The sun., 1919-10-11
THREE filters HOPE
TO REACH MINEOLA

The smash had deprived 1t Of flying
speed and as 1t rose again the engine
went dead. The plane turned slightly
and then crashed down nose first into
the muddy field. Mcclure. who had
undone his safety belt and was sitting
on the fussilage. was hurled over the
machine and landed on his shoulders
fifteen feet in front of the wrecked
plane. He was rushed to a hospital in
a Red Cross ambulance. but died on the
way.
Major Sneed was only slightly bruised
by the impact. McClure's death is the
fifth during the race and the seventh
since the planes started to fly toward
the starting points.
News of the death of Lieut.. E. V.
Wales reached the American Flying
Club yesterday after a rescue party had
made its way to his smashed machine on
Elk Mountain. When the machine
dashed into the mountalnside near
Rawlins. Wyo., during binding snow
storm. Wales was badly injured. His
observer, Lieut.. Goldsborough. was also
injured, but managed to make his way
three miles through the storm to a
farmhouse to get help.
Inc rescue party WHICH IOunu the
plane after several hours was too late
to save Wales, however. His body was
taken to the ranch of Charles Paulson,
near Milo. Wyo.
Lieut.. Wales, who was born in the
State of Washington, was married and
leaves mother also. He was trans
portation officer in charge of forest fire
patrol work at Mather Field.
Three other planes Of the fifteen which
left San Francisco crashed yesterday
among the mountains Of Wyoming and
Nevada. Cadet A. ]. Nassarrer. plotting
a LIE Pere biplane, motored by a 400
horsepower Liberty engine. In which
Serg. G. NJ. Robinson was passenger,
went down at Battle Mountain His
plane nosed over In landing on the
field but neither he nor Robinson was
injured.
Lieut.. s. e. Rice, driving an SEES. a
British scout machine, and flying alone,
also nosed over at West Battle Noun
tain In coming to the ground.
The third crash was at Bitter Creek,
wyo In making a forced landing the
DE Haviland Bluebird, driven by Second
| Lieut.. Spencer Hall. with Lieut.. William
Beban as passenger, also crashed. The
three machines are out of the race.
| In the muddy fields of the central part
! of the continent many narrow escapes
were experienced during the day. Plane
No. IA made a squash" landing in a
wheat filed near Buchanan, Mich. Col.
| John M. Reynolds. pilot, and his pas
| senger were uninjured. but the plane
| sank deep into the mud. The plane had
| left Bryan, Ohio, for Chicago at Ill :02
| in the morning.
| During the day eastern and western
fiiers mingled in the controls of Illinois
Nebraska and other central States The
longest flights of the day were made by
Major Carl Spatz ana Lieut.. E. C. Kiel
| who left St Paul in the morning and
| travelled to Bryan, Ohio. Both mer
passed through one more control than
| Capt. Lowell Smith, who started from
| Omaha.
Lieut.. Maynard, who on the two prev
ious days had made the longest fights
made 4S7 miles during the afternoon
He was delayed at Cheyenne by a radi-
ator which was broken when he made
landing in the dark on the previous
night. He finally got his ship in shape
at ~ :35 and started out
Pacifc Filler Has III Luck.
Capt Smith, who was the leader o.
the Pacific fiiers until Major Spatz ant
Lieut.. Kiel caught him at Bryan. alst
had bad fortune. He reached Rocl
Island at :43 in the morning, but wa!
held there until AS because the Chi
cago field was too soggy to permit land
ings. When a new field was selected
Major Spatz and Lieut.. Kiel had als'
reached the control, the former at IL 49,
and the latter at 1929. All three pilot
raced to Chicago, 1856 miles away, ant
from there to Bryan, 100 miles furthe
on. Capt. Smith brought his machine
down into the control first. landing a
1850, and Lieut.. Kiel followed hin
thirty-seven minutes later. Major Spat
reached the field at 5:47.
A feature of the days hard racing
was the squirt made BY Capt. H. C
Drayton in ,DH-4. Capt. Drayton, VIII
spent the night at Des Moines. left a
1924 A. M and arrived at Rawlins
Wyo., at 4:03. He planned to go oil
to Salt Lake City, thus putting himsel
: right at the heels of the "1ying parson,
: but decided later to remain at tn
: Wyoming city. He covered 673 mile
during the day.
or the other Westerners Lieut.. R. S
Worthington was reported at Rock Isl
and, ILL.,, apparently securely in fourtl
place among the men from San Fran
cisco.
: Although the deaths of the seven flier
and the crashes Of many more hav
saddened the pilots, civilian and mill
, tary, who make their headquarters a
the American Flying Club in New Yorl
they maintain unanimously that a ma
) Jority of these would have been eiimi
mated IL proper emergency landing field
properly marked had been strung out a
, intervals across the country. They use
) the lack of landing fields as an argu
l fnr q raf 70 atv dataa tine mt attn
3 as England has. pointing out that jus
] at present 1t is apparently nobody
r business to attend to their establish
ment. Commercial aviation. they as
serted, is coming rapidly in Europe. an
lack of landing fields here will delay 4
Col. Culver's Opinion.
Col. C. C. Culver, At years old, tn
Oldest contestant in the race, who mad
a forced landing near Buffalo, smashln
Z his Fokker machine. declared that radi
beacons sending out signals of warnn
or direction on the major landing field
would have eliminated 80 per cent. @
: the crashes. Col. Culver, who is a wire
!. less expert, who had much to do wit
: the filling of radio on Airpianes, point
: ed out that his own accident might hav
: been avoided. He said
q Municipalities in cooperation wit
= the Government agencies should estal
:, lish major landing fields at distances {
: 100 to $50 miles apart. These field
: should be equipped with hangers. repa
and supply shops They should have
radio station, whose call should be II
, numeral or letter by which the field
= known on the maps. To these station
should be sent weather reports. whic
:. in turn should be repeated along wit