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Belgium's
Hero Takes
Plane Ride
Lt. Gen. Baron Alphonse
Jacques Makes His First
Flight Following Comple-"
" tion of Trophy Race.
New "Tiu7 Conferred
Belgium's illustrious war hero,
Lieut. Gen. Baron Alphonse Jac
qurs, will henceforth be known at
'Tli Good Indnm.
The general, who was moved
about in Omaha yesterday in double-quick
time by the local commit
tee, hai had many decorations and
honor conferred upon him, but it
remnir.ed for Governor S. R. McKel
vie to confer the latest title yester
day noon at the Chamber of Com
ie rce.
The leader of the "Iron division."
fi'no stood at Liege, Dixmude, Queue
du Hois, Nieuport and other cen
teri of world war conflict in Bel
gium, smilingly acknowledged the
American soubriquet bestowed on
him in the Gate City of the west.
Takes First Air Trip.
General Jacques experienced his
first air flight yesterday afternoon
at the North Omaha air field and
at the Fontenclle he ate the first
prairie chicken of .his life of 64 years.
In his car at the Union station
last night, just before departing for
the east at 6:05, the general said:
"We have enjoyed our stay in
Omaha more than at any place we
have yet been in America, and I
am especially pleased to have been
christened by your governor, 'A
Good Indian.' We are overjoyed
to have made our first trip in an
airship in Omaha. We will always
remember Omaha.",'
"We are going to call you "Good
Indian hereafter," said . William S.
Ritchie, -jr., commander of the Ne
braska department of the American
Legion, in bidding the general good
bye at the train.
t- Rode in Larstn Ship.
The event de luxe of the ,day for
the general and his party was an
air trip during the afternoon in J.
M. Larsen's plane,. "J. L.-6,' which
arrived yesterday morning from
Kansas City, bringing Mr. and Mrs.
I B. Dunlap. jack UvJ. M-JUr-
sen, Augustus Post of the Aero club
of America, Rev. E.' M. Brown ot
.Dicta Memorial church, JeffDunlap
and Mrs. H. E. Hartney.
The general observed with keen in
terest the flyers in the Pulitzer trophy
race, and chatted with Roger Her
log, Swiss flyer, On the field. Com
mandant de la Ruwiere, his Belgian
military associate; Maj. Charles E.
Patterson, U. S. A., and Col D.
John Markey of the American
Legion., kept the general posted on
the details of the race. One of the
party found a box which served as a
seat for the general. The suggestion
was made that the general take an
air ride. "The Good Indian" imme
diately assented. The planes on the
cast side of the field were inspected
and the JL-6 was chosen. Mr. Lar-
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Kansas City Back ;
To Normal Condition
, Kansas City, Mo.," Nov. 3. Ameri
can Legion visitors have for the most
part gone home, the confeti has been
swept from the streets, hotel lob
bies are passable and Kansas City,
after three days of entertaining, is
back to normal.
In a statement today Commissioner
J. E. Wilson of the police depart
ment, said that, the, Kansas City po
lice department desired to correct an
impression thatN the legionaires had
been responsible for great disorder
and for boisterous conduct. ,
The only death which occurred in
connection with the convention, ac
cording to city authorities, was one
suicide case. i ' ; -'- "
TJ. S. Expenditure for 1922
Estimated at $3,940,000
Washington, Nov. 3. Estimated
expenditures of the government for
the fiscal year 1922, are now placed
at $3,940,000, a reduction of$94,000,
000 from the August 10 estimate of
$4,034,000,000, President Harding has
informed congress in a letter to
Speaker Gillett : - -
The new estimate was presented
by the president in connection with
deficiency estimates of appropria
tions of $187,922,576.74, which Mr.
Harding said, were taken into con
sideration in arriving at the new es
timates for 1922 expenditures.- ;
3,292 Acres in Wyoming :
To Be Opened to War Vets
Washington, Nov. 3. Tracts of
land aggregating 3,292 acres in Wy
oming will be thrown open to entry
hy ex-service men for 63 days, from
December 30, 1921, the Department
of the Interior announced today.
