OCR Text |
Show WHITE HOUSE PHYSICIANS REFUSE TO DISCUSS SENSATIONAL REPORT OF WILSON'S CONDITION; IIMH TO ntsiE i mjm Flying Parson to Try to Reach Salt Lake Today on Return Trip to . Field at Mineola. Aviator Estimates Time of Flight East to Be Less Than that Taken by Pacemaker West. ! ! i 3v l'ni ersal Svrviec j Three more fliers from the l'aeilic mast in the transcontinental air race tai'heJ Roosevelt field, Mineola, Mon-luv, Mon-luv, and following tho .definite an-lomcement an-lomcement yesterday afternoon at tho ifi'iee of Major General Menolier, chief .f the air service of the army, that ', he second leg of tho air race 'win be L'ontcsted, preparations were being lade by the airmen for the return ourney. 'Tie fliers are to start their second !g no sooner than 43 hours nor longer kn S'5 hours after landing, Sundays tit included. The first to land at Mineola Monday I fas Captain Lowell II. Smith, who ar-' ar-' ived at 10:30 a. m. Lieutenant II. E. jieeas followed him at 1:46 p. m. and he third arrival was Lieutenant E. S. forthington, who landed at 2:16 in the fternoon. According to the estimate of Captain tmi; h, his actual flyiug time from San "ranrisco was 24 hours and 30 minutes, rkeh beats the record of Lieutenant lelvia W. Maynard. the "pilot preach-who preach-who reached San Francisco on Sat-.riuy. Sat-.riuy. Lieutenant Maynard 's time was 24 iours, o9 minutes and 48 seconds. INOFFICIAL TIME MORE fHAN PILOT'S ESTIMATE. - An "unofficial" announcement by Tbe air service yesterday afternoon, TC-ver, puts Smith's actual flying ime at 30 hours, 23 minutes and 6 sec-mis. sec-mis. Nilh the exceptions of Smith and 'id, who was the second aviator to five at Mineola, none of the fliers are nsious to make the return flight. Their fc'.'hines have been badly strained and 'y are of the opinion that nothing .' could l,e learned of nOao to the lr service in making the second leg. Lieutenant Maynard, who spoke Sun-at Sun-at the First Baptist church at IF5" Francisco, was urged today by ; -a Mayas 1 not to attempt to fly 'f,i; to Mineola. - Maynai', li.jtvcvur, will start h re-m re-m trilJ To !.!: noon if plans carried uu'. "jmy-fivc i'lieis are still iu -,!) race, ' 0Viii'-' toward either JJin-.'o't or San wnefceo. Tho Lvirtors who are on way t,i Pacific ,AtUtt still "niain an advautae over osttbound mnen. flea- . old weather with mod-i i'" wi"'!s reported from most of -"'- control s-.i.loiis. -:ipUin H. C. Drayton will be penal-fof penal-fof having flown on Sundav from cloel:K) Xcvada, to Reno, making it "."is.ble for him to better the time, I" of Smith or Mavuard. , fHREE MISHAPS MAR MONDAY FLYING. ;;)tv7? ":i!il,a"s marred the race Mon-U,n7,lC!,.iu!t Mon-U,n7,lC!,.iu!t 'V D- Morris, of Wash-CJ Wash-CJ ' W and I'is mechanic, II. .1. ili'zii K- (.lf'vc,lanl. Ohio, were both !,; ' . .lred when their plane M n "t a l 1 "ear 0'in' &i an m "l:tk0- a lan!linK' ,". nt.L- S- Webster in attempt-r attempt-r to rise from a field at Battle Moun- !"(-! i,; ' ra,"- I,,to a fcn' al'd dara-',;' dara-',;' ",s machine, which lie is rcpair-Uen rcpair-Uen tenant T. Haynes era.shed to on 1 c landi"S Hinu'ham-iho Hinu'ham-iho ,. r "t'cnionn. Haynos was cut , , ' me rir.se, and Private Tlieodore .lio "i,,,'-', l-'assenccr, was cut alioui. f-"-n.t"r; o11"''" passenger, Lieu- ninn-J "a u,ul Ml'1)erm"tt, was un- Hol.crta. who fell into (toutinued on Page 9, Column 0.) VICTORY If FIRST LAP IS UNDECIDED (Continued From Pa i One.) Lake Erie last week and returned to j Roosevelt field Saturday, has asked permission per-mission to start again. Eleven westbound aviators arrived and left Grant park, Chicago, during the day. EIGHT AVIATORS j AT NORTH PLATTE j EN ROUTE WEST NORTH PLATTE, Neb., Oct. 13. Plane No. 3S in the aerial derby, carrying Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Tomey