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Show oo Balloons Are Sent Up to Test Air Currents at Omaha OMAHA. Neb. April 18. Two United States aim fre balloons started at 11 o clock tonight on experimental flight M extreme b I altitudes, with a view of te.Un: meteorological maps and InstTUfflSnto I Lleutenanr Colonel W S Wuesr. commanding ofllcer at Fort Omaha and Lieutenant Ralph A Reynold', accompanied the balloon which WSS consigned to an altitude of 5,000 feet- : VI Captain F W. Goodale and Lisuten-ant Lisuten-ant C. Leroy Melslnger were in 1 ' craft selected to register 10,000 feel Delayed by high winds in the eaxU evening, the gus bags each with a capacity ca-pacity of 35,000 cubic feet, eoaiv away in a cloud obscured skj ri'' headed almost due east. After explo' Ing the mysterien of the skies for fro'" 48 to 72 hours at selected levels, o'3 airships are due in land Qrobablj ' thousand miles distant if computations are correct. It is expec ted their 6V tination will be somewhere on t'" Atlantic coast. j |