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POSTEATIY FEAT | “HALED BY LEADERS Flight Regarded as Great Aid +» in Stimulating Confidence of Public. Yeaders in aviation today acclaimed the round-the-werld flight of Post and Gatty as one of the greatest achleve- ments in the history of aviation. Their comment follor Col. Charles A. Lindbergh: “It's a wonderful job. You kave to hand it to them both.” Rear Admiral William A. Moffett, chief cf the Naval Bureau of Aerorau- tics: “The achievement of Post and Gatty in successfully completing their round-the-world flight cannot but as- sure the public of the reliability of air- craft: A flight of this character re- quires careful planning, an immense amount of groundwork and exactness of navgation and piloting. “The clccklike precision with which the trip was consummated bears ample testimony to the thoroughness of prepa- ration and untiring ability of the two ! men. History will record this as one of the greatest flights ever made: not as a stunt, but as & striking example of the practicability of long distance air transportation.” David S. Ingalis, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Aercnautics: “The round-the-1.orld flight of Post and Gat- ty is an extraordinary tribute not only to the ability, fortitude and ~ndurance of the men themseltes, but also to the Teliability of the aircraft planes and engines of today. This flight undoubt- edly will instill great ecnfidence in avi- ation in our people. I congratulat> Post ard Gatty on their great triumph.” Amelia Earhart: “The world flight of Pest and Gatty shows what may be ex- pected to become the commonplace in a fow years. It iz an excellent demon- ation of skill in navigation and fiy- ccmbined with fice equipment.” Senator Hiram Bingham of Cornec- ticut, president of the National Aero- nautic Association, in a telegram to Post and Gatty: “Heartiest congratula- tions on your magnificent achievement. It would give me great pleasure as pres- ident of the National Aeronautic As- sociation to have the honor of present- ing you to President Hoover in Wash- ington.” Robert P. LaTont, Secretary of Com- merce, in a message of congratulations: “The Department of Commerc: extends its heartiest congratulations to you on the occasion of the completion of your remarkable flight around the world. Your skill as pilots and navigators and the excellent performance of your fly- ing equipment reflects great credit upon civil aeronautics of the United States.” Clyde E. Pangborn and Hugh Hern- don, about to hop off for a similar fiight: “The flight of Post and Gatty is the most spectacular in aviation to date. They set up a very wonderful record. Nevertheless, we are going to ry to break it.” Charles L. Lawrance, president of the i Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce: “This is the most extraordinary flight that ever happened. It combines every- thing—remarkable piloting and naviga- tion, extraordinary energy and physical endurance, splendid aeronautical equip- ment, reliability of engine and speed of the plane. All these make this the greatest flight since Lind i Clarence D. Chamberlin: “The flight in a general way proves that modern airplanes and airplane motors " have progressed to a point far beyond the speed and dependability they had dyr- 4ng the transatlantic flights of 1927.” (Copyright. 1931, by the North American Newspaper Alliance. Inc.) BALLISTICS UNIT PLANNED BY POLICE Lieut. Fowler Transferred to Head- quarters to Begin Or- ganization. Plans for the establishment of a bal- listics department as an integral unit of the Headquarters Detective Bureau were disclosed today by police officials, close on the heels of the drastic reor- ganization of the police force. Development, of ths bureau has been laced in charge of Lieut. John H. 'owler, long regarded as the ballistics expert of the department. Fowler was transferred from the tenth precinct to police headquarters yesterday and im- mediately set out to organize the new department. A private laboratory at police head- quarters has been assigned to Fowler, where he will be allowed to work un. molested on cases in which the science of ballistics may be used to aid in the solution of a crime. The office will be rquipped with microscopes, microscopic cameras and various other instruments used in modern scientific crime investi- gation and detection. Lieut. Fowler was schooled for the work he is undertaking at Northwest- ern Universi'ly. With five other mem- bers of the department. including In- spector Frank S. W. Burke, the new chief of detectives, he took a special