’ WORLD ALTITUDE RECORD 1
„ SET BY .ARMY BALLOONIST
< WASHINGTON. — Acclaim may
come posthumously to Captain Haw- j
thorne C. Gray for attainment of the.
greatest - altitude ever reached by
man—a -feat which the army balloon
ist spent his life preparing to per
form.
QnTjMfciwma? inspection oof the me
chanical devieee Gray carried will re
veal what altitupde was attained in
the flight which ended at Sparta,
Tenn., with the balloon wrecked and
the piloot dead in the basket of his
craft.
But whether the ascent is disquali
fied for official record because of the
death of the man who made it, army
balloonists; agree that Gray’s flights
have yielded information of lasting
value, about the upper regions of the
• air. And whether the army balloonist
lived‘to know hew high he had risen
1 on hid’ last ascent, he had the satis
faction-of knowing that on an earlier
flight, -just -seven months before his
last, he came closer to the sky than
any other man.
His flight -to -an altitude of 42,470
feet last April is the highest ever
made, although it was not recog
i nixed officially because Gray was
forced to descend by parachute. .It
--*-— Mnilk ■ 19.4
, by the German balloon
ists, Suring and Bur son, in 1901, and
with the .airplane record of 38,704
feet set by .Lieutenant J. A. Mac
Ready of thC air corps in 1926.
• OLMSTED AND * OTHERS
COMMENCE SERVING TERMS
SEATTLE.—rCommitmeste were is
sned for Olmsted send eight .codefend
ants in the first Olmsted case almost
simultaneously with t he-raising of a
$10,000 bond which would have given
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Takotna
Cigar- Store
I ^tjfeStceos
<€%ars
iStofi'-frrinks
Frdd Dubois
Olmsted freedom. He started serv ing
a four-year sentence today.
Other defendants are Attorney
Jerry Finch, two years; .Cliff Maurice,
15 months; Tom Nakagawa, two
years; Clarence Healey, 18 months;
Francis R. Brown, 18 months; John
Early, 18 months; Meyer Berg and
Ed Engdahl, 15 months.
Says Rum Running Doesn’t Pwy
McNeills Island.—William Roy
Olmsted, once acknowledged as the
head of the Pacific Northwest’s larg
est rum ring, entered prison to be
coe a convict in expiation of his dgebt
to society.
“Rum running does not puy .and
cannot pay,” he declnrtd as he
stepped within the walls to serve a
four-years’ seentence, “and that goes
for any other criminal enterprise.
You can’t tread on live coals without,
getting your feet scorched. I have
known that always. I am not com
plaining now. I violated the law and
that is always wrong. 1 am going to
pay the penalty, but it is my own
fault.
“Every bootlegger goes into the
game for one thing, the dollars. A
man might violate the law for quite a
while and make large profits, but un
less he pulls out of it he will be
caught and punished."
FORT CHURCHILL.—Work has
been resumed on the Hudson’s Bay
Railway, a sub-Arctic line which is
expected to bring Canadian grain
fields 1,000 miles nearer to Europe
and to open a way to the highly min
eralized regions of Northern Canada.
Observers with an eye to the future
see in the caribou herds of the Bar
ren Lands a possible supply of meat.
FORFEITURE NOTICE.
To Frank Irwin, his heirs, executor*,
assigns and successors in interest:
You, and each of you, are hereby
notified that the undersigned has ex
pended for annual labor and improve
ments the sum of one hundred dollars
($100.00) per year for the years 1914,
1915, 1916, W17, 1920, 1921, 1922 and
1923 upon the following described
mining claims in the Innoko Record
ing District, Territory of Alaska:
No. i4 Above Gold Run Group, on
Little creek, a tributary of Lanes
”No* 5 Above God Run Group, on
Little creek, a tributary of Ganes
That all of aaid work and improve
ments were required by law and were
put upon said claims rr compliance
therewith in oider <to hold the same
for each said year.and thereafter;
And if within ninety (90) days
after the publication of this notice
you, or any of youy.fail to pay your
portion of the amount expended on
the above claims, i yonr interest in
said claims willdbecoar.e.’’forfeited to
the undersigned co-owner, according
to the provisions of Section 2324 Re
vised Statutes of the TJVutCd .'States.
WILLI AM'SmJNEIRLJL
Date of first publication, Dec. 10.
1927. .
Date of last publication, -Meroh 17,
1928.
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