Speeding train crushes school bus; UCLA gets new football coach, December 2, 1938

A truck carrying Christmas trees crashes into a streetcar ... and a man is charged with buying a cougar cub at a pet store and killing it for the $75 bounty. Robert L. Cannon and Albert Kessel, sentenced to die in an aborted prison break in which the warden, a guard and two convicts were killed, are about to become the first two men to be executed in California's new gas chamber ... a Sacramento legislator says that if lethal gas is truly inhumane he would advocate shooting the condemned. A small Utah town grieves for its children after an accident in a snowstorm in which a train plowed into a bus that stopped at the crossing and then went onto the tracks. And Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 and Schubert's Symphony No. 5 get their Los Angeles premieres, The Times says.    Wilbur Kurtz is brought in as technical advisor on "Gone With the Wind." Edwin C. "Babe" Horrell is named UCLA head football coach.

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[Native Angeleno]

I weant to thank you, Larry, for the insight i've gained from the repeated articles detailing the specific attacks on Jews in what was fast becoming occupied Europe, 1938. These articles put the lie on the oft-repeated excuse "No one had any idea the degree of what was going on". In the bloody war zone Europe was becoming, it's a simple small step from the breathtaking virulent persecution as related almost every day on the Times' front pages to camps where 3-5 million (my estimate, from my own research at Ucla) were killed and otherwise worked to death. ~ Native Angeleno