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...Pedro, Calif., cash became more plentiful when U. S. paymasters distributed $500,000 pay to the 30,000 men and officers of the U. S. fleet. At Calexico silver pesos from over the border supplemented the currency available. In Michigan, Canadian money helped out. Elsewhere street car tickets and telephone slugs were...
Once he made an excursion outside his specialized field, with painful results. Learning to fly in 1917, he left San Diego in an Army plane for Calexico, Calif., unhappily named neighbor of Mexicali, Mexico. The plane was forced down, lost, 50 miles south of the border. U. S. and Mexican troops and civilians searched four days before finding Col. Bishop's companion. He directed the searchers 30 miles to the south where lay Col. Bishop, unable to talk or walk. He had subsisted on two sandwiches, two oranges, radiator water from the wrecked plane...