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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 30 Jul 1931, p. 20

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Fisher were beid Wednesday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Hl. 'C. Heaton, 162 Abingdon avenue, Kenilworth, are entertaining Mrs. Byron. Cassel of Pasadena, Cali. jet at Sky arbor,. lktak, th fe bteese.siwebt'ilrzor. .Nearer: to' nauethan a., flùè'coun.try Iilràpet. our bsdvioý , sarom and'b ta qpror fâma14-'or pri- tew bby Moter, ut Dun- 4-ÇaS d «J Phone i4éihbroôk YOU'e çM.n, out todayt »,l oyesf plan"sior sale I~elmg torag. &" upplie ing the contest, particularly north shore boys, have bieen advised to get in touch with 0. F., Field 2215 Glen- vif w avenue, Glen'vie w. Mr. Fil wiil be glad to: furnisb any informa- 60o1 elSired regardiý -'rules goern~ Ir ah~otest. Fufthèr >details 'Of 1e~ cckalso will 'gaearinth avaton 'Iei fthspe. 22 Rotarians Hear Talk by.4 Maj. R.: W.,Schroeder Tweityrtwo Rotarians 1attended, the meeting of theDeerfield Rotary club Thursday of last wek at. Sky Har. bor airport west of Giencoe. Invita- tion s were.extended by 'the Deerfieil club to al Rotarians. in 'the porth shore villages to attend the meen. The- group heard a talk by Mai. R. W.' Schroedei of $icy Harbor. Other luncheon -clUbs are planning similar meetings at 'Sky Harbor later. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Allen ap-t daughters, Grace and .Ruth, wiIl lealiè nex~t week for Lake Lawn at Delevan lake,.,Wis., where they wyill spend two weeks. Chicago's Gala Event! GRANTPARK IDAYS. TWICE UAILY 3IGIXâý SiATUIWAY AfenSAUG. LAST TIME SUNDAY NIGHT, AU$UST -1-6 (A fow seect bloims et a mmiii addiff.mai charge) TICKETS 50WD AT LYON & HEALY'S. MARSHALL FIELDI aCOfrI4PANY i.' ai4h. Show Grouds Mai, R. W.,Schroeder of Sky Har- bor airport, west of Glencoe, went to Da.Vtôn,,Ohio, Jast week to serve as one of the pallbearers.at the funeral of Mai. Louis G. Meister held, there Wednesday. afternoon, July 22. Major. Meister, who *as oneoûf the ieading, airpiane test piiots of the country and, a personal friend of MajorSchroeder, wàs killed when .a. plane 'he. was test.ing a .week. ago Sunday craished ,to the ground. When the. plane -failed him, Meisterjup, but either bis parachute failed tn open or the, plane struck, him as it spun around. Many notables firom. ail parts of the country a ttended bis funeral. He' w;s only 38 ,years old, and was widely known in the field of aviation. He formerly worked under Major'Scýhroe . der of Sky.Harbor, when Schroeder was chief test -pilot for the govern- ment at McCook fiel&, Dayton.' Major Scbroeder made the trip to flaxJon for the funeral by automobile, ffl Tuesday morning and. return- ing Tbhursday morning. Mrs. 3chroe- der accompanied himi Wbile at -Day- ton Major and. Mrs. Schroeder also visited friends. If You Must Get There in a Hurry, Try This When you have to get there in a hurry, well, there's nothing like the airpiane. One de yIast week H. E'. Tecbnieyer,, a Chicago busiùess man, callfd Up the Curtiss airport at . Glen- view statiug that he bad to get to Fort Wayne, Ind., in an hour and a haîf and asking. what could be donc about it. Officiais at the airport said, "Neyer worry, we'Il get you there." Where- W. G. Huson Pases o a TranHosport Paossest %0%0% à bot-" ffulm" 1'. FLYINC :SERVICE Phone GI.nvïow 373, Crorvds Tarn Out tb Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, round-the-world flyers, arrived at Curtiss airport according- to sched- ule last. Saturday 9fternoon in their plane,r"Winnie Mae," to take -part in the_ two-day aviation..meet spon- sored by the Aviation, post of the" AmiericanLegion. The meet was a success, at least to the throngs-of spectators who turned Out to see the.two aviators ivho recently circled the northern hemisphere in'i lessthan nin day s. Post and Gatty were at the MeCt both days to maneuver in front. of the grandstandin the big, wvhite plane in wvhich they made their record- breaking flight. On t heir arrivai at the airport Saturday theýr were wei- comed by City ýGreeter Gaw of Chi- cago and Amferican Legion, officiais. In addition t'O seeing the two fa- mous. flyer-s, , the, crowds attending the t-wo-day air meet w-ere enter- tained with airpiane stunts and con- tests of varîous kinds. Sonie of the most spectacular flying was done by Tex Rankin.and Dorothy H-lster, two0 stunt flyers: fromù the west, who ýput a smiall G reat Lakes training plane through a routineý of stunts at high altitude. Unexp.ct.ed ThrilI. An unexpected and unadvertised thrill was afforded the Saturclay night crowd at the air meet when Jack Cope, daredevil aviator and parachute jutuper, jumped from a plane, 2,700 feet up and landed in forty-fi ve seconds with his parachute only partly opened. Cope wÀas competinjg with o ther parachute* jumfpers in an effort to bit a mark on the ground; Had his Parachute opened properly, the- 2,700 foot drop would have-taken. about. two minutes instead-o fortv-five seconds. He was taken to S.Fran cis hospital in FEanston' with a badly fractured left Ieg. Twenty-five miles sportsmen pilots' races were features of the air meet on both Saturday and S1nAfav-th -lt to constuct more sflips of the same type. BECOIMES PRIVÀTE PILOT Harold -B; Wright of the St. Clair hotel, Chicago, bas finished a flying cQurse at the Curtiss-Wtigbt'Flyïing school -near Gienview and has passçd his test* for a private pilot's licc.nse. Hé bas purchased a'pla ne. 3 . . 1 .î.i. 1

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