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Show IS EHEEH EflSTEHNFLIERS Lieutenant S. W. Majmard to Start for Mineola ! Today. Qne Airplane Expected to Arrive From Rawlins s This Morning. ' Vive transcontinental fliers, racing to the Pacific coast, checked in and out of Buena Vista field yesterday. The aviators avi-ators were given a warm welcome by hundreds of persons who took advantage of the holiday to be present while the birdmen skimmed to the landing station ard "hopped off" toward the west. Yesterday's first arrival was Captain Harrv Smith, piloting DH-4 No. 29. Sho "reached the field at 9:11 yesterday morning and took off half an hour later. He reached San Francisco at 5:22 o'clock last evening and in landing one of his wheels collapsed and the plane tilted ipon its nose. Neither Captain Smith nor his observer. Captain T. W. Allen, was injured. Captain Sntfth """as the fourth flier to complete the first half of the derby. Two aviators besides the "Flving farson" beat him to the coast. They were Captain H. C. Drayton and Lieutenant Earle Manzelman. who left Salt Lake Saturday and yesterday morning morn-ing respectively. Plane at Rawlins. Salt Lake's only expected arrival this morning is DH-4 No. 6, piloted by Lieutenant Fred C. Nelson, who reached Rauiins at 3:23 o'clock yesterday afternoon after-noon and remained there for the night on account of motor trouble. The pilot is accompanied by Lieutenant Luntin as observer. At sunrise this morning the piane will leave the Rawlins station and is expected to reach Salt Lake shortly before 10 o'clock. Other fliers from the east are expected during the afternoon. .'The "Flying Parson,'' wanner of the first leg of the transcontinental trip, is spected to reach Salt Lake before sun-dovn, sun-dovn, bound for the east on his return trip. He will leave San Francisco this afternoon at 1:13 o'clock. j i Dispatches last night told of the disqualification dis-qualification of Captain Harry Smith in I when he reached San Francisco. His disqualification came through his roijre ccte the flying field at Battle Mountain, New, before landing, in accordance ac-cordance with the rules of the contest. Messages also carried the information that Lieutenant L. S. Webster, who reached Salt Lake Saturday and left Sal-iuro Sal-iuro yesterday morning, ran his plane into a wire fence at Battle Mountain and broke a propeller. Neither he nor his )bserver was injured. He was delayed several hours in getting a new "prop." Crash Averted. i Arrivals and departures at Buena Pisia field yesterday were void of thrills !or the large crowd until, the arrival of Jie last plane, carrying Lieutenant-Colonel Lieutenant-Colonel Jdhn A. Reynolds and his observer, ob-server, Lieutenant B. R. Bagby. In land-rtg, land-rtg, tn.e big pliine overran the length of ie field and for a moment a crash leemed inevitable. By climbing back on he tail of the machine. Lieutenant Bag-y, Bag-y, however, was able to dig the tail into ie ground and bring the machine to a itop a few feet from the ditch in which ue itenant J. H. Tall, during the first lay's landing here, came to grief. The tlane was not damaged, although some SfficuHy was experienced in getting it fit of the heavy sagebrush. I-After four days of difficulty with his . lerman Fokker plane. Cadet A. J. Car-f Car-f !(T arrived in Salt Lake yesterday from fampi, Utah, where he broke his pro-teller pro-teller last Thursday. His new "prop" eached him yesterday morning and he ame on here, bound for the east. He I rill leave this morning for Green River, i fcdet Cardiff brought much laughter! torn the crowd which surrounded his j pane by his recital of his difficulties. He ' aid that he lived with a Japanese sec- j ton hand during his delay and had eaten i ce in every form It could possibly be j erved. From this time on, he said, rice I pll be" eliminated from his menu. He destination on the first leg. The message said that Lieutenant Belvin W. Maynard, known as the "Flying Parson," will leave San Francisco at 1:13 o'clock this afternoon, after-noon, and should stop in Salt Iake tonight. to-night. Ail fliers who reach the coast will be given a rest for not less than forty-eight forty-eight hours before being headed again nnross The continent. will be allowed to continue his journey to the east, although he has been delayed ; five days, according to a ruling which j reached him yesterday from San Fran- j Cisco. j The machine flown by Cadet Cardiff is ; one of those turned over to the allies in I accordance with the terms of the armi- 1 stice. It was flown by German airmen j during the war and still shows the Ger- : man markings, in addition to a coat of real war camouflage. It is constructed ! with metal struts between" the wings and j no brace wires are