Show y Grace Plans to toT T Take ake Off Today J Will Start From Lihue Soon or Give Up Attempt BARKiNG BARKING SANDS ISLAND OF F KAUAI June 29 Unit United d Press Press Press- Weather reports received here this morning indic indicated ted th h Grace may be forced to postpone his attempted attempted attempted at at- tempted flight to the he United Stat States s mainland Until better conditions prevail I. I LIHUE Kau Kauai KauI i June 29 United Press Richard Press Richard Grace here for or de departure departure departure de- de through the skies to California Call Cali fornia declared before retiring for sleep last night that hat he would take takeoff takeoff takeoff off from Lihue today or 01 give up the attempt Grace who brought his cruiser monoplane to earlier In the evening from Crom Pearl Harbor expected to hop off by 7 a. a m. m today al although although although al- al though necessary changes In iii the Barking Sands run runway ay may d delay lay him beyond that hour The takeoff stretch must be widened widened widened wid wid- ened and cleared somewhat It was wall shown by Graces Grace's initial tests here In order to get away early to today today today to- to day Grace has abandoned plans for a number of tests and will start for the mainland without any further further further fur- fur ther preliminaries he said HOLLYWOOD cai Cal June 29 AP The The motion picture colony expects Richard Grace one one 0 f. f Its numb numbers rs to wing his way over ovel the the 2000 of miles expanse of the Pacific be between between be- be twe tween n and the he mainland 1 in as spectacular p. p fashion as he has thrillers the performed for i films I Il l Flirting with death Is the proCession profession profession pro pro- Cession and amI defying fate the avocation avo avocation o avo- cation of th the 29 29 old old ear stunt stuntman stuntman I Iman man man of ot the skies sIdes The fhe bony fin tm- Continued n page 2 fin I Grace Plans to o Take Off Today Continued from page 1 has times gers ers of death he many eluded Fate which he has most defied has has has' dealt gently with him Twenty-four Twenty times the daredevil th the pilot has crashed Sixteen of deliberately wrecked planes were The for Tor film tUrn and nd other purposes remainder cracked up as a result of accidents From Irom all of them he ne escaped without serious or permanent permanent permanent perma perma- nent injury Grace started his flying career when he was 16 years old That was back in 1914 He has amassed since that time a re record ord of approximately hours in the air and has flown many types of craft FORCED LANDING His forc forced d landing oc occurring In 1915 at Minneapolis served as a stimulant rather than a deterrent to his confidence In that first eXperience experience experience ex eX- ex- ex he crashed his plane into a a. tree breaking the trunk of the tree in two and eased the plane pIane ov over over r with it as well He developed Iron from t this ls experience complete l coa con I In himself and hs his ability I t handle any type of ot ship under an an kind of Jn Tj J Out of that confidence grew hi profession as daredevil of th iii skies Aside irom from his skill a ai cracking up perfectly good af airplanes air at i planes he has hns dev developed loped a numb numbe numb of taking breath stunts such a changing from plane to plane T midair changing from pl plane me ti t speeding automobile speedboat a atrain ant ani train and leaping from a a. plane to a motorcycle I Those who have worked with Grace declared that In some of hi crashes the fuselage has been j badly broken that it had to be cu away ay In order for him to get Out Out-o. ut-o ut B the plane In one Instance it w wa wa related the fuselage was bro broker i completely away from the rest o 0 othe the ship only only- the three-foot three in which he was seated remaining IS 29 YEARS OLD J Grace was born in Morris Morrl Minn January 10 1898 Until he lie took uj ul flying he spent most of or his life or orthe r the soil of his his' native state stale Ht H was educated at the University 0 OJ of Minnesota I He was married in June 1928 1926 tc Lorraine Stephenson from who r rhe he later was divorced i I 11 |