The Key West Citizen Newspaper, January 18, 1954, Page 5

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He shuns the imelight, yet keeps making news. ’s Howard Hughes, who has money to do what he wants, it—with the Hughes EF H " ’s always at get him in the man is this phan- sometimes acts like a ‘k to the rugged individ- another century? he genius? Or an overgrown who toys with movie studios, oil wells, and airplanes? Is shrewd, ruthless, gentle all at e? Does he pinch pennies and ‘away millions? Is he Holly- ’s greatest off-screen lover? Is » Or isn’t he, supereccentric in Hollywood world where normal avior is eccentric? ’s try to smash through that small army of high-paid public relations men and executives who tun interference for him. No executive in the country, in- cluding the President, is harder to get to than Hughes via normal channels. It’s amazing how many in Hollywood, including some of his high-priced help, never have seen the man, Yet once you get to talk with him, he’s easy-going, charming and courteous. And not too hard to find if you keep late hours, Hughes, first of all, is a mechan. ical genius. It’s not difficult to understand why. He is the son of a man who did almost as much as ‘Henry Ford to roll America into ithe motor age. | His father invented the famous rock bit oil well drill with 166 cut- iting edges that chews through flint jas easily as mud. With it, drillers all over the world first were able ito strike the 16,000-foot depths that s ag FH z prt & | He was 19 when his father died jin 1923. Hughes says that the gov- pers appraised the business at ,000. | By 1949, when 75 per cent of the world’s oil wells were drilled with Hughes equipment, it was jworth better than 140 million. 'That’s the price, according to the New York Times, that a Wall street syndicate offered Hughes then. He didn’t sell, for it’s the fountain of jincome, estimated at better than a Texas jbrewery, RKO Pictures, Hughes aircraft and others. | Hughes was educated at fashion- able prep schools in jOjai, Calif., studied at California Institute of Technology and Rice }Tastitute. Pilots and mechanics around jearly California airfields recall Hughes as a reticent, boyish flier millions—led to the filming in 1928 of “‘Hell’s Angels,” with air se- quences which probably are the finest the screen has seen. Hughes’ passion for speed led to the founding of Hughes Aircraft in 1931, so he could design and (fly his own ships, Long-time friends estimate he has made 30,000 take- offs and landings in every de-| scribable type of cfaft. His design) included the first twin-boom fight- er, later known as the Lockheed Lightning, and the big Constella- tion. He first won international air prominence in 1935 when, with no advance fanfare, he wrested the ground speed record from France, going 352 m.p.h. Two years later he took the same ship across country for a transcontinental record of 7 hours and 28 minutes, It stood until late in World War Il. The Russian government offered him big money for the plane but ‘Hughes refused. A friend explains: “Howard was and still is Helly- wood’s most ‘violent anti-Commu- nist.” Hughes’ greatest air feat was the 1938 round-the-world flight. He and his crew made the trip in 91 hours, bettering by half the record of the late Wiley Post. It was a typical Hughes opera- tion, without fanfare, His scientific devotion almost killed him in 1946 on the first flight of his XF11, a highly experimental plane reputed at that time to be the fastest long-range craft built, He knew for 25 minutes ahead. of time that the ship was going to crash but with a designer’s curi- jousity he loosened his safety belt, inspected the plane and convinced himself that the right propeller was causing the trouble. Then he tried to pancake it on a golf course. Instead, he hit three homes and! a garage. His chest and left lung crushed, skull fractured, nine ribs broken, burned, bruised, shocked, he was given little chance to live. The next day he summoned two aides to the hospital and wanted to conduct business as usual, A| horrified doctor stationed a deputy sheriff outside his door with orders to admit no one but doctors and nurses, Hovering between life and death, Hughes asked the doctor to deliver} a message to the militaty that the Propeller caused the crash. | “Tell. them to study it,” Hughes gasped. “I don’t want this to hap- Pen to anyone else.’ Soon he improved enough to find fault with his hospital bed and de- sign a new one, ordering his en- gineers to build it immediately. “We were amazed,” said one} hospital official. “If he had flown that bed out of the hospital, 1 wouldn’t have been surprised.” Among his get-well messages was one from President Truman. Enclosed was the congressional }medal awarded Hughes five years jearlier for his a round-the-world| flight. He never had bothered to| pick it up. | byes Ras Next: The Flying Lumberyard) HAMILTON, Caio —Hauled be- fore the Common Pleas Court on a charge he failed-to support his wife and three children, Edison Hughes of Middletown said he did help provide for them. “What did you provide them| with,” demanded Judge Fred B.) Cramer. “Well, I took some wine home| to settle the wife’s nerves,” he re-| who never laughed much. In the air, he was a hell-on-wheels dare- devil. His interest in flying—and his'months plied. “You probably drank it- your. self,” the judge said. “, . | Six in the workhouse for you.” Suppressed Wish Granted Busman Fonda, Darnell, Mature Star In Clementine” Starring Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell and Victor Mature, and di. rected by three-time Academy Award-winner John Ford, ‘Twen- tieth Century-Fox’s encore triumph “My Darling Clementine” is sche-| duled to open Tuesday at the Strand Theatre. Set in the colorful Linda Darnell, one of the screen’s loveliest brunettes, is seen as Chi- huahua, a fiery cafe singer who is in love with Victor Mature as “Doc” Holliday, As a steely, hard, enigmatic gunman, utterly reckless with his life, Mature is given gen- ‘outstanding Gun-fighting, madiy stage coaches and the battle to! ‘bring law and order to Tombstone are supplemented in “My Darling mance between Victor Mature! and Linda Darnell, as well as a Downs has the title role in the pic- ture. Tim Holt, one of the screen’s most popular western stars, also plays a featured role in the film. Produced by Samuel G. Engel, “My Darling Clementine” was writ- ten by Samuel G. Engel and Wins-/ ton Miller, based on a story by| Sam Hellman, adapted from the book by Stuart N. Lake. Barber Admits Story Was False LAS VEGAS, Nev. #—The bar-| ber who claimed he saw a man | take a suitcase from a police car] at the time of the Greenlease kid- naping in St. Louis admitted to the FBI Saturday that his story was-a hoax, only told the story to get even with his wife and a former St.| Louis police officer, Louis Should- ers, who were, in Beninato’s words, | “mean to me,” the FBI reported. | Shoulders and Patrolman Elmer jury testimony concerning ing of two suitcases in which Hall | said he carried the ransom money, | of which more than $300,000 is still missing, Aged Veteran Ill AUSTIN, Tex. w—Thomas Evans Riddle, 107, one of the last five jliving Civil War veterans, lay| pneumonia. | critically il] of { Riddle, a thin litle man, became | il yesterday morning at the State Confederate Home for Men in Aus- tin and his condition rapidly got} ‘worse, -|Fishermen Rescued Clementine” by the stormy ro- | The FIRST FEDERAL SAVINGS and LOAN ASSOCIATION OF KEY WEST will hold its annual meeting of members at 2:00 DENVER u—Homeward-bound | o’clock in the afternoon ... Passengers on John P. Leslie’s| tramway bus looked up in surprise | ithe other night when the big vehicle pulled to the curb in the middle Wednesday, January 20, 1954, in the Office of the Association, 512 Southard St., Key West, F la. to dinner and a show,,;” “I’m not kidding.” Ten of the passengers—nine of ‘them women—accepted the invita- tion, The others were delivered to their doorsteps. It was part of a “suppressed de- sires” contest conducted by the Denver Post. Leslie was one of 10 winners, saying ie wanted most to take to dinner and a show his passengers, “‘who have treated me swell.” The ‘nine women passengers? Well, Mrs. Leslie also went along for the party. LEWINSKY’S. REMODELING SALE MUSKEGON, floe for three hours yesterday on Bear Lake after waves from a passing Lake Michigan oil tanker! | caused an ice breakup . Police, firemen and volunteers brough the fishermen to shore in rescue boats. None was harmed, Some types of bears grow to! weigh as much as a ton. 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