course several months ago in ballistics and sclentific crime investigation, un- der direction of Col. Calvin Goddard, nationally known ballistics expert. What little ballistics work Fowler has done in the last several years has been helpful to the Detective Bureau in its criminal investigations. He has been handicapped, however, by the lack of equipme and a laboratory in which to work, and often the Bureau ;l; Standards was called on to assict im. Assisting the Detective Bureau in the solution of crimes will bs only one phase of Fowler's activities. He will endeavor to set up a dangerous weapon #dentification - catalogue which police officials believe will be valuable in fu- ture years. This catalogue will consist chiefly of the records of all second-hand guns purchased by dealers. Fowler will take these guns as soon as they are bought by s:cond-hand dealers, photograph thom and the peculiar marks made on bullets by these weapons. A record miso will be kept of the person to whom the gun is sold. Thus, if any of the guns handled by Pecond-hand dealers cver figure in a crime, the Detective Bureau will be in a position to trace its owner. And in rases where weapons are not found, the detectives may be able to identify the gun by comparing the bullets with the photographs of bullets to be kept on file in the ballistics department, and in this way possibly run down a criminal, Maj. Henry G. Pratt, superintendent pf police, has been making strenuous ef- Foris in the last several years to mod- ®rnize the departmemt and equip it :nh every recognized device that will id in the prevention and detection of rrime. He is a firm believer in the Walue of ballistics in criminal investi- E:non and expects Lieut. Fowler and is new department to be of material sistance to the Detective Bureau. | CHURCH HAS FREE BUS #No Way to Get There” Lxcuse Given Blow at Currituck, N. C. CURRITUCK, N. C, July.2 ®.—- fhe “no-way-to-get-there” excuse will ss out of existence for Methodist Churchgoers in this section Sunday. Free transportation, both to and from Bervices, in a brand-new bus is to be pffered members of the congregation of fh> Memorial Methodist Church of Curs J. A. Tharpe, pastor, will deli- the bus and christen it “Miss Me- jorial” at services Sunday, ' THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. . THURSDAY., JULY 2, 1931 Happiest Over World Flight Success FLYERS, MEMBERS OF THEIR FAMILIES AND SPONSOR OF LONG HOP. her husband’s return. U in honor of wh:m the plane was take-off, with Charles Hall, Oklahoma oil man, name “Winnie Mae.” MRS. POST PLANNING PRIVATE " FEAST TO REWARD HUSBAN | Wife of Globe-Circling Pilot Says She Willl Prepare “Everything,” Because He ‘ Likes “Everything.” By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 2—Wiley Post is going to spend the next few days doffing his hat to the cheering crowds and eating the delicacies on the banquet tables, but there will be a little private feast when he's just Mr. Post again back in Oklahoma City. His wife will 1, there’s nothing else T id Mrs. Mae Post. “He deserves it. “What_will you cook for him? What does he like?” “Everything,” she answered. She smiled then, secretly, as if recaliing onc CHICKASHA PLANS BIG, CELEBRATION Post’s Mother to Be First to Greet Son at Oklahoma Town. By the Associated Press. CHICKASHA, Okla., July 2.—Be- tween expressing its spirits in rousing cheers over the record-breaking flight of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty and making plans for a celebration on the return of the fiyers here in “four or five days,” the citizenry of Chickasha had its hands full today. Via radio and newspaper extras, the citizens of the home town of F. C. Hall, backer of the flight, and long the resi- dence of Hall's daughter, Winnie Mae Fain, for whom the plane was named. learned last night of the shattering of the world-girdling mark by Post and Gatty, and it was the principal topic of conversation wherever two or more persons met. Crowds Gather Everywhere. In parlors, on streets and in back yards groups gathered “to talk things over” and make plans to attend a ban- quet to be tendered the fiyers here shortly. The question of attendance assumed major proportions immediately, because the American Legion Hall, largest in town, will seat only about 600 persons. “Those who can't get in will just have to be satisfied with the reception at the munizipal airport.” said Edwin J. Poole, publisher of the Chickasha Express, which is in charge of the cele- bration. A special car will be sent to Mays- ville, to bring Mr. and Mrs, W. F. Post, Wiley’s parents, and other relatives to Chickasha, first Oklahoma city to be visited by the fiyers on their return| from the East. Plan Genteel Fete. There's to b2 a band from Fort Sill, and loud speakers at the little Chick- asha airport, but there’ll be no cowboy antics. “It'll be plenty vociferous,” Poole said of the celebration, “but quite genteel.” Speeches at the airport and a parade around the field so all who gather from the countryside may view the flight heroes, will be followed by a parade through this little city of 15,000, and the banquet. Arrangements have been made for Mrs. Post to be the first to greet her son. GERMA N BLUEBEARD DIES: COLOGNE, Germany, ‘July’ 2 (#).