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Leigh Wade, “Flying Sheik ” Inspired to Adventure by Moon and Maiden - fi — ■ ..— — , — . -- - , -.... ..— Left His Home for Harvest Fields to Win Love of Girl Lured From Drugstore, After Proving His Ability to Do a Man's Work, to Mexican Border. Told by LOWELL THOMAS. (Copyright, 1924) Just south of Kalamazoo Is Cas sopolis. Hitherto the latter has been completely overshadowed by the in ternational fame of the former. But henceforth Cassopolis will have more assurance of occupying a place in history than Kalamazoo, for Uassopo lis is the home of a young man whose name will always be associated with those of the greatest navigators and explorers of ail time. In the words of Arthur Brisbane, "History will forever record, if only in two lines, the dates and names con nected with the first human flight around the world." And among these was Lieut. Leigh Wade of Cassopolis. Leigh Wade was the pilot of the ill-fated world cruiser Boston that went down In the North Atlantic. Everything on board was lost except ing the mascots, two stuffed monkeys that Leigh and ills flying associate, "Hank” Ogden. Insisted on rescuing. But in recognition of the wonderful 0 flight that Wade and Ogden had made, a second plane,-\the Boston II., was sent north so that they could continue the flight. Leigh, or rather "Happy” as this "flying sheik” is known to his friends, has flown nearly every contrivance both safe and unsafe that was ever designed to leave the ground. Before he was selected to circumnavigate the world by air Leigh was one of the chief test pilots in the United States « air service. Broncho Breaking Relatively Tame. Breaking bronchos, as most of us know, is a dangerous game. But com pared to testing new airplanes that have never before been off the ground and that may be improperly designed or faulty In construction, breaking untamed mustangs is a harmless pas time fit only for kindergarten chil dren. So Leigh Wade had had more thrills in his short career before he u set forth to fly around the globe than a hundred of the most of us have to our combined lives. On his mother's side of the family Leigh’s ancestors came over on the Mayflower and were of the old Eng lish nobility. His father's parents and relatives were Canadians. Leigh was born on a farm three miles from Cas sopolis, Mich., on February 2, 1897. He attended the traditional little red country school house and got his first taste of town life when he went to high school In Cassopolis. Mathe matics was about the only study that interested him. but whatever enthusi t-* asm he may have lacked regarding his other classes he more than made up with the enthusiasm that he put into sports. Moonlight and Maid. His first adventure was inspired Just as adventures are usually in spired—by moonlight and a fair maiden. Leigh met and wooed the young lady on one of Michigan's pic turesque lakes near Cassopolis one moonlight night. Instead of accepting his suggestion that they elope to Kalamazoo, the young lady, who happened to he from (he badlands of Dakota, dared Leigh to go out west and first demonstrate to her that he was not a tenderfoot by doing a man's work harvesting on one of the great grain ranches. "Happy" Leigh took the dare, caught the next train, and liked Da kota so well that he soon forgot the maid whom he had met in the moon light hack at Cassopolis. After the work of harvesting was over he entered upon the slightly less tugged pursuit of mixing ice cream sodas in a drug store. His dream of becoming a druggist went tip in the smoke of war when the hoys of Edge ley, N. D.t lured him Into the First North Dakota infantry of the national guard. He went with this organization to the Mexican border near Brownsville to lend General Pershing a hand in corralling the elusive Pancho Villa, in whose air force Wade's future world fight commander, Lieut. Lo ^ well Smith, had been serving. As soon as Uncle Sam lined up with the allies "Happy" Leigh volunteered for the air service and went to To ronto to do his training with the royal air force. Although up to that time he had never been up In an sir plane, he took to the air naturally. He learned to fly in less time than It usually takes a bird. Instructor at Issouilun. After instructing in Texas for ft short while he was ordered to France and made a great record as an In structor on Nieuports at Issoudun, the largest American army aerial in struction center. Later he was one ft of two pilots selected to start acro batic instruction—looping, sideslips, Immelmann turns, vertical banks, tail spins, nose dives, and all of the other stunts that pilots might be obliged to use In combat work over the lines. Not. long afterward he was ordered to Paris and given his first appoint ment as a test pilot to try out the planas America was buying from the French. He held this Job until the armistice. Before returning to America he spent months in