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Show BALLOON TRIP OVER ATLANTIC PLANNED SPOKANE, Wash., March 12. Albert J. Perry, a naval aviator, announced here today that he has been ordered to report shortly at Cape May, N. J., to act as chief engineer-of a. dirigible balloon-with which it is planued to attempt a trip across the Atlantic ocean under government govern-ment direction. He is here on a. brief furlough. Perry said the start would be made from Newfoundland some time next month, with the destination Queens-town. Queens-town. Endura.nce tests have demonstrated demon-strated the practicability of the transatlantic trans-atlantic voyage, Perry sa.id. |