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ZViTrtrtl w § em i - Weekl jj Sanrnal. VOL. X. EXAMINE THE MIN MORE THAN PARTY. DECLARES BARRETT President of Farmers’ Union Says That Actions Tell Bet ter Than All the Labels of Politics UNION SHOULD KEEP WATCH ON CONGRESS Says Failure to Secure Want ed Legislation Is Due Large ly to Failure to Ask for the Same (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) UNION CITY. G*.. Dec M-Declsring that It is not the political label, but th* bona-Ade action* that defines a man's principles. President C 8. Barrett, of, th* National Farmers" union, ha* ad-1 dressed th* following letter to the of ficer* and member* of the organization: Throw shout America one of the lead ins topics for - discussion is the recent elections, and the political overturn which has riven the Democratic party a strong majority in the national house of representatives. Naturally the farmer* of this country, and member* of this organization. ar* drawn into and participate in the com ment As I have before stated, insurgents. Republicans, Democrats. Socialist*— what-not—all look alike, or should look ’ alike, to th* farmers of this country and. emphatically so. to the member* of th* Farmers' union. The test is found, not in the label by which a man classifies his politic*, but in his bona fide action*, the faithfulness with which he makes promises square with performance, the fidelity with which he keeps hi* contract with the 1 people. In ordinary business and social rela tions we condemn the man who is guilty of breach of contract or of bad faith, | even of duplicity when It comes to car rying out hi* agreement. The same rule, unchanged by the dot ting of an “i." should rule in politics. It makes no difference to what party a Congressman or a legislator, a govern or or a sheriff owes his allegiance. If he disregard* th* pledgee he ha* mad* to his constituents or, by silence and inac tion. aligns himself against their best interest. * We are going to get results in the way of reform In this country when the voter is as vigilant in his watch upon the of ficeholder as h* is In bis activities dur ing campaigns Therefore. I hold it as merely th* dic tate* of common sense that it 1* our duty to keep close watch on congress and its guiding forces, whether admin istered by the parties now visible or those that may arrive at some time in the future. Examine the man, rather than the party. It will profit you nothing if you elect a Democrat in place of a Republican, or an insurgent in place of a standpatter, if you notice no gain in service from the change. The trouble is, the average farmer — city man. for that matter —puts a new man in office at th* high tide of a wave of dissatisfaction and then forgets. A* a result, nine times out of ten, he finds bis unmatched representative needs re placing sooner or later, and there is all the excitement and delay to endure again. _ The day the American farmer realizes this principle and realizes, additionally, that he can vitalize any legislative pro gram by unceasing demands upon his j epresentative*. we will see the farmers of this country rescued from the neglect visited upon them by the go>erament for many years I urge upon you to keep In personal touch with vour representative or sena tor, relative to those measures favored by this r rganizaticn. Failure to secure result* in legisla tion Is due almost as much to the failure | of the constituent to indulge in prodding | as to the tendency of the officeholder to K BARRETT. CIVIL WAR FINANCIER DIES AT AGE OF 94 John W. Ellis. Headed First National Bank NEW YORK. Dec. 29. —John W. Ellis, who played a large part in engineering the national finances during the civil war. is dead at hi* home here in his 94th year after an 'lines® of several years He started his business career in Cincinnati at th* sge of 18 and by the time the civil war began was re garded as one of the leading financiers of the middle west He was president of the Cincinnati. Hamilton and Dayton railroad and Interested in other railroad properties He was Instrumental in organizing the national bank system during the war and became president of th* first national bank founded. At this time he was con tinuously in consultation with President Lincoln. Secretary Chase and W. Jay Cooke. When General Grant was elect ed president. Mr. Ellis was asked to head tne treascry department but declined. He came to —*v» York city in 1872 -nd retired from active business ten years later. Mr. Ellis was born in Williamsburg. Ohio, and was educated at Kenyon col lege Postoffice Robbed pf Vs. Dee. J».