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PAGE FTVH ,85 Woman's Atlantic Flight Ends In Mud I "My Engine Failed Me" TSrETTFOKD MATE TRIBUNE. fEDFORD, OREfiOX. TUESDAY. SEPTET fBER 8. 93fl' Homer D. H&rkneas, 85, pawed away at the home of Mr. and Mrs. I. ?. Slavea, 108 Mistletoe etreot. Monday evening from a stroke of paralysis. Mr. ftarkness w&a born at Spring Prairie, Wisconsin, December 12, 1847. His parents, Samuel and Maryetta Harkness, left Wlsocnaln by team In April. 1852, with an immi ' grant train, and first settled where Oorvallla is now located. They later settled on a farm on Deer creek in Douglas county and later on Graves creek, Josephine county. Mr. Harkness was the owner of the Gold Ray dam property which he sold later to the Dr. Ray interests. He was interested in mining, stage stations, and hotel accommodations for travelers. He had been a resident of Jackson county for the past ten months and of Kittitas county, Wash ington, for forty-five years. He was a Civil war veteran, Join ing company P., first Oregon infant ry, recruited in Linn county, Oregon under Capta-ln A. W. Waters. He ? served as musician and drummer, i and was mustered out of service at Vancouver, Washington, March 17, 1866. Mr. Harkness was married to Lily Burch, and three sons and two daughters were born to the union. Mrs. Harkness. of Harlowtown, Mont., and two daughters and one son sur vive. The surviving children are Mrs. Mabel Paulson and Mrs. Dan Drake of Harlowtown, Mont., and Clarence D. Harkness, Fort Stlllacom, Wash., also one grandson, Verne a. Harkness, Cle Slum, Wash., one granddaughter, June Paulson, Harlowtown, Mont., and one step-sister, Mrs. L. P, Slaven, of Medford. The remains will be forwarded by the Perl Funeral Home to Ellensburg, Wash., for funeral services and Interment. v Tills picture of Hie small monoplane, "The .Messenger," of Mrs. Ueeryl Marktium, with tts nose burled stx feet in mud on a flat near Loulshurg, Neva Scotia, where It cracked up when it ran short of gasoline lin the British society woman's daring solo flight from England. The p plane landed close to the ocean shore. (Associated Press I'hoto. ... BONNEVILLE SALT PLATS, Utah, Sept. 8. (AP) Ab Jenkina rushed repairs today on his mighty "Mor mon Meteor1' for another assault "Friday or Saturday" on world land speed records. The sandy-haired Salt Lake City driver was undaunted by the break down yesterday that cut short a pro jected 48-hour run after 12 hours of record smashing speed. Some 40 records toppled as the steel-nerved speedster thundered around the smooth, saline 10-mile track In prusit of records held by Capt. George Eyeston and John Cobb of England. "I've wired to Toledo for a new part and it will be here in a day or two,'t Jenkins said. Cmei among records Jenkins seeks to smash is the 24-hour average of 140.096, and the 48-hour mark of 136.34 set by Eyston this year in runs on the flats. Records retrieved by Jenkins yes terday Included: Distance Jenkins Old records ' 700 kilos 162.47 153.3 500 miles 150 03 152.3 Three hours 150.92 - 152.1 1,000 kilos 150.41 151.5 Six hours 157.33 151.7 1.000 miles 156.47 162.1 2,000 kilos 157.18 151.9 12 hours 152.48 149.03 -4 : Phone 542. We'll haul away your reuse. City Sanitary Service. Ph oem PHOENIX, Sept. 8. (Spl.) Mr. ; and Mrs. Sheldon W. Bennett, for merly of Holllster, Mo., are visiting with Mr, and Mrs. John Savage. The Bennetts intend to make their home in southern Oregon. They also have been visiting the L. H. Hughes of Fern Valley the C. E. and G. E. Mc Clalns and the H. W. Bennetts of Williams creek. Mrs. Sybil Farmer arrived Tuesday from Yrcka, Cal.. spending the week here with her mother, Mrs. Belle Furry. Mrs. Farmer left Saturday evening for Portland where she will remain Indefinitely. Miss Jarvle Thompson, student nurse at St. Francis hospital, San Francisco, is spending a tw6 weeks' vacation with her mother, Mrs. W. A. Thompson. Miss Mabel Hardisty left Monday for CanyonvlUe, ore., to attend school. E. Abbott of Mlneapolls, Minn., ar rived Monday morning and Is a guest of Mr. and Mrs. Herb VanGordon and Mrs. Olive VanGordon, whose younger brother Mr. Abbott Is. Miss Barbara Sims of Eugene and B. E. Hcarn of Portland spent Labor day holidays with Mr. and Mrs. A. Hern. The annual picnic of the Mission ary society of the Presbyterian church was held at Helman's In Ashland, Axigust 27. A short program was given following the picnic lunch, and business meeting with Mrs. A. R. Scott speaking on "India." Among those present were: Mesdames Blah off. Frame, Scott, Morgan, Vlall, Vin cent. Poling. McParland, Scrlvner. Newbry, Nordquist, Knudsen, Sloan. Webster. Blackwood, and Frances and Lloyd Nordqulst, Loyal Newbry, Tom my Sloan, also Miss Evalln Knudsen of Washington, D. C, who waa visit ing her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C, A. Knudsen. Mrs. N. C. Wilbur of Klamath Falls visited- the Hallcraft family over the week-end. She also visited with friends in Talent on Labor day. The Phoenix schools, both grade jT O x "y A Unhurt except for a cut on her forehead, suffered when her small plane crashed In a forced landing on the Nova Srotla roast after her solo flight westward across the Atlantic, Mrs. Beryl .Mark ham Is pictured In her hotel room at New York, where she was brought by chartered plane from the scene of her flight's end. She re vealed that her engine "foiled" her over the ocean 20 minutes before she crashed In the Cape Breton mud flat. (Associated Press Photo.) 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