and Serjeant Vanatia, who met with a slight accident at Oconto, east of here this mornincr, roavhed North Platte at 3:57 and left for the west at 4:27 p. m. Other arrivals from the east during this evening were as follows: No. 32, Lieutenant Houllot, at 5:06; left at 5:37. No. 5, Lieutenant Bronson, 5:23; proceeded pro-ceeded at 6:02. No. 4, Lieutenant Kirby, landed at 5:25 and took off at 6:05. No. ll, Lieutenant Colonel Hartney in a German scout plane, arrived at 5:30 and proceeded at 6:12. No. 42, Lieutenant Rice arrived at 5:42 and left at 6:16. No. 45, Lieutenant Hynes, landed at 5:43 and will remain here durinir the nig'ht. No. 16, Lieutenant Oeorire, arrived at 5:58 and will resume at sunrise tomorrow. The racers arriving- here this evening- encountered disagreeable weather between ! St. Paul and North Platte. ! CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 13. Lieutenant Lieuten-ant J. Roulette, pioK, and Serjeant Hynes. flying- entry No. 32, in the transcontinental trans-continental air race, missed the landing field at Fort D. A. Russell tonight and landed a mile southwest of the city and two miles south of the control station, at 7 :11 o'clock, just one hour after their hop-off from Sidney, Neb., ninety-three miles east. The aviators did not see the flares from the aviation field, but identified their destination from the lights of Cheyenne. Chey-enne. Their machine was slightly djim- ' ag-ed, but they hope to be able to resume their westward flight tomorrow. Lieutenant F. M. Tomey, No. 38, is held at Fort Russell overnight while repairs re-pairs are made to his machine, damaged slightly when he landed at 6:03 o'clock. i servers who flew with them were guests of honor of the American Flying club at a diner anil theater party tonight. Those arriving at Mineola today were Captain Lowell H. Smith, Lieutenant H. E. Queens and Lieutenant R. S. "Worthington. Major J. 0. P. Bartholf, who had been expected today, got as far 'as Eorhester; and is expected to arrive at Mineola tomorrow. The times of arrival were: Smith, 10:50:42 a. in.; Queens, 12:30:30 p. m.; Worthington, 2:17:03 p. m. Colonel Archie Miller, commanding officer at Mineola, -was said by flying club officials to have reported by telegraph tel-egraph to Washington that neither Ma jor Carl Spatz nor Lieutenant E. C. Kiel, who landed at Mineola -within twentv seconds of each other after a nip-and-tuck race all the way from San Francisco, cared to make the return trip according to the rules governing the contest. Lieutenant Queens also is said to have taken the same stand. Major Spatz would like to take hia own time and follow a rute to Chicago. Chi-cago. St. Louis, Fort Sill, El Paso, San DieVo and San Francisco. He will be ready to start Thursday morning, it was said. Lieutenant Kiel wishes to return over (Continued, on Page Thirteen.) AIRMEN DESCRIBE EXPERIENCES MET FLYING EASTWARD NEW YORK, Oct. 13. Aviators who have completed the first half of their transcontinental air derby, with Mine-i Mine-i ola as their destination, and the cb- VICTOHY l FIST UP IS UNDECIDED (Continued from Page Nino.) tho rfffiilatinn route of twenty controls, con-trols, but at his own time. Captain Smith, it was said, will remain re-main in the contest and will be ready ! lednesilav or Thursday while Lieutenant Lieuten-ant W'orthinton will fly back to the Pacific coast according to the contest regulations provided ho can make necessary neces-sary repairs to his plane in tho required tinie. lie was without proper instruments instru-ments on the trip east, it was said, and liis motor was subject to. buch a strain that it is in bad shape. Kecause of the sliortntro of enlisted personnel at Mineola there is some question as to i whether repairs can .be made within the allotted ninety-six hours. |