Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-10-19
FLYING PARSON
WINS AIR RACE
ACROSS NATION
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again within few days in an attempt
, to make a one-stop continental
! flight. The single stop will be made
at Dallas, Texas, and the lieutenant
said that he expected to make the at
tempt within the coming week.
! The most joyous member of the
party, at least as far as demonstra-
ton went, was Trixie, the Belgian
police dog, who accompanied the
flying parson as his mascot. Trixie's
delight at finding the solid earth un-
der her once more knew no bounds
and as she dashed around and around
the plane joyously barking.
/ Pleasant Trip.
/ From the standpoint of pleasure"
said Lieutenant Maynard in an inter-
view after landing, describing his
round trip, 1--WE had quite bit out
of it. Flying over a number OF
states and getting into touch with
people in different parts of the coua-
try.
"Our hardships were scattered over
the continent. The first day was
| not so bad. We were tired out at
night, very tired, when we reached
Chicago on the way to San Francisco.
The Aero club had sleeping quarters
for US on the field. They offered to
take US in town but it would have TAX
en- us couple of hours to get back
in the morning so we decided to stay
on the field. We didn't get much
sleep. We had straw pillows ami
, straw mattresses and it was not very
comfortable.
Next morning we started out and
encountered the toughest weather Of
the trip. We finally got to Omaha
and the weather got better. The
wind was against US but we finally
made Cheyenne. We were delighted
at the amount of ground We had COW
cred at that time.
ut was freezing cold at Cheyenne.
We were ready to start before sun-up
next morning. Four minutes before
tn sun appeared we started our mo-
tor. We were pouring water into the
radiator and some Of it fell into the
! overflow pipes and froze.
"The temperature was about 20
degrees. We had to thaw the pipes
out and in SO doing we thought we
had blown the radiator to pieces. We
brought it off, took it to town and
had it repaired, got it back and were
| ready to leave by 1890.
1--WE got to Salduro that night at
sunset. The people there gave US
great reception. We got away
shortly after sunrise next morning
| and made San Francisco at 1:12. The
| enthusiasm was manifested by the
| greater number of people that turned
out, the congratulations that were
freely extended to us and the numec-
Gus invitations to RECEPTIONS that we
| received.
"The control stop commanders
were unprepared for our coming, be-
1 fore starting the trip we thought that
the Rockieswould be the worst part
of the trip for US. AS matter Of
fact they were not at all bad. Over
thHx nekies 500 feet above .thent sN3k
found, we could glide to safe 1snd
| ing place in any valley.
4 - Smoke Hides City.
"When we got near Reno we had
trouble in finding the field. Smoke
hung over the city and made it diff
cult to see. Going out of Reno we
had to Climb straight up.
."Going from Reno to Sacramento
was the most beautiful and most dan
gerous part of the trip. The moun-
tains were covered with trees and
snow. There was hardly room enough
to drive an OK cart though. We cross
ed the mountains at an altitude of
about $4,000 feet.
J eve had trouble in finding San
/ Francisco because of the heavy fog
(which hung over the city and were
half way across the bay before we
could see the shores We lost about
10 minutes trying to find the city
but had wonderful reception when
we arrived. It seemed as though
the whole city was out to welcome us.
~ hated to leave there"
II talked in couple of churches
last Sunday and had all kinds of in.
vitations I could not accept and was
rather disappointed to have to go
away
II was invited to lunch by the King
of Belgium. He was late and I did
not have time to wait. l invited him
to ride and he informed me his stay
1--WE had three days in San Fran
cisco and got away about LEO in the
afternoon on Tuesday. We found
Battle Mountain, New, about the most
enthusiastic town in the west.
Battle Mountain is the home town
Of Capt Lowell H. Smith. The whole
place turned out at the school house
that night and they gave dinner