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Bouncer. Lieut, L. E. Hunting's plane was guilty of treachery, but the flyer returned good for evil. Going into a tail spin at low altitude, the plane hit the ground, bounced, but somehow he held it in the air. Realizing the landing gear was crushed, he scorned the safety of his parachute, circled, flew to nearby Kelly Field (San Antonio, Tex.)' and eased the ship down so gently that it stopped virtually undamaged.

Small Balloon. One Leo Stevens rode 350 miles in a 50-pound balloon. Standing in the vaselike basket, too narrow to sit down, he traveled all night from Englewood, N. J. to the vicinity of Saranac Lake, N. Y. Releasing the hydrogen, he put the bag and basket on his back, and walked to the nearest railroad station.

Raft & Parachute. In the course of a 3,000-foot parachute drop Marine Corps Corporal Richard L. Huffman inflated a collapsible rubber raft. Near the water, he dropped the raft, dived from the parachute, recovered the parachute, swam to the raft, mounted the rubber seat, unlashed the oars, rowed ashore.

Golf. Will Rogers, professional funnyman, in his syndicated newspaper column, addressed Bobby Jones, golfer. He suggested that Mr. Jones refuse to play on golf courses that do not have long fairways and are not broad enough to be used as emergency landing fields for airplanes. Said he: "If you do this you will do as much for aviation as Lindbergh."

Golf. Two English golfer-flyers played 36 holes in one day, nine each in Ireland, England, Scotland, Wales. They played Harlech, Wales; bundled their clubs into an airplane; flew to Silloth, England; from there to Stranraer, Scotland; thence to Newcastle, Ireland.

Express Crash. Pilot E. G. Cline crashed into a tree 25 miles north of Hartford, Conn. He was killed, his plane ruined. He was making the first flight of an air express service between Boston and New York.

Storks. A small girl in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, wrote to the War Department, requesting a baby brother. Col. Hanford MacNider, Assistant Secretary of War, summoned his stenographer and dictated: "I have instructed the army aviators to watch the skies when they are flying around and if they see a stork delivering a little baby to tell it of your desires." Thirteen. Twelve Jugoslav military planes flew from Belgrade toward Prague. Thirteen started. The unlucky one fell on a glacier in the Vorarberg sector of the Rhaetian Alps. Alpine guides found the pilot with his legs broken but alive. The observer, Colonel Petrovich, froze to death searching help.