Ogden Evening Standard | 1913-04-18 | Page 9 | Air Voyage Postponed

AIR VOYAGE POSTPONED Las Palmes, Canary Islands, April 17. Joseph Brucker, formerly of Milwaukee, Mil-waukee, failed to start as scheduled today on his proposed trans-Atlantic flight to tho West Indies in the dirigible diri-gible balloon Suchard II. Just us all preparations had been completed for the flight at daybreak this morning the gas escaped In sonic manner through the chief valve and tho envelopo suddenly became deflated. deflat-ed. Urgent telegrams wero sent to Germany for a further supply of gas Engineer Kruger. who has been engaged en-gaged to navigate tho dirigible, at the laBt moment made a demur about undertaking un-dertaking the hazardous voyage and the promoters of the voyage took out $60,000 Insurance In his behalf. Brucker expressed extreme annoyance annoy-ance over the accident. A large crowd which had waited for hours hoping to see the departure of the airship man ifested much disgust at the postponement postpone-ment of the voyage oo-