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PAGE TEN-A THE HERALD, MIAMI, FLORIDA SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1941 Daring Stunt Fliers Thrill Thousands At Miami's All-American Air Maneuvers Visiting Pilots Marvel At Aerobatics Gusty Weather Causes Several Opening Day Events To Be Cancelled continued From Page 1 stances found themselves thrilled even though they sat as spectators. And the place was overrun with fliers, men and women, most of whom buzzed to Miami in the 1,000 or more little planes staked far distant from the grandstands. The gusty wind yanked out the stakes holding two of the planes and danced them around, causing wing damage, it was reported. Pretty Bobby Lupton of Detroit put a plane through acrobatic paces with steep climbs, power dives, loops and slow rolls, but the day's most vigorous applause went to last year's Freddy Lund trophy winner, Vincent "Squeek" Burnett, whose spectacular square loops, inverted flying, outside loops and other antics, many hair-raisingly close to the ground, kept the throng enthralled. Precision Flight Jimmy and Dick Granere, brothers from Tampa who worked all night on one of their planes to ready it for Friday's opening in Miami, staged a two-plane precision flight that had all necks craned upward, but few groundlings realized difficulties encountered. "We hope to give you a better show tomorrow," Jimmy told the audience over an address system. Discussing their flight with other pilots who gathered around, they told how the wind tossed them around. "We had to cut out show in half," they said. "The wind would take control when we turned with it. We'd get on top of a loop and the ships snapped around too fast. And we were bouncing all over the country." Wilbur Shaw, winner of the 500-mile automobile race at Indianapolis, a spectator at the event commented that "pilots are getting more out of this than the public today, watching how others control planes in this wind." Light Plane Stunted Danny Fowlie of Minneapolis stunted a light place and the slow rolls inverted flying and other eye-catching acrobatics of Beverly Howard of Charleston, S. C., kept the spectators entertained. The nine navy planes from the Miami Naval Air Station droned [[cut off]] [[image]] WINGS OVER MIAMI Wings and faces at Friday's opening of the Miami All-American Air Maneuvers are depicted here, the wings at upper left bearing the brothers' precision flying team, Jimmy and Dick Granere. The trio in the center top photo are, left to right, Ruth Nichols, Arlene Davis and Ya-ching Lee, "Relief Wings" representatives who are organizing a Florida lying mercy group. That's Bubbles, beastie mascot, and Ruth Shelley, the beauty, at upper right. Ruth is Miss Aviation. Bobby Lupton, acrobatic flier, smiles at you in the lower left photo. Col. and Mrs. Jaime Marino of Havana, Cuban representatives, are at right center, and beneath them Carl Lambert, Evelyn McRae, Vera Self, Mrs. A. J. Bertram and Crystal Mowry slice a cake to celebrate the first anniversary of the Florida chapter of the Ninety-Niners, woman's flying organization. Some of the 8,000 spectators are shown in center. of space, they leveled out and sped away at 700 feet. No bombs were dropped, but explosions were set off inside the wood-and-fabric "city" to stimulate an actual attack of a nature first developed by navy fliers at Norfolk and now used by European nations at war. All pilots in the men's race won by Thompson flow Culver Cadet [[cut off]] Test Your Horse Sense By DR. GEORGE W. CRANE Select the answers which you consider best. Then look for the correct answers on this page. 1--If at a dinner party your hostess served you a bivalve, would it be Rutabaga Caviar Oyster Sirloin 2--If you picked out a handful of oxeyes at a florist's, would they be Roses Violets Mums Daisies Windsor Continued From Page 1 high winds make a landing there difficult. Officials at Hialeah park considered it possible that the Windsor party would visit the track for the feature race as the guests of Joseph E. Widener, chairman of the board of the Miami Jockey club. The weather which left a ques-[[cut off]] ed guard at the exits with their collection boxes. Cuba sent its representative, Col. Jaime Marine, director of sports for the island republic, and his [[cut off]] ing Jack," was there, to, but he failed to stage any of the stunts he has put on for former air shows. He had just reached the city, however, and the show has two more days to go. Miami Termed Major Hub In Coast Guard Commandant Points To Vital Defense Position, Private Yachts. Miami's role as a Coast Guard center in the national defense program was described Friday night as "obviously and increasingly" of greater importance by Rear Admiral R. R. Waesche, commandant of the United States Coast Guard, in an interview at the Everglades Hotel where he and Mrs. Waesche are staying during their visit to attend the All-American Air Maneuvers. He expects that technical details delaying the immediate construction of the proposed station on the county causeway will be ironed out shortly. A bill recently was introduced into congress to cover the complicated land exchange for the site. Sees Bill Passage The commandant also predicted speedy passage of the new coast guard reserve bill presented in the senate by the Senator Bennett Clark, and in the house by Congressman Schuyler Bland. Commandant Waesche will cut his stay here short in order to get back to Washington for hearings on the bill. This reserve bill is of far-reaching importance to Miami as the winter yachting center, for it provides an emergency reserve force to be drawn from the yachtsmen and their boats. This emergency reserve force is a trail blazing move, according to the commandant. It will enable the coast guard to enroll both boats and the crew for what may be described as a marine home guard. The physical requirements for the regular reserve do not apply. In other words, a competent man can be taken in regardless of age or physical defect, so long as he functions on the job. To Patrol Waterfront This emergency force will be used to patrol and guard all sorts of waterfronts where vital defense projects may be located and release the trained personnel as well as the regular reserve force--which will be like the naval reserve but in no way conflict with it--for more intense duties. The reserve bill was drawn with the joint co-operation of the navy department and the treasury department, under which the coast guard operates.
