Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1911 — WILL ATTEMPT FLIGHT ACROSS AMERICA [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

WILL ATTEMPT FLIGHT ACROSS AMERICA

L’EUTENANT DE CONNEAU of the French army, who flies under the name of A Beaumont, has announced that he will come to the United. States and attempt to fly across the American continent. The lieutenant, wno recently won the $50,000 prise offered by the Loiidoh Daily Mail for the fastest circuit of England and Scotland on an aeroplane, is probably the most famous and fortunate of the long-distance aeropianists.