Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-09-12 | Page 1 | Five Entries in Balloon Race Still Unreported 40 Hours after Start

Five Entries in Balloon Race Still Unreported 40 Hours I INo No Fears Held for Missing Bags Belgians J Make Be t e So Far Woman Wishes Father Would Die He Obliges LOS ANGELES Sept 12 AP APAn APAn An altercation between Miss Carol Gilbert who plays mother parts on the stage and screen and her father Charles Mortimer Gilbert over the cooking cooking cook cook- ing of a plate of beans followed by a death sh by the daughter daugh- daugh ter was climaxed here last night by the sudden death of the 80 year old man Miss Gilbert told the police that in the argument over the beans her father struck her in inthe in the face with his caneI cane J JI I wish you were dead Miss Gilbert said she exclaimed The aged man inan she said clutched his heart and fell to the floor Miss Gilbert was hysterical when the police arrived She was questioned questioned ques- ques regarding the tragedy but was not held Physicians were of the opinion that death was due to a stroke of apoplexy An autopsy has been ordered DETROIT Sept 12 With AP-With the landing of the Belgica Belgian entry in the Gordon Bennett inter national balloon race near Syracuse Syracuse Syra- Syra cuse s S. S C C. C today the total num nun bar ber of balloons officially reported landing rested at eight Two oUrI oUr eta I ers were reported sighted and five I still are unheard from out of of ofa a I total of fifteen entrants in the race which started here Saturday Ot Of the bags officially reported I landed the Belgica has has' made the I best distance according to R Ray y yI Cooper general manager of the therace therace I race who Is compiling the re records I or of the various pilots Reports that a whIte balloon un- un unI I I 1 had been over Ga headed In a southerly dIrection led the committee corn com here to believe that E. E J. J Hill piloting the Detroit United States entry was leading the therace race with the best st chances chance s for victory Hills Hill's balloon was the only white bag In the race It If It had been sighted In Georgia according to Cooper the chances ot of for forthe forthe the American entrant are good as the wind currents ar are favorable In that part of the country The entries which have not been reported are the L LaFayette Fayette France t the e Rex It Italy l tire Ure Munster G many and the Barmen Germany There has been d r port from the Detroit Hills lIms entry I The Wallonia landed at Gr Green Green- en- en yule S. S C. C The Brandenburg I German balloon piloted by Dr Reinhold and Hugo Kaulen Kaulen Kau- Kau len Jr made the shortest flight having been forced down on Sugar island In Lake Erie four foux af after attel tel ter the start when yeti the gas valves failed to function properly The other b landed Were the Helvetia Swiss entry at N. N C. C the Brux Paris elles elIs entry at Dunn N N. N C. C and the Army at York S. S C. C Ward Vard T T. T Van Orman winner of the trophy last year at Antwerp Belgium was pilot of one of the seven unreported balloons Two unidentified balloons were reported sighted last evening The Hispania Spanish entry was seen over Gaffney S. S C. C The Dux Italian entry was r reported ported seen over Spartansburg S. S C. C Another bag believed to be the Belgica representing representing rep rep- resenting Belgium was sighted over ove Monroe N. N C C. last evening accord accord- accordI I lag Ing to a report from Charlotte N. N C. C 1 Ray Cooper general manager o othe ot I the race declared today that no alarm was felt for the safety of the balloonists All equipped for landing u under ider any emergency and andall and andall all carried food rations tc permit them to remain In the air three days Cooper l he bell believed ved th wind currents were strong enough to sweep aU all the balloons out of th the lake region I