Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 12 Jul 1934, p. 20

The following text may have been generated by Optical Character Recognition, with varying degrees of accuracy. Reader beware!

Joseph ond Çueen QuaIity Shoes 3 95 Formerly $4 fé$5 Fo rmerly $5 fo. $6 95~Fo'merly Thousads of airs$o Wb teBakown8S adBusi WiJe Yrety of Styles FromSpr Shoes to Evenng Slippers: o~Es e4& d 629 DAVIS STREET EVANSTONg ILLINOIS in formration over J>yche staclium, LV- anston, Wednesday nigbt of iast week in connection with Evaiiston's annu- al Fourth of July celebration. One of the ships was piloted by Herman Anderson, vice-president of the Chicago Aviation corporation, operators of Curtiss airport. At thé controls of another plans was C. W. "Slim" Freytag, Stinson, salesman._ Duanc Hôwardiin charge, of flying instruction, at. Sky Harb or 1airport, and Robert Peck, chief rnechanic at, Skyý Harbor, were pilots of two other planes. Dwigbt Morrow, flying in- structor at Curtiss airport, was pilot of the fiftb plane. Additional aerial, entertairiment 'for the Dyche stadiurn Fourth of July celebrators, was provided, by Lon Yancey,* trans-Atlantic flyer, .wbo flew:bis autogiro close to the ground between the eastý and w*est stands$. Arrives from Louisville ini Wasp Powered Lird Roger M. Edwards of Louisville, Ky., arrived at Curtiss airport early last week in bis Wasp powered--Laid. The planecruises at a speed of ap- proxirnatély 165 miles per hour. Its 9-cylinder engine is supercbarged to about 450 borsepower. Two of the other arrivais at Curtiss field last, week were R. Stokes, who fiew his Waco open biplane f rom Roosevelt ,field, New York, and 'Herinan D. It's going to be a thrill a minute at the air races sponsored by the Na- tional Flying Clubs association Sun- day, July 29. That's the promise given, as. preparations are* being made for the opening of the meet at. Sky, Harbor. One minute' after the progr .am. is forrnally launchedi,spectators will be- gin to crane their necks to watch outstanding fiere "do their -stuif." They wil1 see high speed racinÉ, wnig. walking, exhibition glider flights, de- Iayed parachute jurn ps and "'Clown flying." An outstandinig attraction of the. show wîll be an att-empt to break the world's glider 'looping record by Charles F. Abel, nationally .noted acrobatic glider pilot and. previous record holder.. Kurt' Kunari, nation- ally'farnous acrobatic. wing walker and stunt pilot, will feature bis "chair act." The Plane- will igo :through arnazing stunts while he calrnly. sits on a chair, fastened on the upper wing. Bloxhan, in Clown. .Act Ralpb Bloxham will put on a "4clown act" in a srnall fliver plane. Bloxham, a World war aviator, has been flying for more than twenty years. Duane Howard, former Hol- lywood movie stunt flier, will perforrn daring acrobatics close to the ground, and will also pilot the glider to.w plane in its record breaking atternpt. -Many- otherthrillihg acts will be t liitakes cdea nc0te suits with pores unclôg- ged by dirt to give.you the. utmnost in summer comfort., That's why we urge you to have your, summer palm I>4C. r îies at uurtiss rField Miss Belle Hetzel, scbool teacher from Omaba, Nebr.,, bas been doing some flying at Curtiss airport. Miss, Hetzel bas a private: pilot's' licen se For tbe last tbree summers she bas corne to Curtiss ifield for two or three weeks and bas done-enough flying to renew ber' license. The World's fair is one of tbe attractions tbat bas brougbt Miss Hetzel back to Chicago for a third yearly visit. AI Bernardin, wbo arrived at Cur- tiss airport about three weeks ago frorn California in a Kinner Bird, tbree-place biýplane, took off from the same flying field last week for Mun- cie, Ind. Proceeds will be applied toward fly- ing equiprnent for the club, wbich is, a non-profit organization, offering the youth of America flying at cost. Flics from California in Hl's.Kinner Hammond Walde'n Shaw, forrnerly an officiaI. of the Yellow Cab cornpany and' the fatber-in-law of Daniel Peterkin, Jr., of tbe Morton Salt company. arrived George Schutz of Latula, Utah, left Curtiss alrport last week for his' borne after a visit in Evanston. Scbultz flics a Waco cabin plane. Two friends acconmpanied bim on the return trip west. Wbile bere Mr. Schultz also visited A Century of. Progress exposition.. J

Powered by / Alimenté par VITA Toolkit
Privacy Policy