— Peter Kuerten of Duesseldorf, couvicted of committing a number of gruesome murders in 1928 and 1929, died on the suillotine today. The execution was carried out in the presence of the presiding” ige, the prosecuting attorney, offical{ of the Ministry of Justice and 12 citizens, of her special pies whic~ <.dn't have to be returned to the pautry shelf Mrs. Post was no longer tonse with expectation as she sat in a room ad- ‘]olmng the flyers' suite at the Ritz- | Cariton last night. She was tired, but | she beamed with happiness. | A calm woman with wide, brown eyes, | Mrs. FPost apparently belongs to that | scheol who believe that “wives should bz seen and little heard from.” “I said, ‘Gee, Hello,’ or scmething lik2 that, and then I caught I''s arm and | kissed him,” she told reporte s. | Mrs. Post said she would naver want to “rett'e down” and be a stay-at-home Not while her husband is fiying about to far parts of the world. “I'll always go everywhere he 5 T'll follow him, if I can't go along With him,” she said. Say Gatty Disappointed. “They're pretty tired, I guess,” she nodded, a bit concernedly, toward ihe door lcading to the fliers” rooms. “But |they are certainly wonderful. I'm | proud.” Mrs. Post said Gatty was somewhat | disappointed over his wife's inability to arrive for his landing. Mrs. Post wore a tailored dress of white flat crepe and a smart litil| jacket of middy blue with revers: faced | in white. Her silk knit turban was set back over her h-ad, revealing wisps of rebellious brown hair. Sh> wore white sports oxfords and carried a purse of | white mesh. Hours ™y JUKE“}‘JULV N v PPER: Mrs. Harcld Gatty and children trace Dad’s flight. Lower left: Mrs. Wiley Post who anxiously awaited Lower right: Gatty (left) and Post (second from right), at Rocsevelt Field before lhe] sponsor of the flight and his daughter, Mrs. Winnie Mae Clark, | Associated Press Photos. Record Trips Around Globe By the Associated Press. Magellan—1519-1522, Spain, 1,083 days. Sir Francis Drake—1577-1580, from Piymouth, England, 1,052 day: Thomas Cavendish—1586-1588, Plymouth, England, 781 days. Nelly Bly—1889, From New York, by boat and rail, 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes. George Francis—1890, from New York, by boat and rail, 67 days. 12 hours, 3 minutes. Charles Fitzmorris—1901, cago, by boat and rail, 60 days, hours, 29 minutes. J. Willls Sayre—1903, from Seattle. by boat and rail, 54 days, 9 hours, 42 minutes. Henry Frederick—1903, from Seattie, by boat and rail, 54 days, 7 Kours, 2 Col. Burniay-Campbell—1907, by boat and rail, 40 days, 19 hours, 30 minutes. Andre Jaeger Schmidt—1911, Paris, by boat and rail, 39 days, hours, 43 minutes. John Henry Mears—1913, from New York, by boat and rail, 35 days, 21 hours, 36 minutes. United States Army Planes—1924, from Seattle (actual flying time 14 days. 15 hours). 175 days. s Edward Evans and Linton Wells— 1925, from New York, by boat, rail and plane, 28 days, 14 hours, 36 min- utes. Mears and C. B. Collyer—1928, from New York, by plane and bo: 4 days, 15 hours, 21 minutes. Graf Zeppelin—1920, from Lakchurst, N. J., 21 days, 7 hours, 3¢ minutes. Post and Gatty—1931, from Rocse- velt Field, N. Y. (actual flying time, 4 days, 10 hours, 8 minutes); 8 days, from Seville, from from Chi- | minutes. from 19 | 15 hours, 51 minutes. GATTY AWAKENED BY HIS WIFE'S KISS Thunderstorms Prevent He Arrival in New York for End of Flight. