Illinois News Index

Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 25 Apr 1935, p. 28

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"DIDN'T STOP WORK HIADACHE WENT SO QWiCKLY"O HRave yogi ever triedi JExiN for headaches? You osght to. Nothing else wil stop mine., Pve tried almnost every£hi>zg on the market." "Everybody and his brother phoned me this alternoon. I thought I'd go mad. Then my head began to ache. Boy, how it throbbed! You Inow>-right above the eyes. Ordinarily 1 just give utp when one, of those hits me but tha new secretary ot mine is right. on the Job. She pulled a box of HEXIN out of her purse and -brought me a glas. of waer. I didn't even stop work my headache went so quickl y." The anti-aircraft section from Fort Sheridan visited Curtiss airport last Friday morning and went througb some maneuvers. Seventy army trucks brought the men land equip- ment to Curtiss. Included .in the e quipm.ent were large sound-detect- ing instruments ý(used; for iocating attacking planes long before the bu- man e ar could hear them),. range finders, searchlights, large. guns used for.shooting shelîs, and machine guns. Additionai' anti-aircraft maneuvers will be 'held ,at Curtiss field in thé near future, it was ifidîcated. Crowds at Curtiss Se Fancy Parachute Jumping Clem Sohn, parachute jumper Who uses the bat-wing type ..of- 'chute, performed. for vrisitors to Curtiss air- port last Sunday afternoomè. Sohn bias won nation-wide reputation -in his. particular field. At Ctirtiss field last Sunday the plane, he jumped from was piloted by Harold Neumann, welI knowii tacing pilot, who also did some sky writing. The, en tire. show was sponsored byý an, automobile manufacturing concern. Piper Makes Flight Promý Pal-Waukee to Sheboygan The Lockheed owned by E. 0. Beardsley and Walter Piper of the Beardsley and Piper company, foun- ,dry equipment manufacturers at 2541 N.Keeler avenue, Chicago, was flown to Sheboygan, Wis,,, early last week by Mr. Piper. The plane, wvhich is stored at the Pal-Waukee - airport hangar, was flown back f rom,. Florida recently by Mr. Beardsley. " Scoop, the Fouth" .Is Name of Editor's Plane "Scoop, the Four th" is the name which Davis Merwin. of the. Bloom- ington Pantograph, daily paper at A Boeing P 1-E from Barksdaie field in Louisiana stopped at Curtiss air.port last Thursday afternoon. Its pilot, Lieutenant Robbins, was on bis way back from Selfridge field,.Mich- igan, to the Louisiana base. Headed for the Chicago municipal airport.and hot familiar with its exact location,' Robbins made the stop at Curtiss to get information a s to the municipal field. A smoke pall hunig' over tbe s outhwest section of the city, ,and this was aniother reason for the pi- lot's- decision to stop at t.heý north shore field. Sinclair Ge;-ts American Air Lines Oil Contraët Contracts. for the purchase, of 125,000 gallons of oil during the next year have been awarded the. Sinclair R-efining..company by American Airlines, C. R. Smith, president of the transportation company, announc-ed this week.. The oil, of special aviation specification, wiIl be useci for lubri- cation of planes throughout Amien- can airlines' entire nation-wide sys- temn, Smith said. This is tbe third consecutive year that' Sinclair bas been the successful bidder for the company's oul contracts. Drop Flowers F 1ro'm Air at Funeral of Pilot At the funeral of Willie Fong Kee, Chinese aviation stiudent killed on April 13 whcnhis plane ,crashed near Northbrook, three Stinsons f romi Curtiss airport flew over the cerne- tery and dropped flowers. The Stin- sons were piloted by Dwight Mor- ro w, Robert Z. Peck and "Slim" Sav- age. Kee, whoý had been learning to fly at Curtiss, field, was buried in a Chinese cemeteryin Chicago. Company Officiai1 rieage e und me an.enerous FRE IE PImPOe 01 .AAJ!. i son, artue Lurtiss fhangar. Name.........................................u HUNTER VISITS HERE g SteetAddrs8 ................. ......... Kennetb Hunter, one of the Hunter .l ......... brothers of entdurance flight fame, ~~m mflm ~ m~ Jwas at Curtiss airport last Thursday ivisiting friends. He came up from bis home at Sparta, 111. RETURNS FROM NEB. TRIP Richard Beeler, Beechcraft distrib- utor with headquarters at Curtiss airport, returned Iast Thursday from a four-day trip to Cedar Rapids, Iowa,, and Lincoln, Neb. From Lin- coin,, his hbome town, Beeler brougbt back with bim1 his mnother and bis brother, Jàck .Beeler.

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