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Show AMERICAN JOINS THE RUSSIAN AVIATORS Decatur 111 . NOT. 23 Charles C Witmer. an American aviator, today notified relatives here of his appoint ment by Czar Nicholas of Russia to the Russian airship corps lie has boon ordered to report at Sehastapol and he already is on his way to Vancouver, Van-couver, B C, from where he will cross to Japan. Witmer vv;is in Russia three years ago and at that time gave some valuable val-uable instructions to the czar's airmen. air-men. According to Witmer, Russia has just finished bulldlns two hun- j dred aeroplanes for use In war. |