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, July 2—A kiss by his wife awoke the globe-flying Harold Gatty this morning. Mrs. Gatty, prevented by thunder- storms from arriving by pleme in time to welcome her husband at Roosevelt Field lest night, reached New York by train from Pittsburgh this morning. She left Les Angeles by plane Tuesday. No Tims to Talk. Mrs. Gatty, mother of three children, whom she left with neighbors in Glen- dale, Calif. had no time to talk with reporters when she stepped from the train. She sald she must burry and " She made the trip to = hotel in a taxicab, with a motor cycle policeman clearing the way. 13 Upon arriving at the Ritz, Mrs, Gatty | was taken directly to her husband's | room, where he was sleeping’,until the kisy awakened him. |, “I haven't slept much, you can imag- | ine, while Harold and Mr. Post have | been cn the trip,” she said. “When this | recepticn business is over, I'm going | home 2nd sleep about a month.” il Children “Air-Minded.” Their three children already are | “air-minded.” she seid. | ““They're alrcady talking about flying, and 1 guess they'll fly when they're | older, all right,” she said | " “The children; she added, “don’t quite | realize_what their father has done. | They just know he's been eway.” |~ After Mrs. Gatty had scen her hus- |band she again talked with reporters. |“I don't remember what he said.” she |told them. ‘I was too excited. What |did I 'say? Well, I kissed him.” she | smiled happily but very timidly at the | crowd of repor.ers and photographers |that had her in a corner staring at; | her, questioning her, pointing cameras and blinding lights at her. Vera Gatty is barely 5 feet and has a 20-inch waist. Her hair is brown and wavy. She has a shy manner contra- dicted by smiling blue eyes. “Asked About Children. “Yes. Harold asked about the chil- | dren. Dut I can't remembe: exac ly | what he said. T was so excited. But he asked about them right away. Mrs. Gatty sald she was eager the moment when she could have proper talk with her husband.” didn't think he looked very tired. Immediately after his wife's arriy IHul’old Gatly arose and started | dress for the day's ceremon'ss. With }W!Iey Pcst and Mrs. Post the Gatlys | had ‘a breakfast of orange juice, boiled eggs and coffee. Post did justice to the meal, but Gatty declined everything but coffee. The women ate sparingly. At today's triumphal reception Mrs. | Gatty planned to wear the white dress | coat and beret which she had on w | she_arrived | Mrs. {I’l(h white polka dots, a blie turban and black shoes, Miss Evelyn Wagner, secretary to | Mayor Walker and niece of United States Senator Robert F. Wagner, will act as official hostess to Mrs. Post and for “8 She al to n | Mrs. Gatty during their stay in New | York. 'TRAIN TO HAGERSTOWN | DISCONTINUED BY . & W. |Luray Passenger Service Is Dis- | rupted for First Time in 47 1 Years as Result. Special Dispatch to The Star. | 'LURAY, Va., July 2—For the first {tims in '47 'years thc Norfolk & Western train ‘due here at 6:50 a.m. | failed to make its appearance yester- dey. The Norfolk & Western has | discontinued trains 27 and 28, running from Shenandoah to Hagertsown. Per- mission had been asked of the State | commission six months ago on grounds | that the company was losing money. The move was bitterly fought by citl: sens from Sherandoah to Bentonville, | but without avail. The motor bus has been, the greatest factor .in causing this discontinuance. | DENTIST OFFICE LOOTED | By a Staff Correspondent of The Star. ALEXANDRIA, Va, July 2.—Visit- ing the office of Dr. Carl T. Dreifus, dentist, vesterday afternoon, a thief stole gold plates and bridges valued at $300. according to report made to police. Dr. Dreifus, who has his office at 910 | King street, stated that the thief evi- dently knew his business as only the valuable materials were taken. ‘The robbery was committed during a briét absence of Dr. Dreifus from the office, according to the police report. The thief is believed to have entered by the front doér and an open window. Around the World in Less Than Nine Days! BIAI AR %m& 8:47 PM. JULY 1 T | l | | | Post wore a dark blue dress Persondlity of Oklahoma FY LEON H. DURST. (Copyright, 1931, by the Associated Press.) Behind every great undertaking there always is a personality, a man whose unflagging al weaves the various phases 'fi&hfl and explains the suc- cess or fal of the project. In world- circling record flights this holds true, 1and in seeking the story-behind-the- story of the breath-taking ride of the Winnie Mae of Oklahoma all trails eventually lead to Wiley Post. A Texas-born farm boy who whittled out models of airplanes in the days when flying was only something to read about in the newspapers, Post has kept his eyes on his goal as unerringly as he kept the Winnie Mae on the course plotted by Navigator Harold Gatty. It is easy to follow the trail to Wiley Post. but difficult to unravel the in- gredients which make up his per- sonality. Stocky, brown-eyed, brown- haired and taciturn, Post has a heritage of several generations of Southwestern