Most of the land was described as
having "practically no agricultural
value," but as possible . for use as ,
grazing Acreage. i
Interne Negotiations for
1 v Charles Near Conclusion
Paris, No, Negotiations rela
tive to the possibility of interning
former Emperor Charles on one of
the Madeira Islands, which nave
been in oratress between the allied
conclusion it was declared by the
Journal today. .
Jacques
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Lieut Gen. Baron Alnhonse Tacaues. former commander of the Iron
division, which stemmed the German invasion of Belgium, and Governor
Samuel R. McKelvie as they appeared at Union station yesterday when
the distinguished soldier arrived to attend the aero congress. At the gen
eral's throat may be seen, the insignia of the Order of Leopold, with which
he was decorated seven years ago today.
Mothers Honored
By Evangelist At
City Auditorium
More Than 6,000 Crowd Edi
fice to Pay Homage at .
' Special Services for
. Mothers Day, .
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More than 6,000 persons attended!
W( uipjy onmir, icvivai .iiihob"
Mothers day special services at the.
Auditorium yesterday afternoon at
2:30. The audience was made up,
for the most part, of women and the
majority were mothers and grand
mothers. There was a sprinkling of
sons and fathers and a great num
ber of infants in arms. '
There were 17 nations represented
and of the 48 states 42 were repre
sented. There were hundreds of
mothers of boys ' who fought in
France. Mrs. Mary Nesbit, 93, from
the Oldf Peoples Home, was the old
est woman in the audience. v Mrs.
Houston, 92, of the House of Hope
was the next oldest,
i At 1 o'clock the doors were opened
to the crowd waiting for admittance.
Hundreds of automobiles had trans
ported shutins and elderly women
who had to be carried in easy chairs
and lounges just in front of the
speakers' platform, to the Audi
torium. There were many present in
wheel chairs, while others came on
crutches.- The entire first floor was
occupied by the older mothers the
shutins and crippled. '
-' Platform Was Decorated. .
The speakers' platform was a
bower of flowers of all. "kinds, to
gether with ferns and palms which
had been donafed by men and women
in honor of their mothers.
The women of the campaign com
mittee who sold flowers reaped a
harvest from money donated for
flowers they handed out in the hotels
and department stores.' The women
paid $82 for their flowers and re
ceived $400 in contributions, which
go toward the expense of the cam
paign. '
Preceding the . program, Alice,.
Beatrice and Barbara, little daugh
ters of the Rev. H. C. Whitcomb of
Calvary Baptist, dressed in White,
carried a huge bouquet of' rOses -.as
large as themselves, to the platform.
In making the presentation speech
little Alice , said, "To our beloved
(Tarn tm P Six. Cot TwO. '
State's Attorney to Ask
Early Trial for Small
Springfield, 111., Nov.. 3 Answer
ing Governor Small's statement that
the prosecution was delaying, trial of
the case in which " the governor arid
Vernon Curtis are charged with em
berzlement and conspiracy to defraud
the state of $2,000,000 while the gov
ernor was state treasurer, State's
Attorney C F. Mortimer declared his
chief assistant will go to Waukegan
Monday to ask an early setting of the
trial. - ' " '
' Records will be sent there tomor?
row, he said, although they are in
complete without the recognizance
bond which Governor Small today
said he would not give in place of
the $50,000 sheriff's bond.
Milwaukee Road Places
S Order for 2,500 Steel Cars
Chicago, Nov. 3.-An order-for
2,500. steel gondola coal cars, j cost
ing about $4,500,000 and said to be
the largest order for railroad equip
ment nlaced since the roads were re
turned from government control, was
t. Byram, presi
I dent of the Chicago, Milwaukee and
(St, Paul railroad
in Omaha
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Two Prisoners v
Break Jail in
Dodge County
Mother of Young Bahy Sus
pected of Aiding Husband
Escape Others Re
i fuse to Leave, : :,4 '
Fremont Neb.; Nov. ' j.-rfSpeciat
Teleiram-V Filine their way
through a heavy steel lock' and then
crawling backwards on their stom
achs through a ventilating shaft, Ar
vin Lundberg, 35, experienced jail
breaker, and Clair Millard, burglar,
wriggled themselves to freedom at
an early hour this morning. The es
cape"1 was discovered when the jail
deputy entered the compartment with
breakfast for . the , prisoners about
7:30. . V' ; ; ; ' :
It was the most daring getaway
ever attempted in this county. When
the fleeing prisoners entered the
shaft they took .a chance of taking
a sheer drop of five floors to the
basement below. - Instead they
crawled cautiously through the sheet
tin pipe until they reached the floor
below and ' ended up in an ante
chamber of the district court jury
room; ' '
.Other Prisoners-Stay. ,
Despite-the fact that they were
unobserved and Lundberg invited
the rest of the prisoners to follow,
no one else, took advantage of the
avenue to escape. Lundberg was the
first prisoner of Sheriff Condit when
he first went . into office.'in 1909.
