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Visitors Drop In--Fortunately No One Home

This is what happened when an aviator and his passenger dropped in
unexpectedly at the home of O. N. Hirsch on the Oakland highway at Warm
Springs, 12 miles north of here, Sunday afternoon.  Fortunately no one
was in the house at the time.  The pilot, W. A. Geary, and his
passenger, Benjamin Torrey, both of Richmond, clambored from the
wreckage, virtually uninjured.
  Geary explained that his controls jammed when he endeavored to come
out of a nose dive, and that he was powerless to stop the ship's
downward plunge.
  Torrey explained that he was mighty glad to have the ground under his
feet instead of over them, and no, thank you, doesn't care for another
air flight soon.
                --Photo by Staff Photographer.