| Show U UI U. S AVIATORS AVIATOR 1 PREP PREPARING ARING TO DEFEAT THEIR GREAT ENEMY Prize Race and Three Long Flights Plights to Oc Oc- Occur Occur Oc- Oc Occur cur Soon MANY SEEKING COIN Trips to Rome Brazil Hong bug Kong and ahll Ha lIa- Hawaii wa Lined Up U SAN FRANCISCO Aug 8 Dy By By ByThe The Associated Press With the prize Dole Doie air derby to Hon Hon- Honolulu Honolulu lulu awaiting the starters starter's flag at noon next Friday and three other long ong distance flights In the offing American aviators today moved for tor- forward forward ward with plans for tor a major offensive ive Fee against their beloved enemy enemy- distance Sharing interest with the Dole Doe derby was the plan of ot Edward F F. Detroit business man to take of at Grace New Found- Found land and within ten days In an attempt to lower by at least eight days the present record time for travel around the world plane to be christened the Pride at of Q Detroit will willbe willbe be piloted by William Brock a for for- former mer riser air mall mail flier filer They will seek seck to lower the present day 28 record of or Evans and Wells TRIP TO ROME RO I At Curtiss field N. N N Y Lloyd W. W Bertaud was tuning up the monoplane Old Glory for a test flight night to Cleve Cleve- Cleveland Cleveland Cleveland land on Wednesday Wednesday- prior to his non non- nonstop nonstop nonstop stop flight light to Rome with James D. D Hill Hili associate pilot Paul Pau R R. Redfern was perfecting ar or- arrangements arrangements at Brunswick Ga with several severa South American weather bu bu- bureaus bureaus bu- bu bureaus before attempting his Isis stop non-stop flight from Brunswick to Brazil Red- Red Redfern Redfern fern will ny fly ly alone and probably will take off within the next ten days At the Oakland airport today four entrants ts In the Dole race rac parked I plants planes and ond crossed to San S n Fran Frau Francisco FrancIsco Fraucisco cisco to attend the official drawing for lor places In la the Dole take They The were Major M jor Livingston Irving of ot Berke Berke- Berkeley Berkeley ley Icy A. A Pedlar Flint Mich flier filer Lieutenant Bennett Dennett Griffin 01 ot of Okla OkIa and ana LIeutenant Norman Goddard of ot San Diego Two others the planes of ot Frank Fran L. L Clark Hollywood stunt flier lIer anc and Martin Jensen Honolulu's entry In Inthe inthe the race had their machines In San Francisco ready for assignments to places in the runway at either cither Mills Millsfield Millsfield MilLsfield field or Oakland airport Clark who has a small plane In Indicated in- in indIcated indicated that he might not start for Honolulu If I all the tentative starters get under way Friday However if I but three or foUr forte lo r are able to go the Hollywood flier IIer Is js willing to pit his small plane against the field If the three planes within striking distance of ot San Francisco put In to local airports before nightfall nine planes will be ready for the lineup on Friday unless they encounter un- un forseen difficulties Fourteen planes are entered Art Goebel Hollywood stunt flier filer who came through with his Isis mono mono- monoplane monoplane monoplane plane from Oklahoma without a mis mis- mishap mishap mishap hap was at Santa Monica at day day- daybreak daybreak daybreak break heading toward towa-d the off hop point ONE DAY FLIGHT From Lomax Ills Els Charles Chlrles W V. Parkhurst planned to get into the theair theair theair air at daybreak with the idea of ot ar arriving or- or riving in San Francisco in one hop He Is flying lying an Air King biplane I capable of or developing miles an hour in the 1700 mila Journey to the coast coast- I Jack Frost flying n the San ran ran ran- cisco Examiners Examiner's entry was ready for the off hop-off fe Jan Dan an Francisco from Irons Los Angeles The other entrants Indicated they would not be in sight or of the starting point before Thursday Captain Arthur V. V Rodgers of ot Long LongBeach LongBeach LongBeach Beach flying lying a full Cantilever mono- mono Ion coM I Vio h. h wOuld fly tO San Diego tomorrow to go 10 on tile the compass testing table before coming to San Sass The huge Pride of ot Los Angeles sat at Long Beach with no Indication from Captain J. J J L. L I Griffin her pilot when she would move up to the starting line Captain and Mrs Mis William Erwin Er waited in Dallas today determined det not to leave lea until their Spirit of ot Dallas bound from Dallas to Hong Kong Kon for tor the Easterwood prize Is in perfect tune regardless of oft the he t starting ate tate of ot the Dole flight II ht Erwin is a a. pole Dole entry |
