find article in Buffalo newspaper regarding a plane crashing into
Curtis Wright airplane factory on 09/11/1942 and killing 11 men one of
which was my father Sam Shalala. He was identified by a darned sock.
Can you find the article?

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 10 Mar 2005 07:45 PST

Phil87 --

There are very few newspapers archived and available online before
1980.  Indeed, most starting making their daily versions available
after 1995, when the Internet soared in popularity -- but they do it
for a fee.

Here's an example of what a good reference library would have:
http://www.csulb.edu/library/subj/u.s._history_newspapers.html

Now, an incident as major as this one would be reported in the New
York Times, which is digitally archived back to 1851 -- though it's
available only via Proquest Historical newspapers, a fee-based
database available online (for free) at major public libraries.  Would
you be interested in a summary of those accounts?

And I do have to ask, since I've met her: are you related to Donna
Shalala, the former Secretary of HHS and current president of the
University of Miami?
http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/biographies/shalala.html

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

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Clarification of Question by phil87-ga on 10 Mar 2005 13:49 PST

Yes....Donna Shalala is my cousin and I will be visiting her this
month at the University of Miami. No sense in continuing the search. I
have the newspaper article at home but wanted to show it to someone
here in Fl.

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Request for Question Clarification by omnivorous-ga on 10 Mar 2005 16:33 PST

Phil --

In what may be a "small world" coincidence, I believe that my father
worked at that Curtiss-Wright factory in 1938-1940, as he later made
reference to being a tool-and-die maker on the P-40 fighter.  He was
born and raised in Buffalo (and his sister worked at Bell Aircraft in
Buffalo).  However, by the start of World War II in late 1941 he had
moved to Cleveland, OH.

Best regards,

Omnivorous-GA

The Buffalo News was not formally indexed until recently (within the
last 15 years or so). While you could find a copy of this through
microfilm records by going through the reels for that time period (you
have a date, which is good), getting your hands on another copy any
other way is highly unlikely.

Also as a FYI, the other paper of record at that time was the Courier
Express (also not indexed anywhere). They enjoyed a reputation of
having a stronger, better newspaper than the News and often their
coverage is more detailed.

Regards,
luciaphile-ga