— The postoffi'-e st Fj'ley. .wmthampton roosty. ws» entered by -.Mwr* Isst night, and $25 In money taken. Af-S3OO worth of stsnipn were left niMil*- t rl- <l. There l» no Hne to the thieve*. ♦ ♦ ♦ TMKEE DIE OF POISON ♦ ♦ IN COMMUNION WINE ♦ ♦ * ♦ ST. PETERSBURG. Dec. 29. ♦ ♦ Three communicants have died and ♦ ♦ 29 others are seriously ill as a re- ♦ ♦ suit of a intake made by an eider ♦ ♦ of the Lutheran church in the P*- ♦ e terhorf district who last evening * a filled a communion cup with a mix- ♦ ♦ ture of sulphurated chromate in- ♦ ■* stead of wine. .*. ♦ ♦ THIS FARMER MADE SEVEN COTTON HALES OFF OETHHEE ACHES Alabama Planter Establishes New Record by Careful Ex periment That He Made on His Farm Near Brundidge SOUTHERN LANDS HOLD GREAT FUTURE PROSPECTS W. H. Dußose Clears $450 on Tract That He Used Ordi nary Seed With Scientific Planting and Cultivating (Special Dispatch to The Journal.) WASHINGTON. Dec. The more one investigates the uses of the land, th* clearer become* the conviction that any where and everywhere in thia country land in It* productiveness is just what the cultivator makes It, provided he start* with a reasonably good soil. By combining thorough tillage, crop ro tation. barnyard fertilizer and a Judicious use of commercial fertilizer, W. H. Du bose. of Brundidge. Ala., has succeeded in producing seven bale* of cotton from a three-acre tract, using nothing but the ordinary cotton seed, the cost per acre being 838.50. as follows: Breaking the land. $8.50; rebeddlng. 82.00; hoeing. $1.60; cultivating, |8; picking, 818; ginning, 8460, and hauling, 83 On the three-acre tract Mr. Dubose cleared over 8460. In a recent letter to the Southern Commercial congrees, Washington. D. C., Mr. Duboee give* full details a* to the method of culti vation used by him. All through the south farmer* and planter* are getting similar excellent results with various other crop*. Several profitable bulletins on cotton growing have been issued by the United States department of agriculture, one of the most instructive being Bulletin No. 344. "A Profitable Cotton Farm,’’ which describee in detail the various steps to success. This bulletin can be obtained upon request from the Southern Com mercial congress, or from the secretary of agriculture, department of agricul ture, Washington, D. C. fromWWe BOY PICKS KIDNAPER Whereupon He Has Nervous Breakdown--Gang of Sus pected Blackhanders ’ (By Associated Prsss.) NEW YORK. Dec. 29.—Trembling and agitated from a nervous break-down which he suffered after he was arrested last night, Gllcomo Crimi, a 20-year-old Italian is in a cell at police headquar ters today awaiting further examination on a kidnaping charge. He was one of 17 men arrested by officers under command of Lieutenant Vachris, of the Italian ■quad. In a raid last night on an Eliza beth street Italian grocery. Within a short time after the raid, 8-year-old Giuseppi di Stefano picked Crimi out of the line of prisoners as th* man who kidnaped him from the home of his parents on Elizabeth street last summer. Little Gluseppl could not iden tify any of the other prisoners. The child was returned to his home In a carriage a week after his capture. Besides the alleged abductor of the dt Stefeno only one of the other prisoners was detained. This was Crlml's brother Pedro. five deadTscoreliurt IN EL PASO EXPLOSION Giant Charge of Powder Is Accidentally Discharged in Slag Pile EL PASO, Tex., Dec. 29.—Five persons sre known to have been killed, a score were injured snd an etxensive property damage resulted Wednesday when work men at the plant of the American Smel ter and Refining company endeavoring to destroy a slag pile, accidentally exploded 2.400 pounds of blasting powder. The explosion was of such force as to partially wreck the smelting plant and many small houses in the immediate vi cinity while window glasses thre miles distant were broken. JOSEPH STONE TELLS HOW HE WON STATE CORN PRIZE Eleven-Year-Old Lad Who Raised Over 100 Bushels of Corn on an Acre Was Guest of Gov.-elect Hoke Smith in Atlanta Yesterday-The Boy Gives Interview Master Joseph Stone. 11 years old. who won the boy's corn growers’ prize of the state of Georgia by raising 102 5-8 bushels of corn on one acre of land, spent yes terday in Atlanta with his father, as the guest of Governor-elect Hoke Smith. He was invited here specially for the pur pose of getting him to give a detailed statement of how he cultivated the acre from which he made over 100 bushels of com that the statement might b? giv en to the press of the state so that all the boys in Georgia might have an oppor tunity of reading just how it was done. He and his father took dinner with Governor Smith yesterday and spent the afternoon riding around Atlanta in Governor Smith's automobile. Mr. Stone. Sr., is himself an admirable farmer and he is teaching his boys how to farm In the most improved and pro gressive manner. It is work of this kind (Ooattaued oa p*ge Bevezu) ATLANTA. