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' ,$'"- - r "--f"" NOON EDITION KICKS ON RESORTS KEEP THE HEALTH COMMITTEE BUSY NOON EDITION PEACEFUL PICKETING IS UPHELD BY THE, APPEJLLATE COURT Entered as Second-Class Matter April Q, 1914, at the Postoffice at . Chicago, DL, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. v THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday N. D. Cochran, gjlg-v Te!. Monroe 353. Editor and Publisher. sJgggsE By Mail, Except in 500 South Peoria St. 393 ChicjgOjJaJVear.. VOL. 3, NO. 235 Chicago, Friday, July 3, 1914 ONE CENT TERRIBLE SLEEP PERIL THREATENS TRANSATLANTIC FLYER Motors' Deadly Drumming and Hypnotic Glare of I Boundless Water Will Make Birdman Porte's Flight Continual Fight to Ward Off Sleep. . . BY KENNETH WILCOX PAYNE One tremendous terror menaces Lieutenant Porte as he prepares for his world-startline trans-Atlantic flight JK Not storm, not fog, not air-pockets, not failure of the engines, not iramty oi tne pianes. SLEEP! It is the siren sleep who presages most peril to the daring1 birdman in his great attempt! Will Lieutenant Porte doze off heavily at the wheel, under the op pressive weight of utter fatigue, perhaps when the peaks of the Azores, his first stop, already loom above .the line of sea, and will his plane, lurching suddenly as his languid grip relaxes on the wheel, careen downwards and carry both pilot and his assistant to death? ,That is no idle difficulty. It is a portentious problem which all his brother birdmen, watehtog-PQrte's mighty- undertaking, are very seriously X-. ..r ..-....