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Show '.mm me mm alum fro TO CUKB Of 11,578 FEET . CHICAOA. Aug tl.-Th world e of-. of-. acta) raeord tor altrtud for aeroplane again waa hanging la the balance hut sight when the alne-dy meet of the International In-ternational aaoclatlon closed- Lincoln Beachey In a Curtle machine, after an h.ur aloft, out of lnt r the spectator, volplaned to earth end n nnofncl! rad-Ing rad-Ing of th barograph "dieted that the machine bad reached a height of IUU 'Officlele of th lnirntlonl' aviation meet aeeoeiatloa tonight kuud th. following fol-lowing iltumnl: -Lincoln Beachey. In a CJlrtl blp1n roe to an altitude of 11. tit feet, or IK meter, today Thl flgur will b bub-wt bub-wt to a sii.fct addition a a rrault of duak. when Harold P McCormlek of r-hlcao. aoo-ln-law of John D. Rockefeller, Rocke-feller, and chief promoter of the meet, circled the field several time In a monoplane mono-plane driven by Thorn gopwlth. Eaht-b Eaht-b Hon flight will he gie today by II the aviator as a heneni performance for the widow of Ooli Johnstone, wh' lU ta hi death In Leke Hlthlmn short -IV after William Badaer ef Mlltbura fell and waa killed near the arandstand lasi tuewlav. The grand duration prtae. the chief dnandal plum of th meet, was won hv C P. Kodaere of the Wright team, who was la the air more than tt of the tl I oeelble flytna hour. The total nrla w-about w-about tit.. Rodtrer will reeelve half of thr aunt, and th residue will he divided di-vided amona the neat khthed duration fllnhte. Thomas Boowlih wa th chief ortse-wlnner. ortse-wlnner. taking a total ef neeriv tM.eoo l.eae alientlon wae eiven to sneeta'-ttlflr rtvtna Sunday than to the echeduled races, and th awinhM af ealr hear for th duration tat. The ln-e v mile ee e-e fo h'-plane, h'-plane, waa won hv Euaeae Civ ta It minute 1 t wniM: Lincoln Beachey eecond. 11 minute tt second- ' Th faaieat mile and a third lap for th eel wat made h Earle Orvlncton m 1 minute It aecoade. The twe've mile open event todav was won bv Ori'trurton In II W t; Rene Wmun econd. lt:M KEW WOBLD'fl ATI REOOslD IK CA&XYING PASgKNOERS CHXCAOn, An ?1. W. O. Bealtv ere. aled a new wirld'a rerrd In 10c history ul au laliee, aaiurau.embaa aa uacedcd ta carrying a nessenaer for three hours and fortv-Ov. mlnutea. This eiceede any-thin any-thin f the kind heretofore done in Amertra or abroad by aviatora. The record before this wa made by Amhrlfo at Muthaueen. Oermanv. rerem-ber rerem-ber 11. 1(1. Three hosrre. nineteen minute min-ute and thirty-nine and elhl-lenlh ec-otKla ec-otKla wa the lima. Th tUllaa ad aa Avtatik machtn. With klr. BttF a hi aaaaenger wa Fred H. Wtrner. staff poeloarapaer of the Chicago Tribune. Dteeppotntmeat cam t on man and py to another when It waa announced that owing to some body's snlatak In the reading ot Brtodley'a hardarkph record, the altlfttde which he attained Frlosy had been onlv (Tat feetv instead of 11. Us feet. Jhe world record for altitude wa not roken. Thl left Phillip O. Parmalee'e aolendl4 climb of !. feet th best of in meet up to tht thne. and an American Ameri-can record bealdee. Th neat hlgheet Amvtoan altitude record waa held bv Ralnh Johnstone, who roe 10,471 feet at Pelrootlt perk. l a the vapor prewar, which will be rer. tuned by the weather kureeu Monday. Thl 1 positively world record. "Taj, kamui W. SUeher. a government expert, made careful measurement of Beachey' barograph nd pronounced tt correct The meet cams to an ofT'els close |