The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1938-10-21
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
BY LEMUEL r. PARTON


NEW YORK.-As America looks
y to its air defenses, it finds, as
acting chief Of the army air corps,
q pioneer technician in the adapta-
ton of the air.
Arnold Seems plane to war uses.
Well Qualified He is Brig. Gen.
For Air Chief H. H. Arnold. as
Stunning command
Of the corps after the death of Maj.
Gen. Oscar MISSIONER, in plane
wreck.
Soon after the Wright brothers
had made their first few faltering
air jumps, young Lieutenant Arnold
was sent to Dayton, Ohio, not only
to learn to fly, but to make tech
meal studies Of the possibilities of
aircraft for observation and fight
ing. He was among the earliest of
the army's trained fliers, and, in
1912, won the Mackay medal for
triangular flight, 80 miles to the leg,
from College Point, Md, over Wash
ington and Fort Meyer. In 1895, he
again won this trophy for his exploit
of the previous year in leading a
flight of 10 bombing planes from
Washington to Fairbanks, Alaska.
He has been an aggressive cham
pion of aerial defense, reprimanded
in 1926 for what was considered an
excess of zeal for air armament.
In 1917, he organized and command
ed the Panama Canal air defenses,
and was with the A. E. F. in France,
in the closing months of the World
war, on inspection duty. He be-
came assistant chief of the air corps
in January, 1896. His technical
studies have included photography,
special means for Typographical OBJ
servations, and aerial mass tactic,
as well as engineering problems of
flying.
He is 81 years old, native of
Gladwyn, Pa, graduated from West
Point in 1907.
IN HIS Washington garden, Robert
E. Bondy has some late-blooming
roses and chrysanthemums, which
are now in bud. The hurricane never
Clouds HaUe has had to turn
SilUer Lining his back on his
In r. E. Bondy garden for time,
as his world out
side of it became mostly chaos. AS
national director of disaster relief
for the Red Cross, he's been doing
heroic work in New England. His
roses may be one kind of act of
God, but his business is mainly
with the other d-Swinburne'
"Forsaken Garden" where wild
waves and spent winds labor"
He was letter-man on the Uni
versity of Chicago baseball team and
a police reporter for a Chicago
newspaper. On the latter job, he
had ringside seat at man-made
disasters, but, in his later career,
took up with the more elemental
upsets and breakdowns.
For 10 years, he has organized
disaster relief for the Red Cross in
the Lake, Southern and Washington
divisions. He is one of our most
seasoned and efficient battlers
| dSdulot OLA tllC LILO dllo QcllSSIS tIlcI
come in the wake of flood, fire,
earthquake or any other widespread
ruin. He is native of Minnesota,
in his early forties, his hair thinning
and no wonder.
TN WASHINGTON, Congressman
4 Lucius N. Littauer Of New York
used to beat even Uncle Joe Cannon
in the house poker games. And just
-, little something
SotonS Losses out of the kitty is
Help Finance the So, $50, 900 grad
Haruard Gift uate school of pub
lie administration,
which he handed Harvard and
which recently opened. Mr.. Lit
tauer is the widely known glove po-
tentate of Gloversville. He is 70
years old, graduated from Harvard
SO years ago. His father, a German
immigrant, founded the family
glove factory. He has established
many benefactions for useful public
purposes, among them a gift Of
81 900, 900 in 1929, to ''bring about a
better understanding among all
mankind" He provided $4,000 to
recondition his old boyhood swim
ming hole. sst