Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 3 May 1934, p. 24

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Have. Brauan fa.. restore the. original finish to tihe top of youra car. Drive in to amy- Brauni Brou. 1service Station today. Just. a few inmiutes, and YOD have the appearance and protection. of the original, finish, W. luse Firestone High Test Top Dressing. coupES 30* SEANS 5, DRAUN DROS. SILVER FLASH Wfi.eft lOîICentrai Avenue Phone Wilmette 3$212 Wimuftka Cbestnut an>d Oaki Stretii plietWInntlin3026 WIIunitte Avenue and5 idige Rond (southeast ('oner) Phione Wliette 5405 W..t Wimfntka 1900 WiIIow Roati Phone Winnetka 20484 seTieSain .)60 Oreenbay Rond Phone Kenllworth 4774 Hubbard Woods -Linden atGae phone Wlunntka 74 the lorty-eight st 'ates, as the private air fines which have been serving the city for eight years are continuing their schedules despite the cancela- tion of mail contracts. Due to the controversy over tbe air mail, there is a, mistaken. idea ini some quarters. that the 'passenger-.express- scbedules are flot in effect, but Unit ed, Air lines announces it is flying a million miles a month,, providing' service witlh' its three-mile-a-minute, .mhulti-niotored Boeiigs - to, forty cities Wi nineteen * states, with other lines servingý other, points. In addition, to substatfial passenger. business, the. air Ues are carrying îincreasing anlounts. of air express, the increase the first ninjety days of, this year being 170 per cent over the samne period *of last year. Chicago still bas direct and conn1iect- ig airplane service to 137 cities. Fles Newspap er Men to, Scene of Diillinger Fun Hf. W. Aniderso~n, vice-resident of the Chicago Aviation corporation. operators of Curtiss airport, last week flew a group of Paramounit News and Associated Press representatives toý the scene of John Dillinger's recent escapade in nortberni Wisconsin, The group left Monday morning ini a Stinson-S. Mr. Dillinger failed to accommodate the news reel mnen .tO -the extent of permnitting them to take closerni pictures of .hinself,, but r Iying 1Cl.ubsassociations us going ahead rapidly anid quite a* few pilots as well as beginners have registered at the Chicago headquarters on the second floor at 309 S: La Salle street. 'TheIr 6rst question tbey. ask after learning, the remarkably lowcs of flyinig on a real cooperative club plan wbhere 'the, members do most of the. work is: "How about the quality of. the instructions?" They are quickly reassured when they learn that Ralph Bjoxham, the National Association vice president. .s. in direct -charge of al flight in-ý struction for tbe north shore. clubs. Mr. Bloxham bas. been flyingý over twenty years, wvas ýa pilot in the war and bas inistructed hundreds 'of stu- dents., He -holds a unique record, a in1ighty important one, for the club member, in. that every, one *of bis students wbo took the government examination passed on the first at- tempt. Young men who want to fly have been requested to register so that offcers may be elected for the Wil- mette squadron and a sbip be as- signed to tbem. Repair Damaged Plane; SoId to, Tennessee Man A Wartier Travelair, damaged in. a crackup more than a .year ago and purchased recently by Johin Sark. who operates a smnall airport at Cooksville, Tenn., is being rebuilt at is Peul, qj ý ý F àw lu . ... .. ... .. Vernonm Coutry 9 ROUTE Wauwk.g" te" *10eI sp ight. Thm 136mi«sw Yor OKi.tIy. Dan Peterkin Flics to Detroit in His.Stinson D)aniel J. Peterkjn, Jr., m ade a trip to Detroit last week in bis Stinson Reliant. He i-eturned early Friday, morning. Accompanying9 himn was C. W. "Slim" Freytag of the Stinson sales staff in tbis area. Peterkiti keeps bis plane at Curtiss airport uicar Glenview. N. W. Airways Lockheed Orion Stonsut ntCurtkQs haut in1 l Dy William given a con shop at Ciri *WACO nie of aj B. Lloyd,I letc. over-j ýs airport.I enine aisons eodraieU84 VVIIVI IUV. ÂVI. Sark, wbo came here from Tennessee to help rush the completion of the, building. job, states that he owuis tlhe only pflane between Nashiville and Knoxville. In,-the summnerhie makes, barnstorming. tours to -Tenneýsse towns vubere an airplane sanvly First Parachute Jumps of Season at Curtiss l'he first parachute juimps of the season for the entertainment of Sun- dyvisitors ta Curtiss airport took place on April 22. One of the jumps was made by Ralpb Nyborg of Ev- anston and the oilier-by a member of tbe Aces-Up Flying club, wbicbi has its headqùarters at Slcy Harbor air- port. Ohio a week to visit thei son, Wil- son DeCaimp, who is in business there, and will spend several days as guests of the .joseph Joyces,. 531 Essex road,, Kenilworth, while .their home is put in- readiness for them. t

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