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. DECEMBER 30, 1910. ROBIN IS INDICTED ONATHEFTCHARGE INVOLVING SBO.OOO His Financial Transactions Alleged to Be Responsible for the Failure of Northern Bank of New York FLED WITH HIS SISTER IN AN AUTO WEDNESDAY But No Warrant Was Issued for Him, as His Attorney, William T. Jerome, Declared He Would Be Produced NEW YORK Dec. 29. —The grand Jury this afternoon handed down an Indictment against Joseph G. Robin, whose financial transactions are alleg ed to be responsible for the closing ot the Northern Bank of New York on Tuesday last. The indictment specifi cally charges Robin with the larceny of 880,000 from the Northern bank. Following the closing of the North ern Bank of New York and Its nine branches on Tuesday, the state bank ing department today assumed tem porary charge of the Washington Sav ings bank, pending Investigation Into Its condition. Denied asylum at the private sani tarium to which he was committed as a paranoiac, Joseph G. Robin, wnose operations are alleged to have closed the bank appeared for a moment in Jersey Crty Wednesday, and then van ished’ with his sister, Dr. Louise Hom novltch, in a high-powered automo bile. No warrant is out for his arrest, but detectives from the district at orney’s office watched his apartment* and the home of his sister Wednesday night until District Attorney Whitman received word from William Travers Jerome, former district attorney, that Robin had retained him as counsel. "Robin 1* in the city ” said Mr. Whit man, after hearing from Mr. Jerome, "and Mr. Merom* has assured me that he will produce Robin when the dis trict attorney wants him.’’ At the sanitarium to which Robin was committed the following statement was given out Wednesday: •'ln view of the fact that criminal prosecution may be Instituted against Mr. Robin and because of certain state ments that have been made, Dr. Carlos MacDonald requested Mr. Robin's sis ter, Dr. Louise G. Roblnovitch, to re move Mr. Robin from the sanitarium. This was done.” Dr. MacDonald would not discuss th* case further, but Max G. Hchlapp, one JUSTICE ArnWiU HOU in, called at the district attorney's of fice to make clear his connection with th* case and that of hl* associates. Dr. Austin Flint and Dr. Valentine Wildman. "We were called into the case,” said Dr. Schlapp, “by Dr. Jxiuise Roblno vitch. She gave us a history of the case, and coming from a psputable -physician there was nothing for us to do but accept her data as the facta, a conclusion in which we were strengthened by our knowledge that Dr. Roblnovitch is herself an alienist. The history that she gave us indicated paranoia, which, as you know, mani fests Itself in convulsions of one kind and another. We put questions to Rob in and his answers confirmed the diag nosis indicated by the history of the case.” Justice Amend, who signed the or der of commitment at five minutes after midnight Monday morning, knows of no way in which the present situa tion could have been obviated. •'The requirements of the statute were complied with in every particu lar,” he said. “A prima facie case was made out clearly. There was nothing for pie to do under the statute but sign the commitment, and I did.” IROQUOIS HOSPITAL FINISHED Will Be Presented to Chicago on Next Fri day CHICAGO, Dec. 29.—The new emerg ency hospital building erected by the Iroquois Memorial association at 87 Market street in nwmory of the 600 per sons who lost the if lives in the Iro quois theater fire December 30, 1903, will be presented to the city of Chicago to morrow, which is the seventh anniver sary of that disaster. The building is said to be the finest and most complete small hospital in existence of fire-proof construction, four stories and basement and containing 30 rootps. ® **«l I ' Wafc r B MABTE* JOBEPK STONE. This 1* the Jackson county lad who woa the Boy*’ Cora Grower*’ prise in Georgia. /T ' rßL>U le.« '(ovX \ I &ee to ! X -1 AJ ■w i bmHh. — lIMM I Wi xxX ; wTjil wi' \ THE SOUTH THANKS 1910 LOUISIANA TO HAVE MAMMOTH CROP OF SEA ISLAND COTTON Recent Experiments Show That Product Can Easily Be Raised Along the Lower Coast of the State (By Associated Press.) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28.