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Show DARING TRIP AT NEW ORLEANS j NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 25 Soaring j above the clouds over Iake Pontchar- train, his goggles so frosted that he could hardly see, and with Ice gath- ered on h.s machine, Roland G. Gar-1 Gar-1 10s this afternoon was finally forced I to glide to the low er levels on account j of a frozen carbureter. - He broke the altitude record for the international aviation meet here by ascending 7,125 feet. Carbureter Froze Up. The Frenchman was seven miles I out over the lake His engine bega'i to slow down when he reached his gieatest altitude, and the propellers were barely turning. A stop meant a I plunge Into the lake. After reachin? lower levels, which was done with a ruph, tho carbureter thawed and the engine started. The "announcing lomb" wus blown by the wind upon the big tent bousing six monoplanes, two biplanes and 'an unfinished machine and the gasoline supply. The tent caught fire, but was only gligh'ly damaged. Hamilton Has Narrow Escape. Charles K. Hamilton had a narrow-escape narrow-escape in bis biplane In his first as-e as-e cut. He had circled the course three tlme-s when the vibration broke two slay bolts un his engine, allowing the la.lter to work lose from the frame Hamilton could get no power and was afew feet up when the accident acci-dent occurred, but by clever maneuvering maneuver-ing of his planes he cleared ihe spectators, spec-tators, narrowly missing the outside fence and alighting on the course directly di-rectly in front of the grand stand During the afternoon Moissant made an ascent of .".ono feet. Simon w..n the five-mile monoplane r?ec in 5 minutes and '.'o seconds. 00 |