Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1941-06-13

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jerkers. It is an alumnus Of their
guild who develops a 57-passenger
Ex-Soda yerker nisn. e.;t.
NoU Pours Out ed at $50
57-Man Planes miles per
hour, and
gets an order for 40 of them, right
away quick. The man from behind
the counter is 36-year-old Jack Frye,
president of the Transcontinental &
Western Air. Inc, for the last six
years.
He has been merging air COM
panies the way he ambidex-
trously merged raspberry Aips-
up through the depression years
to the status Of = high-ratinG
aviation mogul. His new plane,
the largest commercial land
plane ever projected, will have .
flying range Of 4,o0e miles and
ceiling Of $1,000 feet. He says his
feet Of 40 Of these planes could
hustle 1900 troops into Alaska
In IS hours.
Born in Sweetwater, Okla, Mr..
Frye grew up and did his soda
jerking in California. He nicked
each pay check for something for
the kitty, to buy into aviation. His
first investment was in a series Of
flying lessons. He and his instruc-
tor then bought battered old war
veteran Curtiss Jenny and made it
the nucleus of a flying school and
an aerial taxi service.
Standard Air Lines came later
when two students, Paul E.
Richter and Walter A. Hamilton
joined young Mr.. Frye in estab-
fishing it, operating between Los
Angeles and Phoenix, Arix. As
one thing led to another, as they
bought and merged companies,
his associates moved along with
him and became executives Of
the T.W.A. Mr.. Richter shared
his last notable acquisition Of
aviation stock, when, in April,
1929, T.W.A. took over about 7e,-
900 shares Of the Lehman Bros.
holdings in T.W.A. at two points
above the market.
Mr.. Frye has kept right on flying
as well as designing and financing
airplanes, and in 1884 set up a rec
ord in crossing from Los Angeles
to Newark in II hours and 81 min
utes. Thirty-six years is young for
mogul. Last January, he married
Helen Warner Vanderbilt.
COMMANDER Edward Ellsberg's
" new novel, Captain Paul." the
fctional narrative of the life of John
Paul Jones, is another reminder Of
Another Writing nencbant for
Man Doubles as doubling in
A Fighting Man writing and
have had Gen. Lew Wallace, with
Ben Hur," Captain King" and all
his other bell-ringing stories; Maj.
John Thomasen, of the marines, au-
thor of Fix Bayonets," and many
other books and short stories and
one of the best writing men of the
country, regardless of weight or
class; and of course Maj. Gen.
Hap" Arnold of the air corps, au-
thor of the long string of Bruce"
stories.
As to Commander EllsberE,
his New Book is one of an in
ereasing number Of his imprint
which get loud applause from
the critics. His spectacular feat
in raising the submarine S-5l,
of Block island in 1926 first
brought him to national atten-
ton. His first book, "On the
Bottom" told the story Of the
S-5l. Thereafter came Pig
boats" Thirty Fathoms Deep"
Hell ON Ice," "Men Under the
Sea-" and many short stories
and magazine articles. He il
now . United States naval re-
serve officer.
He was born in Hartford, in 1896,
the son of Russian Jewish immi-
grant. Young Ellsberg went to An
napolis, where he was graduated at
the head of his class.
His eminence in engineering il
comparable to his literary reputa-
ton. He attended the Yale School
of Naval Architecture, after his
graduation from Annapolis and h
the World war got 4 fast running
start into his career BY refasAion-
ing interned German ships for trans
ports. He Is short, compact, square
y built. with IN outthr,,st Jaw. and
always stirred b. keen intellectual
interests.