Show iS WHO'S NEWS 5 5 THIS S WEEK By LEMUEL F. F PARTON N NEW N EW YORK Among YORK Among his com com- companions companions In barnstorming Glenn L. L Martin was known as The Dude although his carefully tal- tal bred lored flying suits Martin Had were a 1 w WILY a y t s Up Get-Up of 01 black bl ck Including Mortician their the t h C I r elaborate braid trimmings His somewhat mortuary up get-up and behavior gave an impression of ot great conservatism and It Is not surprising that he got backing from the bankers when other aviators failed A few months ago he laid said his Glenn L. L Martin Marlin company of Balti Balti- Baltimore Baltimore more making planes had a back back- backlog backlog backlog log of He lie told the house naval af af- affairs af- af affairs fairs committee there should be a per cent Increase in fir air armaments that foreign nations are spending ten times as much muchas as the United States lie He would build a pound bomber carrying 30 men and a pound bomb load miles In 1912 1012 this writer saw him put an inflated inner tube around his neck strap a a. compass on his leg legand legand and take off to 10 sea at Avalon bay Los Angeles In a flying laundry wagon on which he had rigged a single wooden pontoon He was bound for Catalina Island 20 miles away It looked like suicide He not only made It it but picked up again at Catalina and finished the round trip Round Trip blanking Sea Flight whose flight over overs Is s Success the British chan chan- channel nel nd was a way one excursion He had made the plane in an abandoned church The flight ight got him world atten atten- tion Then he staged a plane coyote I hunt dropped a ball into a catchers catcher's i mitt and a bouquet into the arms of a beauty contest queen I This air extravaganza aganza did not last long In 1913 he built and sold two model TT TI war planes to the army and has been build build- building buildIng building ing fighting craft ever er since with the exception of trans Pa transPacific transPacific Clippers He grew up In l Iowa built a pusher plane in his back back- backyard backyard backyard yard and flew fiew it in 1908 He Heis is fifty S S S WILLIAM A TILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN V V in j his seersucker suit and his rumpled hat frequently looked as asif asit asif if it he had been sleeping under a abridge abridge abridge bridge especially Bryan Jr in jn the midst of a Fastidious hard campaign About Dress His son son- son William WilliamS S Jennings Bryan Jr is fussy about his dress severe severe- severely severely ly y and md fastidiously fa groomed with witha a jaunty little moustache and a nice collection of malacca sticks sports clothes and varied haberdashery He is in the news now as he be be- becomes bc becomes comes comes comes' collector of ot customs at the thep port part p rt of Los Angeles his first recognition by bythe the California Democracy in whose vineyard he has labored laborec for years When hen his father Cather laid down his staff starr and scrip at Dayton Tenn he picked from the legacy only two things things free free silver and anti- anti evolution lIe He is quite unmoved by oratory speaking with vUlt calm legalistic precision with no gift gut for Cor the resounding or oracular He has made spirited forays against this or that notably Upton Sinclair's EPic M II c L. L Will Speak Sp ak heresy of 1934 but Good Word with no such im- im for lor Silver fervor as that which in In- inspired Inspired inspired his father allier But when oc oc- occasion occasion oc- oc occasion casion offers he puts in a word for silver or against evolution After Arter the Dayton trial and his fa fathers father's fa fa- fathers father's fathers ther's death he made a knightly vow that his lance always should be leveled against this ignoble the the- theory theory theory ory of mans man's origin But nobody seems to be bringing that up now The argument is shifting to where man is going He attended the University of Ne Ne- Nebraska Nebraska braska three years studied law at Georgetown university went to Ari Ari- Arizona Arizona zona on account of ot his wife's health and practiced law first in Arizona and then in Los Angeles He is ty years old O e Consolidated News Features Service |