Marine Capt. Charles William Paddock, the first native Texan to win Olympic gold and the fastest thing on two feet during the Roaring Twenties, perished in an Alaska plane crash on Jul. 21, 1943.Born in the summer of 1900 in Gainesville, Charley Paddock was a sickly child who at seven months weighed a scant seven and a half pounds. His father, a big wheel on the railroad, moved the famil...