pioneers as well as an Indian strain in his blood. Cared Little for Farm. Farming never interested him much. His mother, Mrs. W. F. Post, recalls that even when he was a small, bare- | footed, freckled faced youngster, he 1 had an inordinate desire to unker with tnings. He read adventure storics. showed & preference for mechanical toys, and only once developed suffi- cient _enthusiasm for farming to indi- cate he could do it if he would. This was when his father gave him a small ! patch. Wiley took the utmost pains in the development of his crop and whea he had pocketed the ‘profits. he found he had enough to set out for a school to train automobile mechanics in Kansas City, Mo. ‘The Wright Brothers’ experiments during the first period of aviation de- velopment probably were responsible for Wiley's ambition to fly. He hcard the story of their experiments and when {he should have been hoemnz in his ! father’s fields he was more likely to ibe whittling out an “airplane” model. His last teacher, in a rurel school at Burns, Okla., was Hugh Austin, now of Oklahoma City. Austin recalls that once when he prevailed upon Wiley to improve his work in grammer, the boy remarked he wasn't much inter- ested in that study as he wanted to {be an aviator—an unusual ambition at | that_time. | Wilev was born November 22, 1898, in Van Zandt Cou ‘Texas, ¢n an iso- Wiley Post’s Life Story Pilot Called Real Moving Force Behind Successful Flight Around World. lated farm in the region where his par- ents were reared. While Wiley and Gatty were demonstrating a picture of “two young men in a hurry” around the world, Wiley's great grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Post, both 90 years old, were still back in Van Zandt County reading of his achlevements. ™ Full of Pranks. “Wiley never tock much interest in school work,” his mother says. “He was a good boy, but full of pranks. He always loved to read good stories. His father wouldn't lot him read trash. He liked adventure stcries best.” ‘The record shows Wiley was not a good student in grammar school. He quit before he was 15 years old, but a few months after tbat he had ac- quired the cottdn patch-from his father and was proving to the instructers in the mechanical school at Kansas City that he could be a good student—if he was interested In the subject. There are countless stories sbout Wiley Post’s life on his parents’ farms in Texas and Oklahoma, but in view of the fame he has just gained in aviation few have much pcint or bearing on his career. It was after he had won his diploma from the autimobile me- chanics’ school in Kansas City that Wiley began to devote his time to en- gines and his thoughts to Qying. He was the third youngest of six boys and one girl in the Post family and he was not hampered in his pur- suits. His parents, who live two miles north of Maysville, Okla.,, where they raise truck and feed crops, believe in the doctrine of good sense and as long as their children didn't get into trcuble they allowed them a fairly free rein. Later Wiley's father did object to his parachute jumping and hid his ‘chute one day, but Wiley's friends say | the tables were turned next time when | Wiley carried the bulky ’chute down | to the bank and deposited 1 so his fa- ther wouldn’t find it. Wiley left the Kansas City Automo- bile School and became a garage me- chanic, an oil field worker and a ma- chine shop laborer befcre he realized his ambition to fly. But once he got his chance he went for air travel with a vengeancé and when he renewed his | trensport license March 3, 1931, he es- | timated he had more than 3,100 hours’ | fiying time. #(Tomorrow: A garage mechanic turns | wing-walker -and parachute jumper, graduating into a barn-storming pilot.) HELEN JACOBS 0UT - OF TENNIS FINALS: Last American Eliminated_by Hilda Krahwinkel of Ger- many, 10-8, 0-6, 6-4. | By the Associated Press. s | WIMBLEDON STADIUM, England, | July 2.