Smyrna times., 1933-04-05
SIDE LIGHTS OF
NEW YORK CITY
Told By Walter Trumbull in
His Own Immical Way
of DOings in City
INTERESTING SKETCHES

Oil and other large companies
have their own airplanes, which
they use for advertising purposes
and to transport officials on hurried
business trips The head of one of
these companies decided to take his
first trip in company plane and,
never having flown the head man
before, the pilot was bit excited
about it and wanted to make a good
impression. He showed the pdssen-
ger the working parts of the plane
and explained to him about his par
achute. When the time came for
the take-Off, he turned to the pas
senger behind him and said:
when we get to the mountains
we may have to fly pretty high. You
are not used to that and may feel
the altitude, but that is the oxygen
tank right beside you. I'll look back
to see how you are doing and, if
you seem to be feeling the height.
I'll call to you and all you have to
do is to work that little handle.'
Everything went smoothly until
they began to get pretty high and
then the pilot looked back. The
passenger looked a little greenish,
so the pilot jerked his thumb in the
direction of the tank and yelled
''Pump!" Then he turned back to
his job. A little jolt or something
caused him to look back again.
There was no passenger. The boss
had understood the pilot to yell
"Jumpl" and had bailed out. He
had succeeded in pulling the ring,
and there he was far below float
ing down toward the side Of the
mountain.
There was no place the pilot could
land around there and nothing he
could do. He gave the ship the
gas and made for the nearest pos
sible landing place. There he got
an automobile and search party.
1t took him almost a day to find
the boss and one day to induce him
to get back into the plane.
In reference to an article I
wrote recently concerning my pho
netic method Of spelling and the Sc
rious problem as to when / comes
m If ~
sterdam, n. y, writes me:
IL before z, except after G,
or when sounded as A,
As in Neighbor, or Weight
If i can manage to memorize
that, it is going to save a lot Of
copy reading. But / want to warn
Mr.. Cassidy that this is only be
ginning. There are other words.
always like, for example-although
/ know it is derived from the Latin
bene-to spell benefit as benifit.
Billy Gaxton, star of "Of Thee I
Sing" has a very beautiful wife,
whose stage name is Madeline Cam
eron and who appeared in such
shows as Hit tile Deck" and Good
News" For some reason. his pet
name for her is Ma They went
into a Fifth avenue shop to look
/ over some shirts. Mrs. Gaxton wan
dered to another counter and her
husband called to her:
Ma. come back here and look at
these things"
4 A little while later. she received
letter from the shop. 1t read:
1--WE are pleased to inform you
/ that the shirts you ordered for your
son are ready"
Those interested in tennis may
be pleased to learn that the inter-
national intercollegiate team match
between Harvard-Yale and Oxford
Cambridge will be played at the
Newport casino in July. What
seems interesting concerning it to
me is not that this is the ninth
match and that each team has won
four, but that among the Cambridge
representatives will be David Jones.
former Columbia champion. and
that Clayton Burwell of North Caro-
lima will represent Oxford. where he
is now studying on Rhodes
scholarship.