The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1938-03-31
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

panions in transforming, Glenn
L. Martin was known as "The
Dude" although his carefully tai
:. :. ;, lored flying suits
MdTtIn Hd0 were Away s
Get-Up of black, including
Morficion t heir elaborate
braid trimmings.
His somewhat mortuary get-up and
behavior gave an impression Of
great conservatism, and it is not
surprising that he got backing from
the bankers when other aviators
failed.
A few months ago, he said his
Glenn L. Martin company, of Balti-
more, making planes, had a back
log of SIS, 5000
He told the house naval at
fairs committee there should be
a 100 per cent increase in air
ornaments, that foreign nations
are spending ten times as much
as the United States. He would
build a ESQ, 000-pound bomber,
carrying 30 men and a 1000
pound bomb load 900 miles.
In 1912, this writer saw him put
an inflated inner tube around his
neck, strap compass on his leg
and take off to sea, at Avalon bay,
Los Angeles, in a flying laundry
wagon on which he had rugged a
single wooden pontoon. He was
bound for Catalina island, 20 miles
away. It looked like suicide.
He not only made it, but picked
up again at Catalina and finished
the round trip,
Hound Trip blanking Bleriot,
Sea Flight whose fight over
Is Success the British chan
mel was one-way
excursion. He had made the plane
in an abandoned church.
The flight got him world atten-
ton. Then he staged a plane coyote
hunt, dropped ball into a catcher's
mitt and a bouquet into the arms
of beauty contest queen.
This air extravaganza did not
last long. In 1913, he built and
sold two model TT war planes
to the army, and has been build
ing fighting craft ever since,
with the exception of trans-Pa-
cific Clippers.
He grew up in Mackburg, Iowa,
built a pusher plane in his back
yard and flew it in 1908. He is
fifty-two.
WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN,
w in his seersucker suit and his
rumpled hat, frequently looked as
if he had been sleeping under
bridge, especially
Bryan, Jr., in the midst of
Fdstidious hard campaign.
About Dress His son, William
Jennings Bryan,
Jr., is fussy about his dress, severe
ly and fastidiously groomed, with
a jaunty little moustache and a nice
collection of malacca sticks, sports
clothes, and varied haberdashery.
He is in the news now as he be-
comes collector of customs at the
port of Los Angeles, his first recog-
milton by the California Democracy,
in whose vineyard he has 1abored
for years.
When his father laid down his
staff and scrip at Dayton, Tenn,
he picked from the legacy only
two things-free silver and anti
evolution. He is quite unmoved
by oratory, speaking with calm,
legalistic precision, with no gift
for the resOunding or oracular.
He has made spirited forays
against this or that, notably Upton
Sinclair's epic
wa SPeoR heresy of 1884, but
Good Word with no such i'm
for SiIuer passioned fervor
as that which in
spired his father. But, when oc-
casion offers, he puts in a word for
silver, or against evolution.
After the Dayton trial and his IA
theirs death, he made knightly
VOW that his lance always should
be leveled against this ignoble the
DRY of mans origin. But nobody
seems to be bringing that up now.
The argument is shifting to where
man is going.
He attended the University of Ne
braska three years, studied law at
Georgetown university, went to Ari-
IONA on account of his wife's health,
and practiced law, first in Arizona
and then in Los Angeles. He is
fifty years old.
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