Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1908 — FIFTY-SIX HOURS IN AIR [ARTICLE]

FIFTY-SIX HOURS IN AIR

James Gordon Bennett Offers Aviators $15,000 and Cup. Paris, Dec. 8. —James Gordon .Bennett has pi'esented to the French Aero club an international aviation cup, valued at $2,500. and three sums of $5,000 to be added as prizes in the first three annual competitions. The Aero club announces that the Sanios Dumont prise of SBOO has been won by Victor de Beauclair. who ’eft Bitterfield. Saxony, on Saturday, and landed at Casale Plza, Italy, aftor being up fifty-sir hours.