Show CURTISS OPENS AVIATION WEEK Witness of Air Craft At Los Attack U S Revenue Culler Los Angeles Cal Jan fault faultless less day cloudless cloudIes and bring bringIng hag Ing with It it moro inure zephyr ot of breeze that floated rather than blow blew up from time the sea and over the tho valley between lie tha snowcapped mountains opened time thu Inter International International national aviation meeting at Domingue Junction today and witnessed the tho first competitive trials or of aeroplanes In Amer AmerIca lea Ica leaA A clatter from tho Ire grout l shelter tent nearly Il a mile away where aeroplane motors molars were being tested mot met time tho ears ars or of thousands who crowded orr 01 tIme Inter Interurban urban ears car at time the Held directly after afler breakfast thou though h tIme the nights wert not net scheduled to be attempted until 1 3 The Tho noise or of these sounding like several batteries or of guns In iii ito ac thom lion mIngled with Limo tho gentle whirr or of tile the of tho dirigibles which later laler were to o sail lIall and soar Oar sedately ille soft winged but gigan gigantic tic old owls Over time the al that and dart rise antI and dive over tile tho course All of the machines were ero tested farl early Scores ot of French and American brought hero b by tile the tors and dirigible le pilots were busy till lug Ing up tIme tho delicate that drive time tho nine biplanes and monoplanes which lUe entered for tor the and ando andI the o big air craft belonging lt to I Knabenshue b W Beachy c and the United Status government ALL AIL IN READINESS And when Whelm the tho main body or of the throng throns or of spectators began arriving shortly be before toro fore noon everything wits was In Imi Two hours later eer every face tace In iii time the Hold wa wits lifted toward tIle tho 8 alcy us time tho big the first to start flights the thu currents of ether anti after mm few tew floated poised over oer overtime time tho slammIng point for the small smaller er em moro more uncertain and therefore dan dangerous dangerous aeroplanes to lake ako the tho air 1111 lime rand grand Ellan stand with the tho tiers of boxes holds nearl nearly people They were crowded before tho first filst attempt at was made Between J and 1230 o clock three car trains were run ovely two from the city and It was wail estimated that the facilitIes at hand I were capable or Of h handling 1 gems In 40 minuteS I Curtiss three prelIminary In tile tho 1 biplane belonging to Clifford 13 or of New York stirred the tho crowd to the lImo 1 highest pItch or of expectancy They were ere the first HI over made on tIme tho coast and dIssipated an any doubt that may have lingered that the tho fragile contrivances or rubberized silk canvass S and amid bamboo could really lIy ily I CURTISS CONFIDENT It was announced that ho he would malta malo time the first Hight to tOday and would be tol fol followed lowed probably b by amid cel mainly by Charles K Hamilton ot of New Britain Comm Conn and time tho two aviators brought from o with hIm and Masson said that hIs flights today loday would have an Important tant bearing on his patent controversy with the and III his opinion would end tile tho litigation which nil all but time the or of time tho con contests tests here In the arguments of their clever law yore the tho proved theoretIcally to hazel In the court ot of Now Nat York state that m my machines do de deI I ond on their vertical rudder ludder to main maln Loin equilibrium said Maid Curtiss I will ra by P lI g thy not st stra Ji h t W t Injunction for the tho patents on what Is called the tho sur surface surface face Their machines have hae to depend on vertical rudders to hel help them 10 o main maintain tain tam theIr balanco Timo rho warping surface of the tho planes give glo tho II a turn turnIng turning Ing tendency the tho ru rudder dor has hns to rIme ho ru rudder ders on the Curtiss havE nO such function Aero blons that do not the course or of ortho time tho machines In n flight take care roro or of the 1 balance and this meet will prove proe what wo we say We e are going to taSte tako the tho de of the tho judges before the courts ATTACK UPON CUTLER There Thero is 15 no sot program for any day except Saturday when the Ule government of charge Corps ft s of w aP a PattI h Beck at attack tack on time the cutter erry in San Sami SanI I Pedro edro harbor barber An Any aviator alator may go up at any Ume between 1 In the afternoon and dark and there thon Is no doubt that IMn many are planning surprIses For or Instance Curtiss looks pro pre preoccupied occupied whenever tIle the subject ot of flights wIth a passenger Is broached Ho He pOints out the tact fact bat nIl all tIme the m ma machines chines here have hae no accommodatIons for fora a passenger Yet Yot there Is mm a prize for time the longest flight with a p enger engeran an and some somo or of the aviators are arc certainly going after that Then there thero aro prizes ranging from 20 to for tor en endurance durance and altitude records Is certain to t try for nt at least tho height record and ond tIme tho four big flyers he brought with hIm from l France rance look as aR thougH thoy were built for Cor speed and had an unusual fuel capacity for sustained flights SECRECY MAINTAiNED All ot of Ule tho aviators maintain the great greatest est cst secrecy regarding their plans this I iii more to keep competitors In the dark than to mystify tile the cager throngs ot of spectators however Is certain to see some somo records shattered Another enthusiast who makes a flight before the th day claY Iii iS over Is Clifford Hal Har mono mom the New York sports sportsman man whose machine tried out In time tho flights yesterday Harmon holds hold the American balloon record of 4 1 In the tho air but ho he hiss has never neVOl 1111 ridden den In nn an aeroplane darkness was tho only thing that pr himm makIng the trial anti ani ho he said that ho he would certainly thinly go up It If the tho wInd per permitted permitted Commodore C C Benedict Harmons Hannons prefers that his should stay on the ground Ill ou the price or of 10 of those I ald to 11 Harmon It If 1 you 01 will n not l i go up I HtmL Harmon Halmon turned the proffer down Field of oC tile tho Aero Acre club or of America who Is to net act as ono one If f the thu chief judges of the tho meat I arrIve today In time for tho first The Tho same sort of or that keep and hl hi associates on his wa way across the continent for tor nearly eIght days him and ho hoI I will not get ot here before tonIght Limmet Beck another or the tho judges also was q 1 time tho days events alPS otTIS PAULHAN TO FLY Iny One ot of lie features or of tim tho will bo be flights ii h Mis 1111 wife of time the Frenchman who came with hem hel husband 11 Like o her she sp als no r SIng nl huh hut through h an today she her Intention of flying She mulct mot Mrs Curtiss wife or of tIle the chIef American an rival ot of Paulhan through lime limO Interpreter tried to induce her hero herl herto to ent l an e I for woman o aviators t Mrs i dc Curtiss has never e I Iet yet et l to manipulate ono one ot of lh In and It Is doubtful It If She will an any however declared that she Rhe would make nt at least one sho III no lit fit the tho 1 nr n n n v V h annan and amid probably will carr carry out her inton tion She says lYS she idie itt at least to m n and dl If r possible s surpass ri nIi several im made In France e Harmon Hormon Is plannIng feature but this ono one Is apart from time the aero acre planes lIe He lies 1118 sent invItatIons to 10 Coy Gov SPI of Utah and Coy Gov Sloan oJ oi Arizona Adzona to come here helo the tho week and Imd take a sell Sail In lila hll bIg 1 balloon New York Gov Gillett of will nIH ho bo here for tor tIme tho entire meeting nil mid II ho he sili ascend If the tho others will Time Tho basket of tile the balloon Is enough h to accommodate a of sIx eight an and the other guests u will be according c to the plan I Commodore of New York and Pro Prof Thaddous C P F Lowe of who sailed salle II a balloon from Cincinnati to time the or of South Carolina a distance ot or more than 71 0 miles In imm Ii 21 hours This record was In 1061 and has not yet been surpassed ed |