Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK By Dy LEMUEL F. F PARTON Consolidated Feature N MEW NEW EW YORK It rt might be a good A Idea Iden to turn Glenn L. L Marlin loose on this cargo plane job ob and let him see what he con cen do We once Faw av him pull 4 t i Clumsy Looking through 1 Kite Opened Eyes doubtful enOf en en- t v r p r I s c Of P Public u bl c in In 1912 which nearly so good Rood a n short end bet as os making cargo planes in a n hurry It was nt at Avalon tiny thy Los Angeles Ange Ange- les es cs in 1012 when aviation WitS was fascinating fasci fasci- noting lUlling outdoor vaudeville with Its hall hail mark of world destiny still hid hid- den the I French Her had stunted out our lads by a n flight over the English channel On this golden day in 1912 there alpe appeared red nt at the waters water's edge a 11 clumsy looking looking- kite precariously precariously precariously pre pre- poised on a It single wooden pontoon Word got gol around that this whoever who ever he tic might be he was actually going to fly ny this lids thing over to Catalina island 20 miles away Young Martin had been ramming around with barnstorming troops with made home planes known to fliers as ns a n daring Innovator but with the public in general genera not quite sure of even his first name Lincoln Lin Un coin coln Art Smith SI Christof Christof- terson ferson Dob Bob Fowler and others had found in the California skies sides a n clear 1 I field of operations and Martin Marlin was wasi i lone one among many there having a Q good time lime in what seemed then a aI I sport rather than a business At any rate bankers of or the day so re re- it He lie had built his Catalina Clipper Mn in an on abandoned church with such material as he might come by without without without with with- out benefit of bankers We recall that it had a quaint homespun look t It It seemed that it might do almost anything except fly lly Getting ready for the take ofT young Martin Marlin wasn't paying any attention to the tue skeptical crowd He tightened up some bolts put lut an on inflated rubber tube around his neck and strapped stropped a n compass around his leg Then to state It precisely he lie flew new to Catalina Just In passing when he reached the financial as ns apart from tram the technical technical tech tech- stage of at his operations he wore most elegantly tailored block black flying suits and no more messing around in dungarees Ills His lying flying mates called him Dude Durle Martin but this up get-up achieved an nn ciTed of safe and sane conservatism and it was as not surprising that he got backing from the tile bankers T pHE TUE lIE last time we saw Waldo aldo I Frank rank was in the summer of ot 1939 on our terrace In the country It was a month or two ber re the theSA war ar start start- t r SA S S. America A C Chief h. h IC f ed and Mr 1 Interest of 01 This Frank rank wasP wasP was P Prolific ro fi c W. W Writer vv rater riter deeply trou trou- troubled bled It Ita a was wasn wasa aa a n end dead-end conversation every way we turned War was coming coming ot of that Mr Frank felt sure We Vc would be pulled in and we wouldn't be ready either with arms or under under- standing The mood of the tho conversation Ismore is ismore ismore more clearly recalled than just what wha t Mr Frank said suld However we do remember that he was sad because continental America had not shaken loose from a n dying Mediterranean civilization and built a u proud and safe and cohesive civilization of oC its own A I short stocky man with a loose tweed suit and a neat black moustache moos moos- tache he moved ed down a troll trail Inthe in inthe inthe the dusk to a II dark daik cave of interlocking interlocking inter inter- locking forest trees The dark dork trail led to Buenos Duenos Aires where he lies today a casualty of ot a war of ideas which he has been waging for Cor more than 20 years cars Six si fascist lI t thugs beat bet him him with lie tho butt bull of a revolver rc after the Axis is inclined government gO hid had found him hum per per- bona buna lion non grata I His book boole Our America pub published I in 1919 was as both bolh an exalted declaration of at faith faWl and a n disquiet disquieting I ing fag appraisal of oC our complacent and slovenly to realize what the gods cods had bad bestowed on us and to measure up to this endowment In iii Inthis I II I this and ead man many later books and mag II I azine articles he preached a B somewhat some some- what mystic philosophy of The Whole with such earnest faith and plodding persistence that it is not I surprising that he carried his challenge chal thaI lenge to the ous dang political front I of ot Argentina During the decades m in which he wrote nearly 40 books books lie he is one of ot the most prolific of American writers writ ers ers era Mr Frank was profoundly interested interested in in- in South America in lii his conviction that North and South were interdependent in their cultural cultural cultural cul cul- tural and economic destiny When he first was in Argentina in 1929 the president provided him an airplane airplane air air- plane for tor his tour of oC the country It I Wall was sas in that year that he visited I the principal cities of South America Amer AmerIca ica on a lecture tour our appealing tr cor continental solidarity |