Show NEWS THIS WEEK B by y LEMUEL F PARTON NEW EW YORK while it is only 36 years since the first feeble crow hop of the wright brothers aviation already has the equivalent of the cauli air vets soar flower veterans vetera ns after 30 some of prizefighting prize fighting gave leg to fly veterans i incidentally n 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 de a marvelous stunt flier 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 september 1936 when lie he crashed in new mexico he and his wife mrs olive howard also a flier were critically injured he was unconscious 36 days and his leg was amputated resea research ach pilot which is now mr howards rating with the united air lines appears to be a bit upgrade 9 rade 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 racin racing 9 planes for many years as the ride em cowboy of many racing meets in 1930 he was flying the night mail between omaha a and st louis losing daytime sleep at times he b built ailt a slick little horsepower racer which made him the star of the national air races at chicago in 1930 his sma small 11 planes kept on snatching c 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 he is dark slender reserved mastering the air leviathan with the sensitive and intuitive fingers of a concert pianist 0 TENNESSEE 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 his just as a bal hardest to hit ance brought forward f from r 0 m the 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 ha rd luck in the afterglow of his fame debt cinch bugs boll weevils and aha live five cent cotton are no such sliming shining marks as mere germans he is busy gunning for the mortgage 9 on his acre farm near pall mall tenn trying to build a silo and hoping for the best he is a modest hero and deserves a cheer achber from all hands G ren EN evangeline BOOTH BOOT H here from london on official business says ashes sh es coming home to live next october A cooper union u ni on general booth audience hissed bonnet still on her when she coming home came here from canada in 1904 but cheered before she finished she remained 30 years running the army from her quaint quaint old house in hartsdale Hart sdale N Y she will be 74 next christ christmas mass relinquishing command of the international army the daughter of gen william booth founder of the army she w was as reared in london at 17 the tall vigorous redheaded red headed girl swung into the army ranks dingi singing n g their warrior hymns in the slums of london hoodlums had a standing off offer er of 50 for anyone who would knack off her coal scuttle bonnet nobody ever did then or since at al though she was once severely injured she was put in command of the canadian army in 1896 1996 CO consolidated features Servi service cst |