Lundberg remained for only one
day. He escaped from his captors
while being transferred to the city
jail. He was trailed into Iowa and
captured again, only to break away
once more -when he jumped from
a speeding passenger train.
Among the prisoners who refused
a chance to" accompany the jail
breakers is Craig Chesterfield,, al
leged ''duke," who is serving a sen
tence of 1 to 20 years on a forgery
charge. Chesterfield was caught
three different times before he was
convicted in the act of attempting to
break -out of jail. But he has' re
formed, he says, and is awaiting' the
mercy of law. '
; ' Woman Is Suspected. v;
His; partner,, James Baird, ex
pec'ts"his release on 'November r6
and didn't care to take any chances.
The officers -believe that the es
cape was aided by Mrs. Clair Mil
lard, Vho visited her husband at the
jail yesterday. Mrs.' Millard gave
birth .to a child in an Omaha hos
pital a few weeks ago'.while her hus
band was held here- on a charge of
burglary."- " i :-'-V;.-iO
Posses are searching the country
for clues. Deputy Wintersteen is
leading the hunt, with Sheriff Con
dit absent in Toledo, O. : ' ' ' , J
Four Brewers Ask Permits
. To Sell Beer as Medicine
Washington, Nov. Application
from four brewers -. for permits to
deal in beer for medicinal purposes
came before Prohibition Commission
er Haines today for approval. .
Two of the applications were from
New York, one from Newark and
one from ; Milwaukee. Officials did
not indicate when action upon them
could be expected.
Northclif fe in Yokohama 1
Yokohama, Nov 3. Lorth North
cliffe arrived yesterday on hi tour
of the Orient and is proceeding to
Tokio. At his request no formal en
tertainment has been planned for his
one-day stop in the Japanese capital.
Newspapers commented in a friend
ly tone on Lord Northcliffe's visit.
Sales Tax
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In Seriate
Seventeen Republicans- Line
Up With Democrats in Op
position to Smoot Amend
ment to Revenue Bill.
Alternative Is Offered
By ARTHUR SEARS HENNINO.
Cbkaco Tribunt-Omaha He Lcaatd Wire,
Washington, Nov. 3. Hie Smoot
sales tax was rejected by the senate
tonight by a vote of 25 to 43.
The vote came cn an amendment
to 'the revenue bill providing for a 1
per cent tax on sales by manufac
turers and producers which would
have produced enough revenue to
make possible the repeal of all the
miscellaneous taxes. bift without
l permitting any material changes in
the individual income and corpora
tion taxes as already approved byl
Following the adverse action,
Senator Smoot offered his alternate
amendment providing for a general
turnover tax of one half of 1 per
cent. Action on this amendment
was deferred until tomorrow. Its
rejection is expected by about lb
same vote as that on the manufac
turers' and producers' tax. The turn
over tax would produce about $400,
000,000 in revenue as against $253,
000,000 from the other.
Republicans Support. Plan.
Only republicans, voted for the
manufacturers' and producers' tax
while the democrats solidly lined up
against it. Seventeen republicans
voted with 26 democrats in the neg
ative. The 25 republicans recorded
in the affirmative represented a ma
jority of the senators of that party
who were present.
-The roll call:
. For the amendment:
Republicans: Bursum, Cameron,
Edge, Ernst, Fernald, France, Fre
linghuysen, Gooding, Jones ol
Washington, Keyes, McKinley,
Moses, New, Newberry, Nicholson,
Oddie,' Phipps, Poindexter, Short
ridge, Smodt, Spencer, Wadsworth,
Warren, .Watson of : Indiana, ant
welter. v .
