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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. APRIL 28. 1937. KIN OF MEDFORD LADY WAS FIRST IN GLIDER FLIGHT Credit To German Recalls Exploits Of John Mont gomery In 1884 Feats Set Forth In Magazine. Recent publication by the ' Mail Tribune of a "filler" paragraph to the effect that Otto U lien thai, a German, made the first auoceaaful flight in a man-carrying glider in 1891, bring an Interesting denial of the assertion from Mrs. Charles R. Smith of 408 North Holly street, Medford. Mrs. Smith points out that her first cousin, John J. Montgomery, M., PhJ., piloted fata homemade monoplane type gilder 600 feet down a hillside near Otay, CaU in 1884, seven years before Ullenthal'a flight and 30 years before the Wright were skirting the border of a great inven tion. The story of Montgomery's experi ments In aviation was set forth In the October, 1930 number of popular Science magazine. In March, 1934, Montgomery's memory was honored In services at Santa Clara university where be served as an Instructor in the physics department and was known as the "Coluiroua of the Skies." First On Wings In relating Montgomery's exploits the Popular Science story declares he was "the ftrat man In the world to ride on wings. Yet, no monument has ever been erected to blm and to- i day, not one of the 1,621 airports In the United States Is named In his honor. His years of pioneering have almost been forgotten." Montgomery, the story continues, was born February 18, 1858, at Yuba Olty, CM. His father waa assistant T7. 8. attorney general under Presi dent Cleveland. Prom his early child hood he was Interested in the air. He saw hta first balloon when he was 11 and Immediately plunged Into the construction of paper hot-air Bal loons. He made dozens of them, of all sizes. The end of his balloon fly ing was reached when the family saw one of his hot-air bags float away with his father's best hatchet dang ling below for ballast. In later youth he captured many hawks, geese, sea gulls and pelicans and studied their wings. Abandons "Flappers" In 1883 he built his first full -sired machine, a craft with flapping wings. It proved a total failure. Two other wing-flappers followed In quick suc cession and convinced him he was on the wrong trait. Next year Montgomery constructed the historic "gull" monoplane. It single curved wing, 30 feet long by four and one-half wide, was covered with waxed silk. A movable tall guid ed It up and down. The operator, sitting on a little saddle below, main tained side wise balance by swinging his body toward the high wing when the machine waa struck by a gust. Main supporting surface arched downward like the wings of a seagull. The craft was ready by the mid die of March. On the morning of March 17, 1884, Montgomery with his brother James took the glider on a bay rack to a hillock nrer their home south of the valley of the Otay. John Montgomery seated himself In the contraption while hla brother towed It by means of a rope. The glider rose beautifully tn the air, panned over- Jamea and traveled something Ilka 600 feet. Other Hons Made Several other shorter flights were made the same morning, the expert menta ending when J&mea acciden tally held the rope too Ions and the glider crashed on ona wing and was damficori. Later la the aarna year, Montgom ery, accompanied by Charles Bur roughs, made a number of 300 and 300 foot glides. Weight of the first glider was only 30 pounds and that of Its pilot 130. About thia tune Montgomery tried to build an engine but his homemade castings were unsatisfactory. Once he tried to rig up a propeller be could turn by hand but he found that maintaining balance required all bis attention In the air. Glider For Balloon Montgomery's next notable achieve ment was the construction of a glid er which was taken alolt by a bal loon on April 39, 1905. Daniel Ma loney, a professional parachute Jumper, waa employed to ride the craft. . Fifteen thousand people gathered at the little mission town of Santa Clara to witness the exhibition. The baUoon with the glider sway ing beneath was released and as cended to a height of 4.000 feet when the aeronaut cut loose from the huge gas bag and glided about for some time, finally coming gently to eartn. Exploit llnllrd Newspapers of the country hailed the exploit and Alexander Graham Bell maintained that "all subsequent attempts in aviation must begin with the Montgomery machine." In order to raise money for further experiments, Montgomery used sev eral balloons and gliders In glvlng exhlbltlons at country fairs. The air pioneer Buffered a setback In the great earthquake of April 18, 1906 when bis workshop and machines were destroyed. It was not until 1911 that he was again In position to resume his work, with sufficient backing to build a powered machine. On October 31, of that year, ne took off on his last flight. He waa testing a new gilder at Evergreen. Cal. Fifty-four successful hops had been made. In a light breeze above a gentle slope, the craft sailed up ward to a height of 30 feet when hla assistants saw Montgomery's hands drop from the controls and hla body fall limp. It la believed he was attacked by vertigo, to which he was subject. The unp Uoted machine, according to the Popular Science magazine nar rative, crashed on one wing and Montgomery waa hurled through the guy wires, landing on his head. He passed away three hours later. . UNREQUITED LOVE TOLD IN SUICIDE'S LETTERS LOS ANOELES, April 38. Thwarted ambttlona and unrequited love caused Pasqual rabrls, 36-year-old violinist, to end his life by mon oxide gas poisoning. Fabrls, member of Raymond Paige's