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Show PIONEER MAIL AIRMAN DIES Operation Proves Fatal to Noted Seattle Air Mail Pilot. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Dec. 19,, , UP Edward Hubbard, 39, the first air mail man, died last night , as he' had lived, facing death un-. un-. afraid. Submitting to an operation ; for a stomach ulcer Sunday, Hub-i Hub-i bard knew that he would likely die, because only very recently he had ' been operated on for appendicitis in Omaha. Hubbard called to his beVlside an attorney and associates of the Boeing Boe-ing Air Transport, Inc., of which he was a vice-president, and carefully j arranged his business affairs. Two hours later he died, having retained consciousness until a few minutes , before the end. Learning to fly in 1913 at Seattle, Hubbard was one of the country's real aviation pioneers. He had a seaplane, and he loved to stunt with , it ove'r land. Once he plunged 4,500 feet into Lake Washington. He was only slightly injured in the wrecked cockpit. In 1920 Hubbard contracted with i the postoffice department to carry mail in his seaplane between Seattle and Victoria, B. C. That was the first time mail was carried by air. Hubbard flew the mail himself for several years. I ' |