Show airmen anxious for pacific flight san Francl francisco army naval and civilian aviators moved swiftly arg lor for the aerial conquest ot of the pacific between san francisco and honolulu ernie smith the air mail flier who Is racing preparations to beat his competitors to the take off in the 2400 mile nonstop flight to honolulu worked throughout saturday night to have his plane on the ground at the oakland municipal airport tor for the fin finishing ish construction touches the getaway with a staff of nine skilled aviation mechanics and his navigator captain C 11 carter smith directed the trucking ot of his plane from the san I 1 francisco machine shop where it was carried out to the oakland airport the foot runway from which tho the fliers will sail into the skies on their nonstop flight over the pacific smith was forced to abandon his plan to take off from crissy field because of the ruling of army officials that his plane would not be permitted on the field |