—A number of planters on the lower coast of Louisi ana this year experimented with sea island cotton, with the result that it has been found the product can be raised here, and next year will see the planting of that grade of the staple. On the Jurgins plantation and other tracts as well along the Mississippi river sea island seed was planted along the edge of drainage ditches and jiven no cultivation whatever. The seed produced cotton stalks of immense size, some of which bore as many as 150 bolls to the stalk. Theite, when submitted to long staple experts were declared to be worth at the rate of $l5O a bale. While there is no market at the pres ent time in New Orleans for sea island cotton, experts say that with the pro duction one will be quickly established. Next year several hundred acres will be devoted to sea island cotton. This will offer hope to the spinners who liave used all the production afforded in this country and are becoming more and more alarmed over |he supply. MAN llffliEDOE UNDER IONS OF SLAG Is Sole Survivor of El Paso Explosion—Rescuers Work Frantically (By Associated Press.) EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 29.—Efforts of the rescuers at th® slag dump of the El Paso smelter this morning were directed to ward the release of Eusive Aguillar, the only living man remaining in the slag heap. Aguillar has been pinned under a mass of the slag for nearly 15 hours, but is able to talk with his rescuers. Progress Is unusually slow from the fact that every bit of slag must b* re moved from the tunnel in the dump with long handled hoes. It Is expected that Aguillar will be released some time to day. Six is the total of the death list in the explosion of nearly 4.000 pounds of pow der. Four bodies were still in the dump at daybreak this morning. ■ ■ ■ *-*-**'*♦ ♦♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦♦444 ♦♦•♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ AUTO BUFB AMUCK ♦ *■ WITHOUT CHAUPFEUB ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ NEW YORK, Dec. 2?.—The po- ♦ ♦ lice are today searching for the ♦ ♦ owner of a heavy automobile ♦- ♦ which last night ran wild with- ♦ ♦ out a chauffeur dow’n Fifth ave- * ♦ nue. three blocks, upset a*- ♦ wagon, pushed a touring car to ♦ ♦ the sidewalk, broke an electric -* ♦ light pole. injured four pedes- ♦ ♦ trlans, narrowly missed several ♦ other automobiles and ended by ♦ ♦ trying to climb the wall around ♦ ♦ Central park. What started the -* *■ machine and what became of the ♦ *■ chauffeur are mysteries. The po- ♦ lice ran the truck to a station -*• ♦ house, where it is held for its ♦ ♦ owner. * FIVE REVOLUTIONS MAY BE BREWING IN NEW ORLEANS Davila Admistration Is Said to Believe That the United States Is Partial to General Bonnilla (By Associated Press.) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 27.-That the Davila administration in Honduras be lieves the United States government wants to see Manuel Bonilla president of Honduras is the belief of many of the Davila supporters in Central Ameri can circles here. The Times-Democrat this morning pub lishes the folio-wing in regard to the revolutionary movement in New Or leans: "Latin-American revolutions were in the air yesterday locally. Many impor tant conferences were held on the sit uation in Honduras and other parts of Central America, and, in addition, it de veloped that some budding revolution promoters from Cuba have made their appearance. “For some time past it has been re marked that the Spanish-American pop ulation of New Orleans has been in creasing rapidly. Every ship arriving within the last few weeks, has brought at least two of the olive-complexioned natives, and it is the helis' now that New Orleans is becoming a revolution ist center for at least five countries. CUBANS ARRIVING. “The Cuban revolutionists arrived last week and It Is asserted are making prep arations for the starting of an expedi tion from some gulf port. They are emboldened by the success of the Bonilla faction In starting the Hornet for Cape Gracias, but it is said that they are working under different conditions. “A prominent Cuban who was here yesterday said: ‘I am sorry to see those fellows here to plan a reyolt. Revolutions are not desired at any time In Cuba, and less now than at any other time. We know that the United States has secret service men at all the south ern and gulf ports and we feel sure that any attempt will be promptly nip ped in the bud. We do not care for this except we fear that the president will conclude that there is no use trou bling with Cuba any longer. FEARS FOR CUBA. “ ‘lf there is another intervention, wa fear that Cuba will never be an inde pendent state,. That is why the con servative Cubans discourage anything like revolutionary plans.’ “Those in touch with the situation said last night, however, that the revolution ary plotters mean to carry their at tempt as far as possible. It Is known that they appealed to certain local per sons for assistance and were refused because of the known hostility of the United States to any such expedition. “It is now believed that this is not the case with the Honduras plan- Charges are made by friends of Presi dent Davila here that General Bonilla has the moral support of persons who are influential at Washington HONDURANS PROTEST. "The Hondurans are filing protest af ter protest in Washington and many of these are emanating from persons in New Orleans who want to protect certain concessions that the Davila gov ernment has authorized, but, it is al leged by Davila's friends here, that the state department is turning a deaf ear. “At any rate, both sides in the Cen tral American controversy are awaiting with expectancy news of the where abouts of the Hornet. General Bonilla's friends would not ciscuss th# situation last night, nor was it possible to ascer tain what has become of General Bonilla himself. It was stated by private detec tives who were retained on the case that the ex-president of Honduras was un questionably not in the city, while friends of Gen. Lee Christmas said he had gone to Hammond, La., for a hunt.” HONDUHIN REBELS . LED BY CHRISTMAS, MARCHING ON GIEBA Long Threatened Revolution Is Reported to Have Begun Along the Frontier Between Honduras and Nicaragua (By Associated Press.) NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 29.—A revolution has broken out in Honduras and fighting is now going on along the Honduran- Nicaraguan border, according to wireless advices received here late last night. Gen. Lee Christmas is reported to be at the head of 1,600 men, many of them Americans, who have been encamped along the Nicaraguan border with 40 days' provisions, for several days. The reports indicate that the most fighting is about 20 miles below Cape Gracias, Nicaragua, on the Horyiuran side. It is known that the Davila gov ernment sent $55,000 in silver from Puerto Cortez to Ceiba, a few days ago, and it is belfeved that th e latter city Js the ob jective point of General Christmas. • The advices intimate that the plan of attack is for Christmas to force his way through, inland while General Bonilla attacks Ceiba from the Puerto Cortez side leaving the Hornet, which is said to be heavily fitted, at Puerto Cortez while that port is held under her guns. OIL TfILJST SUIT MIL BE HELD IH KANSAS Special Commissioner Will Hear It, Evidence Fills Eight Volumes (By Associated Press.) TOPEKA, Kas., Dec. 29.—The anti trust suit brought by the state of Kan sas against the Standard Oil company will be submitted to L. W. Kepllnger, special commissioner of the state su preme court in Kansas City, Kas., today. The evidence in the case comprises eight volumes, a total of 3.910 typewritten pages. Each page contains about two hundred words. The attornej’ general and attorney* for the Standard Oil company will be gin their argument* before the commis sioner today, after which the findings of the commissioner will be made to the state supreme court. SEVERAL APPLICANTS AT S. A. E. CONCLAVE KANSAS CITY, Dec. 29.—Applications for charters made by several universities and colleges were considered at today’s session of the 54th\ national conclave of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity. ♦ WIFE GAVE BXiOOD, *■ ♦ BUT HUSBAND DIED *■ ♦ LYNN, Mass.. Dec. 29.—William ♦ ♦ H. Treen, president of the Lynn ♦ -* Board of Trade, is dead at his ♦ ♦ home here, although his wife gave ♦ ♦ her blood In an effort to save him. -*• ♦ He suffered from a series of nasal ♦ ♦ hemorrhages which weakened his •*• ♦ system to such an extent that the ♦ ♦ transfusion was advised. It failed ■* ♦ to prolong his life, however. ■*■ AERIAL DERBY WON HF BRITISH FLYER IN FRENCH MACHINE James Radley, Driving Blerfot Monoplane, Beats Ely in Curtiss and Parmalee in ~ “Baby” Wright MADE SPEED AVERAGE OF 57 MILES AN HOUR Exhibition Flying Will Soon Be Commonplace, Curtiss De clares, and Races Will Be Whole Show • - 4 SMB V - (By Aiseciated Pre»i.) AVIATION FIELD, LOS - Dec. 29.