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Show Charges 100 for Landing in Wheat Field A X Illinois farmer has tilled the A Curtis Airplane & Motor corporation cor-poration for $100 as damages to his wheat, through the landing of one of the company's planes. Joseph Bennett is one of this company's flier,, hound from Millington field, Term', to Chicago, and was forced to come down through lack of gasoline, gaso-line, and dropped into the wheat field, which, from a heignt, looked i like a meadow, residents of the i vicinity flocked to the spot and trod ' down the wheat before Bennett could ! get away. The farmer shouted a ! ym before he got away: "I ye got ! vour number, young feller," and i Shtaway sent off the bill to the -orrnany at Buffalo. ( |