Show AM FACES DEATH TO GET opportunity AS manufacturer Is story i meteoric rise of man from poverty to leading builder of airplanes nir planes in england without a penny he joins british army and deliberately breaks rules to employ talents in more effective service rondon london with nil all of its cases of meteoric met corle rises fi from oin poverty and humbleness to wealth alth and success the united states furnishes nothing more striking than that of J A whitehead president of the whitehead Whit chead aircraft company ot of england hut but it should be stated that mr whitehead though a BrItIs lier now has american Americ nn citizenship papers and got his business training in san francisco unknown two years ago mr ir whitehead now Is one of tile most prominent men in great britain and in its industrial life Is easily one of tile the most winning shining figures ile he started liis his career two find and it a halt half bears cars ago with no asset in the world except credit with i small hotelkeeper in a london sub jtb now lie he owns the biggest airplane factory in groat great britain and lias has under his o ownership acres of factory buildings and airdromes aird romes ills his first p pay ay roll was 35 a week with borrowed anoney I 1 its ills pay roll now 1 is GO a 1 week ile he recently obtained permission from the treasury de department of england to increase his eginit capitalization aliza by and in so complex complete was the hie confidence of english investors its m his ability to make good that the amount was subscribed before tile lie bonds were issued airplane yet in infancy sir air Whit whitehead chead Is a far seeing mao man lie he says the airplane business despite its magical development during war time is just in its infancy that when the is over there will be flying m machine services for mall mail ail and d pas be tigers and expresses all over tile the world and that chere thousands of machines are required now tens of thousands will ile be needed after the war ile he predicts that the airplane in autry will see the he same saine wonderful transformation that the automobile industry experienced some twenty years back furthermore mr whitehead says that the day the war Is over lie he will start machines on it n flight to new york and he has no doubt that within a short time lie he will have established in operation cooperation co with others a regular gnall dinall service between the metropolis of 0 europe and the metropolis of the western hemisphere it Is of course not possible to go into details in describing the airplane works which mr whitehead has built it Is one of the wonder monder spots of england and the thousands of employees whom I 1 saw at their work otte one day this week are turning out these ryes of un tho army at a rate which moy may well cause alarm to the huns who perhaps to AS anyone else realized that he great war var would be won in the air ur air abitt head believes that the hie war will le ine vw aun in the air arul ami lie says there to Is no question that the lie Engl lili manufacturer by lil american industrial captain will viii provide the machines which will give the allies an overwhelming superiority at a recent luncheon given ul ail mr W hite heads home lious liouc on the thames he told privately ahe story of his marvelous marve loua carf till ahja js Is it t sentenced to be shot A at t tl the outbreak or of the war mr le NY hi teb e cart ill then on the sunny i tlde ilde of orty forty was in still sail francisco lust get lug ing on his ft feel u nil lid adventurous experience which bad inken bilto to lo all parta f the world orld und it in a I 1 way diirr live him if 11 e reputation na jig lir it bayl now flow I 1 myn of ll 11 bilack the turning point in his career lind had come at I 1 monte carlo some years before ue ile received financial aid which enabled him to shift his course in life find and take a turn for the better As soon as war was declared although lie had become an american citizen he enlisted in a british regiment and came to england ue ile was at the battle of antwerp and there after watching the work of enemy gilr airplanes readied reached the conclusion that airplanes would deride deede the war sooner or later to get gel out of the army kasnot was not an ail easy task lie ile did it by insubordination and when sentenced to be shot produced his american citizenship papers and said that lie think the he authorities would kill him they they paid very little attention to ills his claim that lie he ha biad 1 I c committed 0 biml it ell a breach of discipline for the sole purpose of oc employing liis his talents in a more effective way to the service of his country lie he was sent back home with a mack black mark against him filled with chagrin but with confidence that diat lie could manufacture airplanes on oil at big scale and be a factor in ia tile determination of the world struggle ile he had not a cent ile he had no friends who could help ills his parents bilte naturally turned a dent ear car to his overtures for aid ills first step wa was to go to the war office and as lie he laughingly says with true american optimism ask for tin nn order to build airplanes plan es when asked if he had a factory lie replied that hint lie he had then tit he went out to took look for one so that the government authorities could verify ills statement commandeers a machine shop out in a london suburb where lie he had a hotel man for tin nn acquaintance lie found an alil it itin chine shop in which were a few lathes tin and some ben benches clie ile he inspected it as well its as lie could through the windows In dos borrowed a pot of paint and a brush and ladder and began to paint ills name on the front of the building ile he had it fairly well done when a man cattle along find and bald what are you doing therel there 1 I 1 ant am painting my iny name on M this budd building I 1 ng and what hat fire are you doing hat bat for my building oil oh Is that so then you ure fire just the man I 1 want to see mr whitehead took tile the oner on tier of the lie building to the aforementioned hotel and bought luncheon for him ile he told ba of his airplane dream ant anil Vau vilu glian ghan thompson ipson for that was tho nanie name of the owner ovner was impressed by it ue he bald ald it very good to me if it will help win will tile the war I 1 am for it I 1 flat am going to lie he blont tomorrow anil and vou ou can call take lake the building an mid do what you want to with it and I 1 have two li hundred lindred pounds cah cash and ns as I 1 dont expect ever eer to come back you can take that hint too and use it the best way you cun can it will be nt at your disposal in a 11 mr air thompson went away tie ile was ns ng he predicted just n year from thill day contract for six flyers mr lead bring being it skilled me put ahe ol 01 old machinery in the hie property in the best fama lie could made if a few purchases seg oil credit Tf lit find went to the llie air ment biffi this you lay send your in ln 1 1 I my iny shop tiny any time thae you asli 1 should j ilka tj contract lo 10 to build six f alx lx I 1 I 1 i and nd they 11 ll be at as goon its tiny anal nie r maker in tile the country can give you they gave lila him a 0 contract for or the six an inspector reported that MB him factory was of sufficient sulli clent capacity tor for it lill order of that kind und and there cherf pon tile the acre whitehead company bosin bos in its career on the strength it of 0 his order for six government nia machines chines mr whitehead ahead was uble able to make bucl purchases as a he needed for his small under undertaking ne ile also 1 borrowed 35 to pay two mechanics who helped him the first week from that the industry grew no ne surmounted obstacles that would have wed awed almost anyone and did things ahing 3 which astonished the cleverest business men or of angland lin rn gland but lie he achieved results ile he finished ills six mit mi chines in tar far less than linn the alio specified time little find and then lie he got a contract for or it a hundred the works grew find and the orders order grew also ile he built a great airdrome facing 21 field of hundreds of acre and to the amazement of government who thought his field was no ue as n training ining station because of 0 the fact that a river flowed through it lie he hurled buried the river lie ile dl liveried veneil a stream so that eliat it Is now not to be seen on his property the lunch which he gave the other day marked the end of the second year of active full operation there Is no telling where it will end |