Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — NO AEROPLANES THE FOURTH [ARTICLE]

NO AEROPLANES THE FOURTH

Earl Duvall, B. F. Fendig, J. J. Montgomery, Harvey Davisson and Delos Thompson returned Tuesday evening from their trip to the aviation camp at Rantoul, Illinois, where they had gone for the purpose of trying to secure some airships as a special attraction for our Fourth of July celebration. They were unsuccessful, however, as • they were told that they were not permitted to go more than forty or fifty miles distant; that there were about 1,000 students at the camp and each one was supposed to make one flight per day; that as there were only in the neighborhood of 100 machines in the camp, it was necessary that this restriction be made in order to give the men their regular drill. They had received something like 150 similar requests for July 4 and were compelled to turn them all down, or at least those at a greater' distance than forty or fifty miles from their camp. An effort had been made previously to secure some machines from this camp for the Red Cross sale at Remington today, but the people there were likewise unsuccessful.