Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-10
FROM
EAST AND west
LAND TOGETHER
'"Flying Parson" hayward Meets
Vests Pilot at Nebraska
Town.
MAKES
1886 MILES IN DAY
Western Filler Goes Through Three
Snowstorms in Mountains and
Makes $50 Miles With
out an Accident.

Chicago, Oct EAST and west
met in the air at North Platte, Ne
braska, today for the first time, when
the leaders of the westbound and
eastbound filters in the transcontin-
entail reliability race landed there.
Tonight, Lieutenant B. w. Maynard,
the "flying parson," was at Cheyen-
ne, Wyo., hundreds of miles ahead OF
the other westbound aviators, and
Captain Lowell H. Smith, well in
the lead of the contingent from the
, west, was at Omaha for the nieht.
Maynard. plotting machine No. 81,
who left Chicago at 1909 a. M, CEN
trail time, had flown 1856 miles today,
greater distance than he covered
yesterday, the first day of the race,
but his time, chiefly due to adverse
weather conditions, which one form
or another extended almost from
coast, was slower He landed at
! Cheyenne at 6:25 p. M, mountain
time, having covered total distance
of ,696 miles in two days.
Captain Smith, after struggling
through three mountain snowstorms
today, reached Omaha at 1920 o'clock
tonight, having made 852 miles to-
day without accident. His total dis
lance since the start is ,460 miles.
The remarkable flights of Maynarr
and Smith for two days made the
trans continental race an air jour.
ney unparalleled, all things consider
ed in this country.
At the close of today's flights, the
filters remaining in the race of the
AZ starting from Mineola, l.. l., and
the IS which left San Francisco, were
strung out across the country, most
of them accounted for.
Two machines from the west num-
Der SO, piloted by Second Lieutenant
Hall. and another driven by Leuten-
ant Queens. were missing tonight. At
Rawlings, Wyoming, it was feared
they were lost in the mountain snow
storms.
Snow is Hazard.
The days flights were attended by
no fatal accidents. Yesterdays rec
ord was married by three fatalities.
The most serious of several acci-
dents, nearly all of them of minor
nature, was the spectacular crash Of
Lieutenant E. V. Wales plane No. 60,
from San Francisco, on Elk Mountain,
at Obert Pass. Wyoming, in a heavy
snowstorm Pilot Wales was seri-
ouslv injured and was taken to a
ranch house. His passenger, Second
Lieutenant William Goldsborough, was
only slightly hurt.
! While rain in the East and Middle
| West made landing fields soggy and
dangerous, resulting in a few minor
accidents, snow in the Rocky Noun
tain region made flying difficult and
hazardous. The snow screened the
fields at Rawlings and Green River,
Wyoming, and the latter early in the
day was eliminated.
The meeting of East and West
leaders at North Platte, Nebraska,
today virtually marked the halfway
point for the two flyers, Maynard and
Smith. The city marked off 1 ,491 Of
the 2,700 mile trip for Lieutenant
Maynard, while for Captain Smith the
distance was 1911 miles. Maynard
landed there at asa p. M, and Smith
five minutes later.
Besides No. "a, which fell in Lake
Erie, No. 27, piloted by Major j.
Miller, was reported out Of the race
because of engine trouble at Rock
Island, Illinois, No. 48, driven by
Lieut.. H. D. Smith, was smashed at
Rockport, N. Y, and No. SO, piloted
by Lieut.. Robert Kauch, was said to
be out of the race when it landed
this morning at Coalville, Utah, be-
cause Of the snowstorm. Number 20
/ driven by Lieut.. Norman H. Langley
also was reported damaged in q
, forced landing at Jacksonville, Pa.