Show WHO'S NEWS THIS WEEK I I By LEMUEL LEMUEL F. F PARTON NEW TEW YORK In In 1918 the BolsheviKs Bolsheviks viks were fixing g to th shoot Maj Alexander P. P de but he persuaded them to let t him go to America so he Gets could get a new newA newA newA A Wealth of wooden leg He HeTh PL LI got Sot it also a beautiful beau- beau Th H Here Things LAcre ere A wile wife a a 5 I airplane factory and a lot lotof lotof of flying records culminating in hi his new west east transcontinental record record record rec rec- ord of 10 hours and md 3 minutes from New York to Los Angeles Flying for Imperial Russia in the World war he engaged In more than dogfights with the Germans and dropped 13 of them But one day they dropped him into him into the Bal Bal- tic A pound forty bomb which he had failed to release exploded as the ship struck the water and blew blewIt blewit it to bits Recovering consciousness later later lat lat- lat lat- er Cr ho he discovered that witless as ashe he was he had been clinging to a pontoon The water was red around him Shifting his good leg over the pontoon he made a of his torn trouser leg He lIe swooned again as a Russian destroyer picked him up Decro He De cro hopped crow hopped the Chinese I border borderon on his Ws wooden leg as a stupid border guard refused to recognize recognize nize his papers Washington received him hospitably bly in April 1918 and made him hima a consulting engi engineer eer for the army air service He later experienced some some rough going but the only real up crack-up in his career was encompassed encompassed encompassed passed In that drop into the Baltic He was was steadily on the uptake designing designing designing de de- de- de signing planes flying and bringing through his factory In 1933 he designed and built an amphibian plane which made a record o of miles per hour Trained in the Imperial Im penal Naval academy he has contributed contributed contributed con con- greatly to aviation engineering engineering engi engi- I and design Several years ago using an alarm clock and few electrical ll odds and ends he made a waltzing plane swaying rhythmically with band music from below His waltzing days were over and he found this a satisfactory substitute S S SIMON IMON LAKE the inventor of the theLi lJ Li submarine 72 years old hopes some som day to get an under-sea under peek peck at the sunken continent of ot Atlantis In a town mid ho- ho r i. i Out Lake to tel In New York Redeem the he Is up to his Submarine knees knees es in blueprints blue blue- prints of submarine submarine submarine rine adaptations and gadgets which he hopes will be found useful by the deep sea His father Is 91 his grandfather lived to the age of 96 and his sister to Although Although Although Al Al- though his once red hair is white he thinks he is just now getting his start In life His 25 basic patents alone made the submarine possible Like many possibly most inventors he could devise a scheme for almost anything anything any any- thing except getting what was coming coming corning com corn ing to him So in his genial casual w way y he is broke Reading Jules Verne when he be was 10 years old led him to capsize a rowboat on the Toms river in New Jersey and test his staying powers in hi the submerged air cham cham- ber her In Iii 1894 he made a wooden su submarine m rine 14 feet long with a soda water tank supplying compressed air It worked ni nicely ely In 1894 he made the Argonaut Jr in which he cruised under the water for thousands thousands thousands thou thou- sands of miles on Chesapeake bay LIke Like the Wright brothers he aroused little attention He finally finally finally final final- ly got Washington Interested when he telephoned to the capItol capI- capI tol tot from Crom the bottom of the sea His working submarine came through Washington didn't seem to care much what he did BO so he took ook his invention to for for- capitols Czarist Russia made him some Impressive of offers offers of- of fers but h lie decided they were a disso dissolute ute lot and as a re sell American business businessman man he wouldn't have t have anything to do with them All AU in all he became fed up with bureaucrats and red tape and governments gov gov- in general and turned to deep leep sea tre treasure sure hunts The submarines submarines sub sub- marines of course destroyed much more treasure than they ever dredged up This troubles him Vigorous Vigorous Vig Vig- orous and energetic with a wrinkled wrin wrin- wrin kled led knobby weather-beaten weather face genial and friendly he be plugs alone along lone ilone in II in his hotel to redeem the submarine by making it a general cargo and passenger carrier earner 0 i News vs Features Feature Service |