—England and France In a sfeed coalition defeated the United Stated , Wednesday afternoon in the first aero plane derby ever run. James Ra<!ley, the British speed champion, in a French " Bleriot monoplane, beat Eugene Ely. flying a Curtiss racer, and Parmalee. in a "baby” Wright, In an eight and ; ; three-quarters mile race. He establish- 5 ed a new record for the Los Angeles field, his time for eight and three-q ’i ter miles being 9:13 1-5, or an average bf ; about 57 miles an hour. His fastest lap was at the rate of almost a mile a minute. Elys time was 10:02 4-5, or about 52 *i miles an hour. Parmalee’s time was 10:35, or about 43 ■-* miles an hour. It was extremely gustly when the starting gun was fired and the air cur rents blew, but it seemed that there was hardly a second's variation in the elapsed time of any of the Radley rounds and not more than a seconl in any of Ely's. •'Mere exhibition flying is about tq pass Into the realm of commonplace,” < said Glenn H. Curtiss this \ evening, tq "The novelty of that has worn off and henceforth racing will be the thins.” Herbert Latham made a record in re- 9 covering from disaster. His monopland’.lll was wrecked Monday and he had it out again today, making flights with his mechanic as a passenger. Licoln Beachy, the newest recruit to the Curtiss staff of aviators, met with disaster, his machine being wrecked. Aviator Moissant Will Try for Michelin i3up NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 28.-r—lt was an nounced here this morning that John B. Moissant will try either on Friday or Saturday of this week for the Michelin cup and 84,000 in cash. This trophy is ~ awarded annually to the aviator who, during each calendar year, covers th* * greatest distance in continuous flight around a closed circuit of any length, ® but whose every part is visible to the official observers. At present Le<ag- * neux, the French airman, has the best grip on the cup, with a credit of 320.3 miles made about ten davs ago. A 50- horsepower Bleriot/monoplane will be used by Moissant here. A 5-mlle hexagonal course has been laid out and officially surveyed fdr Moissant's attempt to bring the famous trophy to the United States. Moissant is the first American airman to try for ths" Michelin trophy in this country. Wil bur Wright won it once with a flight of .a litle over 44 miles, but his cup lifting Journey was undertaken in France. Should Moissant be successful he will have to remain aloft for at least six hours continually. The machine he will use in the M che lin cup flight w’ill be the same mono plane that he used at Belmont park, ( when he landed second place for the United States in the international cup prize race, after Drexel, Brookins and Hamilton had all failed either to qualify or to do anything that assured the •* United States a place winner in the contest. A special gasoline tank of 40 gallons capacity has been m . to the inter national cup racer z!*XMoissant hopes to fly at 350 miles without effecting a land ing. Tne course that has been established for the trial Is over the Salt Meadous in the west section of the city, an extreme ly windy locality and one which prom ises little in the way of comfortable driving for the airman. Moissant last night told G. F. Csmp bell-Wood, the official observer of the Aero Club of America, who was sent here to observe the flight for the Miche lin cup, that he felt very sanguine about lifting the cup, and would, if atmos pheric and mechanical conditions were favorable iry to fly 400 mUes without alighting. In an address before the New Orleans Progressive union, Moissant, president of the International Aviators, declared tbtt the aeroplane “will be to nations what the revolver is to belligerent individ uals, placing them big and small, on an equal footing so far as fighting is con cerned.” “When the aeroplane is perfected,” said Mr. Moissant, “the nation big in wealth and in population” cannot longer bully and mistreat the smaller nation. With one or two aeroplanes a hard blow could be dealt the bullying power by the small er country at almost any time.” Mr. Moissant said the aeroplane Will ■ eventually make nations Just in their dealings with each other. He depre cated the lack of interest displayed by the government of the United States in avia tion and said this country is three j’ears behind the European nations in experi mental work with this new engine of warfare. “And, mark my words,” he concluded, "the next war will b e fought largely with aeroplanes.” World Monoplane Record Broken by Aviator Simon NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 29.—Rene Si mon, the French aviator, Wednesday af ternoon at aviation field, broke the world’s record for monoplanes when he circled the mile track in a 20-mile an hour wind in 57 seconds flat. This is the fastest mile ever made by a monoplane under any condition on a mile course. The machine used was a 50-horsepower Bleriot and Simon drove the dangerous turns at an angle that threatened to send him sliding off the airbanks to the ground on one wing. He negotiated those curves with perfect control, however. The high wind prevented any speed fly ing, the upper currents at times ap uroachinir the 50-mile mark. 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