—Helen Jacobs, last American in the women's singles of the Wimbledon championship, was eliminated today in | the semi-final round by Hilda Krah- winked, Germany's third ranking woman player, making it an all-German wom- an's final. The scores were 10—8, 0—6, 6—4. Miss Krahwinkel will play her coun- trywoman, Cilli Aussem, in the finals Saturday, while Frank X. Shields and Sidney B. Wood, jr., the American youngsters are battling for the crown in men’s singles. America Was Favored. Miss Jacobs, after her surprising vie- tory over Betty Nuthall of England. in the quarter finals, had been favored to defeat the littie-known German player and meet Miss Aussem, Ger- ‘many's ranking star, in the finals. } from doubles play in the semi-final round today by Henri Cochet and were 6—4, 7—5, 6—2. Shields played despite a torn liga- ment in his leg, pulled out of place yesterday when he fell in the fourth set of his winning match with Jean Bo- rotra of France. With this handicap. the American youngsters fell in straight sets. although they made a battle of it in the first and second sets, before finally yielding. Best Team in World. In meeting Brugnon and Cochet, they played what is generally consid- ered one of the best doubles teams of the world. Their defeat removed the possibility of an all-American final in doubles as well as singles, George Lott, jr., and John Van Ryn also being in the semi- finals. The latter team, seeded No. 1 on the Wimbledon draw, will play George Hughes and Fred Perry of Eng- tomorrow. Hughes and Perry advanced to the semi-final round with a 4—6, 6—4, 6—2, 1—6, 9—7 victory over the South African pair of Nat Farquharson and Virgil Kirby. Cilli Aussem, Germany's ranking woman player, defeated Mme. Rene Mathieu, France's No. 1, 6—0, 2—6, 6—3, to advance to the final round of the women's singles, where she will meet either Helen Jacobs of Caliiornia or her own countrywoman, Hilda Krahwinkel. Lott and Mrs. L. A. Harper entered the quarter-finals of the mixed doubles with a 6—3, 6—4 victory over Baron von Kehrling and Mrs. Satterthwaite. MOTOR CYCLIST IS HURT Sixteenth street southeast was treated at Providence Hospital today for in- which he was riding was struck by an automobile operated by John Schlaefli, 40, of Brandywine, Md. The accident occurred at Fifteenth and A streets southeast. After being treflgo at the hospital for a bruised ankle, Bowie was charged with driving his motor cycle without a permit and running it on dead tags. Remodel Now and Save! Shields and Wood were eliminated | Jacques Brugnon of France. The scores | land in the other semi-final match |7 Winston, Bowie, 38 years old, of 333 || jurles received when the motor cycle || AVIATORS SALUTE N |William Brock Calls Feat “Greatest Flight Ever Made.” / BY RICHARD MASSOCK. | By the Associated Press. | NEW YORK. July 2—Flyers figur- | atively are tipping their helmets today [to & pair of their peers—Pilot Wiley | Post and Navigator Harold Gatty. As aviators, both globe circlers are | potential occupiers of fame's pinnacle | with that hero of a nation, Charles A. | Lindbergh. Aviators acclaimed a couple of super- |lative fiyers. Their sentiment was | epitomized by William Brock. who, with | Edward Schlee. attempted to circum- | navigate the air over the earth four years ago. i Greatest Ever Made. | “This,” sald Brock. “is without ex- | ception the greatest flight ever made.” } ‘To which Col. Lindbergh, who was on | the field added: | ©The flight speaks for itself.” | “Undoubtedly this is the biggest thing | of its kind ever done.” was the comment |of & bystander with a pilot's wings | pinned to his coat. “It places Gatty in the front rank io( aerial navigatcrs in the public’s mind ;’l‘ldo Post in the same position 2s a Post and Gatty already had strong | reputatons among fiyers. But tite pub- [lic had not yei taken either to its hcart. Only a few—rurhaps 150— | were at Roosevelt Field in the early morning of the Winnie M departure. Then pilot Post and Navigator Gatty whirred around the world in a mere 4 days 10 hours and 8 minutes aloft, while the public marveled. And the ;:rowd that dwelcomed them back to ourney’s end was estimated at 100 times the senders-off. " Evidence of Skill. ‘Two incidents are cited by airmen as evidence of Gatty-Post skill. The Kh; barovsk, Siberia, to Solomon, Alask: hop was over a proving ground for nav- igators because of pronounced compass variations so near the magnetic pole. Gatty made it without deviation. He had done as much before. Charting a projected flight over the pacific from okio to Seattle some months ago. he and his pilot found themselves l;'houn out before they noticed that the gaso- line consumption was too rapid for safe- ty. Gatty back-tracked the plane over the ocean without landmarks to him and set it down on the identical spoptn ot' its start. * st proved his skill when he success- fully skimmed a woodpile and a clump of trees at Fairbanks, Alaska, with his heavily loaded ship. That, fiyers said, took the best of calculation, even from a pilot with two good eyes, and Post has only one. FURNITURE ~Custom Built To Fit Your Home From maker to you at No Extra Charge. Established two generations in_ Cabinetmaking Industry. 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