Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 October 1919 — PILOT BALLOON COMES DOWN [ARTICLE]

PILOT BALLOON COMES DOWN

Army Air Navigators Bring Bag to Earth Near Waukegan to Avoid Lake. Waukegan, 111., Oct. 3. —Fear of dropping into Lake Michigan caused Lleuts. James T. Neely and James B. Jordan, Twelfth balloon company, U. S. A, in charge of the pilot balloon of the national balloon race, which started from St Louis at six o’clock Wednesday night, to bring their balloon to the ground on the Henry Martens farm west of North Chicago and about two miles south of Waukegan.