Herald and Review from Decatur, Illinois • Page 4

DECATUR HERALD SUNDAY, JUNE 6, 1926. DECATUR HERALD Decatur New Airport Local Teachers Will Make Trip to Exposition ter, Miss Dorothy Albin, Miss Bond, Miss Bernic Bitty, Miss Walton, Miss Nora Keogh, Mist LfL lie Caretb, MJtt Lit Smith. Mrs. Smithy Daisy Young. Mist nce Cochran.

Miss Arnelle Kris', Miss Serorit Haynie. Miss Jjoilie vcth, Miss Lucile Brown, Mrt. Beale Williams, Miss Ma Peters, y.v J. E. Casey, Heyworth; Mist Flo Cs-sey and Mite Irtt Fulton, Hyworts.

Mist Lenore Purdue, Mist Julia stripes a small flag. I went in at once. There was nothing- to disclose the identity of the soldier If soldier were buried there only a cross and tne little flag. I could not speak German and I went on the theory tha't no one In the village could speak English and did not stop to ask Questions, but I have wondered how that grave happened to be there wheie no troops had been. "Another time In the French vil-iotr nrflv.

where a military hospital Decalur-Built Airplanes Are Helping to Popularize Aviation, Once a Sport, Soon a Necessity Flying, Still a Luxury, Is on the Threshold of Commercial Need Through Twenty Years' Development of Aeronautics; Airports Aid Science Two Parties Will Travel to Philadelphia by Auto. Bus com. Miss Fleta Davis, Mist Dearth, Miss Luclle Hill, Mitt Eernic, Hill, Mrs. Frances Weyjrandt of catur; Mrs. J.

E. Cusey, Miss Cu-sy. Miss Iris Fulton of lfyworu-Miss Nina Funk, Mlis Goldie Funic of Casey. had been maintained, one (it the hospital attendants took me to the hos pital. Every one in tne notpiuu spoke only French, "mere were number of U.

S. soldiers mere, jiuw first aid. they had been placed on a train and started for base hospitals At the village et Cray, several so bodly wounded or gabsed that there was no hope for them, were taken to the French hospital, rather than subject them to the torture of Jolting over the road. All that I learned afterward, in the hospital, one of the home boys badly gassed was trying Two auto-bus loads of Decatur teachers will go to the Sesquf-On-tennlal celebration in Philadelphia this summer, instead of one, as was first planned. The two groups1, each of 20, will leave June 20 and Aug 1.

A truck carrying camping equipment, stoves, etc, precedes each bus, and sleeping and all meals will be en-Joyed outdoors and In tents. The trips will each take three weeks and in addition to Philadelphia other points of historic and scenic Interest will be visited. Those from Decatur and nearby points are as follows: Miss Dail Heape, Miss Helen "Wal Hangars of the Decatur Aircraft! ficially endorsed by the government rernment air service. Lto talk and the hospital people Back in 1506, Santos Dumont of France flew his biplane at the breathtaking velocty of 23.5 milea an hour. On Aug.

20. 1911, Lincoln Beachy. flying an old Curtiss pusher" biplane over Chicago, reached the altitude of 11,643 feet. Not only persons directly interested in aviation, but the world in general sat up and took notice when these feats were accomplished. Great things were predicted for the airplane at those times but these things have been a long time in coming.

Aviation Mlleposts However, here are some of the corporation at the field west of the as a "Grade commercial field, and Macon County Fairgrounds, now of-1 listed as an airways field by the gov-' children, of which he had plenty. What became of Abican I do not EMERSON FANS "The fan with the 5 year guarantee" Our stock is complete; prepare now for hot weather that is just ahead. Priced from $10.50 up. We clean, oil or repair all makes of fans. Call us.

REX ELECTRIC CO. 114 E. William Street Phone Main 1321 know. Graves In Foreign Land a flower placed on any of a flag or them." Former Soldier Recalls Three Graves of Americans in Widely-Separated Parts of the World "The other graves? Well, I wandered and talked a lot of stuff that thought I might be able to understand him, but it was an unintelligible mumble. I could not understand much they said to me.

I got an officer who could speak French and took him to the hospital where the poor fellow had died. The officer said that he would get the man's tag number and with that to start would learn whence he bad come and write to his relatives at the first opportunity, telling them where the young man had died. Often I have wondered if he did that. It might be that the officer who had agreed to do that was killed and never had opportunity to write. Today I have been thinking about the graves of those three men who died so far from things that have been accomplished" I did not think about when I men tioned the soldiers' graves.

One day when I was overseas with the army H. J. HEINZ PIANO TUNING AND REPAIRING 774 S. Webtter, Main 6534 'Memorial day!" though talking the younger man in the breast and I was along Mosel river and came to the village Mosalkern on the outskirts of which is a walled-in cemetery. The entrance was arched; there was a figure in the arch and I started forward to see the figure when, through the opening, at one to himself.

