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Chicago (Illinois) Daily News, 21 September 1921
Grief Hastens Brooke's End
Bandsman, Plane Investor, Succumbs After Loss of Device.
Thomas Preston Brooke, veteran bandmaster and inventor, is dead at his home, 4160 Drexel boulevard. For fifteen years Brooke devoted his time and energies to perfecting an improved airplane wing. The war department, interested, asked him to move his plane to the Great Lakes naval training station for tests. Then the United States got into the war and Brooke's invention apparently was forgotten. A year after the close of the war the inventor found his plane, stripped of its wings. Requests for an explanation were repulsed, he claimed.
Disappointment made him so ill that for practically two years he had been confined to his bed. Yesterday he died believing he had been a victim of the "billion dollar air board scandal."
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