Show UTAH JA AVIATOR I ITA TA TAKES rA PART T TIN IN N CLASSIC lA I Here Are Some Personal Touches in Connection With Derby By C C. Lamar Nelson Former Pilot of U. U S. S Air Service Air Service and Now Member of The Telegram Staff Perhaps it is not generally known that Utahna and of who were wera In the air service are paramount paramount paramount para para- mount in the tho making of aerial his his- tor tory The transcontinental transcontinental aerial classic which was started this morning with scores of fliers leaving Mineola l Long Island for San Francisco and sixteen sixteen sixteen six six- teen machines lea leaving the Pacific coast with the Atlantic as their objective tive the Is the first organized attempt on the part of army aviators to demonstrate demonstrate dem dem- the feasibility of transcontinental transcontinental transcontinental air traffic In connection with the race It Is Ie interesting to note in the list of en entries entries entries en- en tries men with whom horn one has been a bunkle bunkie during the war Especially is It of Interest to Utah aviators to learn that Russell L. L Maughan of Logan Utah who served at the front frontas as a a. pursuit pilot and who was credited with bringing down four German machines is among those participating in the race Maughan who left his farm near noar Logan to en enlist enlist en- en list In the air service was a classmate classmate classmate class class- mate of mine at Berkeley and also in the same flying class at Rockwell field San Diego FRAUGHT WITH ROMANCE Ills His achievements at the front are fraught with romance He lamented the signing of ot the armistice because he was after his fifth firth boche He lIe was known among his comrades In France as Rustling Hustling Russell and Shoot the Piece Maughan The Tho Logan is reported to have left Mineola l this morning Ina in ina ina a a French machine of the I pursuit type capable of ot attaining a speed of miles mUes an hour Among other entries friends of several several several sev sev- eral Utah fI rs are Major Kirby who left Mineola in a captured German Fokker Major Sneed Lieutenant J. J T. T Johnson Lieutenant Alexander Pearson Pearson Pearson Pear Pear- son and ind Major Carl At one time or another during my career In the flying game I have been stationed with these men and have a amore amore amore more or less intimate acquaintance with them Major Kirby proved to be one of ot Americas America's most formidable pilots lIe He was Injured in an accident at the front and was later placed In command of an American observation group Lieutenant Johnson was known to have a weakness for tor diving on barracks and interrupting poker sessions and various other indoor sports which were in progress Inside Lieutenant Pearson was conceded to tobe tobe tobo be bo the most unfortunate flier filer fn the army While a student at San Diego he was assigned to make a cross coun try flight 40 f La Jolla a distance of ot thirteen thirteen thirteen thir thir- teen miles True to the claims made for student pilots he got off his course cours and flew to Los Angeles a distance of ot approximately miles After ACter taking In the sights he decided that La Jolla must have been erroneously placed on the map and proceeded back to San Diego His Ills supply of ot gasoline was ex exhausted ex- ex hausted just as h he approached North Island and he was forced to land inthe inthe in inthe the bay The watching party which had been posted to await hl hili hia arrival fished him out of the shallow water in which he landed and asked him why he didn't Join the navy the first place He lie was shot down over U toe the e German lines during his first flight at the front He lIe kept company with German prison guards until the signing of the armistice armistice armistice armi armi- stice when he returned to his squadron sans money sans sana uniform but with an of ot cantles |