used. All flying and ! landing wires are inclosed within.? the f fuselage covering. I With its brilliant ccat. the Fokker was j the object of great curiosity at the field yesterday. Nearly everyone wanted to ; inspect the type of plane so extensively nsed by the Germans against the allied fliers in the war. Upon .reaching Salt Lake a bad "engine knock was discovered, discov-ered, and Cadet Cardiff spent the day here in getting the machine in shape for the take-off this morning. The second westbound arrival yesterday yester-day was Lieutenant Colonel Thomas S. Bowen, flying a De Haviland and accompanied accom-panied by Captain D. H. Young. Colonel Bowen reached the Salt Lake field at 2 :17 o'clock in the afternoon and left a half-hour later. He reached Battle Mountain Moun-tain before sundown. Colonel Bowen is one of the oldest fliers in the American army, having been rated as a "military aviator" In 1918. He was commander of the First Day Bombardment Bom-bardment group, American air service, after having been a corps operations officer offi-cer of the First corps and commanding officer of the First corps observation school at Chattillon-sur -Seine. Colonel Bowen was one of the pilots in the- little lit-tle group which formed the American air service in 1915-16 and flew into Mexico to reconnoiter for Pershing's punitive expedition. Lieutenant G. B. Newman, the only entry en-try in the great race from the marine corps, reached the Buena Vista field at 4:36 o'clock yesterday afternoon, with Captain A. H. Page as observer. He flew DH-4, No. 108. Captain Page brought a cheer from the crowd when he climbed from the pit and balanced himself on the tail of the machine in landing. His aerial act was - accomplished for the purpose pur-pose of forcing down the tail in order that the machine might be brought more quickly to a stop. After taking on gasoline gaso-line and oil, which consumed fifteen minutes. min-utes. Lieutenant Newman spent the remainder re-mainder of the regulation half-hour in nervous waiting, for he wTas anxious to keep ahead of the army pilots who were close behind. His machine began to skim over the ground as soon as he was given the departure signal. He hopped off at 5:07 o'clock. Hardly had the hum of the lieutenant's lieuten-ant's machine died away when another roar over the city told of the approach of Lieutenant H. W. Sheridan in DH-4 No. 40, accompanied by Lieutenant Fred C. Nelson. The plane touched the ground at 5:22 o'clock, and the first question from Lieutenant Sneridan was, "How far is the marine ahead?" When he was assured as-sured that he would overtake him at Sat-duro Sat-duro and an even start would be given In the race for San Francisco in the morning, a smile overspread his countenance. coun-tenance. Runs Into BllZZard-Lieutenant BllZZard-Lieutenant Sheridan ' said that he ran into a small blizzard over the Wasatch range, and for a few minutes it was almost al-most impossible to see ahead. He said he shot his plane to 10,000 feet, opened the throttle wide and came through. When over the city he mistook the fair grounds racetrack as the landing field, and had almost reached the ground when I he discovered his mistake and spotted the markings at Buena Vista.- .He took the air for the west at 5:55 o'clock. The people of Ogden were given their first glimpse of the fliers yesterday when Lieutenant Colonel John A. Reynolds skirted that city in coming over the mountains moun-tains to Salt Iake. He went out of his course, he said, in order to avoid the storm through which Lieutenant Sheridan Sheri-dan plunged. He arrived here at 5 :46 o'clock in DH-4 No. 14, accompanied by Lieutenant B. R. Bagby. The gasoline tank of Colonel Reynolds's machine was empty. Had he flown another an-other quarter mile it would have been necessary to call upon his small reserve tank, the officer said. The tank took eighty gallons of the fuel, the largest amount yet put aboard a machine here. Flying out of his course, he said, was responsible re-sponsible for the consumption of the entire en-tire supply. The big machine left St. Paul, Neb., at 7:45 o'clock yesterday morning, and arrived at Salduro, after leaving Salt Lake, at 7:11 o'clock. I A spirited race from Salduro to San Franoisco will begin this morning at sunrise, when three machines, held over there for the night, take the air. The machines are piloted by Pilpts Sheridan, Newman and Reynolds. They will be given an equal start from the Salduro field, and are expected tofly almost neck and neck to the coast, arriving there in the early afternoon. A telegraphic dispatch from Colonel H. H. Arnold at San Francisco last night pave Information regarding the resumption resump-tion of th,c air race across the continent of fliers who have already reached their |