The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-08-18

FLINT, MICH, Aug. lo.-DeSplUe
the passing of hours without infor-
nation as to the fate of the miss
ing Dole airplane racer, Miss Doran,
brothers and sisters of the girl pas
senger bravely refused to give up
hope for her safety.
In a little band of watchers who
had waited in local newspaper Of
flee throughout the night, sat Will
liam Doran Jr., elder brother of the
young woman passenger of the air.
plane. He had maintained the
watch since o'clock Wednesday
morning.
Mildred will come through" he
said. "She's too good to go this
way"
BY telephone he kept in constant
touch with his two aunts, where, at
the home of one, Mrs. Elmer Cons
Ter, their younger sister, Helen, IL,
sat beside the telephone.
While Mrs. Gonsler grew more
anxious as the minutes passed,
Helen, who has been "mothered" by
Mildred since their mothers death,
ten years ago, kept hoping bravely.
Their father, William Doran Sr.,
was at his farm at Otisville, twenty
two miles away. He had spent the
day harvesting oats, and had asked
not to be disturbed till there was
definite news one way or the other.
No effort was made to communicate
with him.
Floyd, Mildred's IS : year old
brother, had shared the watch until
8 o'clock last night, when he left
for Bay City, where he is staying
with friends.
Indy Fired Ambition.
1t was Lindbergh's flight across
the Atlantic that fired Miss Doran
with the ambition to be the first
woman to span the Pacific. Two
weeks after the New York-Paris
flight she and some others were on
the Lincoln Flying Field here dis
cussing that feat Suddenly Miss
Doran remarked, I'D fly the Pacific
If had plane"
1t says something for the girls
character that w. F. Morris, part
owner of the field, did not interpret
the remark as an idle one. Mildred
had been regular fan" and
frequent attendant at the field dur
ing her weekend visits home from
her Caro- school. He mentioned the
matter to his pilots, one of whom
was Pedlar, and again referred to
it in conversation with H. M. Page,
plant manager of the Lincoln
Standard Aircraft Corporation, and
the designer of its planes.
AT that time the Dole prizes had
attracted comparatively little atten-
ton in Michigan. But the idea had
gripped their minds, Page believing
that the presence of a woman on
a trans-ocean flight would prove
that flying was no longer matter
of SEX
Money Is Put Up
Page, Morris and Mildred ap-
preached William F. Mallaska, re-
putedly wealthy owner of gas sta
tons, and asked him to put up the
money for the fight. 1t was then
agreed that Miss Dpran should fly
with some pilot yet to be selected
and Mallaska deposited in local
bank a sum said to be $4,000.
That was in April. Miss Doran
went back to Caro- and taught her
mixed class of young children with
out any sign of the ambition burn
ing within her. When school closed
June Is she returned to Flint and
began serious preparations.
She reiterated her intentions to
her father and her elder brother.
Her father had given up his job
as construction manager for NAL
laska and returned to his first love
"a farm.
He was acquiescent. eff my chill
dren are of age, won't stop them
from doing something I would have
done myself when I was their age"
he said.
The brother, william, law stu
dent, told her: "You know I would
miss you, Mildred. but if there is
any girl capable of pulling this thing
I think you're the girl"
Contract Is Signed
] A contract was negotiated with
the Bull Aircraft Company and the
machine was built at Marysville,
Mich
Mildred undertook the job seri-
ously, her brother said. She was
seriously interested in aviation, he
said, and she was not the type to
do anything merely because it was
/ spectacular.
That is exemplified by Miss Do
rams career since her mother died.
She went through high school, in
the meantime earning some money
by working as telephone operator.
When she graduated in 1924 and
started her two-year course at the
Michigan State Normal at Ypsilanti
she added to her studies some meas
ure of supervision over the mother
less household.
That continued until September,
1926, when she went to teach at
Caro-. She returned home every
week. and her first care was to look
after the house, cleaning here and
there and examining the clothing
Of Floyd and her younger sister,
Heller, IL. She mended their clothes
where necessary and purchased new
garments as required.
pleasure formed a minor mart of