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Show BIG AIR CIRCUS If ! ' to mm visit Four Giant Planes -Will Give Free Exhibition in Garden City. Special to The Tribune. PROVO, July 8. Secretary R. X. Cooper of the Provo Commercial club Is in receipt re-ceipt of a communication from Lieutenant Colonel L,. W. Mcintosh, stating that the Transcontinental Flying Circus will be in Provo about the middle of July, the exact date to be announced later. Mr. Cooper has be;n In communication with Colonel Mcintosh for some time, and has sent' htm photographs of the First v ward pasture field which has been ap proved by the air service officers. The exhibition In this city will be made by four great Liberty motored Ie Havllund battle planes, which are about to embark on another epoch-making cross-country flight, which will carry them to the waters of the Pacific, thence northward anil possibly pos-sibly across the continent to the Atlantic coast before they finally turn the noses nf theif ships toward Houston, Texas, whence they will come. Unlike most flights, thfs trip will be made purely in the interests of educating educat-ing the people in the study of aviation, and especially In interesting ambitious young men in the opportunities the air . service has to offer them today. Vlr-r Vlr-r tually all the big cities of the west will be visited by this squadron of veteran flyers. Towns which have never before seen airplanes air-planes Will also have opportunities to crane their necks as the 130-mllo-per-hour demons cut through the sky on their way across the Continent. The exhibition will be absolutely free, and, according to the officials of the Commercial Com-mercial club, an opportunity will be given many of our citizens to fly. It is understood under-stood that this will be the only town in this county that will be visited by the pquad of flyers, and an 'invitation will be extended to the citizens of every town in tho county to see this wonderful exhibition. |