Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1919 — GLEANED EXCHANGES [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GLEANED EXCHANGES

Flying at an average speed of 106.38 miles an hour for six hours and 50 minutes, E. F. White, an army aviator, completed the first non-stop flight between Chicago and New York at 5:40 o’clock Saturday afternoon. The distance of 727 tallies was made at an altitude of 12,000 feet, or over two miles, most of the time. The trip was made in a De Haviland 4 biplane with a 12-cylinder Liberty motor. The ship started from Chicago with 194 gallons of gas, enough of which still remained in the tanks when’landing at Hazelhurst field to have flown quite a little distance farther.

A school hack driven by the wife of the regular driver, a Mr. Johnson, was struck by a Grand Trunk train at the Hewson crossing, seven •miles south of Laporte, Friday afternoon and six of the children killed and nine others injured. Mrs. Johnson escaped serious injury. She says that she did not see the train approaching and that no warning whistle was sounded for the crossing. Percy J. Troyer, age 42, former

county surveyor and 12 years a teacher In Marshall county, committed srulclde at his home at Plymouth Friday night by turning on the gas In a kitchen range and Inhaling the fumes. Continued 111 health and financial difficulties are raid to have been responsible for the act. His wife was In Lafayette visiting her mother at the time of the tragedy.