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Show SALT LIE CI1K M FLIGHT ROUTE Utah Capital Point on Army Service Transcontinen- tal Journey. "Chicawo Trlbur.-e Special Service.) WASHINGTON, June 2. A transcontinental transconti-nental flight from New York ti'Ban Francisco Fran-cisco with one ttop is planned by the army air service within a few days. The route for the flight, which wili be made in -X United Sta-tes Martin bomber piane, 13 laid out over thirteen states and 13S cities and towns. It Is planned to start the flight from Mineola, Field, L. I. at 3:30 o'clock on tho morning of the day chosen and to complete com-plete the flight In two successive days with only one stop of a lew hours at North Platte, Neb. According to the carefully care-fully worked out Fchedule of army air r j'v ice experts, the cross-country flier, ff it leaves .Tlneoia nt 3:30 in the morn- (Continued on Page 4, Column 5.) SALT LIKE CSTY 08 FLIGHT ROUTE (Continued from Page One.) ing, should . reach Chicago .it 31:42 the same mori:iiiEr and arrive at North Platte, tile only scheduled slopping place, nt 8:09 in the evening of Uie same cay. less tnan seventeen houra from the starting time. The pli.ns contempli.te a rest In North Plalle until 3:"0 the follouinir ninriiinir. Km Francisco to be reached at i;tS in ti.e evening of the second day, a fljiiijf distance dis-tance of 2T."jU miles ii: lis hot.rs una minutes, with seven hours lor rest ant! repairs, if repairs are necessary. The plane nil! he pileted in its lone flislit by Captain Koy N. Francis and First Lleiiton.'i nt ivim.md A. Clinic, both of the army air service, and they wlii he assisted hy two or three mechanics, whose names have nut b' en announced. The exact day of the flight cannot be announced an-nounced becaus.' it is upcertaiu, dependent depend-ent upon weather and general Jiving conditions. con-ditions. "The condition or the tcrrltorv passed over," says an air service statement, "win bo tabulated irom the standpoint of ftood and had terrain (or aerial route.., and valuable val-uable informal iun as to nicteoniloKlea! ronoitiois will be cabled. The reliability and durability of the Liberty motors will be tested. The u. S. .Martin bomber will be equipped with tw!r. liberty 12 motors i.l'Frenatiiip: son horsepower. The route passes over thirteen states in a nearly direct air lino from New 1'ork to San Francisco. H passes from New York over the northern run of New Jersey, cenlra.1 Pennsylvania, northern Ohio, Indiana Illinois, south'Tii Iowa, central Nebraska southern V." vera i rig, northern l'tah, Nevada Ne-vada and California. The le.rnc cities en route ar Cleveland, Teh-do. Chicago lies Moines, Omaha. Cheye;me, Salt Lnkn City and Saeramcntn. The. southern end of J.nlte Michigan is to he crossed the Mississippi Mis-sissippi at Hock Island and ', "nvenport and the Missouri at Omaha.. The highest land .delation ,n route is about suili) feel Tho last li'.ins. ootlueutal flight made by the air s. rvic- was that ,.f Sl: lor Thomas C. vla-Aul.-y who doubled the. southern continental route fiom Sal, lhe-go, lhe-go, Calif., tu Jacksonville. Flu, , Ir-tween April 12 tml p., a distance of .I',.I2 miles in 2.,r. minutes in flying times-., u,. m.uie several stops en nulo. Mis caslern f,"lit with the I. -n.ru of a w-.-tern wind was made In P.l hour-i and IT, uilnntes flvmg "s Havila. d four p'.ane with a Jioeity mot..r. The lime "che.liile ,vjn p,. Kni,j,.,.t lo vareitien depeiuieiu i; wln.l an-i riviiig I conditions. Tlin.nricl-.ini- for the II-l-ih k now in Dayton, Ohio, and .Oil be i'ljivi'i i to New York tomorrow , x, (,,lV I 'n tbrlu to ainrt ay soon as iHflslblc thcroattcr. |