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Rh she did aerial acrobatics, Miss Law retired with her husband to California where she now lives.

Whenever famous names in aviation are men­tioned, “Stinson” is among them. While there were two brothers in the family who entered the ranks of aviation, I shall confine myself to the sis­ters, Marjorie and Katherine. I could not begin to enumerate all the incidents in the career of either one, so I shall tell only a few tales of each.

Let’s take Katherine first. She obtained her li­cense in 1912 and devoted a few years afterward to exhibition flights here and abroad. From what I can learn she received recognition and medals of honor everywhere for her exploits. One of the most interesting flights she made was in 1917. She, like Ruth Law, had tried to enter the Government fly­ing service and had been turned down. However, she was able to borrow a ship from the army to use on a special mission for the Red Cross. It was-a “Jenny” and a new type to her but she soloed it after fifteen minutes’ dual flight.

Bearing formal notice to Secretary McAdoo that Buffalo had oversubscribed its quota, she set out one afternoon from that city for Washington, D. C. Her first stop was Syracuse and then Albany where she landed on Van Rensselaer Island in the Hud­son River. She stayed in Albany all night and re­sumed her journey in the morning.

Her navigating aids were noteworthy. She had a map from Buffalo to Albany, but from there she followed the New York Central tracks to reach