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Show CAA Invesligafes 4-DeaIh Crash PORT DEPOSIT, Md., Oct 18 (INS) The Civil Aeronautic. Authority Au-thority and Maryland official. Investigated In-vestigated Wednesday the crash of a private airplane to which H L Straus, president of Tropical Park race track, and throe other, were killed. The twin engtoed Beechcraft plane reportedly caught fire aloft during a heavy rainstorm and crashed Tuesday night en route from LaGuardla field. New Torn, to Baltimore. Police identified the other, to the plana aa; Wiley H. Malar, pilot of Lak Worth, Flsv, and Baltimore; Delton R. Osborne, copilot, of Dundalk, Md., and Arthur J. Johnson, general gen-eral manager of Straus1 firm, tha American Totalizator Co. Straua waa the inventor of the device which automatically computes com-putes odd. and prices at race tracks throughout the country. |