POLO FIELD NAMED FOR ROGERS
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The polo field at Seattle where Will Rogers played his last game be
fore his ill-fated flight to Alaska with Wiley Post has been renamed
Will Rogers field in his honor. Here is the shaft just unveiled to the
cowboy humorist with its designer, Alonzo Lewis. (Associated Press
Photo)
LOUIS BLERIOT
DIES SUDDENLY,
HEART TROUBLE
Lindbergh of Air, in His
Time, Passes Away at
His Home in Paris
PARIS, Aug. 3.—Louis Bleriot,
aged 64, French aviator who first1
flew the English Channel on July
25, 1909, and became an engineer
after his air career, died suddenly
early Sunday morning as the re
sult of an attack of the heart at
his home here,
Louis Bleriot was the Lindbergh
of his day.
His pioneer flight across the Eng
lish Channel was as daring a
feat in 1909 as was Colonel Lind
bergh's trans-Atlantic trip through
the air in 1927.
Notwithstanding the 18 years that
intervened between their epochal
flights, it is not unlikely that the
names of Bleriot and Lindbergh
will be closely linked in aero
nautical history.
Aviation Progress
By being the first to accomplish ,
the seemingly impossible feat of i
their respective times, each was
responsible for a direct move in |
the progress of aviation. Lind-1
bergh’s interest toward flying is
said to have been partly inspired
by the stories of Bleriot’s early
fame. When the Spirit of St. Louis
made its historic landing at Le
Bourget, the French flier’s name
was one of the first to be uttered
by the young American.
How aviation advanced between (
those two flights is indicated by
the fact that when Lindbergh span
ned the Atlantic, Bleriot's feat had!
become a commonplace, every-day
event.
