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THE SEATTLE STAR RIGA FIGHTING Life on Aerial Wave Is IS INCREASING Letts Continue Bombard- ment of German Positions (Written for the United Press) RAWLINS, Wyo, Oct. 16 layed.)—This life on the aerial wave is great Great, Says “Sky Pilot” jtuin, Nevada, to Salduro, which wae (De. | Covered with fog. The smoky region over Salt Lake as any ship that ever sailed over land | our tour, City was annoying, But we have no We have had as fine @ trip! complaint to make of conditions on It beats land touring any MITAU, Russia, Oct. 15,—(De- | or sea j time . 7 | The jaunt from Green river to 1 am getting re and more en layed.){United Preas.)—As the bat-| 2 ine wan but a little jump over |thustastic for th extop flight from tle in the Riga district continues | sooth prairies, We felt aa kafe over| New York to ornia, which we with Intense fighting, the battle line}inem as we would if we were down | plan to make in the old De Haviland is extending. Col, Bermondt's Ger- jon the ground. 1 | rudatoe from the way wa Ary Sui ; . Looking back over the eastward | ing along now, we coultl make it from po an = Rhye cron atte | Cae the “hop over the Sierras has|New York to Dallas and then to San nofie Tuesday, when they captured Ust, Dvinsk and Roldera, according to advices recetved here. Lettish troops are b ¢, and it was a distinet relief | on the fleld at Saldu holding their |‘ been the only part to make us appre: | Diego in a twoday fight We will reach Ni Utah. | fight is going, fork, aa thin 24 hours in h r, fur-|the alr, And believe me, I can hardly the other side of the ntain fying ‘ q Cie tke ~ et Riga. which with beautiful ry, OX: | Walt to get there and join my wife cept the last lap from Battle Moun- and kiddies, Pell them that for me. they succeeded in crossing after per sistent fighting. The Germans are not answering the cannonading, al tho the Letts continue heavy bom bdardment of the German positions The Germany repulsed a Lettish at tack with armored cars, Esthonian forces have gone to the ald of the Letts and are reported to be concentrating at Friederichstadt, 48 miles southeast of Riga. Their ar rival endangered the German flank Clip in Aerial Derby from the east. Gen, Von der Golts is reported to] gay FRANCISCO, Oct. 16.—/ haye left the Baltic region for] (riited Press.) Koenigsberg, East Prussia. w Col. Edward Ryan, Scranton, Pa., American Red Cross commissioner for Western Russia, has not yet re turned from Riga, but it ts believed he ts safe. Col. Ryan went to Riga to arrange for the movement of relief supplies Might. gained only the Germans, onds on the flight from the ~ weg C to Salt Lake City, but the same fig-| 15.—(Delayed.)— | ures show that he made exceptional) time on the flight from Salt Lake) {City to Sydney, Neb, where he spent the night, BERLIN, Oct. [United Press: “Lett Cheyenne at 4:56; arrived Sydney at 5:45. Had very nice trip.” This was two minutes faster time than he made on the outbound Night. From Rawlins, Maynard wired: “Left Green River at 2.04; arrived Rawlins 2:58:20; fine trip.” This offers no comparison with the westbound trip, for Maynard did | dashed NEW i ‘ that be | Evanston, Unofficial figures now iy eea.|bringing the total dead in the alr | morvice reliability race to nine flyers, vente | Kirby died Instantly, Miller soon | UF after the crash, Of the five planes making the re- turn cross-country Might, stil in the running, [ Smith, returning to his horne hangar From Sydney, Maynard wired the'in san Francisco, arrived in Buffalo | *- yesterday, where his machine was| destroyed by fire while in the hands | Maj. Cart Spatz is| due to leave Rochester, N. ¥., on his homeward trip west today. Three eastbound home-going fly- ors, led by the fying “sky pilot,” Lieut. BL W, Maynard, were on their way yesterday. San Tuesday, of repair men. LT. MAYNARD IS |DERBY AIRMEN SPEEDING EAST) FALL TO DEATH: zs recites 8) Going Two-Miles-a-Minute! Plunge 200 Feet in Moun-| | tain Blizzard; 9 Dead Total | YORK, LAeutenant Belvin| Press)—Crashing 200 feet thru al Maynard, the Baptist preacher|mountain bliard, the De Haviland who is Winging bis way to Mineola, | plane carrying Lieut. French Kirby is making better time on his return/and his observer, Lieut, Stanley C. trip than he did on the westward|Miller, transcontinental air racers, 4 its occupants to death west of |‘ door and started down the street, | Oct. 16.—(United Wyo. late yesterday, four are Capt. L. Maynard, who left Francisco shortly after noon in due to leave Sydney, [not step at Green River. However,| Neb. today, Sydney t# 1,096 miles of|he made the 137 miles in 54 min-| from San Francisco and 1,603 from utes. Mineola. Maynard said on leaving here he was determined to beat his previous! ume, His fight from Salt Lake City to Cheyenne in 3:56 broke all records. SYDNEY, Neb, Oct, 16.