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Thus starts the day for some 40 of the Navy's fledgling fliers. At 13 Naval Reserve Aviation Bases, strung across the U. S. from Opa Locka, Fla. to Oakland, Calif., the day starts in similar fashion for 380 young men, serving a 30-day apprenticeship for flight training...
Except for a few Annapolis midshipmen who elect to join the naval air service, the U. S. Navy recruits its pilots through the Naval Reserve. At 13 Reserve air stations-Brooklyn, Philadelphia, Opa Locka (Miami), Kansas City, Glenview (Chicago), Seattle, etc.-an ever-increasing tide of would-be fliers is rolling in. Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced that three more Reserve stations would soon be opened (at New Orleans, Dallas, Atlanta), also supplied some details about the Navy's expanding air training program...
Married. Mrs. Lena P. Curtiss, 51, widow of Glenn Hammond Curtiss, aviation pioneer & tycoon who died last year; and H. Sayre Wheeler, 39, Mayor of Opa Locka, Fla., President of Curtiss-Aero-Car Co. (bus-type trailers, built like an airplane cabin), onetime associate of Pioneer Curtiss; in Atlantic City...