Against: --. .v
. Republicans: Borah, Capper, Cur
tis,' Kenyon, LaFollette, Lenreot,
.McCormick, McCumber, McNary
Nelson, Norbeck, Penrose, Stanfield,
Sterling, Sutherland, -Townsend, and
Willis.
- Total 17. .;
; Democrats: Ashurst. Broussard,
Carroway, Fletcher, Gerry; Glass,
Harris, . Heflin, ' Jones of New
Mexico, Hendrick, King-, MeKellar,
Myers, Overman, Pittman, Pomer
cne, Reed, Sheppard,' Simons, Stan
ley, Swanson, Tramrnell, Walsh of
Massachusets, Walsh' of Montana,
Watson of Georgia, and Williams.
-Total, 26. .
May Support Plan.
. A significant feature of the debate
was the assertion by several, repub
licans opposing the sales tax that
they might support it in the next
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Nelson Youth Killed
When Car Turns Turtle
Nelson', Neb., Nov. 3. (Special.)
Merle, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Thomas Bartlctt, was killed in an
automobile wreck here. -The young
man was returning home frpm town
and when making the turn at a rail
road crossing a mile north of here
Iiis car turned turtle, throwing him
out. His neck and jaw were broken.
Bartlett was alone in the car when
the accident occurred and was dis
covered shortly afterward by a farmer-who
was coming to town. The
car had1 skidded about 40 feet and
was lying wrong-side-up and turned
the opposite direction from what he
had been going.
Train Wrecker Sentenced
; ' To Life Imprisonment
Lapeer, Mich., Nov. 3. Henry W.
Gates, 59, of Huntington, Ind., who
confessed Monday thathe wrecked
a fast Grand Trunk train near here
last Friday night, pleaded guilty in
circuit court here today and was
sentenced to life imprisonment in.
the Michigan penitentiary at Jack
son. .
German Marks Drop to .48.
, New York, Nov. 3. German
marks today dropped to .48, a new
low record. This was a decline oi
one - half point from the previous
low record, made yesterday.
The WeatKei
Forecast
Nebraska: Fair. Friday and Satur
day; moderate temperature.
Iowa: Fair riday and Saturday;
somewhat warmer Friday in east por
tion. . ,
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Rum Schooner Limps
To Port Shy Captain
And lfiOO Cases Liquor
New York, Nov. 3. The British
two-masted schooner J. B. Young
staggered into port yesterday minus
her captain and with nothing to
show for 1,000 of the 1.300 cases of
Scotch whisky listed in her mani
fest. The schooner was sighted with
distress signals flying, oft the New
Jersey coast Tuesday by a pilot
boat, which guided her into the har
bor. The mate, Leon Mangoy, ex
plained that the skipper, Ca.pt. Miles
Clsen, departed in a motor boat last
Friday for parts unknown, while
the schooner wis loafing off the
Long Island shore. Mangoy said he
did not know how to navigate the
boat and had floundered around with
the four members of the crew since
the captain's departure.
J he schooner s manifest showed
her bound from St. Pierre, off the
Newfoundland coast, to Nassau, in
the Bahamas, with 1.300 cases of
whisky, but the mate said oply 300
were stowed in the -hold yesterday.
Alliance With
r Britain Futile
Harvey Declares
U. S. Ambassador Says Plan
As Suggested By Lord
Derby, Impossible
Scores Communism.
' By Tha Aaioclated Preaa.
Liverpool, Nov. 3. George Har
vey, United btates ambassador to
Great Britain, told an audience at the
Liverpool Chamber of Commerce to
night that it was futile to hope that
America, as Lord Derby recently had
been suggesting, may some day be
merged' in a definite alliance with
Great Britain and France.
This statement was made as a
digression from an address on eco
nomics and the international indus
trial' situation, in which the ambas
sador attacked communism and so
cialism and defended individualism.
