Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-07-06 | Page 1 | 6 Balloons in National Race Forced to Land; 9 or Remain in Air

6 Balloons in National Race Forced to Land 9 Others Remain in Air e 8 Sighted Over Arkansas 1 Believed Over Oklahoma BAG SNAGS ON TREE Pilots Finally Come Down Downin in Swamp HOUSTON Tex July 5 AP AP- AP I AP-I The Cleveland Chamber of Commerce Commerce Com Corn merce last of 15 balloons to leave here her yesterday in the national elimination elimination elim oHm balloon race landed at Talco Tal Tal- co Tex at p. p m. m after running into a bad thunder storm Talco in Titus county is about miles north of ot Houston LITTLE E ROCK Ark July 5 Associated Press Press AlI All of tho the fifteen fifteen fifteen teen balloons which left Houston Houton Tex yesterday in the tho national elimination balloon race tonight had I been accounted for Six were definitely down and the tho other ather nine h had d been reported at various various places in Arkansas Arkans and Oklahoma still in inI inthe inthe the theair air late tonight Four Fou of the balloons were down near Texarkana Ark a a. fifth at Danville miles w west est st of ot Little LittleRock LittleRock LittleRock Rock and the sixth north of Dan Dan- yule From Mt Ml Ida mUes west by bysouth bysouth 80 south th from here eight of ot the balIo balloons balloons bal bal- Io loons ns were wt-rc reported sighted t tonight while the ninth was believed ed still InI in inthe the t Bow okla where it t waS was last ast reported late this this' j afternoon LAND IN ARKANSAS The Aero ero Digest of ot N IN New w York and the the Navy N vy No 10 landed within a a. h half mile of ot ea each hoth other hother r late today about seventy five miles mites miles north of Texi Texarkana at at Daisy Ark rk Tho The Detroit Aircraft entry landed landedo o on the L L. L C C. C Adams plantation twenty five miles northeast of Texarkana the of ot D De Detroit De- De troit landed at H five twe miles mites north of ot where the Detroit Aircraft entry landed The Army No 3 pilots pilots' descended at Danville nines flIes west west of ot 1 here ir and antI the sixth piloted by Captain K S. S Axtater an Army entrant was reported down north of ot DanUte Dan Dan- i yule Ute and 1 L L. B. B Cunningham pilot and aide of the Detroit Aircraft Aircraft Air Air- craft entry said they lost gas gas and ballast when the they ran rm into a a. chance wall vail of ot thunder clouds Just northwest northwest northwest north north- west of f Texarkana shortly after afternoon afternoon afternoon noon today After After- vainly maneuvering el either her herto to scale or sneak under the tho clouds which rose tose past a height of feet and threatened to engulf them in treacherous wind currents the they drifted over o the Red river bottoms snared their drag lines twice in tr treetops clo crossed ed the ri river r with theUnes the lines Unes cutting through the water and finally came to rest in a a. swamp of an old river bed After two h hours hours' urs wandering through underbrush Cunningham reached a 8 plantation in the river bottoms and arid summoned aid to re remove remove re- re move the b balloon Dr George le Ie Gall Galle i I pilot of ot the of Detroit told the TexT Tex Tex- T Co Unu d on page 5 5 I I I I I I 6 BALLOONS IN NATIONAL RACE FORCED TO LAND Continued from page 1 I arkana Gazette over o telephone i from Crom Horatio that his landing was duo to a shortage of gas as resulting I from an accident during Inflation at Houston a Practically all the ballast had to tobo bo relea released d darly early arly to keep keel the bag afloat he said and finally it drifted naturally to rest In a n cotton field near H Horatio miles mites from Its starting point Learning that thal his Detroit collea colleagues had landed within with with- in twenty five miles his first query was whether he ho had escaped being the uta tall tail II ender