National Affairs: Peacemaker

Last week Will Rogers flew across the continent, landed in Newark during a blizzard. It was the day after the U. S. Army began to fly the mails. Mr. Rogers paid tribute in his daily syndication to the courage of the Army pilot who, although new to the job, that day flew mail over the same route through the same blizzard. Five days later, seated in the Waldorf-Astoria, Will Rogers commented to newshawks on the wreck of a United Air Lines plane in Utah: "Grand feller, that Lloyd Anderson. I'd flown with him several...

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