The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-04-20

St. Lucy Holy Name Society DOWerS VIII Wlnu up most successful this evening at their annual banquet at the Brass City Grill The speakers will be Rev. Felix Scoglio, pastor, Rev Alex Ricco and Rev. Cornelius Looney, former parish crates and John A. Cluney sports ed of the Democrat. Attorney Frank Summa will occupy the toastmaster's chair According to President Anthony Mazzaupo no stone %l De le h remembered The first course will be served at S3O don't be late.
 Spinning the wheel. Dick Dillon and Charley BedellF St. Thomas seminarans, Eastered with their families here Mary and Phil Cipriano and Josephine Campi Town Plotters, swayed to the danceabe music of Sanmy Kaye at the Ritz in Bridgeport Sunday night
 Irene Rube of James Place second grader at St. Josephs School honors the Tower with generous Finn, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lewis Dave Bartoln pave Brady J. V. Walker, Charley Keeey and Walter Beck pronenaded Moo YaWk Easter Sunday. Ditto for Mrs Jessie Riggs and Loretta and Gladys Lumpkn ot Thom aston and Pauline Richards of Beacon Falls Eddie Udeowtz has gone gaga TOT prldge a4u souu hee on sandwich at downtown eatery the other evening"
 The old order dies. And now the great American pastime of poker is to be invaded by the 4 4ha your real dyedn-the-wool poker fend will take Kindly to this intrusion. It was bad enough when "weaker" generation started making deuces one-eyed gentlemen, and sundry wild in common ordinary game of draw stud but when thirteen new cards Ot an entirely new suit are introduced well anyone who has tried to "fl belly straight knows what is going to happen. We look with sadness on this effort to throw poker wide open with the 65-card pack We
 
 some pot with pair of deuces will like this new game
 Stunt flying for science Stunt flying has become
 feature of every air show. Daring avlators perform aerial gymnastics which leave the beholder spebound as they loop whir sdeslip in beWlderng array of maneuvers. Where the pioneer airmen who first rsked their lives and planes to test improved or hazard ous theories? Behind those dizzy spinning planes and their eccentric movements the ShadoWy figures of airen who for the most part forgotten The names of only few remain in the public mind. Some sacri- fced their lives for the advancement of aviation At first it believed that seapane could be success fully looped Spins and loops were accepted for land planes with their light landing gear but for seapanes with their heavy pontoon floats the maneuver was be- lieved to be impossible. young Marine Corps flyer thought differently. Twenty-one years ago Captain Francis T. Evans circled his seapane above Pensacola until he had climbed to altitude of 4000 feet. Then he shot the plane forward with great speed to perform the first loop in history with this type of aircraft To prove the first loop not accidental he repeated the stunt. Upon landing he warned not to take such risks again But Evans had proven his point and one of the greatest fear demons connected with naval aviation was destroyed As result many lives we'll planes were saved Nearly twenty years later the marine flyer was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross by President Roosevelt for what considered oohardy sunt but is an accepted principle of naval aviation Log of the U. s. Marines.
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