Aviation relief expedition to South Fox lumbermen, 1923

Event

Date

1923-06-08

Kind

Rescue

Where

South Fox Island

Eras

Modern era

Concepts

lumberingmaritimeheritage

Within

Beaver Island archipelago

Summary

The Herald reported that a Brigeut biplane, disabled during a relief expedition to starving lumbermen on South Fox Island, departed after repairs were installed in the island field.

Evidence and limits

Everything here comes from a page of the Charlevoix County Herald, 8 June 1923. Nothing in it has been checked against an agency or a vessel record.

ormer employer, Paul De- Lislo, @ wealthy cattle buyer, Dee. 10, 1921, by giving him a mixture of poison and whiskey, was acquitted by a jury in the Circuit Court. Aus- tin and his alleged accomplice, Clif- ford Thorpe, were convicted in their first triai and both had served more than a year in prison when the Su- preme Court ordered a new trial, Traverse City—Winging its way’ toward Chicago, the huge Brigeut biplane which ‘laid on South Fox island, disabled, in a relief expedi- tion to starving lumbermen, more than a month ago, took off from a field here last week. Pilot John Mil- Jer with Mechanicians Edward La- parle and James Phelps, had been on the island several days installing a new motor and repairing the plane. Rising from its hazardous landing field on the island, the ship narrowly averted a second disaster when torn against a fence. Kalamazoo—Flint defeated Detroit

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