-—Lieuten ant B, W. Maynard, leading the fly- Jers in the transcontinental alr derby, started the third day of his return flight to Mineola when he left here at 7:16:30 a. m, (Mountain time), for North Platte, i Maj. D. H. Crissy, near Salt He hopes to reach his Eastern goal © City. Lieut. E. V. Wales, at Ovid pass, Oh!! of Lustrous Percaline In Black Only Sizes 36 to 40 fect, two pin-tucks and a three-inch ruffle. They’re cut full enough for walking comfort. THE RG BON MARCH AIN Six pilote are eligible to start re- Lieut. Doe Queens and Lieut. at Mineola, and Capt. H. C. Drayton, Lieut, L. &, Webster and Capt. Harry Smith at San Francisco, planned to| ‘he county-city building, on James begin the last lap of the race today. Wyomtng. N.Y. Sergt. Virgil Thomas, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Col. G. 'F. Dodd, at Bussetiton E ‘ Petticoats, 98c 600 Smooth-Fitting Petticoats They have clastic waist-bands and snap-fasteners at the top, and at the bottom a wide flounce which is finished with an accordion-pleated ef- BASEMENT turn trips today—three from each terminus Cc. Kiel, Tent. M. EL L. Worthington, GUNMAN ROBS | FOOD DEALERS Collects Cash From Butcher and Grocer Pollee thruout Seattle are on the) lookout for the young masked bandit| who calmly robbed two Premont storekeepers at the point of a gun,| |regardiess of customers, Wednesday evening, He in believed to be the! same bandit who has twice robbed the Salleo Broa, bakery at 4260 Fre- mont ave, After obtaining approximately | $140 in cash Wednesday night, the highwayman made hin escape, The| bandit, wearing a black mask and flourishing a nickel-plated revotver, entered the Golden Rule meat mar ket at 407 N, 45th st. while 0, W. Hafer, the proprietor, was waiting accepted $80 in cash from the nerv oun butcher, Walking thru the door which opens into the Golden Rule grocery, 403 N. 45th ast, he pointed the gun | at A. A. Malberg, the proprietor, and| commanded him to hand over his| cash | Mra, Matberg was in the grocery store at the time, After obtaining | about $60, the bandit walked out of} A crowd of excited citizens gathered | and followed the robber down the street. He was kept in sight for five minutes until he noticed the crowd, when he quick- ened his pace and disappeared. A polica, call brought a@ squad of motorcycle police, who scoured the district, but failed to find the rob- or The bandit appeared to be about 25 years of age and waa slender, He wan dressed in a gray suit and had 4 slouch hat pulled low on his head The description tallies with that of the man who robbed the bakery. ROBBERS HIDE NEAR CITY HALL Hold Up Pedestrians and. Flee With Loot After lurking in the shadows of| *t, near Fourth ave, two bandits stepped out and commanded F. E. | Jones, 4806 28th ave. and H. E. Ben. | nett, 7531 Taft ave, two real estate| men, to throw up their hands, short: | ly after midnight. The bandits, both carrying revoly- | erm, each selected a victim. Jones, lont $18, while Bennett lost $123 and & watch. After the holdup, the men dinap- peared down James at, and turned up Third ave. SINN FEIN TO OPEN SESSION Handcuffs Removed From Prisoners at Mount Joy DUBLIN, Oct. 16,—(United Press) Thru the intervention of the lord mayor, the handcuffs were removed today from the Sinn Fein prisoners at Mount Joy, who have been man- acled for the last ten days as pun- ishment for wrecking the jail in a recent demonstration. In his protest to Sir Ian MacPher. fon, chief secretary for Ireland, the lord mayor declared that several of the prisoners were nearly dead as a result of their punishment. The annual convention of the Sinn Fein, scheduled to open here today, was expected to encounter severe op- position from the government, in the light of an order issued Inst night by the chief secretary. The proclama- tion ordered suppression thruout Ire- land of Sinn Fein organizations and clubs and the Gaelic league, previ- ously suppressed in various parts of Treland, Lord Birkenhead arrived here last night with Sir Tan MacPherson, in aga with the new home ruie it. GARDEN EXHIBIT ‘The last of the school garden ex- hibits in Washington this year, held Thursday on the grounds of the Hawthorne school, will be filmed, ac cording to Ronald FE. Chapman, su- Perintendent of gardening and agri- culture for the state schools. The exhibit was open to the public be- tween 2 and 3 o'clock. | WALKER ON T, R. George H. Walker, a close per- sonal friend of the late Theodore Roosevelt, addressed the Young Men's Republican club Thursday noon at Meves cafeteria. The character and life of Roosevelt was the speaker's theme, To Exhibit Alaska Mine Photographs A large collection of photo- graphs, illustrative of Alaska’s mining industries, prepared last summer by J. lL, MePherson, secre- tary of the Alaska bureau of the Seattle Chamber of Commercé and Commercial Club, will be one of the features at the convention of the American Mining congress to be held in St. Louis from November 17 to 22. Reports Crushing Defeat of “Reds” LONDON, Oct. 16.—General Dene- kine, commander of the west Rus- sian anti-Bolshevik forces, in a wireless dispatch received here, claimed the capture of the city of Orel with many prisoners and enormous booty. WASHINGTON, Oct. 16.—(United Press.)—-The king and queen of Spain will leave for France October 19 for an unofficial visit of 10 days, the state department was advised by the American embassy at Madrid to- day. 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