scouring France, picking up airplanes left here and there, and flying them In to the main depot at Romorantln, near Tours. Also he would go up to the frontier and fly back the planes thnt the Ger mans were surrendering to the allies. By the time he had been ordered home he had flown Just about every thing In Europe that was flyuble. ^ Upon arrival In America he was appointed as an experimental test ADVERT 15 KMKN T. Girl* ! Have Pretty Eyes No girl Is pretty If her eyes are red. stained or have dark rings. Sim 4 pie ramphor, witchhazel, etc., ns mix ” ad In lAivoptilt *ye wash, keeps eyes healthy, sparkling and vivacious. Dainty-eye cup free. Sherman A Me. Conneli Drug Stores pilot at McCook field, Dayton, O. There he flew pursuit planes and bombers of all types. Among other things, he did a good deal of altitude work on large planes and established an altitude record of 27,120 feet with a multi-motored plane —a record that still stands. In mak ing this flight he froze his face se verely. "Happy” Leigh's work pro hopping over several fences and a ditch he still managed to keep her right side up. Another time when flying at an altitude of 2.000 feet a crankshaft broke and tore the engine apart so that it caught fire. But with the flames creeping nearer and nearer to his cockpit. Leigh maintained enough presence of mind to make a fair land T - "i Lieut. Leigh Wade, the Michigan boy, affectionately known to his asso dates and the public as "Happy” Leigh, one of the most daring of the round-the-world-fliers. vided him with enough thrills to sat isfy any man. One of his pais had been killed the year before, and a spot had been left where the crash occurred. One day Leigh went up to try out a new pur suit plane. At about 2,000 feet while doing a nose dive to test the ailerons the latter locked tight and wouldn't budge. The plane kept oh diving straight toward the earth at terrific speed. He was descending right over the place where his friend had met his death. Would Be Grease Spot. “I could see the spot,” said Leigh, "and I thought surely I was going to hit It. I kept saving over and over to myself. 'Well, I guess I'm going to make another grease spot just like Mac.’ ” But about 20 feet from the ground, by sheer brute strength exerted oh the controls, he pulled her out of the dive. A few weeks later one of his as soclates. a test pilot by the name o( Lieut. Harold Harris, was up in tins same plane when the ailerons locked ngain and the plane got out of con trol. Harris jumped, and was the first man in the United States air service to save his life with a para chute in an airplane disaster. On another occasion T^eigh waas testing out a propeller when It flow to pieces. He happened to be flying over a speed course at an altitude of only 10 feet. The propeller tore nut the entire front of the engine. But Wade landed in some grass, and after ",- 1 11 - —v Nebraska News Nubbins V/ Beatrice.—Hattie Davis has filed suit for divorce in the district court agnlnst William T. Davis, charging cruelty and nonsupport. They were married at Wellington, Kan., Septem ber 13, 1910. Beatrice.—B. ,T. Lewis, living east of Holmesvllle, will soon retire from the farm to take clerkship in the Beatrice postoffice, having recently passed a suecessfnf examination. Humboldt.—Schools of the city were dismissed on Wednesday for the remainder of the week, observing Thanksgiving season. Beatrice.—George Tucker was sr rested here today and taken tc Marysville, Kan., to answer a charge of obtaining a $53 gold watch under false pretenses. According to the of ficers, he arranged to go to work for the Union l’nclfir road ami after ob taining an order for the watch dlsap penred. Humboldt.—The Ttlchardson county community council has adopted n proposed means of checking fraud ulent Incursions of canvassers, stock salesmen and solicitors for charitable enterprises of r|uestionab!e worth. A committee of on» from each town of the rounty has been appointed to co operate in the several communities with the people and with the com mlttee at large. Bee Want Ads are the best busi ness boosters. tng, shouted to some farmers stand ing nearby to form a bucket brigade, and then proceeded to put nut the blaze. When the fire was finally ex tinguished ho was so black that a farmer's wife thought him a colored aviator and was astonished when the black all washed off. Like most of the other world fliers, Lieutenant Wade never dreamed of being selected for the greatest honor In the history of aviation. But if ever a man deserved such recognition it was "Happy” Leigh. He has devoted almost his entire career in the air to testing and tak ing the "bugs” nut of new planes so that the rest of the fellows in the service might run ns little chance as possible of getting "bumped off." His experiences on the round-the world flight were even more harrow ing than all that he had gone through as a test pilot. "They were more harrowing." says Leigh, ''because we were nearly always cruising over unknown terri tory and we were under an added strain because our work was never done at the end of each day's flight. The story of how he was ship wrecked in the Xorth Atlantic and of how he was rescued, in company with Lieutenant Ogden, is an epic that we are going to follow as It is told by the two world fliers them selves. Head the next installment of the thrilling story of the round-the world flight in The Omaha Hep to morrow. Iparm Hand Saves Boy From Death in Flames Columbia*. Nov. 25 Kenneth Loeake. 