Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 19 May 1932, p. 18

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Air Meet July 10 One hundred and fifty-one Amier- ican Legion posts of C7ook county with a nîebership of nearly 25,000 Will ,cooperate in staging the. first annual national ai meet for sports~ mani and amateur pilots Stunday,ý JulY 10, at Sky 'Harbor airport Nvest of Glencoe. The meet will be spon- sorcd by the Cook countv counicilt of thé American .Legioni, iwiti theý Aviation post -of the Legion, directingt the plans. At a meeting beld last week, rep- resentatives of the- Cock countyý council and the Aviation post. ain d officiaIs of Sky Harbor field dis- cussed. genemal plans' for the mieet, 'which wilI be made an annual ai- fair. Capt. Benjamin Bi Lipsuier. first supeintendent of air.fmail in the United States and a miember-of the Chicago Aemo comimisgion. will liav~e gen eral charge of the -meet. 'Mai. IR. W. Scbroeder,. president of th~e. .Sky Harbor Flying club and a na- tionally known leader ini aviation circles, is chairman of the contest conimittee and wnill direct the vat lis r-aces and other events on the pro- 1t, is planned to' hold a miodel ýair-, plane contest in connection witl, the meet. Joe Lucas, a member of A'via- tion post, will be in charge of this. Those taking part iii the contest Nvill flv their mnodels. on the niorning of thie day the meet is held. run out. Cons'ueration also is ueing, given to an evening show climiaxed by a gigantic fireworks display. Fur- ther plans will be announced lateË. Invite Hawks, DoIittIp Althougb. the meet ' i to be prin- cipally for amateur, and sportsmian pilots, sucb well known Afyers' as Capt. Frank Hawks and Jiinuîmy Doo- little will be invited to demiomstrate for the spectators how tbey wot! their speed laumels. The Chicago, Womnan's Flying club'.. Lrrivec Waulcee this summrer for demonstra- tion, as w.ell as for passenger-carry- ing purpoges. Mr. Hodges tooka thrée weeks' course at the Pitcairn facton-. The auto-gyro lie brought b .ack -is one of, the new miodels, powered with a 165- horsepower Kinner engine. It is black trimmed in white. Pal-Waukee airport hias been. made the distributing agency for the-Pit- caimn auto-gyro in the Chicago area.. rThe airport is preparingteneai i age numnber of ývisitoes Who are, interested in seein'g. the, auto-gyro. Chicago Masonie 'Group l Hears TaIk by Schroeder The Acmne Masoinic lodge,ý 4600 N. Paulina street, Chicagp, heard atalk on aviation Tuesdiy of thii week by Mai. R. W. Scbmoeder1, president of the Sky Harbor Flying club. Major Schroeder also spoke at a meeting of the Niles Center Amemican Legion, post on Mav 10 and before the Cheni- ists' club in Chicago May Il1. Fi- day of this week be will tellItheIe i-Y club at the Evanston Y. M1. C. A.' somiething about aviation. On May 26 lie is scheduled to give a talk be- fore the men's club of the Saron Lutheran churcb, Shakespeare and Richmond streets. Chicago. Ijaul Isorcen,, draina critic andi columni-îst - for the, Chicago Daily Tinues. ivas injured Saturday evening when the plane lie was pilolfing crash- ed on. the H.. T., Stanton estate near Wayne. Borden had been keeping- bis plane, an Inland-Sport, at Sky Harbor airport.west of-Gl.encoe. He had been doing considerable night fly- ing recently. Dr. R.. W. Carpenter of the Community hospital at Gencva, where Borden was taken folîowing the accident, said his injuries were not seriouns. relI of the Texacés and Arado of the Boosters. Werner collected three bits, including a terrifie home-mun over the Ieft field screen in the third inning which tied the score, 2 and 2. 