After 38 Years in
Air Veteran Pilot
To Make Auto Tour
Miami (U.R) A veteran of 38
years in the air, just "grounded"
after reaching the pilot age limit
of 60, said he was going to start
keeping his feet on the ground.
"I've been around the world a
bit," said Capt. George E. Ru
mill, "but there's a lot of our
own country I want to see
from theQground."
Rumill, who began flying with
the U. S. Navy m 1917, closed
his logbook in September after
24,000 hours - aloft and more
than 4,000,000 miles of air
travel.
"To start off my life on the
ground," the grey-haired veter
an said, "my wife and I are go
ing on an auto tour of the United
States."
Holder of one of the oldest
Civil Aeronautics licenses in the
country, No. 264, Rumill began
his flying career at the offset of
World War I. Then a student at
the University of Maine near his
hometown of Mt. Desert, Rumill
enlisted in the Navy, winning
his wings and ensign's bars at
Pensacola, Fla.
During the war. he taxied a
creaky, little 30-horsepower
barnstorming crate, flying North
Sea anti-submarine patrols out
of Britain.
"We called our flying 'bomb
ing missions' in those days,"
Rumill said, "but I doubt if we
could properly use the term to
day."
After World War I, Rumill
kept up with what he terms his
"dual life." He remained a flier,
but combined the air work with
life on the sea.
Two Mora Wars
He was one of the first crew
members who made , the 1921
first overwater flights across the
Caribbean to Panama. He shipped
out as a . quartermaster for a
Latin American concern, he was
a test pilot and then shipped
out in the 1923 Cleveland Mu
seum expedition to Africa and
the Cape Verde Islands.
"After two years of traveling
so much," the airman said, "I
took a trip. I flew to France."
Returning to the United States
in the mid-1920's, the rugged
pilot barnstormed to Florida
area in the "boom days," helped
found the Rogers Air line here
and in New York, did a flying
stint in Cuba, flew a Pan-Amer-ian
run over China for two
years, a South American cruise
for four years,, and finally "set
tled down" in 1939, piloting a
big flying boat from Miami to
the West Indies.
"I was going to start relaxing
a bit," Rumill said, "but then
World War II came along."
During the war, Rumill was
one of the lead pilots who flew
"Cannonball" the air supply
route across the South Atlantic
S Africa and the Middle East.
Back in Miami flying for PAA,
Rumill volunteered to .fly the
Korean airlift during hostilities
in the Far East.
After the Korean fighting, he
again flew for Pan-Am out of
Miami until he reached his 60th
birthday.
"I've never been bored," Rum
ill commented.
"And rnat's the understate
ment of the year," chimed in his
wife.
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,A second isn't a second any
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The old song advises us to re
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a sigh is but a sigh . . but in the
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They decided to trim the second.
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Around
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By ALINE MOSBY
United Press Correspondent
Hollywood (U.R) One of
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Spanish - speaking countries he
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eternal poor man who laughs at
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the World," Cantinflas still
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derby, a morning coat covered
with patches and his familiar
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