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...should a flyer behave toward the Press when he crashes? Last week in a truck garden near College Park. Md., Clarence Marshall Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, gave a practical answer to this question as an object lesson to the entire industry...
Asked who is the best British flyer the average U. S. newsreader would probably name Wing Commander Charles Kingsford-Smith. That notion was clubbed into the public mind by headlines far bigger and more numerous than any British airman has since received. It was deepened last year by publication in Liberty of a collection of testimonials by other famed airmen to Kingsford-Smith's prowess. Fortnight ago the foremost British aeronautical editor gave his definition of the foremost British flyer: Harold J. L. ("Bert") Hinkler?like Kingsford-Smith, an Australian. The editor: iconoclastic Charles Grey Grey of The Aeroplane...
Besides Pilot Hinkler's evident ability as a distance flyer and navigator. Editor Grey portrays him as a smart inventor but a poor businessman; an extraordinary testpilot but utterly lacking in tact? "quite capable of going to a managing director and telling him that if he really wants to make money out of aeroplanes the best thing he can do is pension off his chief designer just for the sake of keeping him away from the Design Office...
Chief Chetan Kinyan (Flyer Frank Monroe Hawks) of the Sioux tribe broadcast an appeal from tribesmen in South Dakota for clothing and blankets with which to face the winter...
...Jane Addams, 71, famed social worker, in Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, following an operation for an ovarian cyst; President Pascual Ortiz Rubio of Mexico, in Mexico City, with a high fever; Harold Gatty, 'round-the-world flyer, in Atlanta, of influenza; General Ballington Booth, 72, founder of Volunteers of America, son of the late Founder William Booth of Salvation Army, in Manhattan, following an operation for a kidney disorder...