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Show I Continued Absence of America II. Occasions Alarm for Safety ofJPilots. DUSELDORF II. HAS RECORD FOR THE LONGEST DISTANCE (Second Prize Also Goes to a German Entry in t lie Long Race. ST. LOUIS. Mo.. Oct. 23. With the America II., Alan R. Hawlcy pilot and August Post aide, still unaccounted for, the relative positions of the nine other balloons in the international race which started- from here last Monday wore tonight to-night figured by Lieutenant Andrew Drow of tho Missouri signal corps and hydro-graphic hydro-graphic expert for the Aero Cluh of St. Louis. Lieutenant Drew gives the distances traveled by aeronauts unofficially as follows: fol-lows: Dussoldorf II. (Germany). Hans Ger-Icke Ger-Icke pilot, S. F. Perkins aide, landed at Klsklslpg, Out., Wednesday morning: about 12 hours in hair; distance about llfio miles. Gormanla (Gormany). Hugo Von Aber-cron Aber-cron pilot, August Blanekcrtz aide, landed at Coocoocacho. Que.. Wednesday morning: about 13 hours in air; distance about 1010 milos. Helvetia (Switzerland). Thcodoro Schcck pilot, A. Armbrustcr aide, landed near Villa Mario. Que.. Wednesday; about ill hours in air; distance about 830 mllcp. Isle do France (Franco), Alfred Lo Blanc pilot, Wnlter do Munmi aide, landed land-ed at Pogamaslng, Out., at l a. ni. Wednesday; Wed-nesday; 34 hour? and 36 minutes in air; distunce about 725 miles. Azurca (Switzerland), Emli Messnor pilot, Leon Glraudan aide, landed 32 miles northeast of Blscotaslng, AlKoma. district, Onl., Wednesday morning; about -12 hours in airs; distance about 772 miles. Ilarburg HI. (Gormany) Lieutenant Vogt pilot. Alfred Assmann aide, landed in Lake Niplssing. Out. Tuesday at 0 p. m.; time In air 25 hours and 16 minutes: min-utes: distance about 750 miles. St. Louis No. (American). II. E. Honeywell pilot. .1 W. Tolland aide, landed at HUlniaii, Mich., Tuesday night: about 2S hours in air; distance 550 mllca. Condor (France). Jacques Faure pilot, E. G. Sehmolek aide, landed at Two Rivers, Mich.. Tuesday at 2 p. ni. : 21 hours and 20 minutes In air: distanco about 110 miles. Million Population Club (American). S. Louis Von Phul pilot. .1. M. O'Reilly aide, landed near Racine, Wis., Tuesday at 7:25 a. m.; in air II hours and 32 minutes; min-utes; distance about 31G miles. Lewis Spindlor. representative of the Aero Club of St. Louis, loft hero lo- night for Toronto, where ho, will organize or-ganize relief expeditions to search for Alan R. Hawlcy pilot and Augustus Post aide and the missing balloon .America II. Ho Is duo lo arrive In Toronto tomorrow afternoon and will at onco confer with Lieutenant Governor Gibson and other Canadian government officials. The plan Is to send ono relief expedition expedi-tion into northern Ontario and Quebec, wliilo the othor will scour the Georgian Ba.y region. Aero club officials here, however, believe Hawlcy and Post arc far beyond Georgian Bay. They left hero well ballasted, even bettor prepared for long distances than Colonel Schek of the Helvetia or Von Abercron of tho Gcr-mault. Gcr-mault. William Hawlcy, a brother of the. pilot, telegraphed from New "York that he desired de-sired to co-operalo. with tho local Aero club officials in the search for the ballon bal-lon and its crew. |