Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1922-09-08
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seem of more pressing necessity. be
cause of the strike and insufficient
help engines are constantly railing out
of commission and the railroad people
are concentrating on such trains as
f.. can be run.
- Senator Robert M. LaFollette has
) secured the Republican nomination Tor
re- election to the United States senate
/! by a more than two to one vote. HIS
K lopponent was w. A. Garfield, or Wau-
kesha. Returns from about Four-n1ths
! yof the state up to wednesday night
gave ,LaFollette 294,S57 and Garfelo
49, ,524 LaFollette has the distinction
. of having served his state for COVER
I nor for three terms. He has been in
, the senate for many years, and it will
be remembered that in 1917 his Repub-
.ucan colleagues made strong but un-
successful effort to expel him because
of his attitude toward the war.
Jackson, !. California, September q:
I IA. S. Stent, vice president of the Argo-
naut Mining company, believes that
the AZ miners entombed in the Argo-
naut mine here have perished, he de-
Sclared tonight in the first official state
.aant he has issued since the men were
trapped by fire a week ago Sunday
night. 81 sadly fear that all we can do
lis 10 bring out the AZ bodies" Mr..
Stent told the Associated Press. Il
do not hold out any hope for the rescue
. of many, if any, of the men. l do not
place any credence in the alleged re-
! sports of signals from the entombed
miners"
= Glenn II. Chrtiss, the aviation eX-
! pert. believes that it is possible to soar
above the water in a gliding machine
I sHe has just completed test on Man
hassatt bay off Port Washington. The
glider has a wing spread of 2S feet, Is
! ,z1 feet long and weighs 14O pounds
Mr. Curtiss, the pilot weighs 100
spounds, and the whole thing with its
load therefore, weighs 295 pounds,
: The machine, equipped with iloats, was
attached to q swift motor boat and
pulled along at a speed of about 40
, miles an hour until il rose from the
/ water to a height. of IL feet, when the
cable was cut The machine scared
for 40 seconds before he fell to the
. water and was rowed ashore. On n
! second trial the machine rose some
what higher and remained up as be-
fore, 40 seconds. Mr.. CurtisG said that
ocean air currents are horizontal in
stead ,of vertical like those in which
the recent German experiments were
made, and ii will take considerable
.study yet to adapt the gliding plane to
them. He feels however, that he is
making progress.
Af - Lieut.. James H. Doolittle, army
\ aviator who began a one stop flight
across the continent at 1O:30 p. m,
eastern time, in a specially built De
Haviland airplane arrived at Rock
well Field, the army aviation head
Il lau, Oak 10 of
534 p. m, Pacific time. the actual
distance travelled by Lieutenant Doo-
little to San Diego from Pablo Beach,
near Jacksonville, Fla, was roughly
computed by army officers here as q
275 miles Lieutenant Doolittle flew
over eight states. Airmen said his
night flight over the Florida swamps
was one of the finest achievements in
recent years by military airman. The
daring aviator was paced in from Ell
Centre, Imperial Valley, by Captain
William NJ Randolph and Lieut.. c. l..
Webber. each plotting a DeHaviland.
Doolttle required only % hours and 81
minutes to complete the 2,275-mile
trip, and with an hour and thirteen
minutes taken out at San Antonia for
fuelling his actual flying time was 21
hours and IS minutes, or at the rate OF
approximately 100 miles an hour or a
mile and two-thirds every minute.
A Turkish cavalry division met
disaster near the Bilejik Brusa front,
last Monday. Caught between two
Greek forces, il was totally wiped out.
The Turks, made careless by their sue
cesses, did not reckon with the Greek
third army corps, which, as previously
reported, had retreated unhampered
in the direction of Brusa. This corps,
extremely we'll led, was attacked by a
division of Turkish cavalry west Of Bill
elk The division was driven between
the Greek wings and completely ami
hilated. THE Greek military mission
made public the following official COM
munication: THE northern group re-
ports a great victory for our army.
The enemy made an attack, which was
repulsed. The Turks retreated in dis
order with great losses. The military
situation has improved after the juno
tion of all the corps in the southern
group under Generals Tricoupis, Dioy-
enis and Dimarais." Ala a-Shehr, 80
miles south of Smyrna has not yet
been taken. The Turkish cavalry is
pursuing the Greek rear guard but
their progress is slowing down and
the advance on Smyrna begins to be
more difficult.
- Lieutenant DelNln May I'D u, hhONii
throughout the country as the flying
parson, and three others We're killed
during an extensive airplane cXl !bi-
ton, at the Rutland, Vermont, fair
yesterday afternoon. The dead are
Lieutenant Belvin w. Maynard, Lieut.
enant Il. X. Wood, Mechanic Charles
Myonette, Henry A. CDaredcviD Smith,
an aeronaut of Boston. Daily exhibit
tiOns were being given al the fair
grounds of what is known as the flying
circus. Maynard and his mechanician
had successfully performed the feat on
previous days and yesterday Lieuten-
ant Wood was along as passenger in
Maynard's airplane. At height of g.
900 feet Maynard attempted a tail
spin: but the machine refused TO res
pond and fell into nose dive; crashing
into a corn field a mass OF wreckage.
Maynard was still breathing when the
spot was reached but both of the
others were dead. Before the great
crowd had recovered from the shock,
Smith whose stunt was to jump from a
balloon with parachute, came crash
ing down from a distance of 800 feet.
His parachute had failed to open. He
was killed instant!y. Maynard attain
ed great fame in the world war as the
most skilled aviator of the day. and
he won the great race across the con-
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