He recalled Lord Derby's statement
in ah address in Birmingham, in
which the latter voiced the convic
tion that the success of the Wash
ington conference would mean peace
and that its failure would mean war
in the immediate future. . He also
recalled Lord Derby's suggestion to
former President Poincare of France
that an Anglo-French alliance would
be desirable in the interests of peace,
intimating the. "strong hope" that
America 'might eventually jjoin the
combination. 1
. Dispels Illusions,
"Now it seems to haVe fallen to
my unhappy lot, since L have been
in England," Continued the ambassa
dor, "to dispel illusions respecting
the attitude of the United States. I
can conceive of no more effective
service on the part of an envoy than
to set forth frankly any certainty
which may . bear on the immediate
future, however disappointing it may
be to his hearers. I feel impelled to
, (Trn to Page 8Ten, Column One).
Ulster Premier to Join
Conference on Ireland
London,' "Nov. 3'. (By the Asso
ciated Press.) Sir Tames Craig, the
Ulster premier, has accepted the
governments invitation, dispatched
vesterdav. to come to 'London and
consult it as to Ulster's attitude to
ward the proposals regarding the
Ulster boundary and other questions
involved in the Irish settlement. ."
, Sir James, it is stated, is coming
to London to discuss specific plans,
submitted to the government by the
Sinn Fein of such a character that
the government thinks them feasible
if Ulster agrees to them, l nese
plans do not, however, embody any
agreement definitely reached pe
tween the government and the Sinn
Fein.
The Ulster premier has said
throughout that he would not inter
vene until such an agreement was
reached, but has now consented to
discuss the provisional proposalsv
Southard Murder Case
Putin Hands of Jury
Twin Falls. Idaho. Nov. 3. The
case of - Lvda Mever Southard,
charged with first degree murder of
Edward F. Meyerwent td the jury
today At 4:40 o clock, following the
reading of instructions by the court
which consumed exactly 40 minutes.
Prosecuting ' ' Attorney Frank L.
Stephan concluded his argument in
rebuttal at 4 o'clock. .
An enormous crowd overflowed
every available inch of space in the
court room and doors leading into
the room were congested with peo
ple striving to gain entrance.
The defendant sat through the
final session in the company of her
mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
William J. Trueblood, her brother,
Oscar Trueblood, and her husband,
Paul Vincent Southard.
Harding Names Denver Man
To Be U. S. Circuit Judge
Washington, . Nov.. . .3. Nomina
tions sent to the senate today by
President Harding included . Robert
E. Lewis. of Denver to be United
States circuit judge for the Eighth
circuit; Leslie Jensen of Hot Springs,
S D.. to be collector of internal
revenue for the South Dakota dis
trict, and Henry H. Errett of Clay
ton, N. M., to be registrar of, the
land office at Clayton.
Bert Acosta Wins Pulitzer Trophy Race;
Captain Hartney 's Plane Crashes to Earth;
Parachute Jumper Drowned in Missouri
Winner of
First Thought of
Injured Pilot Is
Of Wife at Field
Captain Hartney "Cracks
v Near Hone? Creek, la., on
First LapTof Race In- ,
. jury Undetermined.
"Telephone my wife and tell her
I've only sprained my ankle."
Those were Captain H. E. Hart
ney's firs, .words as two rescuers
reached him following his crash two
miles north of Honey Creek, la., yes
terday afternoon. - - -
A faulty gas pump was responsible
for the crash of Captain Hartney's
Thomas-Morse monoplane, which he
was flying in ; the- Pulitzer trophy
race. . - - , ' ;
Captain Hartney had just started
his , first . lap when , the gas .pump
failed him. . He attempted to adjust
his feed line to an auxiliary tank, but
while doing so he lost . so .much
speed his ship fell into a tailspin.
Got Out of Tailspin.
Although at an altitude of , only
500 feet he managed to extricate his
ship from the spin. It was to no
avail, however, as the plane almost
immediately became unmanageable
and crashed to the earth.
Captain Hartney is unable to ex
plain his fall after bringing the ma
chine out of the tailspin. What hap
pened he does not know. He only
knows the airplane's landing wheels
came into contact with the : earth
first and the machine hurtled through
the plowed field, in which he fell at
a JOO-mile an hour clip, before it
nosed over.. '. . ' i , , -;
The ship turned turtle with such
violence that the flyer was thrown
SO feet from , his craft. - .
Plane Is Destroyed.
