Show BALLOONS TO 10 COMPETE IN INDIANA Start Today at Indianapolis lis us in Tests for Distance and Endurance INDIANAPOLIS June 6 The The national national national na na- na- na distance race for balloons baBoons of the I Aero Club of America and aM the endurance endurance endur endur- ance contest under the auspices of the Aero Club of Indiana will start late this afternoon from the new motor speedway five miles northwest of this city where nine nin great gas bags are swinging from their moorings Six of them are entered in the national national national na na- na- na distance race and three in the Indiana club clubs club's a event ont to prove their ability to remain in the tho air durin during the longest period Many members of the Aero Club of America a have gathered here Tho The entrants for the national race follow Carl Fisher and Captain G. G r L L. Bumbaugh Bumbaugh Bumbaugh Bum- Bum baugh of Indianapolis in the Indiana Captain Baldwin Baldwin- of New Now York and Charles Walsh of Mount Vernon N. N Y in the Hoosier A A. A H. H Mor Morgan an and J J. H. H Wade Jr of Cleveland in the Cleveland i Albert Bond Lambert and H. H E. E Honeywell of St. St Louis in the tho the St St. Louis III John Perry and Paul McCullough h of St. St Louis in hi in the University City A. A Holland Forbes and Captain Harmon Harmon Har lIar mon of New York in the New Kew York In Lesser Event The entrants for the Indiana clubs club's contest are arc Dr Goethe Link and Dr J. J R. R Irwin of Indianapolis in the tho Indianapolis Dr H. H W. W Thompson of Salem Kalem 0 O. and W. W E. E Mast fast of Canton O. O Oin in th the Ohio A. A C. C Cocy Coey in in the Chicago The Tho lesser event is scheduled to start at o'clock and the national race at 5 0 clock The pilots and their aides began early this morning testing their theira a apparatus and fittin fitting out their cars Each bach basket lasket will carry canny a large amount of food and water heavy clothing instruments instruments instruments in in- and ballast One hundred and fifty soldiers are guarding the balloons baBoons Carry Life Preservers The Tho weather bureau predicts light liht and variable winds for the evening There is no DO indication of which direction direction direction tion the balloons will take tal when they rise Some of the aeronauts have ha equipped their baskets with life preservers preservers preservers pre pre- servers as a precaution against dropping dropping drop drop- pin ping into one of the tho great lakes or on a river The Tho United States government Jo is ill represented represented rep rep- resented at the races by Major H. H B. B of Washington ton who is connected with the weather bureau Just Tut before the start he and W. W T. T Blythe in charge of the local weather bureau will give ivo the pilots maps supplying them with the latest information as to probable probable probable able conditions in in the higher altitudes The balloons then will wiIl be bo paraded be- be f for r the grand rand stand in ono one of the boxes of which Governor Marshall and his party will be seated after which they will be bo started five fi minutes apart |