| Show THREE-CORNER THREE AIR RAGE TO PARIS LOOMS lOO IN FEW DAYS Richard Byrd Limbers Broken Arm for Take-Off Take WATCH Aviation A Circles Seem to Expect Unusual From Prom Him R AFRAID J 01 Or GIRLS NEW YORK TOrtE May 14 By H-By By ByTho The Tho Associated Press i Lucky Lindbergh's only love lo loveIs loeIs Is his monoplane The year old contender In Inthe Inthe inthe the trans Atlantic hop today made clear that thero there Is no womanly consideration consideration aside aside from that of ot his Ills mother In Detroit Detroit In In his impending lone lump Jump to Paris Feminine admirers surround the tho bis bi blonde eyed blue youth whenever he ho appears at nt Curtiss field to tinker with his plane the tho Spirit of ot St. St Louis and ind have observed with some that the daring airman apparently Is girl shy NEW YORK YORE May oay 14 WyThe ilyThe ByThe Associated d Press PreM A A cornered trl air race to Paris loomed as IlS a II greater possibility today as ns ad ad- adverse verse weather conditions caused further postponement In the take take- takeoff off oft of ot the two foremost contend contend- ers ens The weather bureaus bureau's dictum that a a. squally condition existed beyond ocean mid-ocean caused Clarence Chamberlin and Lloyd Bertaud to postpone their flight set for early today tOdA Meanwhile Commander Richard E. E E Byrd Dyrol seemed to be rushing his this plans for tor a a. hop off Captain Charles Lindbergh spec spec- spectacular spectacular spectacular Lochinvar out of ot the west Is to go and is awaiting better weather Byrd with a a. bandaged arm carried since the Fokker mono mono- monoplane monoplane plane America trashed grashed In a test let flight a n. month ago had not been expected to hop off ort for tor several days das at least But he made mado ar ar- arrangements arrangements ar- ar arrangements for tor the splints to be removed remo from the Injured limb today There came news too that the America would be turned over o today to the American trans trans- transoceanic transoceanic oceanic company backer r of the flight and that Byrds Byrd's pilot would be announced Bert Acosta It was as generally generally- believed ed would supplant the injured Floyd Bennet Dennet as pilot Lieutenant George Norville will willbe willbe be bo third member of or the Byrd party THEY WATCH LINDBERGH LI These developments with a R. weather bureau prediction that thal a II change In weather should not bo be expected over over- the week-end week led Ie to the opinion Byrd might catch catchup up with Lindbergh and the Cham- Cham combination In preparations There Thero was as a a. feeling reeling that Lind lAnd Lindbergh bergh the time year old debonair filer flier fro in the Missouri national guard might do the unexpected Stirring aviation circles Thursday by landin hero here h rG from rem San an Diego Dleo California in two hops In record time he soon had his single single- seated Ryan nyan monoplane the Spirit of ot St. St Louis Louts groomed to continue eastward without notice The Tho very minute the clearing comes he said ald Ill be off oft and andI I dont don't care whether Its It's It break break- breakfast fast f supper dinner or the middle of ot the night GOOD COOL SPORTSMANSHIP IJ Is at Long Long- Island Islan with the tho Bellanca monoplane Columbia of Bertaud and Chamberlin Bertaud Inti Inti- Intimated Intimated mated that the Spirit of ot St. St Louis would not sneak away awa Into the sky unaccompanied We will start when anybody else starts he ho said Despite the friendly rivalry of ot the three groups the spirit of ot sportsmanship rules them Grover Whalen representative of ot Rodman flodman Wanamaker chief of ot Byrds Byrd's back back- backers backers backens ers ens offered both Lindbergh and Chamberlin use of ot the tho carefully graded two-mile two runway of ot field a II short distance from field for tor their take- take offs offe Chamberlin and Bertaud proffered the young oung MIssourian their weather wether maps and a radio ra and Byrd gave gae him use of or huts his charts |