The ship caught -fire ''and burned
for more tnan an hour. It was com
pletely destroyed. . '. ; -,
Jim Gilmore, on whose' farm near
Honey Creek the aviator fell,1 and
Ed Campbell were working in the
field only a few yards from where
Hartney plunged to earth: They rap
to his assistance and carried him in
to Gilmore's house, where he rested
on a cot until an ambulance from -the
flying field could arrive to transport
him to Fenger hospital.
Dr. N. P. Atwood, stationed at
Honey Creek, rushed to the scene
and reported thatv Captain Hartney
had suffered a dislocated hip. ie
also feared the captain may tiave suf
fered internal injuries. -
Cried About Plane.
I he aviator did not lose con
sciousness until opiates were ' ad
ministered. On his-cot in the Gil
more home he cried when he learned
(Tun tov Pace Twa, Calnjna Tin.)
What's Doing Today
In Aerial Congress
9 A. M. National meeting at
Hotel Fontenelle.
11:30 A. M. Aerial parade over
city. .
1 P. M. Airplane race start at
Omaha field, lasting until 5 p. ra.
Two speed events are on the pro
gram, together with stunt flying
and parachute jumping.
7 P. M. Banquet at Hotel Fon
tenelle, '
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Air Classic
Aviator Is Injured as
Plane Crashes in Iowa
Jumper Pleads
To Be Saved as He
Battles Current
Thousands See Parachute Man
Leap From Plane But Few
See Struggles to Es
cape Death. -
Scores of spectators saw Harry' A.
Eibe, the parachute jumper, go to a
violent death in the treacherous
waters of the Missouri river north
and east of the flying field yesterday.
Some criticism of .the management,'
which failed to. maintain emergency
launches in the river, was heard after
the accident, but those who stood on
the bank as the jumper struggled
against the current declared, human'
aid was out of the question.
Eibe suffered .the terrible expe
rience of watching death come upon
him. 'As his parachute sailed over
the flying' field, borne by the wind
from the south and west, he knew
that in a few seconds he would fall
in the river '
Spectators heard his cries.
"Hep me, I can't swim,", he
shouted. ', ' -
Unable to Aid Him.
Those who heard rushed to the
river bank. They arrived there only
to stand in silence as the iumner was
enveloped; by the water. ''"' . ' , "
bie fell in the -very middle ot
the current, where1 it was impossible
to reach him. Although unable to
swim, the swift current of the river
seemed to keep him afloat for a time
and he was carried 100 yards down
stream" before ' he finally went under
the third time.' '
As he' was" carried down the river
he continued his cries for help.
"For -God's sake, help mel" he
shouted -desperately. I can'tswim."
. Current Very Strong.
' But even an . expert swimmer
1 would have been fortunate to have
r V"7
survived, the current against which
Eibe was struggling., It was impos
sible for a man who could not- swim
and who in addition was burdened
with a six-pound pack on his back.
One spectator attempted to go to
Eibe's rescue with an old rowboat
he found on the bank. He had to
bail it out first and then found the
craft was without oars. He tried to
push' off by ' using a stick .to guide
the boat, but his efforts were utterly
useless.. ' . - ,
Arthur Thomas, chairman of the
publicity committee for the Air con
gressr was one of the spectators near
the scene of the tragedy. He started
to race downstream to carry word
of the accident to spectators quarter
of a mile down stream, where he saw
another rowtfoat.
Two men " heeding his cries
(Tam t Twa, Catena. Three.)
C. B. Coombs Second in Big
Race; Lieut Macready,
Third Winning Time
52 Minutes. , .
INTREPID PILOTS DEFV
DANGER, THRILL CROWDS
Injured', Aviator, Brought to .
Omaha Hospital, Stiffen
Dislocated HipEx
pected to Recover.
Every element of thrill that possi
bly could be expected in an avia
tion meet tragic death; plane
crashes, dare-deviltry and supertpaed
was furnished the 10,000 spectators
who witnessed the first-day program
of the International Aero congress
at Omaha field yesterday afternoon.
Harry Eibe, 26, a parachute jumper
for the Floyd Smith Aerial Equip
ment company of Chicago, wh
drowned in the Missouri river as
scores stood on the bank, helpless
to aid him.
