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MOHTGDNIERY FJ™1iPQSanta Clara Profesor Who Was Killed By Glider Was Great InventorI JDS ANGELES,,. Nov. 1—With ibis morning's issue, the ,l.os Angeles Horald. the oldest newspaper In tills vity, ceases as a morning daily, and enters the evening field.ifThe first issue tomorrow: editorially iPlanStasays that ii has been purchased toy .Edward I.,. Doherty and associates and will be unhampered by alliances.«usro-Ui-re-aftm-millintIoncx-lo-uschutiuf-lul-Thc dwiLli of Professor .lubn .1. Montgomery of Santa Clara College, in an aeroplane accident yesterday, removes one of the world’s most famous students of norial navigation.VIg was one of the earliest successful experimenters with licavier-than-air machines.Ho in el death near Evergreen, in the Santa Clara bills, whore he- hart been making secret, trial flights with a glider, fashioned upon new principles. which Us maker believed was lo revolutionize the science’ nf aviation, it turned turtle In midair and carriedPruk'SSGr Montgomery in a nind plunge to eavLh. TUG fall was only 30 feet, but he was crushed under the wreckage, lie died three hours later, i with Ids wipi beside him. . 1It was only a few weeks ago. after a long series of mathematical demonstrations, that Professor Montgomery movcil his machine into the hills for practical tests. The glider embodied several absolutely new principles of aeroplane coustrutliuu, designed lo sulvc the problem of stnbilily upon j which the Wright brothers have been 1 working at Kill Devil hill. It was! Professor Montgomery's belief thatTWENTY-FOUR EfiII AT SEA! • The i Poult cisfact ; plans j It wa • been [out t ! inabi j enou; tion.{drowned in the sinking of the French steamcT DioHbah as Lite result of a be h collision off here this morning. i’treeLAS PALMAS, Canary islands. Nov. -Twenty-four passengers wereIEHEAD Of LEAGUEil Till iylch.orkiMsome of the most serious difficulties bad benii overcome and lluit his discoveries would opeu a new ora ol lt;aerial navigation, yet. ho had kepi I he i Kunrct of many of his discoveries toSAN’ FRANCISCO. Nov. 1—Allen T. Damn was elected president of the Pacific Coast baseball leaglie last night b y» telegraphic vine of the di-l rectors nf teli league. aDiiiu accompanies Cnl Ewing lo Chicago on Monday, to attend the meting of the National ttascbnll commission at Cincinnati on the Hth of November. He will also attend the minor league association mcrling which will be heldIn San Aulnuin In November. —»■ — -mn-mn-hliuse.if, and they may never known.At the top of a long gcnllc swalehoAI It SOCIETY TH MEET.Tilthis lay lend cedii T1 in i for Cn Rffo now the:and con out! pou fin: it i whf ' iivn IthesecmUum The ladies’ aid society of the First idnto I the liNist. a runway was eimslniotci!,. MrtlunMsl EpLsnipnl Hmvrh will meet mrkeep!* Vhe glider was pulled io the lop with in the ehuich tomorrow siftn mmn nt I at | ropCH mid the wheels were fitted ln;£::U o'clock.Miei the run ways. Of the Mi flights made ————It is (dullherefrom (his runway. Sfi wore by 5’vufi'S-. u„.ne}. nf n,r fulieA Smb's.sor Minitsnmccy M«l 21) by Vieira, j mau- V. avs lb.' s-iktillst lias Tin- longest [llglil was mil a: (,or!1 l)w )K-ult;l of Santa Clara coib soininsfoiUWfdoHilines' vineyard mid muled in a liayfleld n uu-i-lmnleul department. He wa# mar , lilies' I miU' from the starting pnini. At im.ri0,i \lx m]wxv. mo. \0 MU* Regina P.wi\11 place was the machine more than 3d cieavy or Pan FraueNm. Hie dnugh-Siuijfrel off the gvmuul. Another Hnn\[iVT Df p;ltrnk Cleary. one of (Wor-|ai;according to I he statement of Hein-: pioneers.elves I hnvrlt, the glider wnil up in a SO- j Jdouigomevy was a bvoiher of thenties.jniil breeze and the flight could have IMP AlTl,hisll0p Montgomery. who s,if-(been proliugeil huU'flidtelv \ix ^07,nowHis Genius.The Austrian govermuiiit expertsstead j Montgomery graduated from St, tg- in l?W. awavded si medal lo Moutgo-omen jUatlMA college In 1S71. and early do- mery as the fiist man in the world to imml juimisl rated bin Inventive genius. He successfully master aerial mnlgailon.was tlii' sun of a ferini'i1 assistaui at-,and be received manv fdlnr honors.
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Modesto News
Modesto, California, US
Wed, Nov 01, 1911
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