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FVLLTELEGRAPHIC AND CABLE NEWS SERVICE OF TflE UNITED PRESS THF DAY BOOH fc m? w- 500 SO. PEORIA, ST, gS398 .TEL. MONROE 35?f 9 VoLl,No.207 Chicago, Saturday, May 25..1912 ' .One Cenfc W FARNUM CFISH BREAKS WORLD'S RECORD Youngest Aviator "Makes Best Time in 75-Mile IsTon-Stop Over-Water Trip from Cliicago'tq Milwaukee. ' Milwaukee, Wis., May 25. By speeding from Chicago to Milwaukee over Lake Michigan -in his aeroplane, a distance of 85 miles, Farnum -Fish, America's Fartium Fish. youngest licensed aviator, today broke the world's non-stipp 'over water record of 78 miles" held by Paulhan, the French aviator. Fish left Cicero aviation field, Chicago at 11 .05 a.vm. He made! a perfectjanding at Lake Park a 1 25 p. m. A -crowd of over 3,000j people cheered the intrepid youthj as his machine settled to the! ground. Stfapp'ed to his machine was a consignment of silk frorn Chicago store to a local establish ment. It weighed 3QG pounds, i. Fish is the youngest licensedj aviator in America. He is 18? years old. He recently gainea notoriety here by volplaninf, from a dizzy height when caught in an air pocket, landing in Grant Park. He was arrested for vio lating a Chicago ordinance pro hibiting aviators alighting frj public parks. i o o LONDON, IN STRIKE GRH?, FACING FAMINE Price of Food Starts Upward Ships and Docks Loaded ' With Rotting -Eatables London, May 25. The great strike of the 100,000 dock work ers of London was added, to to day by the walkout of the Car ters' Union. Before evening there were 130,000 men on strike. The price' of food already ha begun to go up, and famine is