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...years ago, left his son control of seven of South Carolina's biggest and best textile mills at Fort Mill, Lancaster and Chester. But Elliott White Springs' public remembered him not as an able mill-owning son of an able mill-owning father but as a Wartime flyer and writer...
...greet Capitan Colon Eloy Alfaro, Ecuador's Minister to the U. S., and all Pan-American women, Senora Hermelinda U. Briones, Ecuadorean good-will flyer, took off from New York one day last week en route to Washington. Over Chestertown, Md. she got lost, landed in a cornfield, greeted a farmer, hired him to guide her across Chesapeake Bay. At Baltimore Farmer Richard S. Bruckner got out, collected his fee as guide, returned home by bus and ferry. In Washington next day, 24 hours overdue, arrived Greeter Briones in the name of the Union de las Mujeres Americanos...
...shouted: "You will never see me again!" Taking off with 2½-hr. fuel supply, he headed east into the fog over Prince William Sound. His friends, recalling the airplane suicide last year of a Jacksonville, Fla. widow (TIME, Dec. 4), gave him up for dead. Two days later Flyer Dorbandt suddenly returned to Anchorage, was promptly clapped into jail, was released next day under bond...
Died. Mrs. Frances Harrell Marsalis, 29, stunt flyer, holder with Helen Richey of the women's refueling endurance record; when her airplane crashed rounding a pylon in a 50-mile race at the Dayton National Women's Air Meet; in Vandalia, Ohio...
...Franklin Knight Lane Jr., California lawyer, World War flyer, son of Wilson's Secretary of the Interior...