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...distance and time aloft. But the longest duration was 28 hours, by Belgium's Capt. Ernest Demuyter, winner of four James Gordon Bennett races. He landed only 230 miles from his takeoff. That was comparatively not so bad for the unofficial winner of the race, Ward Tunte Van Orman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber engineer and twice before a Race winner, traveled only 347 miles, poorest winning distance of any of the 18 races so far held...
...Farthest South (the race was for distance) finally dropped the Detroit, piloted by R. C. Hill and A. G. Schlosser, having floated some 800 miles. (Frenchman Bennaime's 1,358-mile float from Stuttgart to Moscow in 1920 remains the record). The Goodyear VI placed second, W. T. Van Orman piloting...
Twenty-four hours later, the Goodyear balloon containing Pilot Ward T. Van Orman and his assistant, W. W. Morton, descended on the beach near Bar Harbor, Me. (715 miles from Akron). It had floated a greater distance than any of the other 14-thereby winning the National Elimination Balloon Race and the right to represent the U. S. in the Gordon Bennett Trophy (international) race in the autumn. Second and third places went to the Detroit Flying Club entry and the Army No. 3 balloon from Scott Field, Ill., who respectively floated to Skowhegan, Me. (665 miles) and Biddeford...
Pilot Van Orman, 33, lean, studious, is such a wise meteorologist that his fellow employes at the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. consult him upon whether or not to go fishing. He won the Bennett Trophy last year, is perhaps the ablest of U. S. balloonists...
...copious handkerchief blotted the eyes and wiped the cheeks of a portly man in the Senate Chamber of Indiana one day last week, after Lieut. Governor Van Orman had informed the portly one that he had been found innocent of high improprieties. The margin of innocence was two votes. A majority of the Senators voted guilty but two-thirds were needed to convict. The portly one was Circuit Judge Clarence W. Dearth of Muncie, against whom the weekly Post-Democrat of his home town had loudly protested for alleged jury-packing and interference with freedom of the press (TIME, April...