"Was just wondering if knocked him off the steps. It was the most brutal, uncalled for thing I ever saw. The savage was on his three soldiers' graves in lonely places were remembered today," mused an overseas man. "One is in a Giman department to dust hemlock trees in the Peninsula State park. Dorr county.

Wis. Work on this contract is to start about the second week in July. The personnel of the company is: Manager, R. L. Ward; Test Pilot, H.

E. Nemeyer, in charge of flying: Pilot. Ross E. Owen; Rigging and motors, Ferman Hoyt; Engineering, Lawson Faunce; Purchasing, Frank E. Stevenson; Office, Miss Helen Bresnan.

Qualify Students Student "pilots taking their flying examinations at this port can, after having successfully passed specified examinations, obtain National Aeronautic association licenses. At present, the following student pilots are in training here: J. E. Snedaker, Arthur Ibsen, Harold Carter, Carl Lasser, John Lundberg and William Taft. Aviation is a luxury today it will be a necessity tomorrow.

Its expense is now its only drawback. To fly an ordinary biplane costs 11 cents a mile or more. But it is a growing necessity now, as attested by the establishments of such airports, and the organization of air routes, over which passenger and express carrying planes are flown on regular schedule. Branch Out Activities The first organized and most largely capitalized of these, the National Air Transport, has a mail contract, and is carrying express as well as mail on regular schedule between Chicago and Dallas. This company also hopes to bid in the government transcontinental mail-line service when it is let out by contract and the post office department retires from aircraft operation, as Postmaster-General New plans to do as soon as feasible, and to shift the main line from the present route to one leading southwest from Chicago to Kansas City, Dallas, San Antonio, El Paso and Los Angeles.

This concern is using the Ford-Stout home and have wondpred if there was of the graves I saw the stars ana village never occupied by U. S. troops feet in a flash and jerked a rifle from the hands of one of the constabulary. I don't know that he un so far as I ever knew; another is iu a French village a quiet, little place, derstood the use of a rifle, but be where there was a hospital during wartime; the other was high in the fore he had a chance one of the constabulary stuck him with a bayonet. Here is the picture, rather faded.

See mountains of Luzon, a district occu the white bandage about the tallest of the Prisoners? I put that cloth about him to dress the bayonet wound. Henl Man Iliintini- pied only by the Aboriginies. One time a government school teacher and 1 went into the mountains and decorated that grave. It was not the grave of a soldier, but he was from the states, and that was enough, i was in civil service at that time, working for the government. "Maybe you remember reading about a young scientist named Jones, in aviation since then: In 1925.

Lieut. A. J. Williams of the TJ. S.

Army drove an airplane at the rate of 302.3 miles per hour, a speed never before attained by anyone who lived through the experience. The record for height attained by airplane is held by Sig. Callzo, Italian, who on Oct. 13, 1924. rose to a height of feet Between April 6 and Sept.

18. 1924. U. S. Army planes completed a flight sround the world, completing a trip of 27.534 miles in a flying time of 351 hours, 11 minutes.

Trans-Continental Flight Capt. John Alcock and Lieut. Arthur W. Brown. British aviators, crossed the Atlantic ocean June 14-15, 1913, from New Foundland to Ireland, covering a distance estimated at 1,360 mile3.

The United States Navy plane. NC-4. made a flight of 1.213 miles in crossing the Atlantic from Newfoundland to the Azores. May 16-17, 1913. Droubin and Landry, French aviators, on Aug.

7-8. 1325. made a nonstop flight of 2.732 miles in 45 hours. 12 minutes, on a course between Chartres and F.tampes, France. They Used a giant Farmnn single-motored biplane, carrying 1.321 gallons of gasoline, three gallons of oil and food for three days.

Lieut. Oakley G. Kelly and Lieut. John A. MacReady.

of the U. S. Army air service, flew from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific coast, a distance of 2.620 miles, in 26 hours. 50 minutes, making their start May 2, 1923. and "I don't know what ever became of those fellows.

That was the second time they had been arrested. The first time they escaped on the way in from the mountains. Just how it happened I don't remember, except that the force bringing them in was! Sale murdered by Ilingotes. My recollection is that he was Philippine islands in the interest of Field mu seum, Chicago. Probably next to the Moros, Ilingotes are regarded as the most savage of the uncivilized natives of Luzon, but the truth is that youns Jones was killed because of a mis understanding and not because the not sufficient.

Second time they had a force of constabulary and before they could get the accused the invaders burned the village and chased all of the sang through the mountains till they got the pair they wanted. "Say, if you could see the way some of those unfortunates starve out an existence even when they are in luck, you would feel sorry for them. Man Who Would be Attorney "In my rounds quite often I came to a place where I crossed a river. A savage named Abican and his fam Aborigines were especially blood thirsty, although I'll admit thy were ail metal biplanes, with carrying then a bad lot. Interpreter Didut' Understand capacity or more man one ton.

