Las Vegas Age

BROOKLYN, Mar. 9. (AP)—Women are active in aviation as pilots and stunt fliers, but Miss Bessie Davis is credited with being the first to enter the field as a technician.

Miss Davis is general manager of the Pioneer Instrument Company. She sells such highly complicated affairs as earth induction compasses, micrometer compensators, reversible magnets, and scores of other mechanisms which aid the business of flying.

Furthermore, this slim girl, not yet 10 years out of high school, understands these instruments, knows their functions and uses them herself.

The company's output is standard equipment on many planes. Builders are thoroughly familiar with the "B. Davis" signature of the company's chief executive, but a "B. Davis" visit in person never has failed to astonish these men.

Most of her selling tours are done by plane. Time is valuable and, she holds, a person selling airplane equipment should have no use for slower means of travel. On her last trip, Miss Davis covered the continent and put through sales amounting to more than $200,000.

This unusual general manager "grew" into her job. She started as an office employee and early demonstrated an ability to sell. A road trip followed and her success was so great that the entire sales development of the company was placed in her hands.

Miss Davis is not the brusque, hustling type of woman one might expect to find in so novel a business as aviation. She is small and keenly feminine. Her primary interest is in her work but after that she prefers the usual things of a feminine life.