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Cured. On the theory that shock sometimes relieves deafness, one D. Allen Dittman of Waynesburg, Pa. went aloft over Bettis Airport, Pittsburgh, last week with Pilot Chester Pickup. At 10,000 ft. Pilot Pickup put his plane into a power dive. At 7,000 ft. the terrific pressure shattered the windshield, the glass cutting Pickup's face, momentarily stunning him. Unable to regain control, Pickup motioned Dittman to jump with him. Dittman, whose 'chute failed to open until he had dropped to 1,000 ft., landed on the roof of an open hearth furnace of Carnegie Steel Co., directly alongside the wreckage of the plane. Questioned by mill police, Dittman heard.
*Brice Goldsborough, expert of Pioneer Instrument Co., was navigator on Mrs. Frances Grayson's amphibian Dawn which was lost between New York and Newfoundland at the start of a trans-Atlantic flight (TIME, Jan. 2, 1928.)
*Official world record, 14 hr. 25 min. by Ferdinand Schulz, Germany, 1928; official U. S. record, 9 hr. 5 min. 32 sec., Hawley Bowlus, Point Loma, March, 1930; previous unofficial world record, 14 hr. 45 min., Lieut. Dinort, Germany, 1929.