Show Lindy's s First Air Teacher Seriously Serio sly Ill III CHICAGO March 29 Virt Virtually penniless Ira BillIe Biffle the the theman theman man who taught Charles A. A Lindbergh Lindbergh Lind Lind- bergh to fly Is seriously ill at the Cook hospital David Behnke president of the theAir theAir theAir Air Pilots' Pilots association ana anti an old friend of Biffle called on him to today to day at the h hospital pital where they talked over old times times- Tho The conversation led to the subject subject sub sub- of ol Lindbergh Lindbergh when I 1 met young I was instructing in Lincoln Neb in 1922 said Billie Biffle He brought me a check for which his mother had advanced him to learn how to fl fly He was a queer looking kid So we started in in I got him so he could solo He was a darned good student About the time he go got into solo flying he heran heran heran ran out of funds so he just hung around Jumped out of planes with parachutes and did other exhibition tion stunts Finally he got ot othis his dad I think it was to buy him an old army plane After Arter that he messed around on exhibition exhibition tion stunts stunt until he became a flying flying fly fly- Iy ing cadet |