The Florida Airways corporation using Fokker monoplanes. Identical "The scientist had collected a lot of junk for the museum weapons with the plane used by Commander and utensils of the primitive man tsyra in his flight over the Nortl jruie, is operating a nassener-ex ily lived at the crossing and the man I press mail route 1 nkinir Miami He had made a raft which he planned to float to the sea and bring out his treasures in that way. He had w-ith him an interpreter who was not onto Tampa, Fort Myers and Jacksonville nn Atlanta. These develODmenis feried over the river those who desired that service. One day I met a man from the states and he told me that he had bought the land at the river crossing and Abican was there as a watchman.

With another white man the owner visited Abican one apparently not far distant his job. Few of thsm were at that time. Every one of those tribes has a lingo of its own. They cannot communicate beyond limits of. the wnen tne airplane as a schpfinioH tribe any more than uneducated Ger flying at an average speed of 93 miles per hour.

General Vme Lny On Sunday. May 9. 192C. Lieut. -Commander Richard E.

Byrd of the United States Navy, flew from King's Bay. Spitzbergen. over the North Pole and back, a distance of 1.600 miles, completing in 15 hours. 30 minutes, a trh that in 1903 took Admiral Robert E. Peary eight months to complete In a dog sled.

"With these things aviation has accomplished practically everything that has ever been predicted for it. except that it does not yet vie with the automobile in the matter of general use. TJn to the time of America's en day to exhibit him as a curiosity, i mans and uneducated French can carrier will Have reached the maxi mum of popularity, with the mini mum cost of operation and use. ST. PAUL'S TO HOLD GRADUATION MONDAY St.

Paul's Lutheran school will hnM graduation exercises in the nrtinr.1 luonaay evening at 8 o'colck. There communicate when first they meet. That interpreter did not understand the stuff he was hired to interpret. scientist wanted some of. the natives to assist him in getting his loaded raft down the mountain stream.

Except that they were refusing to accompany him, seemingly through fear, he did not understand the situation. Neither did the interpreter. Afterward it developed that, angry because of the refusal, the scientist grabbed the chief and hustled him onto the raft. In their own language the natives had been telling him that it was certain death to embark on that raft because the try into the World war, aviation had are five boys and four girls in the class. R.

W. Petrowsky is principal of the school, he following program made very little progress, borne machines were not even equipped with win oe given: Ihe land owner took with him a supply of Holland gin and after he had taken a few drinks and had given Abican a sup in turn, finally told the savage that he had been appointed arbitrator or attorney for the district, using a common term which the savage understood. The combination of his official position, given as a joke, and the gin swelled Abican until he could not resist the impulse to assert his authority. He hiked to the wilds to get some heads. Maybe he did not like the other fellows very well anyhow.

"Some time after that I went to the crossing and could not rouse Abican. Firing my revolver in the air was usually most effective but Abican did not appear. I looked about the place where he lived and there in small bamboo cages, hung up in the trees were several heads. Later I learned that Abican Went to the mountains and harvested a few heads and that later mountain friends of the head Mandolin trio, "The Spirit of Touth' wing-end stabilizers. Airplane motors were inefficient.

But armies C. GeloneK and son. Carl anrt had to use anything they could get. aiargarec nd many of the machines they got balutatory Edna Mechtoldt. were unsafe.

Because of this fact. Piano solo, "Broken ButtercuD" In addition the the extra-ordinary Slashed! isenuierj Helen Kornewalt. Charming Walnut Veneer Bedroom Suite Tour own eyes will -vouch for the charm and beauty of th is set in genuine walnut veneer and American gumwood: It is priced at a June Sale reduction the four pieces are included, all designed in the Tudor period style. The large dresser with tilting mirror, the chiffonier, the full size bed and the vanity dresser, all have darker tone panfls that accentuate the beauty of each piece. You don't need to be a Judge of furniture values to know that such a low price is rare on such a magnificent suite.

A small deposit delivers it pay later as convenient river was in places a rushing torrent, filled with rocks: there were waterfalls and obstructions where even a canoe could not live. Neither conditions encountered during wartime (both of which were generally Class song, "Howdy." Violin solo, "May Bells" (PuDelle) Frederick Heinkel. Class play, "A Vision of the Fu overlooked, the public became afraid of the airplane, and aviation sustained a setback which, after even years, it is just beginning to ture." the scientist nor the interpreter could understand. But when the collector grabbed the chief and dragged him on the raft, two of the savages most Piano solo, "Turkish Rondo" Cedar Chests (Krentzlin) Dorothy Blankenburg. ready to kill, rushed in to help the Talk.