4. Creston* Neb., was danger otiffly burned when be tipped over a ran of roal oil on the kitrhen stove The blazing drop* spattered over tha child'* clothing. He ran outdoors, where the wind blew' the garment* into a sheet of flame about him. Carl Schutte. farmhand, put out the flame* with bis bare hnnd-t, burning: them seriously. The boy’s legt were badly burned. He may recover. Alrohol Blast Kills One. Hannibal, Mn., Nov. 25—Mr. Kd ward L. Love was burned to death and her husband i* In a critical con ditlon. following the explosion of a bottle of alcohol at their home. Gifty Gifts Garters Handkerchiefs Tiaras Costumes Wraps Danse Frocks F. W. Thorne Co. ^ 1812 Farnam i OSTEOPATHY| Remove* All Kind* of Bodily 1 Trouble* | j POULTRY SHOW * Auditorium 15th and Howard Nebraska State Game Display : Neb. Agricultural College Display * 3,000 of the world'* finest fowl, nnd many other nttrnrtlnn*. " Register for the Red-Headed Ladies' and Girls' contest nt Brodegaard Bros. Jewelry Store t 16TH AND DOUGLAS Contest at Auditorium Friday Evening, November 2* * Admission 2?»<!* Open 10:30 A. M. to 10:30 P. M. ^it < i i i i i i * III i i ■ i l l l i l l l • i i i ..I I I lil i i l i l • l i ^ Two Bandits Rob Welch Cafeteria; Escape With $50 Cooks and Waiters Not Even Aware Caslrier Is Beiruj Covered by Two Guns; Flee in Car. Two bandits staged a lightning like holdup in the brightly lighted Welch restaurant at 170fi Douglas street at 4:1 a. m. Wednesday and escaped with t-10, stolen from the cash register, before employes at the rear of tlie place knew what had happened. The two men entered the restau rant shortly before 4 a. m. and or dered and ate a light meal. As they walked to the cash register, located beside the large window opening on Douglas street they suddenly whipped out guns and covered J. W. Shepard, the night cashier, and a customer, Frank G. Morse, 1911 Chicago street, who was seated near the counter, Patron Not Searched, A cook, waiter and bus boy behind the counter at the rear of the room knew nothing of the robbery as the two men forced Shepard to hand over all the cash, in the till. Morse was ordered to remain in his chair and was not searched. Stuffing the bills and silver into their pockets, the bandits commanded Shepard and Morse to remain where they were, and walked out the door In a leisurely manner, with the guns covering the cashier through their pockets. I.rap Into Car. Once outside, the bandits leaped into a parked touring car. started the motor and raced west on Douglas street. Shepard and Morse ran Into the street In an effort to obtain the li cense number, hut were unable to see it. They were unable to recognize the make of the car. A good description of both bandits was given to police. STATE HAS CAUSE TO REJOICE NOW (Continued From Face tine.) 000,000 bushels for that period last yea* ami but 67,873,800 bushels for ill t 1923. Those 68,000.000 bushels this year brought much higher prices than ttie 67.000,000 bushels last year. By reason of the increased popu larity of Omaha's livestock market, this city now stands incontrovertibly as second livestock center of the country with receipts 25 per cent greater than Kansas Pity, it* near est competitor. Receipts for the 1,0 months were 112,441 head greater than last year and the total for that period, 7.422,392 head, is 83 per cent of the 1923 total of 8.428,859 head. Reflection of this confidence In the business situation is again shown in the revival of activity in the building trades. Although Omaha's total value in building permits for the first six months this year were 27 per cent less than for the first half of 1923, activity In this line has gained such momen tum in the last four months that the 1924 total may equal if not exceed the record of 813,005,899, made in 1923. The total value of building permits for the first 10 months this year is 81 1.910,038, or 91 per cent of the 12 months' total in 1923. Retailers and wholesalers alike are Jubilant over their steadily growing business, and the same holds true for Omaha's many manufacturing plants This, in turn, reaches from the em ployer to the humblest employe, for hand in hand with the upward swing of business comes steady employ ment to the wage earner ns well as the salaried man. World ^X ar Soldier Pico. Falls City, Nov. 26.