The McDowell times. [volume] (Keystone, W. Va.) 1904-1941, 1941-05-02
WHO'S
NEWS
THIS
WEEK
By LEMUEL F. PARTON

consolidated Features-WNU Service.)
NJ EW YORK.-Maj. Gen Henry H
L Arnold, chief of the army air
corps who has just arrived in Eng
land to serve as an official observer
Arnold, Pupil of o o.; me war,
Wrights, Pioneer only officer
In Army Aviation remaining renal IN
ice who learned to fly under the per-
sonal supervision of Wilbur and Or
vile Wright at their school in Day
ton, Ohio. Just two years previ-
ously the war department had ac-
cepted delivery of its first batch of
airplanes and so his experience as
fier pretty nearly spans the com
plete period of army aviation.
Anyone who can recall the
status Of flying in 1911 will ap-
preciate Hap" ArnOld's exploits
in his first year of training as
young lieutenant, assigned to
flight duty from the infantry,
with record of lao flights, 30
hours in the air. In his second
year OF training he achieved
honor as the first winner of the
Mackay trophy awarded for ex-
cellence as a military pilot. In
day SO blustery and cold as to
keep all but of IL entrants out
OF the race he completed a 40
mile flight, originating at College
Park, Md, at an average speed
Of So miles an hour.
Twenty-Five years later he again
won the trophy as leader of flight
of 10 twin-engined bombers from
Washington, D. c., to Alaska and re-
turn. AS early as 1911 he prac-
ticed at aerial bombardment and
war department records credit him
with being the pioneer in the sue
cessful use of the radio for military
purposes in an airplane.
Quite at variance with the out
ward semblance of this slightly
built, silver-haired soldier with his
diffident smile, is his fortnight ut
terances and writings concerning the
alrplane as a war machine.
"The only way to prevent air
invasion is to attack the invader
with superior numbers and
knock him out Of the air." He
has been preaching this for
years, his concern having ever
been for the constant procure
ment of thousands of new, i'm
proved combat craft, training of
thousands of new pilots, enlist
ment of tens of thousands of
ground crew men, swelling of
aircraft plants and acquisition
of vital raw material for future
aircraft production.
Still an active pilot, mounting adj
duties. have cut down
his time in the air and restricted his
activity in two understanding
and writing fiction. Boys who re-
member his "Bill Bruce" books, in
Guiding "Bill Bruce at West Point"
Bill Bruce at Flying School," and
other breath-taking juvenile works,
will regret the recent idleness of
his pen.
PRONOUNCED feeling of goodwill
toward a nation where she has
been most Hospitality received, SEN
tlment born of local pride and high
p:J: cL sense of hon.
orable pre-
Christens Ship infe emit,
Shirt ofHood- W;U a d d d
strength to
the gesture which Senhora Peixoto
employed in breaking the bottle con-
tanning champagne over the bow of
the new Moore-McCormack passen-
ger liner, Rio de Janeiro, as it slid
down the ways in the shipyard at
Chester, Pa, the other day. So act
ing, she represented her husband
Commander Ernani Do Amaral
PeiXoto, governor of the state of Rio
de Janeiro-for which the vessel
was named-as well as her father,
Getulio Vargas, president of Brazil
A petite, vivid woman, who
has made a delightful impress
sion upon those concerned in
making the current visit of the
distinguished Brazilian pair an
important hands across the
sphere event, the senhOra holds
degree in law, the result of
study at the University of Bra
I'll, a profession, however, in
which she has never practiced.
Marrying soon after graduation
she eventually became secretary
to her father, a position she
now holds. Her hosts in New
York have found her a fluent
speaker Of English.
This requirement has made her Of
value to her husband as an inter.
prefer when our idiom and more in
volved diction carry him beyond his
depth. No one, it seems, has vel
found her at q loss on economic, so
cial, or political questionS-in fine
she is a brilliantly accomplished
woman. Practical, too. When il be.
came clear that certain handworb
arts in Europe no longer would be
available to American buyers she