Chicago Evening American, Aug. 4, 1920.

Fort Dodge, Ia., Aug. 4.--Lieut. Homer Locklear, famous
stunt flyer, killed in a fall at Los Angeles, Monday
evening, had a premonition several weeks ago that he would
meet his death this summer, according to Shirley Short,
Goldfield Iowa, original Locklear pilot. Short was married
recently and is passing his honeymoon at his home. He left
Locklear in Canada three weeks ago and had planned to rejoin
him in a week. "For more than a year we went together doing
stunts," said Short. "During that time Locklear laughed at
the idea of danger until about a month ago. It was shortly
after I left him that he became depressed and told me
several times that he would get knocked off this summer. It
worried me because it was so unlike Locklear."



WRITES DEATH POEM ON FATAL PLANE FLIGHT.

Chicago Evening American, June 11, 1921.

Washington, June 1.--How Lieut. Cleveland W. McDermott
penned a death poem in the plane in which he and six others
were crashed to death Saturday night was revealed here
today.

It is the story of perhaps the most remarkable premonition of death
that ever has been recorded before the fatal flight. McDermott, who