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"A. I know he hasn't seen him. Of course I haven't been with him 24 hours a dav, but I know that in tha normal intercour.ie that people have in their daily lives he would have mentioned something about it. I don't know whether this is of any value to you or not. I Aant+ haliawn Fthat ¢loawa jie4 anybocy that te ala aAlaAcea +A TTT wort Gon’ SSsLisve Gia Gisrs is at iy ay vieay 1S Teast wae LInuP ERGH. Fe is a distant Swede; thet is my impression of him. He is hard headod and he dees what he thinks, what he is convinced is right. I think he is thoroughly honest with himself. I am basing this on the past vears. To show you the guy's character, in that flizht he made to Paris le put up more meney than anybody else, It took all he hac. ne of iw dear friends, a St. Louis man by the name of EARL THOMPSON, put up £1000.00 or maybe ~2500.00 for that flight, and he tried to discourage Slim from making it. He said, 'Well, after all, Mr. THOMPSON, you talk about the danser of it, Ts there a more pleasant death than drown ng?” It cer— tainly isn't nearly as bad as burning up, and every time anybody flies they always take that chance.’ I think that describes the working of the guy's mind, knowing what Little I know about him. "He made another comment which i think is descriptive of tha character of the guy. We were givuig him the raspberry at my house that night three and a half years ago about not being able to pet alonz with the newspapers. He said he got along with the newspapers eal] right, bat he aiso said, "I have this criticism to make of the nevwspaners--it is the only business I know of where the most inexperienced man makes the contact with the people." And that is truc. Cub reporters are sent out and the good men stay in and do the rewriting, etc. That was his comment. He is just a distant cold swede, WLIEUTTUANS EBRADTORD: Are there any other officers of the 110th on duty here? "A. No. Golonel LIMDBEHSI was on thrt board ith Uclonel NALDEN and you could ask Colonel NAIDHH) about him. [E-=2 never called me when he came to Jashington. He never called :1iL or anybocy. PhIL-- Colone] LOVi+-would find he was in town and call him ur and sar hello, the conversations that I overheard or participated in were normal con- versations that people have, dike IVaw is AR im and the childrent and eS e Pe eel PS a ld be fhe teas Medd kg Se that sort of stuff, family and things of that sort."