News, Close Up

U.S. headlines last week recorded violent, enormous acts of war in Poland and Germany, in Luzon and China. But U.S. newspapers were filled with smaller headlines, too: news that was local, personal, close to home, of deaths in a peaceful countryside that were sometimes as violent as deaths on a battlefield. Some items from a single column of the Indianapolis News one day last week:

P: In Seymour, Ind., elderly Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Rogers, trapped in their rooms while the rest of the household was off to a church social, burned to death.

P: In Terre Haute, Ind., Mrs. Evaleen Goodman, 54, was fatally injured in an auto wreck.

P: In Monticello, Ind., William Carpenter, 30 years a railroad worker, got caught in the claw of a power crane, was crushed to death.

P: In New Castle, Ind., Hiram Dickerson, 72, a cemetery caretaker, lay down to sleep, froze to death.

P: In Bloomington, Ind., Leonard Evans, 76, was struck by a car, died.

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