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Show I AVIATORS KILLED !; ; WHILE AT PRACTICE I i 1 1 MEMPHIS, Term., Feb. 12. T. C. Rogers and P. B. Cooley, flying cadets, , were killed at Park field, the army aviation av-iation camp near Memphis, in tho collision col-lision in midair today of the machines in which they were making practico flights. They were flying at a height of about 250 feet. 1 LAKE CHARLES, La., Fob. 12. ; Lieutenant L. F. Plummer of Now Ro- i cholle, N. T., was killed at Qerstor i field, noar here, lato today in the fall : of an airplane he was piloting. According to statements by army officers of-ficers at tho Camp, Lieutenant Plum-, Plum-, nier's airplane suddenly plunged hcad- first to the ground, while ho apparent-, apparent-, i ly was attempting a landing. It foil about 100 foot Lioutonant Plummer was married, but because of his wife's illness word j of his death was sent to his father ) ! at Mount Vornon, N. Y. ( i 'Lieutenant Egbert McKean of San i tn Ana, Cal., was killed In a similar I, accidont near Jennings late yesterday. Lieutonant Charles E. Cummings, who was Injured when McKoan's machine foil, will recover, It was announced. oo YUCCA PLANT MIXTURE. LAS CRUCES, N. M.f Feb. 13. The t yucca plant, desplBod by many farm nrs, which grows over thousands of ! ; acres of New Moiico lands, may prove to be a valuable cattle feed. Ex-I Ex-I ' perlmonts nre now being made at the i, stato agricultural collego hero with Ij i a view to determining just how mix-' mix-' 1 turos of jucca and other feeds are I utilized by stock. If tho experiments I 1 prove successful, a vast and cheap I store of feed will bo opened up to I y stockmen of this region. ( oo I , HAWAIIAN PINEAPPLE. I ; . HONOLULU, T. H., Jan. 30. (By I I Mall) Hawaiian plnoapplo canneries I are at presont working on 'government I contracts which are demanding more I y than one-half of all the sliced plncap-I plncap-I t pies that can be turned out Repro-I Repro-I sentatives of the cannors' association I have askod that the industry' be ex-I ex-I mptcd from draft becauso of the m . ' loavy .domandB oa tke output made by I ' tho government. |