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with him in Sweden.

In May the Jannus Brothers Company signed a contract with the Toledo Railway & Light Co. of Toledo, Ohio to operate a Flying Boat at Toledo Beach Resort on Lake Erie for two months, starting July 1st. [[crossed out: Reportedly]] they had received some orders for their new flying boat and the first one was shipped to W. E. Davidcon of Detroit, Michigan on April 28th, and Tony went there to supervise the assembly and demonstrate it. Then, for some unknown reason, Tony joined the Curtiss Company in Toronto about June 1st. Rodger fulfilled the summer contract at Toledo, giving daily exhibitions and carrying passengers. They also advertised a flying school there that summer. The Jannus Brothers venture was evidently dissolved at the completion of the Toledo contract. About this time Rodger also did some writing for the aviation magazines, advocating the use of flying for [[crossed out: forest patrol]] forest fire spotting and other public services. After completing the Toledo Beach assignment Rodger returned to the Benoist Company at St. Louis where he did some flight testing of new planes, including the large twin-motored Type "C" biplane flying boat of the 65 ft. span using two 100 M.P. Roberts engines. It was flown with seven passengers and had a top speed of about 70 mph. Reportedly this boat was taken to Florida that winter for the passenger carrying season.

During the spring of 1916 Rodger did some more exhibition work with his Benoist flying boat and on May 24th had a smash-up at Detroit, [[crossed out: Michigan]] when he crashed in the Detroit River carrying D. M. Parker as a passenger, but they were not injured. That summer the war clouds of World War I were thickening in Europe, and American airplane manufacturers were finding a market there for their planes, so Rodger went overseas for a time that fall and early winter. After returning to the United States he became an instructor at the Curtiss Flying School at Miami, Florida, where he remained until June, 1917, when he enlisted in the Aviation Section, Signal Corps Reserve and was sent to Ithaca, New York for duty at the Thomas-Morse Aircraft Co. On July 26th, 1917 he was appointed First Lieutenant and on September 4th was detailed to Selfridge Field, Mt. Clarens, Michigan. Re-

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