"The Last Will" Edwin Ku less came to the home of the ferryman and decapitated several of his rsk. vercome. Overcoming Set-Back At last, however, aviation seems to be stepping out on the right foot. chief and their idea of helping him was to kill the white man, which thy did in hurry. Well-Behaved Prisoner Piano solo Eleanor Petrowsky.

Valedictory Everett Schlie. Class song, "Come Again." Presentation of diplomas by Xhe COUGHS AND COLDS Established commercial aviation has for the first time become a fact in this country. Commercial fields "I was at the grave where Jones i pastor. Rev. AValther Obermeyer.

SHOULD NEVER are being established in practically very city of Importance from coast to coast, and their owners are find $8.75 Keep your fine clothing in one of these moth and dust proof cedar chests. Constructed of genuine Tennessee red cedar and comes complete with bag of cedar chips. ing that they can be kept on a pay Ing basis. BE NEGLECTED Such an airport has been estab lished at Decatur by the Decatur Song, "Farewell." Those in the class are Margaret Amanda. Dorothy Blankenburg.

Edna Mechtoldt. Eleanor Petrowsky, William Kurek. Everett Schlie, Harry Musselman, William Hill and Clement Ponewasch. The annual school picnic will be held in Fairvlew park Tuesday. CHILDREN'S PROGRAM IN FIRST U.

B. TODAY Aircraft corporation, and has been Many people have the habit of neg officially recognized by the govern ment as a "grade commercial was buried long after that happened, but I was in the lowlands when the two killers were brought in by the constabulary. One of the murders, as they were called, was a man past middle-age. As a prisoner he was well-behaved. He was stoical, ready to take what was coming to him.

The other was a younger man, nervous, suspicious, his eyea incessantly shifting and watching every move jnade by the white men and the native constabulary. "When they were brought into the village where I happened to be that day, their hands were tied in front of them, but they were tied right. The prisoners were seated on the steps of a hut used for an office and were given something to eat. An army captain came out of the hut lecting a cough or slight cold. Nog lect and improper treatment is al field and listed as a regular govern Dient airways field.

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of the present year the Decatur Air the Klrst United Brethren church Sunday of M-K (Mentho-Kreoama) at once. craft corporation has set up and sold morning. The program will start at March. Sonc. "Tell Me Pretty Robin" to commercial aviators 26 planes, and is itself one of the largest own Primary Children Invocation Rev.

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"A Greeting" Dorothy Conard and of course he had to make his Exercise. 1 ou Are Invited to Sunday parts in the commercial field. The company at present employs 11 persons, three of whom hold the Federa way down the steps on which the School Three Primary Boys prisoners were seated. They were in bong, fratse. aim isame is sold on a money back guarantee.

Junior Department his path. With an oatlr he kicked Recitation, 'i-uture Church Officials' tion Aeronattique Internalo license, and every employe of the company is a former United States army or navy air service man, nnd nil hold reserve Jack Ruthrauff WQCOOOS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCOfl commissions in the U. S. Army air ervice. Sell From Coast To Coast Fringed Velvet Rugs $3675 Here Is a rug saving that you cannot afford to miss! These beautiful 0x12 ft.

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"The Bird's Sons" Bobby Song. "Two Sunbeams Virpinia Bopp. Esther Edwards Recitation. Better Friend" Doras Blake Recitation. "The Sweetest Ver.io" Allen Russell Recitation, "A Little Word of Kindness" Betty June Hastings Song.

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Beatrice Carmcan Recitation, "Special Greeting" Junior Rltchards Exercise. "The Primary Bova Recitation. "How to Help" Elolse Caylor Song. "Summer Bells Are Calling" Junior Department Recitation, "Tour Time" Leonard Ritchards Violin Offertory Crescy Turner Exercise, 'Queen of Summer" Primary Children Solo. "Living to Grow" Lindsey Rectration Dellbert Blaka Recitation.

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On Sunday his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Hart, observed their 50th wedding ountry-flying. none of the ships of ths company has been involved in an accident in which any person was injured. Decatur-built ships have been sold in points as far west as California, east as far as New York, south as far as Florida, and north as far as Wisconsin and Minnesota.

Repair parts and supplies have been shipped to various points throughout the United States, as well as to South America. Cuba, Japan and Russia. The company's present production, according to Llye Ward, manager, averages about five planes a month, to addition to its supply business. "Dusting" New Undertaking The company has lately taken up dusting." carried on bv means of low flying and spreading a dust of calcium arsenate, which aides in the destruction of Insects which infest cotton and fruit crops, as well as forests. At present it has a contract with the Wisconsin state agricultural Start Getting Well Today Day Beds $19.95 Medicine Chest $5.50 They are finished in white uii-mel, with beveled mirror and are complete two shelves.

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