— Samuel Ran dolph, 35, of Rulo, who was gassed while fighting with Company F. Thir ty fifth infantry, during the world war, died «>f uremia In the lo rd h<>s pith 1. He was the son of J. A. Ran dolph of Rulo. Former ' huddles” act #»d as pallbearers at the military funeral. Another Foreign Tennis Player Wins Heart of American Heiress Frank J. Gould Opposes Match Between His Daugher, Dor othy, and Count De Graffenreid of Switzerland; Her Mother Approves. BY ('. F. BKBTKM.I. Universal Service Staff Corre spondent. Paris, Nov. 26.—After Millicent Rogers. Dorothy Gould. After Salm von Hoogstraeten, Count de Graffenreid. Roth Mllleent and Dorothy are wealthy American society girls. Doth Count Salm and Count Graf fenreid are famous tennis players. The question in society now is: "Is tennis the royal way to the hearts of heiresses?" As in the famous romance of Count Salm and the heiress to the trillions of Col. H. H. Rogers, Doro thy Gould has a stern father, Frank J. Gould, who obstinately opposes the suit of Count Greffen reid, even threatening to cut off her allowance unless she breaks off her engagement, which, up to the present time, has been a secret. Unlike Milirent, however, Doro thy has a mother, now Princess AD CLUB LAUNCHED TO BOOST HASTINGS Hastings, Nov. 26.—Representa tives of the retail and distributing interests of Hastings have organized the Hastings Ad club with a charter membership exceeding the require ment for affiliation with the Asso ciated Advertising Clubs of the World. Fifty persons have either signed the roll or signified their willingness to do so. H. K. Riggert was elected presi dent. Other officers chosen are R.ny Johnson, secretary; l^iuis Stein, R. K. Osborn, R. C. Cleartnan, I>. L. Cady and C. R. Matthiesen, directors. It is the purpose of the elub to bring experts here from time to time to address the members on advertis ing. and It will carry on a campaign of publicity for the community as a whole. The advent of the club has been bailed as one of the most important events in the history of Hastings for the advancement of the city. Kearney lo Purchase Acreage for Playground Kearney, Nov. 26 —Kearney Chain her of Commerce has l>een advised that Its application for the Harmon foundation fund, of $2,000, for the purrhnse of playground acreage, ha6 been favorably acted upon. The site submitted Is the Chautauqua grounds of 14 acres, which the direqtors have agreed to sell for parking purposes for Just enough to cover their in vestment. J2.700. Some of the stock holders have agreed to donate their stock. All local civic organizations have obligated themselves to see that all Harmon foundation requirements are met with. Including Installation cf playground equipment and parking the area. A general beautification scheme lias also been mapped r ut 1" tile Chamber of Commerce, the plan being to embody tills ground in the boulevard system. Rov Scouts to Conduct (soring (Mean-I p Campaign Gering, Nov. 26 —Failure or refill a! of owners to clenn vacant lots of weeds and trash has resulted in the city council making a contract with Boy Scout* to do the work, for which the city will pay them, and charge the cost against the property in the form of taxes. The boys will also burn weeds and cart away trash from premises where the citizens prepare it in convenient form to be handled. Epidemic ( loses School. Columbus, Nov. 26.—Mumps, which cut down th» attendance from 26 to five pupils in rural school district No 2, six miles northeast of Columbus, have resulted In temporarily closing the school. Miss Martha Johannes Columbus, is instructor. Earlij Thrift^ If our forefathers had not been thrifty and frugal, they would never have survived heir first winter at Plymouth Rock. 1 hus it n>ax that this country was founded on a program of early thrift. Why dont you likewise begin saving early in life? It is the only true road to independence and comfort. Our New Assured Systematic Savings Plan is so simple, practical and so easy to carry out that you will want to | join at once after knowing the details. Write <v phone AT 6374 end let us send you complete informetion ASSETS .... $14,406,000.00 RESERVE FUND - - $455,000.00 I8TH AND HARNEY 35 YEARS IN OMAHA BERNICE COAL Arkansas Anthracite Wc Hitvet m Fre#h Supply UPDIKE !TableSo* WA Inul 0300 Vlora, but formerly Mrs. Frank J. Gould, born Kelley, who Is heart ily supporting the match. The mere fact of paternal disapproval would not have hindered the ro mance, It Is declared, except for the fact that both the French and Swiss laws —Count Graffenreid comes from one of the oldest and wealthiest families of Switzerland —forbid the. marriage of girls un der age without the consent of both parents. who has now returned to his castle in Maisons Indite after an opera tion for abscess In a Paris nurs ing home, agrees to the match, the engagement cannot he made public nor thp nuptials celebrated. Dorothy is one of the two pretty daughters of the Princess Vlora and Frank Gould. The other daugh ter, Helen Gould, last year mar ried Count De Mortemach, also a Swiss, with the consent of her father. YOUNG IMMIGRANT DELAYED 6 MONTHS Falrbtiry, Nov. 26.