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Show PLANE, CAR IN HEADON COLLISION DETROIT. A Chevrolet six recently re-cently played an important role here in what is believed to be the first case on record of a head-on collision between an automobile and an airplane. The car, one of twelve Chevrolet Chevro-let sixes used by Detroit immigration immigra-tion authorities in border patrol work, was being driven by Stanley Zerambo, senior inspector, whose duties consist in thwarting attempts at-tempts to smuggle aliens across the border. Inspector Zerambo had to his credit six planes seized in this nefarious ne-farious traffic, and had been watching for some time a seventh plane said to have operated f or six weeks on regular schedule flying fly-ing aliens from Canada to American Ameri-can soil. After several attempts to seize the plane, its pilot and illegal cargo had failed, Inspector Zerambo Ze-rambo was scouting along the Detroit De-troit river front shortly after sunrise, sun-rise, on June 1, when he spotted the plane heading from Canada toward an open field just beyond the Detroit city line. Speeding to the spot Inspector Zerambo swung into the field in his Chevrolet just as the plane landed, and drove directly into its path to shut o!l retreat. When the pilot saw the car in front of him he sought to rad off capture by speeding tie into up in a desperate effort to W off again. Inspector Zerambo, is , the split second available to a decision, weighted the newness new-ness of .the car against & strength of the plane, and W head-on into the whirring p pellor. After making the capture U inspector backed his Chevrolet W the disabled plane and drove a his prisoners aboard to w' headquarters. |