The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-10-14
Flyers From All Parts of Con.
tinent Will Take Part In
Omaha Assembly.
DATES NOVEMBER 3 TO 5:
RAILROADS LOWER RATES
Masters of Aircraft Industry and Other
Oisnitaries to Attend.-Stirrinu
War Scene Part Of Gil
Santic Spectacle.

Omaha, Neb.-There is only one
Paris, and during the war the hundreds
of American aviators who caused Bill
Hohenzollern to lose his job adopted
the gay city on the Seine as theil
rendezvous.
Nearby were located training and
bombing fields, where hundreds OF
filters daily held communion with the
undertaken by attempting "vrilles",
barrel rolls, corkscrew turns and loops
while flying thousands Of feet above
the earth. 1t was war.
When the international Aero Con
gresS opens in Omaha on November 3,
many of those same tiiers will live
again their adventures in the air. and
their social pastimes when the sun
Is ~darkened, as guests of hoSpitable
Omaha.
Mr.. Volstead has made it impossible
TO procure certain required props to
make the city Of the Missouri the city
of the Seine, but the romance ana adj
venture of those days preceding
August, 1918 will lose nothing in the
telling, when cronies from the four
corners of the continent will meet
again TO take the air" at the big IN
ternational Aero Congress. Such is
peace.
Ak-Sar-Ben knights, the Chamber
OF Commerce, the Aero Club of Omaha,
the American Legion, societies leaders.
all will n1ou thair ,Nort- nc, lC-+. -,
visiting dignitaries of the air, and it
Is predicted that Omaha will reach the
pinnacle Of her social activity during
the air meet.
Before the air meet is concluded"
said Earl w. Porter, president of the
congress, every debutante and matron,
as well as staid business men will be
conversant with lift Gambler, ICON
tact, "dihedral' and other air terms"
cold blooded business men, who are
skeptical of the future of air industry,
will have ample evidence at their very
door that heavier-than-air machines
will dominate the field of passenger
and commercial transportation"
The men who have 'nursed' the in
dustry from its infancy-Orville
Wright, Glenn Curtiss, Glenn Martin,
Major Charles j. Glidden and others
will be executives of the meet, which
will prove to the world that the air
plane scientists of a decade past were
not essentially dreamers.
Perhaps the universal spirit Of co.
operation has been granted the air
congress officials, for such dignitarieS
as Judge Kenesaw NJ Lands, National
Commander John G.. Emory Of the
American Legion, Major Ira A. RAIDER.
dean of army air men, and a host of
others have all accepted the invita-
tions, and assure the success Of the
congress.
Movie skeptics, those flmads who
breathlesSly watch daring aviators per
form for the screen, only TO criticize
lust some trick photography" will
have an opportunity of finding enlight-
eminent during the meet.
"The Bombing Of Courcelette" writ
ten by Rupert Hughes and Eddie
Deeds, with over 100 persons in the
costumed cast, will be a part of the
spectacle. The village of Courcelette
will be built on the flying field, and
with an S0-million candle power search
light furnished by the General Electric
company, Illuminating the heavens, the
battle in the clouds, not unlike the
famous air duel above the real village
of CoUrcelette in 1918, will be fought
again.
Aces who performed in France will
again "kick off the bombs; chaSse
pilots will engage in machine gun duels
high above the bOmbers, and when the
director yells "Out" all Omaha will
gasp at the spectacle so lifelike in its
conclusion.
The village will be In ruins. The
drone of the German Mercedes will be
niicant of Hun defeat. Streaks of
fire from Hun bombers falling in
flames. aid the searchlights in illum-
mating the "set." The village in ruins
and shattered Hun planes will tell the
tale.
Thousands Of people and hundreds
Of the distinguished men of this and
foreign countries are expected 10 take
part in the congress. Special railroad
rates of on~e-and-a-half fare for the
round trip have been obtained from
all railroads. 1t looks like the biggest
thing in recent history for the centra.
west.