Capt H. E. Hartney of New York,
executive secretary of the Aero Club
of America, was injured dangerously
when his Thomas-Morse monoplane
crashed near Loveland soon after
he had started in the Pulitier Trophy
race. ,
. Bert Acosta, interpid Italian avi
ator, piloted hig 400-horse power
Curtiss navy biplane to victory in
the 150-mile Pulitzer Trophy race at
a speed that flirted dangerously with
the three-mile-a-minute figure, win
ning over a field of the fastest aircraft
ever built '
Acosta's time for. the ISO miles
was 52 minutes, 9.2 seconds, and his
average speed was 176.7 miles per
hour. i-
Clarence B. Coombs, piloting the
"Cactus Kitten," triplane, owned by
S. E. J. Cox of Houston, Tex., wat
second in 54 minutes, 7.6 seconds,
making an average speed of 170.2!
miles an hour. ; . ;
Lirut. J. A.7 Macreadyt , in a
Tbet!aas-Morse biplane, piloted his
craft into third place wltfy 57 . min
utes, 20.6 seconds as his .time. His
average speed was 160.71. miles an .
hour. r .
' - Four in Finish. . .. '
Lloyd Bertaud, flying the Balilla '
biplane, "Whistling Billy drove a '
spectacular race, but was fourth in,
1 hour, 1 minute, 3.16 seconds, with a
speed average of 149.78 miles an hour.
Engine troubje forced Jimmie Cur
ran in a S. V. A. to quit after the sec
ond lap, after he had been out
distanced badly by the other con- .
testants. :
iThe S. V A'. Ansaldo 1 motored -plane
owned by C. B. Wriehtsman'
of Tulsa, Okl., was withdrawn from
the event when its pilot, -E. F. '
Wright, announced serious engine ,
trouble had developed after his flight ,
to Omaha from Kansas City.
Acosta Drives to Victory." '
Acosta drove a masterful race" in
the little gray biplane, his lap record i
showing a variation in running time -of
less than 15 seconds. From his -hop-off
the Italian had the air steed, v
under perfect control. When Sfarte
H. F. Wehrley gave him the red and s
white flags he taxied but a short dis- v'
tance before he Vent into the air. He';
circled but once and crossed the V
starting line for his; 150-mile dash a
little less than a minute after he had
received the starter's signal. . . 0 .
Flying less than 500 feet Up'he
came past the starting pylon on the '
first lap in 10 minutes, 32 seconds.
He took the turns easily and with
out extreme banking of his plane.
His motor hummed along perfectly,
but it was noticed one of the wings '
appeared slightjy unsteady. Later
it developed a wire had snapped as
he made his first turn at Calhoun. . -
From the first lap on, it was "ap- "
parent Acosta had hit his .stride, for
he reeled off the succeeding laps in !
clock-like style, the timers showing
the second in 10:24; third,' 10:24;
fourth, 10:26 and the fifth in 10:23." '
"Cactus "Kitten" WUd.
After the first lap the race lay be
tween the Italian and Coombs in the
"Cactus Kitten," but Coombs . waa
flying wild and wide. He was burn- .
irig time and gasoline on wide turns'
about the pylons and held to the
outer edge of the, course throughout
the flight. After the race the Texae
pilot offered the information that he .
believed the craft was performing-
better and faster than if he had tries
to pull it down to closer turns.
"The boat was wild and 1' let k
(Turn to Paa Two, Column One.) .
Remit of 150-Mile
Pulitzer Air Derby
.Winning PilotBert Acosta. , .
Winning Plane Curtiss Navy
400 H. P.
' Winner's Time 52:09.2.
. Winner's Speed 176.7 miles an.
hour.
Winner's Prize $3,000 and Pii-.'
litzer trophy until next race.
Second C. B. Coombs in "Cac
tus Kitten." . !-
Time 54:07.6. Prixe, $2,000.
Third J. A. Macready in Thorn . ;
as-Morse.
Time 57:20.6. Pr s, 41,000.
Other Sutlers Llcyd Bertaud '
in Balhla; Jimmy Curt- ? in S. V.
A.; H. E. Hartney in Thomas--Morse.
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