Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1919-07-14 | Page 1 | 101 Foot Jump Made with Aid of Toy Balloons

r Ii I Foot Jump Made With Aid Of Toy Balloons II OMAHA MAEA Neb July 13 Twenty-five Twenty thousand people peo peo pIe today witnessed an aerial carnival staged by tho Fort Port Omaha army balloon school soldiers soldiers soLdiers sol sol- soL soL- diers led by Pilot Leo Stevens the worlds world's most noted balloonist balloon balloon- I. I who has been in n army work I since hostilities began I Contests made mad up a large I part of the program and unique I among these was a balloon jumping contest won by Corp I James L. L Byrd of Company Nine Six Sis men were strapped I to small propaganda balloons of I barely sufficient lifting power I to let the man remain on the ground A light spying would send them hem many feet into the theair theair theair air and in the contest t Corporal Byrd won with a distance jump of feet Every typo typo typo-of of American balloon bal balloon loon was shown in action and balloons of foreign armies were on exhibition with a big display display dis dis- play of war relics I II I I