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...Senate. At the trial last week, testimony tended to show that Judge Dearth had in a variety of ways, "fixed" < his juries to give the verdicts which he, as Judge, desired. The trial moved along, strewn with puns about "dearth" a,nd "justice"; with Lieut. Governor F. Harold Van Orman of Indiana presiding; with grinning newsboys as witnesses, making the eminent senators laugh; with President Benjamin Harrison's son and grandson present, the one in the Senate, the other as one of the prosecutors from the House-and with the gadfly who brought it all to pass, Editor Dale...
...over the boggy islands and bays of Denmark, over the fat fields of southern Sweden. Not until the wind, with its sleet and snow-squalls, threatened to drive this bubble on out over the Baltic Sea beyond Solvesborg on Hano Bay, did it descend. Then Pilots Ward T. Van Orman and Walter W. Horgan stepped out of their basket under the U. S. balloon, Goodyear III, telegraphed their position back to Antwerp, were declared winners of the annual Gordon Bennett Trophy race,* having covered 528 miles. Their nearest competitor was the U. S. Army S-16, which had caught...
...victory of Pilot Van Orman made him world's champion balloonist for this year. Last month he won the Litchfield Trophy by flying the Goodyear IV from Little Rock, Ark., 780 miles to Petersburg, Va. (TIME, May 10, AERONAUTICS). Boettner and the Akron N. A. A. finished second in that race. Pilot Van Orman also won the Litchfield Trophy last year with a flight of 1,072 miles. His avoidance of the Baltic Sea last week reflected a lesson learned in the Bennett race last year when he and the Goodyear III dropped into the Atlantic, being rescued...
Pilot von Orman is a quiet studious chap of 32, an Ohioan, a graduate of the Case School of Applied Science. Ballooning has made him an astute meteorologist. At the Goodyear plant in Akron, where he is employed, his advice is considered invaluable upon whether or not to go fishing...
...Veenstra, Belgian's second string, came down in Spain, 800.miles from his starting point and was forthwith declared the winner. Later, however, it was declared that he too landed on the sea and it appeared likely that De Muyter after all would be declared the winner, although Van Orman, who had landed unassisted, was preparing to dispute his claim...