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Show AEROPLANES IN WAR MANEUVERS Kansas City, Mo., May 12. A three-day three-day aviation meet, featured by demonstrations demon-strations of tho use of the aeroplane In war. begins at the Elm Ridge raco course here today. Moro than a hundred army officers from the school of Instruction at Fort Leavenworth Leaven-worth are here to witness the exhi-tlons. exhi-tlons. Eugene B. Ely and Charles Wlllard will fly. They will hurl "bombs" at Imitation forts aud battleships in the center of the race course. Ely was recently commissioned a major In the United States army. If the weather is fair the aviators will give novelty flights each afternoon of the meeting. meet-ing. Sunday will be governor's and mlll-larj mlll-larj day. Special rillo and pistol matches will bo shot from aeroplanes. Races between an aeroplane and an automobile, hot-air balloon contests and fancy kite-llylng are also on the program. |