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Show iAVIATOR OFF ON ONE STOP ! TRIP OVER U.S. IDoolittle Leaves San Antonio on Second Lap of Flight SAN ANTONIO. Texas. Sept. 6. Lieutenant James Doolittle. landed it Sun Antonio at 7 10 this morning on his one stop flight from coast to coast and hopped off again for San j Diego. Calif, at 8:23 after replenishing replenish-ing his gasoline and oil supplies. Lieutenant Doolittle Is attempting to span the 2100 miles between the Atlantic and Pacific coasts within 2 4 hours. The first attempt at trans-contln- ! ental flight In 24 hours time falle 1 I before It really started Lieutenant Alexander Pearson in flying from California to Florida preparatory to starting was lost in February. 1921. over the Big Bend country in Texas, and before he found u comparatively safe place to land, had crossed the border Into Mexico. Several days lat-I er he rode on a mule Into the little! Texas town of Sanderson with a bar- 1 rowing tale of his experiences In Mexico. March 24. 1921. Lieutenant W. D. Toney. left Pablo Beach, Kla.. In a one-stop flight to San Diego. Calif., but early on the following morning his plane fell while over Louisiana. La., j seriously Injuring the pilot, i n March 30. he died. Doolittle himself attempted a flight the early part of August, but wreckoJ his plane on the Florida beach trying to get into the air. |