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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 21 Feb 1935, p. 18

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Chicago has had a good season this ytar and.boasts a number of promis- ing swimniers, especially Cbuck.Dwy- et in the breast stroke, and Chuck Wilson in'the distance iwimns. Then, tô top off the meet, they,'Will present a water polo team .almost the samne as last years Whkch won the Bi9 Ten Conference championship and was runner-up, toý the L. A. C.Ain the National A A. U. 'in-door champion- ships. Fature Olyfie cStars Chîago will face stiff oppositio from nro ore-oleestairs and Olydipic teamn men who will be competing for Shawnee.' The nortb. shore gppple are 'fainiliar with most of the Worthwésterni alumni such- as Bob Kerber, who represented, the United. States in the 1932 Olympics,: Lou Diatmond and Paul Troupe. Sup. Porting thiese stars will be products of our own north.shore who are well icnowu in swdimhmg efreles, nanely jin-iWckler, Bill Lynch, Charl y rich ' Don Oelcrich, Eddie Kaye, Bill l3eebe, and Haldane Wilson. Without doubj, the college scouts will be1 watching these younger swimmers15 water . solid fooi have.. more, ît 15 piayea ini does fot provide the that these other sports PS! u PLIEDGE 1*Josepb B.' Coambs, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. J. BI. Coambs of 1352 Cbest- nut avenue, Wilmette, formerly of Win- neka wsone of the 1f.reshman at he University, of 'Chicago pledged- to Psi Upsilon fraternity -at the -end of îbe freshmian rusbing week. Josephbàbs been activé' in. campus'affairs since, be entered the university last fail. He was atb- letic reporter on the DailY Maroon and is taking part in "The, Mirror" campus show, a. musical revue to, be given March 14. He is one of the six 'men in a cast wbicb bas seventy,five girls. YÂALINiNPARTY The North Shore Baha'i Youth group hel d a Valentine party hast Saturday evening at the residence of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hannen, 836 Sheridan road, Wilmette.. Will Giv. DOUBLE BUCKS on Paymnt of AH Accounts Receivabi. as w.fl as on CAsh Purchass THURSDAY- FRIDAY-SATURDAY' ibi liuus * < in vv inni aI 4 unaUVI Lm e auspices of the Womnan's guild of the church. Matterni holder of - the alli-time. trans-ANtlaiîc- speed I mark, of ten hourÉs and fifty mùinutes, besides, many other records, gained, his, greatest' fame in the summer.of 1933 when, after he had shattejred ail speed retords thrçe-quarters of, the way around the world, anoïl une of his plane failed, and be, crasbed on IltWd-late tutndra-land of Arctic Si;Ïeria.'He was -,rescued by -Eskim- mos ýafter daysW of, exposure and huniger in the bitter Arctic cold. Lumbermnan's.Plane Ta Left at Indiana Town Herbert Anderson, vice-president of the Chicago Aviation corporation, re- turned to Curtiss airport hast week frorn Bloo.ml.igto, d., whêrr tre left the plane belonging to C. Frank Williams,, lunabermari. Mr. Anderson bas been acting as pilot for Mr. Wih- liams recently. The plane was left at the Indiana town because of bad weather. Duane Howard IsPFlying ,Aeronc a t Sky Harbor Duane Howard, who bas been do- ing some pilotingrçcently for C. J. wner eIs OWiaIA hÉhed quarters. Spiegel and Owsley on Trip to the West COast Sidney M. Spiegel of Winnetkca, Essaness ýTheater corporation official, and Dean OwsleY of Wihmette heft last week-end on a business and pleasure trip f0 the west ,n:st. LYt week. During the past year and a haif. 638 citzns of Glencoe, Wjnnetka and, jWilmnette, haVe used AmicnnAr Unes one or mhore tiinles, saidMr Speers. "Winnetka leads with 315; Wilmette bas 203, and dIencoe 120., This:brings the air travel average for, these north shore towns Wclabove. the, average, for Chicago." Evanston, says -Mr. Speers, bas 1080 air:travelers, including 120 women, during'a similar time. About onie in, ten-Of air passengers are* women. but the% percentage is increasing as wom- en discover .the possibilities and. coin- forts in air travel, he said. Included among the norîh shore women who bave traveled via Ameni- can Airlines are Mrs. Harold L~. Iêkes, Mrs. Willoughby Walling and daughter, Fredericka, Mrs. 0. M. Knode, Alice Lel and, Mrs. George Meyer, Mrs. J. D. Harding and Janet Ross, ail of Winnetka, and Christina Carlen,. Bessie L. Garretson, Mar- guerite Gordan, Clara F. Wolf e and Miss Harriet Woodcock, aIl of WiI- mette. .New York, Detroit and St. Louis are of course most usual destinations for north shore air travelers but a nu*nber 'of them bave made the Los Angeles trip - flow 17 hours flying ti * e from Cbkcago.--usiug the coin- pany's Condor siceper planes. New York is reacbed 'in four and a half bours thése days lin the new Douglas transport planes. The average air journey last year was 326.5 miles. WelI, Maybe Spring Ta Just Around the Cornerl An indication tbat spring is "just around the corner" may be found in the fact that a number of pilots who- hadn't been doinif much lvi jn, *1J. of i,;- -er of LIC a8Cs OMALLY irVHU>lmOATTEN4D- <. Bdaughi qUU *?;1!D VuIMTH* UU4DING 20o0b, Iavenue, las t we Dm. re ~ST 1S OPIERATED ON G. Litteil and Dr. Fred O'Donnehl, ?,323 Lakce ave- 22, Woodstock It Thursday of nue, Wihmette, recently underwent Ariz., and will la major opetation at St. Francis hos- ~lifrnîaPital and is now recovering slowly. ýfoir north shorè toi

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