Evening Star Newspaper, November 28, 1930, Page 7

‘NEH[ETDN FUREEI]‘ " TOLEAP FOR LIFE 20-Year-0ld Flyer Encoun- ters Storm Only 40 Miles’ From Goal. !y the hmhkd Press. AN DIEGO, Calif, November 28.— Imtnd of holding & new Jjunior trans- cunun!nm flight record, Gerald Nettle- ton, 20-year-old Toledo, Ohio, aviator, was enrolled today as the youngest the famed “Caterpillar Nettleton made a 10000 foot para- chute drop to escape from a blinding rain and snow storm which encom- passed his plane near here yesterday as he was within less than an hour of finishing his transcontinental flight. He drifted gently to earth near a ranch house as his abandoned plane crashed a mile away. Except for be- ing rain-soaked and extremely cold, Nettleton was unhurt. He made his way to & ranch house and topped off h‘i;nle!:"nwl‘e with a big Thanksgiving Instruments Arc Trozen. “The weather was ‘sloppy'—rain, fog and snow,’ o said Nettleton. couldn’t . The instruments ‘froze,’ and, since I couldn’t see, there was only one thing to do, and that was to “I fought the weather as long as I| dared. I hated to leap, but that wes| my only alternative. So I leveled the plane off, cuf the switch, closed the throttle and “Yolled out the door. “The last I saw of the nlane it was floating gently. I had fallen for sev- eral minutes and did not sce the earth until less than 200 feet from it. That's how bad the weather was.” Had 40 Miles to Go. At the time young Nettleton leaped hfibld.h)lll«lnflle!wgomhisll- tempt to break the 24-hour-3-minute record, held by Stanley Boynton, 18, of Rockland, Me. ‘The end of the flight climaxed a week of hard luck., Motor trouble forced Nettleton down Monday near Benson, Ariz, while en route from El Paso, Tex., to Tucson. The next day he was forced to stop at Tucson for | additional repairs. Wednesday, upon reaching Impenll Calif., he postponed the last leg of his !rlp because the motor did not ?erlorm to his satisfac- tion. He said, after the parachute jump. however, the engine was perfe'mln: lxtisflcwflly at the time he “bailed len[ Nettleton started his coast-to- coast. flight from Newark, N. J. CAPT. 1. E. B. STUART DIES AT THE AGE OF 71 Son of Noted Confederate General of Civil War Succumbs in Florida. By the Assoclated Press. NEW YORK, November 28.—Capt. J. E. B. Stuart, son of “Jeb” Stuart of Confederate Army fame, died Wednes- day in Istokpoga, Fla. He was 71. Word of his death was received here by Mrs. Stuart, two daughters and a son. Also surviving are three other daughters, Mrs. D. M. Smith of Nor- folk, Va.; Mrs. L. P. Grover of Nash- ville, Tenn, and Mrs. R. A. James of Danville, Va. Capt. Stuart was born at Fort Riley, Kans, where his father was a first lieutenant in the United States Army, and was educated at the Virginia Mil- itary Institute. He was an officer in the Spanish-American War and was in Prance for 18 months as a civillap ate tached to theé 'supplies division of the American Army. BEFRIENDED MEN ROB TOWN MARSHAL OF $21 Tocks Him in Cell After Being In- vited to Get Warm and Steal $1,200 in Stores. By the Associated Press. DOWNEY, Idaho, November 28.— Marshal Dan Ware listened to pleas of four men that they be given a warm place and finally admitted them to the city jail. That was Wednesday night. Yesterday morning Mike Wakeley found the marshal locked securely in a cell. The seekers after a warm bed ‘were missing, Bo was $3) of the marshal's money and $1,200 worth of merchandise taken from several business houses. 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INTERNATIONAL AIR SHOW OPENS IN PARIS Huge Passenger Planes and Veri- table Vest-Pocket Craft Are Put on Display. By the Associated Press. PARIS, Novimber 28.—The trans- | atlantic veteran, Question Mark, the still untried air liner DO-S, and air- planes which, in comparison, might be called vest-pocket products, focused the attention of visitors to the twelfth annual International Aviation Show in the Grand Palais today. Laurent Rynac, the French air min- Entertaining— LAFAYETTE & LA VERNE o Dancers | Lowe-Nevins SHOREHAM ORCHESTRA Paul Fidelman, Directing PHONE ROBERT KEHL FOR RES Te (HOREHAM CONNECTICUT AVE. af CALVERT ister, presided at the Gnenlnl ceremonies of an e uon n.hem feature apj to be igger and still blnn- pnun(er phm in the futul 'l‘he huge nhlp- on display also ap- peared to be ns of tremendous polenml power should they ever be juired in another war.. 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