in the country to determine and catalogue their suitability for military use in the event of an emergency.

Boeing’s  Model 299 crashed during a test flight at  a  flight competition for airplane manufacturers vying to build its next-generation long-range bomber.  The competition was held by the U.S. Army Air-Corps at Wright air Field in Dayton , Ohio.  After this tragedy the Air Corps personnel developed checklists the crew would follow for takeoff, flight, before landing, and after landing.

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