—Harry Hars wick, IS, native of Bergen, Norway, arrivpd in America recently to make his home with his uncle. Nels Hars wick, traveling salesman for the Fair bury "Windmill company. The boy sailed from Bergen Octo ber 20 and was on the water nine days. Mr. Barswlck sent him a ticket in April and he was delayed six months due to' the limitation of immigration from Norway to 665 a month. It was necessary for Mr. Harswick to satisfy the American consul of Norway of his financial responsibility and of his date of citizenship in this country before his relative was per mitted to cross the ocean. It is also necessary for the person shipping in to have at least $25 or the equivalent ir. United States money before land ing on American soil. Court Vi ill Decide to ^ houi Reward Should Be Paid Bridgeport. Nov. 26.—County com missioners of Scotts Bluff county have refused to pay the $300 reward offered for the apprehension of the slayer of Policeman A. 5V. Peterson to Arthur Braman of Mitchell, one of the men In the hunt that ended in i he death of Frank Allen, the slayer, while resisting arrest. Braman has appealed to the district court. The board rlaims it is willing to toy the advertised reward, just as soon as it 1« demonstrated who Is entitled to it, ns there were several officers en gaged in the hunt for Allen, that re i suited in his death. Fire Damages Club House. Beatrice. Nov. 26—Kire starting in the Athletic room of the Kagles' club I on North Sixth stree t damaged the I furniture and fixtures considerably ! A match thrown on the waxed floor [■which had Wen prepared for danc ing is thought to have caused the blaze. Egypt Protest to League Over British Demand (icneva Puzzled by Situation; Kngli?h Troop? gain \ Pa rade Streets of Cairo. By A**m-iated I' rr**. Geneva, Nov. 26.—A telegram of protest against the British action in Egypt following the assassination nl the slrsar, Kir I.ee Ktaek, was re ceived today by the secretariat of the league of nation" from the Egyptian parliament under the signature of the president of that body. The league officials seem In doubt as to what to do with the communi cation, coming as it does from the parliament and not from the Egyp tian government. Whether it shall be distributed of ficially to the members of the league council, which Is meeting shortly In Home, has not yet been determined, hut officials this morning expressed the opinion that the most likely course was that the document would he transmitted to all the members of the league for their information. By International New* Service. Cairo, Nov. 26.—British troops again paraded the streets of Cairo with fixed bayonets today after a day of quiet had led British authori ties to hope the Egyptian crisis had passed. Ahmed Ziwar Pasha, the new pre mier, has not stated what his policy would be. but said he hoped for peace and expected that Great Britain and Egypt would he able to co-operate. With parliament adjourned until Christams to give Premier Ziwar an opportunity to determine Egyptian policy, there were hopes that no out break would complicate the situation during the month intervening. Evacuation of Egyptian troops from the Sudan continues, with British forces moving in to replace them in accordance with th.e British demands. Lieut. Gen. Sir Richard Hanking, commanding the British troops in Egypt, reviewed three battalions of British concentrated here under the orders to prei»are reinforcements for the Sudanez detachments. The students describing themselves as "Zaghloul Pasha's army” have pledged a tenstrike In support of their protest against the British demands. Ily International Non Service. London. Nov. 2(k—The British press today expressed annoyance at the criticism voiced In the United Ktates, France and elsewhere regarding the swift and stein action of the Baldwin government in tlhe Egyptian crisis. The Daily Express warns France that it still owes Great Britain money "and it wouldn't require too much of this sort of French criticism for Great Britain to consider its position and press for payment.” Columbus Elks to Help Pay ' Salary of Red Cross Nurse Columbus, Nov. 26.—Columbus Elks will give financial assistance to the Platte county Red Cross chapter in order that the latter organization Can keep a county nurse on the Job nc::t :enr. The Med Cross drive here failed to yield enough funds to de fray a nurse's salary for the next year. Four Children Motherless. Columbus, Nov. 26.—Four children, the eldest 6 years old and the young est 5 weeks, \vere left motherlc-s when Mrs Rudolph Lips. 26. died .it Columbus hospital following an illness of only 72 hours Death was due to peritonitis. Besides th" four little children she loaves a husband ar1 her mother. ITHe Brandeis Store? 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