Show V NEWS THIS aa WEEK by LEMUEL F PARTON N NEW EW YORK while it is only 36 years since the first feeble crow hop of the wright brothers aviation already has the equivalent 0 t f t h e cauli air vets vet soar flower veterans after 30 some of prizefighting prize fighting gave leg to fly veterans incidentally ci who keep right on going after 30 ben 0 howard who skippers the douglas DC 4 the largest land plane in the world across the country left his right leg behind him on his way on and up as did alexander P 1 de a marvelous stunt ali flier er with a wooden leg and wiley post was served adequately by one eye in his breathtaking hazards they carry on far beyond the one score and ten which weighted max baer helplessly against lou nova ben howard was flying his self made plane in the bendix transcontinental trophy race in in september 1936 when he crashed in new mexico he and his wife mrs olive howard ilov vard a also so a flier were critically injured lie he was unconscious 36 days and his leg was amputated research pilot which is now mr air howards rating with the united air lines appears to be a bit upgrade from the test pilot job and implies engineering and technical skill as well as coolness and courage all this mr howard gained in designing building and racing planes for many years as the ride ern em cowboy of many racing meets in 1930 he be was flying the night mail between omaha and st louis losing daytime sleep at times he be built a stick slick little horsepower racer which made him the star of the national air races at chicago in 1930 his small planes kept on snatching prizes from ships with twice as much power after his accident he was out for 15 months and then back with united air lines in experimental work ile he is dark slender reserved mastering the air leviathan with the sensitive and intuitive fingers of a concert pianist TENNESSEE made a super grand splash when it brought sergeant alvin york to the world of tomorrow with a special train and a guard of honor super soldier and whatnot what not finds home ills just as a bal hardest to hit ance brought forward f from r 0 m the e world of yesterday it was the sergeant who armed only with a service revolver and a rifle killed 25 germans and captured including two officers and herded them into his home dugout the big redheaded red headed hero of the hog and hominy commonwealth has been having quite a deal of hard luck in the afterglow of his tame fame debt cinch bugs boll weevils and five cent cotton are no such shining marks as mere germans lie ile is busy gunning for the mortgage on his acre farm near pall mall tenn trying to build a silo and hoping tor for the best he is a modest hero and deserves a cheer from all hands this being a pleasant and unique deviation from that rather bitter monologue of lou angler old time german dialect comedian the generals and the orators were throwing out their chests celebrating their victory in war wa r vere iss der soldier was the plaintive refrain of the piece and then the answer he iss over in de woods cutting down a tree to make himself a wooden leg GEN G EN evangeline BOOTH here from london on official business says ashes coming home to live next october A cooper union general booth audience hissed bonnet still on her when she coming home came here from canada in in 1904 but cheered before she finished she remained 30 years running the army from her quaint old house in hartsdale Hart sdale N Y she will be 71 74 next christmas relinquishing command of the international army the daughter of gen william booth founder of the army she was reared in london at 17 the tall vigorous redheaded red headed girl swung into the army ranks singing their heir warrior hymns in the slums of london hoodlums had bad a standing offer of 50 for to r anyone who would knock off her coal scuttle bonnet nobody ever did then or since although she was once severely injured she was put in command na nd of the C canadian army in in 1896 o features Ser service Se nIce vicc |