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Show AVIATOR AND HIS MECHANIC KILLED JOHANNISTHAU Germany. June 9. Herr Schendel, who on Tuesday oslicb-Ilshcd oslicb-Ilshcd a German altitude record of finO feet In an aeroplane, fell this evcnlnc with his mechanic. Vosa. and both were Instantly killed. Schendel was trying u ecllpso the world's altitude record with a passenger. Tho aviator, who was practically prac-tically a beginner, rose In n Dorner monoplane mono-plane and had reached a height, of tlfinO feet when the monoplane nssuincd a vertical ver-tical position, and It Is believed that ScIk udcl was trying to glldn tn the earth wllh his motor shut off. So great was tho veloi .ty of tin fill' that the prow of the machine was burled In the earth. Th" bodies of Schendel and Voss were frightfully mangled |