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Newspaper
Wilmette Life
Location
Wilmette, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jul 05, 1934
Page
8
Mrs Walter V Denton of Lawrenceburg Indiana is a guest at the home of her daughter Mrs Walter C Farrar at 1210 Greenwood Avenue.
Miss Dorothy Carlyle of Rogers Park married Frank Lane Brunton Northwestern managing editor of the Daily Northwestern last Saturday in the First Methodist Episcopal church chapel in Evanston. Dr. James Yard officiated. Miss Carlyle is a Northwestern graduate and Pi Beta Phi member. Miss Dorothy Snyder of Wilmette was the sole bridal attendant and hosted the spinster dinner.
Miss Ruth Baumeister of Erie Pennsylvania visited for several days with Mrs Jennie F Painter at 1615 Elmwood Avenue. She was on her way to California.
The United States Army Air Corps has perfected a round trip flight of ten Martin airplanes from Washington D C to Fairbanks Alaska and back for training and photographic work. The mission will cover about 7335 miles and may start in early July with a crew of twenty officers and ten enlisted men. The Canadian government has granted transit permission for the flight.
Louis A. Lon Yancey, famed for a Maine to Rome Atlantic flight with Roger Q. Williams, lands at Curtiss airport in a Pitcairn autogiro. He made Curtiss field his HQ last summer advertising over Chicago and A Century of Progress and plans similar work at the fair, though not for its full duration.
The Bellanca aircraft kept at the Curtiss airport hangar flew to Marion Indiana and other points last week. One company branch is in Marion and the plane is used to carry parts for products. H B Griggs is the pilot of the Bellanca.
Chester Faust flew from Curtiss airport to Green Bay Wisconsin in the Keystone Loening commuter owned jointly with Lloyd Laflin of Lake Forest. The Wet and Dry Flying Company is the name under which they are incorporated. Faust returned to Curtiss field the same day.
Frank Mara head of the Stinson service department arrived at Curtiss airport operated by Chicago Aviation in a new Stinson Reliant. Mara came from the Stinson factory in Wayne Michigan to oversee local distribution.
M. C. Meigs of the Chicago Evening American left Curtiss airport last Thursday in a new Stinson on a business trip to Moline Rockford and other Illinois cities.
New York London Moscow air line announces first flight from Floyd Bennett Field on August 25 at 8 am. The Vultee transport with 715 hp Wright Cyclone will carry 10,000 pounds, cruise at 215 mph, reach 22,000 feet, and aim to complete 18 hour and 25 hour transatlantic segments to London and Moscow. Weekly express service starts, with passenger traffic to follow after schedule proof.
New wind direction and velocity instruments have been installed in the Curtiss airport hangar control tower for flyer convenience. Radio weather reports nationwide aid pilots departing Curtiss field to anticipate conditions at any destination.
Restaurant service is now available for visitors and staff at Curtiss airport. The eatery sits on the center of the second deck promenade overlooking the flying field. The management has twenty seven years with the Fred Harvey system.
Frank Casey departed Curtiss airport last Friday in his rebuilt Stinson for northern Wisconsin. The aircraft had recently been overhauled at the Curtiss shop after a prior crash damaged it and brought to Curtiss field for repairs.
Radio musician Ennio Bolognini, a South American cellist heard on KYW, made his first solo flight at Sky Harbor last Saturday. He helped build one of Argentina’s first airplanes in 1912, but Saturday marked his first piloting attempt.
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