The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1939-06-22

M EW YORh.-Wn1lel IL is only 50
: years since the first feeble
crow-hop of the Wright brothers,
aviation already has the equivalent
=. Of the cauli-
AH VetS Soar flower veterans
After 30; Some of prizefighting
Gave Leg to Fly veterans, in
cidentally, who
keep right on going after 80. Ben
.. Howard, who shippers the Doug
las DC-4, the largest land plane in
the world, across the country, left
his right leg behind him, on his
way on and up; as did Alexander
P. de Seversky, a marvellous stunt
fiier with wooden leg. And Wiley
Post was served adequately by one
eye in his breathtaking hazards.
They carry on far beyond the one
score and ten which weighted Max
Baer helplessly against Lou Nova.
Ben Howard was flying his
self-made plane in the Bendix
Transcontinental Trophy race in
September, 1886, when he
crashed in New Mexico. He and
his wife, Mrs. Olive Howard,
also fiier, were critically in
jured. He was unconscious SO
days and his leg was ampu-
tated.
Research pilot" which is now
Mr.. Towards rating with the Unit
ed Air lines, appears to be a bit up
grade from the test pilot job, and
implies engineering and technical
skill as well as GOODNESS and cour-
age. All this Mr.. Howard gained
in designing, building and racing
planes for many years as the ride
'em cowboy" of many racing meets.
In 1880, he was flying the night
mail, between Omaha and st.
Louis. Losing daytime sleep at
times, he built slick little 100
horsepower racer which made
him the star of the National Air
races at Chicago in 1880. His
sman-engined planes kept on
snatching prizes from ships
with twice as much power.
After his accident, he was out
for Is months, and then back
with United Air lines in expert
mental work.
He is dark, slender, reserved,
mastering the air leviathan with the
sensitive and intuitive fingers of a
concert pianist.
TENNESSEE made super-grand
L splash when it brought Sergeant
Alvin York to the World of Tomor-
row, with a special train and a
Super Soldier and what-not.
Finds Home Ills Just as bal
Hardest to Hit ance brought
forward from
the world of yesterday, it was the
sergeant who, armed only with a
service revolver and a rifle, killed
Is Germans and captured 1872, in
Guiding two officers, and herded
them into his home dugout.
AhC ICu-uCduCu VI
the hog and hominy common
wealth has been having quite a
deal of hard luck in the after
glow of his fame. Debt, cinch-
bugs, boil weevils and five-cent
cotton are no such shining
marks as mere Germans. He
is busy cunning for the mort
gage on his 395-acre farm, near
Pail Mall, Tenn, trying to build
Sil0 and hoping for the best.
He is a modest hero and deserves
a cheer from all hands. This being
a pleasant and unique deviation
from that rather bitter monologue
of Lou Angler, old-time German dia-
lect comedian. The generals and
the orators were throwing out their
chests, celebrating their victory in
war, "Vere ISIS der soldier?" was
the plaintive refrain of the piece.
And then the answer:
''He ISIS over in de woods, cutting
down a tree to make himself a
wooden Leg"
zen. EVANGELINE BOOTH,
~ here from London on official
business, says she's coming
"home" to live next October. A
Cooper union
General Booth, audience Kissed
Bonnet Still On, her when she
COMING tHone' came here from
Canada in 1904,