Show Fifty Flighty Flights Ire In Prospect F Foy or Conquest of Pacific Army and Navy May day Enter Eight Aviators Want Vant Prize for Trip From Dallas Texas to China May Start San Francisco to Honolulu Flight in Three Weeks SAY SAN SA FRANCISCO June 21 By The Associated Press The The Impending aerial conquest of or the Pact tic resolved itself today toda- Into a a. race among aviators as al well as asa asa a a. challenger to the elements when hen a a. up check-up revealed that 60 flights over oyer Its expanses are aro In prospect San Francisco to Honolulu the flight light which the tho heroic Com Com- Commander Commander Commander mander John Rodgers nearly completed Dalla t to lions HonS' Kong Seattle to Tokyo the Tokyo the birdmen set et themselves to conquer a a. new world orld of or prodigious distances The army and navy showed signs of ot with civilians in an ef ef- effort effort fort to acquire some of oC the glory 30 36 ENTRIES E. OFFERED orri nED The citizens citizens' flight light committee In n charge of oC arrangements for Cor the San Honolulu Francisco flight light an an- announced announced announced that 36 aviators had un un- unofficially un- un unofficially officially entered the contest For For- Formal ForI Formal Formal I mal entry will be possible only when the books are opened in the near future and the aviators are allowed to post bonds as an evidence evi evi- evidence evidence dence of ot good faith W. W E E. Easterwood Jr of ot Dallas Texas who ho offered a I prize of ot for Cor the first aviator to fly Cly an nn airplane from Crom Dallas to Hong Kong announced that eight aviators had contracted to make the attempt B. B H H. Griffin of ot Oklahoma City has announced plans 1 for hopping off oct hero the latter part of ot July on a a. flight light to Honolulu which he said might possibly end in n Japan Griffins Griffin's flight ante ante- antedates antedates antedates dates the time set for Cor the tho maln- maln I land to flight for Cor which James D D. Dole of ot Hawaii has offered in prizes The San Honolulu Francisco-Honolulu flyers arc are ex expected ex- ex expected to compete for the Dole prizes 1 also Under inder rules which re require re- re require quire the tho flight II ht to start in Aug Aug- The navy department at Wash Wash- ington ton announced the possibility i that the dirigible Los Angeles at I present being overhauled at Its Us Lakehurst New ew Jersey Jerse station might attempt a Hono Lakehurst-Hono- lulu non stop flight light while Lieu LIeu- Lieutenant LIeutenant Lieutenant tenant Lester J. J Maitland and Lieutenant Albert Hagenberger army officers just arrived at San Diego declared they would at at- attempt attempt tempt their San Hono Francisco lulu flight light within three weeks SEATTLE TO TOKIO TOJ Lieutenant Carl Ben Den Elison former army aviator lalor has entered the proposed Seattle to flight light Elison who for Cor the thelast thelast last two winters has hu been a pilot In Arctic exploration on undertakings headed by Captain George H H. Wil- Wil Wilkins Wilkins kins said he would attempt the flight light alone It was announced in Seattle that besides the already raised there thero for Cor the projected hop to Tokyo a similar sum was being raised in the Japanese capital for tor forthe forthe the same lame flight making a total purse of ot Ernest L. L Smith air mall mail pilot announced here that ho expected to hop off oft hero on a Honolulu flight light within 10 days Smith was installing a a. new motor and gaso gaso- gasoline gasoline line IIno tanks in his monoplane MAY AY FLY BACK ACK Richard Grace the Hollywood aviator was supposed to be en route to Honolulu aboard the Steamer Manuka with a a. mono mono- monoplane monoplane monoplane plane stored in the hold Tho The flyers flyer's backers maintained silence about their plans and even the tho steamship company declared the records did not show an airplane aboard the but San Francisco newspapers published pictures of ot an airplane lano being hoisted aboard tho the steamer last lost week Unverified reports stated that Grace intended to attempt a hop from the tho Islands to San Francisco and if It successful to try flying back again |