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Last week no official action was taken to arbitrate the miners' war. Governor Flem D. Sampson had refused troops to Webster County many times previously, was not last week asked. But State and Federal authorities acted quickly to apprehend Flyer Paul Montgomery of Murphysboro, Ill., who said he had been forced by death-threats to take a bomb-dropper over Providence. Said Clarence M. Young, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics: "The dropping of explosives or anything else from a plane in flight, deliberately with intention . . . or by negligence, is a crime...
Engaged. Lyle E. Womack, divorced husband of Flyer Ruth Elder (now Mrs. Walter Camp Jr.); to Ella Bisset, Minneapolis socialite. Said he: "It's a darn sight easier to tame foxes than to tame a woman...
...officer who seems to have a talent for sending young aviators to death needlessly. When he is moved into the officer's job he finds that he has to do the same thing in much the same way. In the end he sacrifices his own life for another flyer's, but his motive is strong enough to make the tragedy legitimate. Except for a singing-bee at the aviation base, when the officers sit around with glasses and salute death vocally, and an impossible scene in which Barthelmess is rescued from behind the enemy lines, The Dawn Patrol...
...Johnson, England-to-Australia solo flyer (TIME, June 2 et seq.) boarding a ship for London, admitted she had been "bored to tears" by Australia's adulation...
Instead, flying enthusiasts found themselves, for the second time in a month, paying homage to a woman. Miss Winifred S. Brown, 26, daughter of a Manchester butcher, won the 750-mi. free-for-all handicap, took her place on a popular pedestal beside Amy Johnson, London-to-Australia flyer (TIME, June 2). Betting odds against Miss Brown were 49-to-1. In her AvroAvian biplane she started 14th, pulled up to seventh at Bristol, third at Manchester, disposed of Waghorn and Orlebar on her way to Newcastle. Her average speed...