Show f FORDS FORD'S f FAITH IN PLANE UNSHAKEN Auto Maker Makei to Continue Exp Experiments on Flivver Fi ver Ai Airship ship FT MYERS Fla March 3 AP AP Henry Henry Ford his his faith unshaken unshaken un un- un shaken by the tragic fate of Harry Harpy B Brooks Brooks- his chief pilot will continue continue con con- experiments with witt- his flivver planes and when perfected and put put into into volume production will wil sell them for about the about the same price as his uia is' is automobiles Fo Ford Foid d said this tonight in iii making his first public comm comment nt on on the crash of ot Brooks Brooks' plane in which the young aviator aviatOr- lost his life a at Melbourne e Beach pla Fla a week ago Ho Ro said sad aid he Ite could not estimate the time required r lr e d before starting manu manufactUre manufacture man man- u a t r of the the j the quan tily tiCy necessary to market them a at automobile prices es if L At the end of ota ofa a two week Vaca aa tion Ford ord tanned by the Florida rIda sun and feeling fit nt discussed the future futura of airplane manufacture be be- be fore his departure for tor Detroit In his lliS first public comment on the Brooks accident Ford spoke affectionately affectionately- of oJ the Detroit boy whose tinkering with airplanes won IVOn him a place in the Ford loid or organization or- or COURAGE PRAISED H He praised the tile courage and abilIty abil aWl ity of pf the young young flier filer and expressed expressed ex ex- pressed deep regret at the mishap Mr Ford said h he believed the accident accident accident ac ac- ac- ac due to the stoppage of t one of ot he gasoline tanks on the plane and lack of time of the pilot jilot to switch the fuel supply to another her tank We have learned from Brooks Brooks' ex experiences Mr Ford said sald and will wUl take advantage of them in carrying on th the work of this brave and arid brilliant man Ford engineers th the tho manufacture ture ed are at at work worle or on a Diesel engine to motor a huge hug passenger passenger passenger pas pas- plane capable of transatlantic tic service He lIe said he intended to fly to Europe in iti one of ot the huge planes s some me day but did not nol think it will wUl be this year He Heald Hebald I said bald the date date- of or an airplane trip h he proposed making to Brazil had hadnot hadnot hadnot not been determined While Mr Ford admitted his one experience in the air had b been en limited to a flight with Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh last summer h he said h he was strong for air travel and would take a plane pane Continued on page S ri FORDS FORD'S FAITH IN INV V PLANE UNSHAKEN V Continued from page 1 1 whenever whenever necessary to get any any- where V V FAREWELL TO TOE EDSON SON Ford told his next door neighbor Thomas A. A Edison goodbye before departing for Detroit Edison as assured assured as- as S' S the automobile manufacturer he looked per cent better than when you arrived Ford reiterated that ho he favored Herbert Hoover for fr president Ford said he was as a Republican because I was born bom one lie Ii would not venture an opinion as to the result of the experiments of his crony Edison In in an Effort to find a practicable rubber plant in Florida other than to Say It If anything can be done about it Edison Edison- will do it |