orchestra which plays for a nation wide (Hollywood Hotel) radio pro gram, left suicide notes In which he aald Francis Lang ford, screen actress, and star of the program, refused to marry him and go to Samoa where he hoped to write hla "aystcm of phil osophy." Fabrls body was found yesterday In hla automobile, a hose extending from the exhaust to his mouth. CITY POLICE NAB YOUNG BURGLAR IN BROMS PLACE (Continued from Page One.) and o th er cl ty police me n a nd Ed Brown, owner of the establishment. With Officers Peck and Relnking covering the back of the Milldlng. Fichtner, and Officers Clause snd Cave entered the building througn a side door unlocked by Brown, snd Rossi ter waa arrested while hiding tn a women's closet. Rossi ter, according to city police, gained entrance to the establishment by breaking out a window In the alley. When arrested be had a bag full of miscellaneous articles tsken from the showcaara Including bill folds, cigarettes, cigarette holders, watches, a harmonica, playing cards, gum, a pair of Elks teeth, razor blades, razors, tooth paste, a flash light and a .38 special revolver. Also on his person was found 13 In dimes. 3.30 In nickels. S2.40 In five-cent trade checks snd 80 cents In small change, the police reported. In a statement to city police after his arrest, the youth said that he first made up hla mind to rob the store about 0 p. m. yesterday. He said that be attended a movie last night and afterwards returned to the billiard parlor and stayed until closing time. After breaking through the rear window, Rossi ter stated that ho took articles out of the showcases and put them In a bag. He then at tempted to open the safe, he told city police, and managed to get the outer doors open by twirling the dials until he heard hem click. He Ralph Ince Killed Va4 It New Packing Basket Aid Tree Ripened Fruit Mart Ralph Ince, of Bon ton, Mass., mo tion picture director and actor, was killed In England when aa automobile in which he was rid in; with his wife struck an iron standard at Kensington. Mrs. Ince suffered face lacerations. Associated Press Photo couldn't open the Inner doors, he told the authorities. Rosslter was paroled from the ju venile court here about a year ago to Justice of the Peace Ray Cole man of Jacksonville, after he bad robbed the Coleman store, records show. He was a member of the CCC until a month ago. city police said. Hla father Is confined to a tuber culosis hospital In Salem and his mother lives in California, he told city police. He has been living with a Mrs. Wood at the corner of Jack son street and Mc Andrews road, city police atated. WASHINGTON (UP) E. D. Mal- llaon, fruit marketings specialist of the department of agricultures bur eau of plant Industry, has developed a basket which he says will bring tree-ripened fruit a step nearer big market centers. "Tree -ripened peaches favored by consumers because of superior flavor je a step nearer the big marketing centers because of modifications In the shipping basket which allows the fruit to be refrigerated more quick ly." Ma 11 lo n said. The basket Is alatted or spaced for ventilation. The crown-shaped lid, also of open construction, allows air to pass through. Instead of a solid cushion between the ltd and th fruit, Malllson devised a ring type, ventilated pad with a circular hold in the center. A slotted psper liner completes the ventilated bas ket. Malllson said a series of teats he conducted at Fort Valley, Oa., show ed that peaches packed In the ven tilated baskets with ring pads cooled off three times faster than those packed In the old atyle, unventllated basket with standard pad. In the experiment a car of peaches waa loaded at an average tempera ture of 83 degrees Fahrenheit. Three different typea of bankets were used tight, unventllated with standard pad; ventilated with standard pad, and ventilated with the new ring pad. Thermometers placed in fruit near the center of basket of each type were checked Immediately after the car was cooled for two hours and 10 minutes. Peaches tn the tight, un ventllated baskets cooled only to 73.4 degrees. In the ventilated baskets with itanrfurri nada tha temncra,ture 1 dropped to 63-3 degree and In the j new type ring pad baskets the tem- perature dropped to M S degrees, j Pre -cooling now widely used In j the commercial peacb orchards of Georgia, the Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee Is a comparatively recent process by which fresh fruits and vegetables are chilled Immediately after loading Into a refrigerator car. The new type basket favors more rapid and better results from pre coollng, Mallison said. Prior to pre cooling It waa necessary to harvest peaches while still hard, so that they would remain firm In transit. Some of the flavor was sacrificed for ap pearance. Proper packing. Plus cool ing, allows peaches to m both at tractive and tasty, Malllson said. DIMINISHING FLOODS LESSEN APPREHENSION (By th, Associated Press.) Tendon In North America', flood area, eased todiy as unruly men began slipping back Into their own beds. The Ohio rlvar receded slowlT at Pittsburgh and held at peak or 49.7 feet at Wheeling. W. Va. Xt was expected to rise a few feet at points downstream aa It carried off the headwatera' overflow. Discovery of flourspar, OS percent pure, has been reported tn the Chln atl mountains In the B j Bend sec tion of Texas. The Morning AfterTakin Carters Lifile Liver Pills Chicago Wheat CHICAQO, April 38. (AP) For the second day In succession, the corn market kited for the stratos phere today, and did much to over come a downward trend of other grains. 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