The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1922-06-02
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near Fulton, Mo, rather than spend
another night in the air. He landed
only a few mile sfrom the spot J. S.
McKibben of st. Louis had descended
shortly before.
Lieut.. James T. Nicely, army pilot
from Ross field, Calf. dropped to
earth near Dover, Ohio. Captain John
Berry of St. Louis, an independent en-
try came down near Monticello, Ill,
and Bernard Won Hoffman of St. Louis
came out of the clouds over Fort
Wayne, Ind.
The bags which reached a high alti-
tude after the hop off at Milwaukee
had much the same experience with
air currents, and after following a
course which would have taken them
up into the Canadian wilds. shifted
with the winds and crossed Lake Erie
The group which flOated away from
Milwaukee on surface winds remained
virtually in the same currents and
drifted southwest over Illinois and Mis-
souri,.
Only five of the six pilots who ven
tured another night in the skies were
competitors for the three hOnors OF
representing America in the Interna
tOnal races which start in SwitZer
land this summer. Lieut.. Commander
Norfleet made an experi>lental flight
for the navy to test secretly radio de
vices and other aircraft equipment
His bag was filled with helium.
With Commander Norfleet and Ma
jor ,Westover the sky IlOts watched
for today were: Capt. Harold E
Weeks of Langley field, Virginia
Lieut.. w F. Reed of Pensacola, Fla.
navy airman and the civilian fly
ers, H. E. Honeywell of ST. Louis anC
Ward T. VanOrman of Akron, Ohio.
| CLEVELAND, O., June 2.-Lieut
! James T Nicely. pilot of Army balloon
| No. in the National race from Mil
waukee, and his aide James B. Jor
| dan, won a desperate fight for theil
! lives when they landed at Dover Will
! age. west of here last night, after try
! ing for eight hours to make a landing
A terrific wind blowing from th'
/ east over the great lakes region i:
! held by these flyers responsible TO
| forcing them, Ralph n Epson of De
troit, and o. D. Andrews of Washing
ton and at least four other balloon:
! all down, out of the race.
! Epson and Andrus landed at Con
| cord, o.. five miles southeast o
! gainesville, according to advices re
ceived here. From there they walke'
! to Chardon, where they spent TIL
night. To keep from dropping int
! Lake Erie, Lieut., Nicely said he ant
! his aide. both of whom are statione
at Ross field, Calf, threw out almos
all of their food supply. cut loose a
but two of the % sand bags of ballas
they carried, threw overheard all @
their instruments and even cut piece
! from their fur coats and tossed Their
:: from the basket.
i They first made several attempts t
land at Ashtabula. The wind caugh
them, Nicely said, and to save then
selves from the lake they began throw
ing food and other articles overheard
When the wind died down a bit the
tried to land again but the wind caugh
them and almost blew them into tn
water.
, That's when we put on our lif
; belt" Lieut.. Nicely continued. "Fo
: minute or two we had just abou
: resigned ourselves but we made i
We cut pieces off our coats, threw OF
= instruments away and up We went"
| At Monroe, Mich, yesterday afte
, noon, the fiers said they dropped
} parachute message saying they wei
well and happy"