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AMERICAN "FERRY PILOTS" REFUSE TO
TURN BACK IN AIR WHEN CROWDS LOW.
SOMEWHERE IN ENGLAND. Sept., 10— (Corre
spondence o! 1 he Associated Press) Several Anteiicnn
airmen have recently beet, put on duty as special "ferry
pilot*" between England and France. This is very import
ant w >rk, consisting mainly of taking new war airplanes
over the Chanel in all .veatiters to points where they are
needed at the front. The i ask is not difficult in fine
weather, l*.«t tt; had v.e...h .* .1 is son 'inus v •: rfiCtu.
and danger • \V .«... r the weather is . ad 0 • good, tha
machines iuedvd M tit- .tout must go without d*;i..y.
On a recent d:ty. ehil y a d obscure, otto of id. * Amer
ican "ferryman” was ordmvu to take a new sco .i fighter
to an aerodrome clot1 to the i* outlines in Nort’V.'ii f ran
ee. Tin clouds were .-o low and tne haze so pronounced
that the far end of the flying ground was barely visible.
The pilot thought he might scrape through by flying low
and chancing possible engine failure.
After lie .-et off. he found matters even worse than
lie had thought. At 200 feet, objects below were scarcely
visible: at 300 feet ht could set nothing. He made a circuit
of the aerodrome, and might have landed again, excep
that the American pilots have a distaste for admitting
that anything is impossible.
He arose to 350 feet and was enveloped in clouds. L
was now too late to land, for he had lost the aerodrome
and if he were to come down through to look for a good
field he might hit a neighboring cliff or factory chimney.
The only thing to do was to keep on his compass course,
and climb up above the ctouds and after flying for about
half an hour to glide down gradually through them in
search of a landmark.
At 3.000 feet he found himself above the clouds and in
the midst of bright morning sunshine. The half-hour pass
ed and the pilot had to make up his mind to drive back
through the clouds.
The luck suddenly decided it in the shape of a small
gap in the cloud, through which he caught a glimpse of the
green fields of France. Without hesitation he shut off his
engine and dived through the gap. By good fortune the
clouds here were higher than on the Kngilish side, but it
was raining hard.
He switched on the engine again below the clouds and
sailed along at a comparatively low altitude through the
rain, picking up landmarks by which he chose his course.
Thence it was comparatively plain sailing, and in a short
time he landed at the depot aerodome and housed his ma
chine
WOULD RATHER HAVE PEACE WITHOUT
A MONARCHY THAN WAR AND MONARCHY.
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NEW ^ ORK, Sept., 10— To some of the members of
the German Reichstag, peace has become more important
than victory of the military class on the battlefield. This
is indicated by the assertion recently in the German par
liament by Dr. Cohn, an independent socialist that he “had
gather have peace without a monarchy than war with a
monarchy.” The speaker was discussing the army budget.
Tho socialist declared that it seemed to him that the
world war was coming to be regarded as a “family affair
[
The three seamen from the U. S . S. Saturn, Dauhl,
Mead and Rubbins, who have been missing since a week
ago last Saturday night, were found last night by Charles
Einswiler and Wild Hill Dewitt. This was the telephone
information received at 10 o’clock last night by U. S. De
puty Marshal Issac Evans.
According to the brief information from Charles Ein
swiler, the three seamen were found between Cooper Lake
and Russian Lake. They were in fair circumstances, ac
cording to the report and are expected to reach Seward
sometime today coming in on a speeder over the railroad.
of the Hohenzollerns.” A recent army report had announc
ed, lie said, that “William had attacked.”
“Wiliam has not attacked,” Dr. Cohn continued; “but
thousands of soldiers were forced'to attack while William
was forty to sixty kilometers behind the front.
“Homecoming prisoners of war are subjected to irr
tensified patriotic instruction, the main topics of which
merits of the German Imperial house.”
.. JAPANESE TEACHERS TO TOUR U. S.
TOKIO, Sept., 10— The Tokio municipality has decid
ed to send the principals of six municipal elementary
schools to the United States on a tour of inspection. The
party, headed by Mr. Moriya, chief of the educational sec
tion of the Tokio Municipal Board, will visit various part
of the United States, returning to Japan after ten months.
The group is the first of its kind to be sent abroad by the
citv of Tokio.
DUNKIRK KNOWS WHAT WAR IS.
SOMEWHERE IN FRANCE, Sept., 10— The city ot
Dunkirk holds the record for the number of times a town
has been subject to bombardment of every kind. It has
been shelled twenty-five times from land, four times from
sea, once from a Zeppelin, while more than 400 air-raid
warnings have been given on different occasions.
BRITISH FOODSTUFFS ADVANCE
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LONDON, Sept., 10— The average increase in the
price of food on July-, 1018 was two percent higher than
June 1,1018 and 110 percent higher than in July 1014. The
principal advance in June occured in the case of milk,
eggs, butter and potatoes.
..PORTO RICAN WOMEN REGISTERING
AND WILL ENTER ON WAR WORK.
SAN JUAN, PORTO RICO, Sept., 10— F. C. Roberts,
Special Agent in charge of the United States Employment.
Service here, has announced that within a short time sev
eral thousand women will be registered and ready to go to
the United States to help in war work.
1 he women, as well as the men, are being classifed in
-uch a way that particular types of workers can be sup
plied to meet any particular requirement. Mr. Roberts
said that a considerable number of the women who are en
rolled have had sufficient commercial training to make
,hem valuable in the offices of exporting houses having
business in Spanish speaking countries.
GRAIN DUST EXPLOSIONS WILL BE
DEMONSTRATED TO SHOW PREVENTION
SALT LAKE CITY, Sept., 10— One of the features of
an exhibit of the United States Bureau of Chemistry, to
be ofered during the Utah State Fair here, September 28,
to October 5, will be minature demonstrations of grain
dust explosions the larger variety of which have been re
sponsible for the destruction of quantities of foodstuffs
in United States. The stated intervals the explosions will
be staged.
The object of the demonstration will be to show the
comparatively simple methods by which explosions can
be prevented. Wartime activities of the bureau of chem
istry will be included in the exhibit.
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