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Show mo leaders of aerial derby meet accidents I "Flying Parson" Forced Down as Crankshaft j Breaks; Transfer of Motor Is Attempted. ! : ! . ; i Captain Smith Loses j Machine Through Fire; to Accept New Plane and Continue Course. j OMAHA, Neb., Oct. 16. Lieutenant i Belvin W. Maynard, the "flying parson," par-son," who was forced to land his machine ma-chine in a corn field near "Wahoo, Xeb., today, will continue his trip tomorrow, according to Lieutenant H. E. Wills, Omaha control commander. Aid is rushing rush-ing to him in an endeavor to permit him to be' the first to complete the double transcontinental journey. His nearest pursuer is Lieutenant Alexander Alexan-der Pearson, who is at Cheyenne, Wyo., less than 450 miles behind Maynard, and has a prospect of passing the ''flying ''fly-ing parson" tomorrow. I Captain Eoy Francis, who was compelled com-pelled to withdraw from the race wheu ,1ns Martin bomber was wrecked Tucs-! Tucs-! day, immediately upon being notified of Lieutenant Maynard 's mishap volunteered vol-unteered his services in repairing the. plane. He hurried to Yutan. ieb., where mechanics were dissembling his plane for shipment to Mineola and assisted as-sisted in removing tlio motor, which w-as loaded on an automobile truck and taken to Lieutenant Maynard. I NEW MOTOR IS BEING PLACED. j Lieutenant Maynard, on learning that a motor was available, started r'emov- ing his damaged motor and mechanics i will work all night assisting Captain Francis and Lieutenant Maynard in installing in-stalling the motor. They expect to have ! tho plane ready to continue the flight j earl' tomorrow. Lieutenant Maynard at midnight to-j to-j night notified the control stop com-j com-j mander here that the Lil?rty - motor from Captain Francis' ship had arrived ! from' Yutan, Neb., and was beint; installed. in-stalled. He said the repairs would be j finished in lime for him to make an early start tomorrow. As soon as the repairs arc finished he will return to St. Paul. 100 miles west, his last si op, and officially resume re-sume his flight from that city in order j to take advantage of the lapsed flying j time on the entire trip. Neither Maynard nor his companion i was injured in the accident and as soon as notification was received from the war department, that he would be allowed al-lowed to complete the trip every effort was made to have a plane ready before ; Major SpaU, his nearest, competitor, c u t down the lea d now h e 1 d by the ' ' flying parson. STILL IN RACE. MAYNARD SAYS. ! "T am si ill in the race, " said Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Maynard. "'and will make up the lost time as soon as I can again i take the air.-' Mechanic W. C. Klein, who was rid- I ing in the plane at the time of the 1 accident, said the plane was MO0O feet ' in the air whon the crankshaft broke. I 'o reason could be assigned bv eit her Klein or Maynard for the accident. LOWELL H. SMITH i IS AUTHORIZED TO ACCEPT NEW SHIP j WASHINGTON". Oct. lit Permission ! iv;is iven tonight to C:i;u;iin Lowell it. ' jSmilh. lender of the weslhomid ie;i!n!i!ijr j (Contu sed on Tsse 11, Column 1.) j new plane was authorized by Major-General Charles T. Menoher, director of the air service. It was said here that the aviator probably would be able to resume his flight tomorrow. Decision of air service officials to permit per-mit Lieutenant B. "W. Maynard, leader of the returning fliers from San Francisco, who was forced by a broken crankshaft to land near Wahoo, Neb., today, to secure se-cure a new plane, was said to have Impelled Im-pelled Director Menoher to give the same opportunity to the "flying parson's" rival. Also, air service officials point out that the accident to Captain Smith's plane occurred oc-curred not in the air, but after the pilot had landed safely. The unusual opportunities given Captain Cap-tain Smith and Lieutenant Maynard, it was said, were accorded by virtue of the'r leadership of the two rival groups of fliers and amounted only to the carrying carry-ing out of the principle of "fair play." tenant G. H. Gale, No. 46, arrived 1:39, left at 4 p. m.; Lieutenant R. H. Maugham, No. 105, arrived at 1:13, left at 1:43; Lieutenant R. C. Kirkpatrick, No. 41, arrived at 1:24, left at 1:54; Captain Cap-tain F. Stanley, machine damaged when landing; Lieutenant Charles L. Osbourne, No. 30, arrived at 3:28; Lieutenant J. T. Johnson, No. 106, arrived 3:45. Lieutenant Kirkpatrick, No. 41, westbound, west-bound, .arrived here from Oconte, Neb., at 12:31 p. m. He was delayed at Oconto since Tuesday on account of repairs. Major Ma-jor J. W. Simons arrived here at 1:07 p. m. Lieutenant D. B. Gish, No. 10, arrived ar-rived from the east at 12:31 p. m. Major Simons left by train at 3:40 this afternoon for Washington. The transfer of Major Simons' s machine ma-chine to Captain Steinle was made without with-out official authorization, it was said. Mechanics tonight are at work overhauling overhaul-ing the machine so that Captain Steinle can continue his journey tomorrow. It was believed that official authorization fof the transfer would be granted. Lieutenant Pearson, who flew 818 miles from Reno today, was held here overnight over-night and hoped to get away at sunrise and overtake Lieutenant Maynard, Maynard Breaks Machine and Smith Loses Plane Through Fire. (Continued From Page One.) fliers in the transcontinental airplane race, to accept a tender of a plane made to liim by the Curtiss Aeroplane com-li.iny, com-li.iny, as a substitute for his own machine which was burned yesterday after he had landed at the Buffalo control station. Acceptance by Captain Hhnith of the painfully bruised this afternoon when his plane overturned in landing at the local control station at Fort D. A. Russell. Rus-sell. Sergeant H. Myers, passenger in No. 22, ascaped without injury. The damage to the plane has not been ascertained. ascer-tained. Eleven westbound planes in the air derby across the continent arrived in Cheyenne this afternoon. The plane of Lieutenant Charles L. Osbourne, who arrived ar-rived here at 3:28, was wrecked as the aviator was attempting to land on the local field. At a height of seventy-five feet his motor stalled and the machine dropped to earth end over end, and was wrecked, although neither aviator was injured. Major Simons, who arrived here in No. 19 at 1:07 p. m., was ordered to return to Washington at once, no explanation of the order being given. The plane piloted by Major Simons will be turned over to Captain Steinle. whose machine was Hadly damaged here this afternoon when he attempted to land. The aviators who arrived here westbound west-bound during the afternoon were: Major Ma-jor Henrv Abbey, No. 7, arrived at 12:45, left at 2:39; Lieutenant J. H. Machle, No. 17, arrived at 2:65; Major E. L. Lyon, No. 28, arrived 2:57, left at 4:11; Captain C. G. Pomeroy, No. 10, arrived 1:13; Major J. W. Simons, No. 19, arrived 1;07; Lieu- TWO PILOTS MEET WITH MISHAPS AT FORT D. A. RUSSELL CHEYENNE, Wyo., Oct. 16. Captain Felix Steinle, entry No. 2 In the transcontinental trans-continental air race, was scratched and |