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...Grace, the Archbishop of San Francisco, Edward J. Hanna (Roman Catholic), was host recently at a luncheon held in a San Francisco convent, to Protestant and Jewish leaders of the city, on behalf of the city's Community Chest. Prominent religious leaders present included Rabbi Jacob Nieto, Bishop Edward L. Parsons of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Charles Wesley Burns of the Methodist Church and Chester Rowell, California progressive, former publisher of the Fresno (Calif.) Republican, all of whom spoke...
...engines and flying gear were what M. Clavier's tall, slow comrade, Jacob Islamoff, 28, was inspecting one last time. He had worked on this ship, the S-35, ever since her designs were first unfolded in the Sikorsky shops. Out over the ocean it would be his task, not only to help Clavier with the radio, but to watch every cam and strut aboard. That they would flawlessly function he was certain, but he did eye for a moment the special "dolly" (wheeled landing gear) which had been added to help the S-35 leave earth, and which...
...Jacob Islamoff knew that this "dolly" had not been tested with the ship weighing over 20,000 lb. Also he knew that now, with a last-moment extra fuel tank added, the ship weighed 28,845 Ib. Earlier tests had come out decimal perfect; Designer Igor Sikorsky knew his business; the three Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter motors had demonstrated their power conclusively and would doubtless lift the whole weight free as a bird. But still, that "dolly" . . . However, Mechanic Islamoff said nothing...
...itself up from the gully, furbelowed with black. Captain Fonck and Lieutenant Curtin were found struggling to their feet, 20 yards from the inferno they had escaped before it burst. The flames had their way for hours. Then, certain cinders, a Koran, a crucifix, indicated where Charles Clavier and Jacob Islamoff had burned behind jammed doors. There was no angry inquiry as to why the "dolly" had not been finally tested. Pilot Fonck, Lieutenant Curtin, Designer Sikorsky and his aids, were all exonerated by the coroner of criminal negligence. Some "fanatics" (he did not name them) plagued sad Capitaine Fonck...
...Died. Jacob Islamoff, onetime Lieutenant in the onetime Imperial Russian Navy, airplane mechanic; at Roosevelt Field, Westbury, L. I., in the crash of Captain René Fonck's giant Sikorsky plane...