1 The sixth:ining furnished the pitch-. ing thrill of the. gamne.'Freddie Leuth came in to relieve Davidson with the bases loaded and n'O outs. ILeuthstruckI out the first rnan to face him and theni forced thé next. man to Uine to "Bud" Schuett at second. This resulted in a sneedy' double play and the' side was re, tiret without a run being scoreci., l'le Texacos; will continue. their fleague schedule next Sund#y afternoon. playing a double header, at BoltWood park ini Eanston. They are--scheduled to, play, the leadinig Jar is tea i in 'the opener at 1I0 ocl(>ck. and will %vind up ,ihthe Boltwood A. C.'s, Reads "The Waves". at Kenilworth Class At the reading class which met itt the home of Mrs. Craig Ketcham i in Kenilworth, Mrs. William D. Mac- Clit.jtock, discussed Virginia \Vol fe's '.The W'aves!" Mrs. MacCliiîtock. wvho directs the class, always touche.. thel vital points ini her discussions and this was no exception. "The 'Wavei"< is hardly a novèl. It is a book of technique.' It deals with characters; whicb are considered onlv in relation to their contacts with the other char-. actes o th book regamdless of thvir outside expedences.. It is a rnost ini- teresting st.udy. Notices of the next meeting wilI be mailed to the mem- bers. Mrs. MacClintock will discus> the "Electra" of Euripides asa pre- Iude to lier later discussion .of the] "ýElectra" of Socrates and that of - gene O'Neill. Milan Lusk to Make Eluropean Concert Tour Milan Luski violinist, of Wilmette, sailed last Saturday from New York on the Majestic for Europe. Mr. Lusk bas been engaged to pflay at the Inter- national Festival in Prague, Czeçho money, and far nmore of value i the lives, limbs and health of thousands of American boys. In many hospitals throughouit the country, there are rremnanIs of strong, manly forms. These men-mnany of tbem blnd- have givên al that our country may be secure. Picture the mental 'strain, of the 1non-compensated man- in the hospital as hé thinks of his wife. and 'little Lchildren .at home with no -income. Then 'Open to'him this 'opportunity whereby he can earn money by mak- ing poppies-$60 to $75 a ýmonth to send bis family. This samne man also knows he is 'making these poppies for. the Legion and the, Auxiliary who %will use the proceeds from» the sale for a buddy, or bis farnily, who -'s more ul*nfortunate than he-as many ni the men cannot make poppies. Then there is the buddy who bas paid the supreine sacrifice. The money froni the, sale of the. poppy will be used to heil; maàke conditions better for, the fnivthat mà.v be left-in manv cases the inother cannot care for her children. TheLeg,,ion and Auxiliary will give aàssistanice by caring for the "kiddies" thro ugh, the Child Welfare prograni bv. providing thern àa home, mwhe.» i is flot possible to keep the c'hlîdren and inhother together. Tien this mani will see the poppy worn'as a muemorial emblem ini trib- u te to bis buddies who died. Our mati is now able to' take b is place as a wage earner-he krîows he is doing somnething to help somieone else. and hé hias a place in life. This is what Poppy day mreanq. flot 0111v to this mnan but to tlîousands of Please give.,.give ..giv-e é~A N. 'Si. Pocm s WinPrizes_ in- State Club Con test Amember of the Womhan's club of Wilmeçtte and a mnember. ofý the.Ev anston Woman's club, both of whoînl won prizes in the Tenth district poetry contest, won prizes in the state contest of the Illinois Federa- hundred stuuents at Armnour. in- Flyi4 service at Wisconsin Rapids, Mr. and Mrs. William C. White Ifrs. Lea J. Orr,. 1002 Greenleaf ptitute iChicago will visit Sky Harý Wis., stopped at Pal-Watikee air- (Jane Young of Kenilwortb) returned avenue, bas retumned from a two lior airpomt west. of Glencoe Friday port last week in bis new a'uto-gyro. last Friday frotu a busines rpi ek'vsti onciuPnsl of tlîis week. The studen-ts will miake Major Mulzer had just taken deliv- tlie east. , ess tnpndNvewt iYorkict ens a tour of inspection of the airport. ery. on the plane and was flying it 0o ..., Mai. R. W. Schmoeder, president of back to Wisconsin. He recently com-. Mrs. Ogden Cook, 1092 'Spruce IMrs. Arthur Wakely, 234 Leicester, the Sky Harbor Flying 'club,' will pleted a three weeks' course -at. 'th _ street, Winnetka, will be hostess to, road, Kenilwortb, returned last- week, talk to the boys ou -commercial avia- Pitcairn auto-gyro iactory ini the hem luncheon and bridge club on Fmi- from St.. Luke's bospital. She is con- tan.east.. day, May 20. valescing rapidly. s

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