Fire & Detour

Twice, last week, were planes shot at from the ground. In the southern part of Colorado, an airplane of the Alamosa Airways, Inc., flown by a War pilot, Harry Miller, with two passengers, was brought down in Mosca Pass by rifle fire. One of the passengers, Eloise Noble, 16, schoolgirl, was killed. The pilot and other passenger, a friend of Miss Noble's, were badly shaken up. Assumption was that cattle rustlers had caused the tragedy.

The other affair was caused by the curiosity of Pilot Cy Bittner, flying west from Albany to Buffalo with an empty mail-ship on the Colonial Western route. He deviated from his route to circle twice over Auburn prison on a clear night last week. Below him, 'tremendous excitement . prevailed. The whole town, citizens, State Police, prison guards, still tense from a frightful, abortive prison rebellion last year (TIME, Aug. 5), believed that some powerful gang was attempting to drop firearms within the prison yard to incite another riot. Machine guns and rifles were turned on the plane to no effect. Curiosity satisfied, Bittner flew away.

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