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Show BENSON WARD CITIZENS DECLARE AIRCRAFT IS OPERATING IN VALLEY Following tho announcement that aeroplanes have beon seen In tho vicinity vi-cinity of Grand county, comes word from Benson ward that aeroplanes wero seen over there last week. Until Un-til tho announcement was mado by government officials that theso aircraft air-craft may bo that of Germans, who aro operating from a baso on tho Mexican border, littlo was thought of tho visit in this valley. .Already wldo investigation has been started, It Is reported, and government gov-ernment officials at Washington aro taking hurried steps to cope with the situation. From tho meneuvors of the craft reen by the Benson ward people a few nights ago, It Is thought that an effort Is being made by the Germans to locato tho sugar factories factor-ies In tho valley with tho view of crippling tho fall sugar campaign. Tho fact that there aro no American filers Inland has led officials to tho belief that a bomb attack Is being planned on tho factories and smelters smelt-ers of this state. Whllo the flight") in the southern part of the stato have been high in tho air, the machines In this valley wero apparently low. A. V. neese, a prominent farmer of Benson, says the machines wero so low that tho engines could be heard vory distinctly. |