Show AVIATOR II PAGE PACE FALLS TO DEATH AT LOS ANGELES I rO LOS ANGELES A Cat Cal Jan 23 J. J Ruther Rutherford ford Pa Page e I aged cd 24 24 a Yalo Yolo graduate registered reg res- from front New cw York and flying as aa one of the Inc Curtica s aviators fell feet to his death yesterday afternoon on omi Dominguez Meld field a few moments before tho the close of ot tho time third days day's of or the third international aviation a meet His death the doctors said was instantaneous Pa Page Pago o was endeavoring endra to turn on a pivot phot at a height of or about about- feet when the tIme swell of or air over the han hangars arR caught his hlll planes Page made an effort to re regain to- to I gain hI his his- balance balanc but c fearing eating that the aeroplane was was- beyond control gave ga a aup up and when when about bout about sixty fe feet t in the theair theall all air Jumped clear of or th the machine as It was dropping a a. plummet lIe Ho cleared th the machIne rind and Ml fell flat Oat Into Inlo tHe this plowed ground According to the doctors ho was as cru crushed hed to death drath Badly Crushed I Almost every wen hone bone In Inn Pages Page's body was broken brokon Ills His neck was as g broker broken both les legs and arms arias and his bIn chest crushed Page was flying nor lor the first time a aa as a licensed aviator having b been n awarded his hiE license Saturday Ills flying flying- yesterday walt waa ono one of oC the tIme spectacular features despite a 3 putty puffy and treacherous wind whIch lent to the fr free e expression of predictions pre pro dictions that the time da day would be he marred I c cr r ri V RUTHERFORD PAGE b by accidents Page was one of the first fir to leave o the ground roun In the first heat heator of or the tine mile five handicap in which ho lie and I Lincoln chey the Curtiss veteran veteran vet vet- eran were the contestants Page thrilled tho the crowd crowll by hy his sensational maneuvers ers All of or tire the lz dips and sharp turns 4 mado made bv by cach were duplicated b by Page Pale who wa was as even l C more moie during daring than The hc more moie exp experienced a aIa aviators Ia tors shook le their heads when the they witnessed Pica apparently foolhardy evolutions c and lien n he Ins descended Glenn who ho taught hl him to fly ny cautioned him against attempt Sag Ing to p pel perform form feats all of oC flying at al lila his nut meet that required d much experience to learn Page In merely laughed and assured Curtiss Curtiss Cur- Cur thom that he lie was WitS all nil to 10 the good 00 1 DurIn Dur- Dur In lag ing Ilio tho afternoon tho the young joung oun New had told those the time hangars that ho he would beat Beachey or bicak cak mv my fool neck Was Yalo Graduate Pal Page lived In Now New York Tom with his his' mother and two sisters IIi Ills nig father Is ii dead lie TIo was as graduated from Yale Yak last last- year Rr and was a member of or the time Yale club of ot New ew York Voile About six weeks II lie Joined the o at San Sam Diego o whole he r received his lila first III Instructions In flying Glenn H n. n Curtiss after the tiro accident declared that Pago's death ileath waR wan to lack of r experience hl extreme dating daring He HI was mo more o than leas can declared I Ho HI had d been clI called the second Beachey Beacher and amid nd it was Warn predicted by all who had witnessed Pages Page's Carl early flights t that ha t 11 ho he would bo a world beater If it some such uch thing 38 as happened today did not end his lila career Immediately after the time accident the tine wreckage nf fir it P a machine was WIlS piled llad UP tip and find burned to prevent It being carried a away a piecemeal as souvenirs |