The sun., 1919-10-15
MAYNARD PASSES
RENO ON WAY EAST
Styling Parson," First to
Start SECOND Leg of Trip,
Crosses Sicrras.
MARTIN BOMBER CRASHES
Heavy Fog in Neighborhood
of Omaha Causes Number
of Accidents.

Lieut. Re'vin w Movnard the Tying
parson. tooli of Yesterday afternoon at
San Francisco or the return fight to the
Atlantic coast oniv ron minutes after
the time barrier holding him at the
Golden Gate had been rnised
With the same mach'nelike precision
with which he has regulated ms shin
Lieut. Maynard took off at i.22 and
covered the seventy-fve miles separat-
ing him from Msther Field. Sacramento.
In forty-nine minutes. He remained Mt
Mather Field an hour. departing - 3 II.
During this time he Inspected his ship
for the journey over the ezra Nevada
Mountains. which he regarded as the
most dangerous barrier in his path to
Mineola, and incidentally to his wife
and two baby girls He surmounted the
mountains and reached Reno. New. 112
miles away, in fifty-nine minutes. From
there he pressed on to Battle Mountain,
New, 160 miles away, where he spent
the night.
Lieut.. Maynard's plane was in fine
shape for the return journey. and he
hoped to beat his own flying time Of "a
hours SO minutes and so seconds. with
the aid of favoring winds. which gen.
orally blow from the west. The only
replacement he made in San Francisco
was q new tire.
Eighth Man mt Pacific.
While Lieut. Maynard was getting
ready to take off Lieut.-Col. T. S. Bowen,
flying a De Haviland Bluebird, arrived
at IL :31. Col. Bowen was the eighth of
the Mineola fliers to arrive.
OF the five San Francisco fliers who
have arrived at Mineola only two, Capt.
J.. II. Smith, who was third, and Lieut..
Robert Worthington, who was fifth. are
willing to fly back. The Others includ-
ing Major Spatz. who finished first, are
frankly not eager to make the return
trip They say that their machines are
UNIT for the flight as the result of the
rough weather they met on the east
ward trip. The maximum time Major
Spatz and Lieut. Kiel. who arrived Sat-
urday. are permitted to remain at New
York will expire Fridays morning. II
they are not in the air by then they will
be disqualified.
Col Archie Miller. in charge of avia-
zion on Long Island, put a stop to ru-
mors that Major Spatz and Lieut. Kiel
would return TO the Pacific by a South
ern route. Both men expressed pref
erence for a trip through the South.
81 know nothing Of any change of pro-
gramme for the return TO San Fran
CISCO he said. $50 far as l know, the
aviators will return the way they came"
Crashes at Omaha.
The bad weather which has per-
sistently followed the fiiers from the
East moved out to Omaha, Wyoming
and Utah. with many of them yester-
day. causing one crash and several
forced landings.
The big Martin bomber, the largest
entry. was completely wrecked and
Capt Roy N. Francis. pilot. and four
passengers badly shaken up when the
plane ran into some telegraph wires
thirty miles west of Omaha. Among
the passengers was Capt De Lavergne
the French Military Attache at Wash
ington, who has had conspicuously bad
luck
Experts of the American Flying Club
were greatly surprised by the news that
Capt. Francis's entry had been elm
mated. The bomber Is a comparatively
slow ship. being rated at only 112 miles
an hour, compared. to the fleet OH
planes which rate 124, but no one had
doubted that II would reach San Fran
cisco In safety. Capt. Francis has flown
this type for many months, and has
never before had a crash in a bomber.
Lands I'm Corn Field.
Capt Francis, together with Lieut.. j.
~. johnson and Capt Felix Steinle. left
Des Molnes. the control next to the east
ward of Omaha, before word reached the
control commander of the fog. Lieut.
johnson, flying an SE-5, was severely
bruised when he attempted to land three
miles from Ak-Sar-Ben field, Omaha, at
$3.50 In the morning. Later with tenn
porary repairs he flew to the field, ar
irving there at 10:1e:52. Capt. Steinle,
who was flying a De Haviland with
Sergeant II. Meyers as observer. sue
ceeded In landing in a corn field eight
miles southeast of Council Bluffs, Ia,
after becoming lost in the fog.
Lieut.. s. r. Wells, officer In charge
of the control station at Omaha, held
Lieut. d. B. Gish, who was permitted
10 restart after his first plane was
wrecked by fre, Major ]. w. Simons,
Jr, Major Henry Abbey and Major Ed
win B. Lyon because of the bad weather
At Des Moines Lieut.. r. C. Kirkpatrick,
Lieut.. L. ". Beau and Lieut. R. L. Maui
CHAN were held. Lieut. J. P. Roullet
and Lieut.. F. W. Torney were held at
Cheyenne. Word reached New York
yesterday that II. ]. Meyer. mechanician
on Lieut.. H. d. Norris's plane, which
crashed Monday in the fog at Oconto,
Neb.. had suffered a fractured. shoulder
in the wreck.
Cadet d. L. Cardiff. whose Fokker
plane has been giving much trouble
since he left San Francisco. reached
Salt Lake City yesterday and expressed
the hope that he could continue east
ward to-day as soon as necessary re-
pairs have been, made. Another claim
ant for hard luck honors in the race
Is Major A. II. Gilkeson, who reached
Chicago at IL :36 A. NJ. He has flown
in rain most Of the time since he left
Mineola, his plane caught Are once be-
tween Cleveland and Bryan, Ohio. and
he had serious engine trouble all the
way to Chicago yesterday.
I'm going to finish this race" he