Show IL HO GE S 13 BEVERLY EVERLY HILLS I 1 made sat a fast trip in an aeroplane the tha other day that Is miles an hour in a corn com i mercial plane reg pac 1 ular passenger run 1 e I i but it made me y think or 0 trips I 1 r had bad mads made in the aa same ame type ot of plane p A fast one with the legs pulled up that I 1 used to make trips in that was the famous plane piano owned by hal hal roach the movie t producer that in makes akes you laugh in the theatre atter after some ot of our long pictures have either made you cry or cuss but making this last trip my thoughts naturally went to captala captain jim jimmy M y dickinson and its ot of him that I 1 want 6 to talk about one of the finest pilots one ona ot of the finest men that it has ever been my fortune to meet and know here he was lying flying all around back and forth across the US in a single day carrying mr air roach or ins his business as associates socia tes on the quickest bu burines bus ineis sines trips ever made in fix the world lie he was in that same plane ot of mr iZo roaches aches piloting mr air edmund loew son ot of marcus loew ot of the great loew circuit of 0 theartres theatres the She atres he and a friend were m alingh dour I 1 0 o t the he world to see their various theartres theatres the atres th they had shipped the ha plane eto ito australia then flew all over australia then flew it all the way from there to china then frimll china across india tamia persia to carlo cario then the whole length of oe africa and were on their way back and into europe then home so you see they were on the very home stretch bad field and the engine i stalled on tho the take off up only a little ways no chance crash other two sate safe he went wenc why noue none ot of us know judged by 6 every evev moral and manly stin standard dard fl hilt bit anyone who knew him cau could ald badge rae ne dedent give alm him I a square deal but maby fate dont run those thosa things maby somebody sees somebody they need and they just reach out and get eri era well it our supreme S reme being needed a ii rea read man he used splendid judgement jud gement in ills his selection he will be a worthy addition to that company no matter how hov select it mity may be tiley will be proud ot of jimmy sirs mrs Ro achand her friends who are not aviation enthusiasts at fall all but would go toSi berla with captain dickinson he A ia I 1 the only pilot that thail I 1 know ot of that ever tooled fooled a nation roach and loew flew to santiago chill chili with him in tour four or five days some mariel lous time to fly the andes the next morning to bu buenos nos alres they let lett t earner earlier than they bad expected well lea its a military field and they diderio fi okelly ly check out or some tech ni calit bality ca lity maby it was the starting of 0 technocracy but anyhow they just took oft off the andes to jimmy was just a high hedge fence and lie be took it in stride lie he made buenos aires lor for breakfast but chill chili com commenced fenced gettins getting hot an all kinds ol 01 stories two movie magnates had bad taken a lot 0 of gold out or of the rho country and all kinds ot of yarns well they then went on up th the coast 1 ol of brazil to rio janeiro now I 1 made that trip around and on up the east coast ot of south america from rio i janerio Jal ierio clear up to cuba ciba band and miami Al linit but it must be done in a sea plane or amphibian theirs being a land plana piano sylvely I 1 they had to come back by tho the west roast coast like they had gone gon e down so chili abili figured they had ern em because they had bad to come back through there but they figured without captain dick he ha looked and iian saw that right straight west byest of otther ellel mas was peru but about three thousand miles away well he finds one landing field away out there just north ot of paraguay at a place called caramba uy ity which haq had only beeri been approached from the south and and not irom from 1 othere I her e ho he was va so roach said let ilet bar hergo go jimmy ancho did roach says it was the greatest flight he eye ever r saw and ann those american pilots on the he regular runs boyf do yn a say bay it le was a masterpiece ot of navigating and judgement jud gement so he hit the pacific ocean north 0 of chill chili itsou dropped down in those jungles there was too no hitch hiking to town T they hey atter after wards got it straightened up with chiu chill it was all a der blanding B but U t that trip ol of jimmys was no standing that was a real tact fact just be forsbe started on this last trip he be come up u p to t 0 my m y house to talk about a long holof bop of about nine dine thousand miles that I 1 had just made a few ew months before frol rom singal singapore re in india deato to cairo egypt there Is just one line across there like a western trail trall tor foi the he early 49 ers 1 n Ci owing ving to various difficulties there was no noway way ot of getting tho the body homo home lor for burial so BO one finest men member af of that new lien and and adventurous calling lies iles burled buried wit with h the great victoria falls as his headstone the next long trip I 1 make Is going to be that trip from europe to capetown Capo town the whole length bt africa and tam jam going to those fabj fal but bu not not to iee sea the th falls T 0 its I 1 3 hell JAI Syd wives 1 inc bif it |