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...plane was a Douglas DC2 making its regular run from Chicago to Miami. With veteran Captain Stuart G. Dietz, 33, at the controls it settled to the airport at Daytona Beach, Fla. shortly after 4 a. m. Daytona Beach has been an Eastern Air stop only since May but Captain Dietz was completely familiar with the field. Presently, with co-pilot beside him, steward and six passengers strapped in their seats in the cabin, Captain Dietz taxied to the northern end of the 3,700-ft. NW/SE runway, gave his two motors a final revving, hurtled into...
...Daytona Beach...
...miles above Daytona Beach two years ago, a slim, sandy-haired professional parachutist from Lansing, Mich, named Clement Joseph ("Clem") Sohn stepped from a plane, spread homemade "bat wings" of canvas sewed between his legs and arms, swooped, banked, looped for 4.000 ft. before floating to earth by para chute-first man to "fly" with his own wings. Thereafter Clem Sohn made a tidy living doing his spectacular stunt at fairs and air meets. Only one man tried to copy him-Parachutist Floyd David, who plummeted to death at Flint, Mich, on his maiden...
...National League Phillies, both rated as likely tail-enders in their respective leagues, began a three-out-of-five-game series for their city championship. In Tulsa, Okla., the world champion New York Yankees won their 13th straight game, 8-to-3, against the Tulsa Oilers. In Daytona, Fla., the St. Louis Cardinals started north via a miserable record of four victories in 14 exhibition games...
...recipients of the awards, part of money given by undergraduates to the Council, are: Chester George Ormond '38, of Lancaster, Pennsylvania; William Bernhard Berssenbrugge '37, of Milwaukee; William Tucker Dean, Jr. '37, of Chicago; John Edward Ashley '37, of Daytona Beach, Florida; Charles Graham Roudabush '37, of Tampa, Florida; Charles Reder '38, of Pittsfield; Arthur Raymond Hartwig Occ., of Lawrence; Nathanael Augustus Lemke '38, of Milwaukee; John Jerome Cabitor '39, of Hartford, Connecticut; and Dino James Lewis '37, of Newport, Rhode Island...