Bisbee daily review., 1921-02-24
M|GHT AERIAL SERVICE WILL
 BE PUT IN ]
 EFFECT MAY 1.
Postoffice Officials Say New York Will Get Mail
 From Coast 36 Hours
FLYERS FIGHT STORM
? WeStboumd Planes Give Up Flight When One Falls
 And Second Is Stopped

HAZELHURST, N. Y.. Feb. 23.-- Eight bags of mail, dispatched from San Francisco by airplane at 4:30 yesterday morning, arrived at Hazel hurst Field today at 4:50 D. m., es- tablishing a cross-country mail record of 33 hours and 20 minutes with all lowance for time zone changes in the coast to coast flight.
 The mail was transferred from plane to plane in a reIay flight order ed by the postoffice department to establish a new cross-country mail record. The plane. which arrived at Hazelhurst. was piloted by F. M. Ali son, member of one of the four teams which took part in the race, two planes leaving Hazelhurst Field and two starting from San Francisco at the same time yesterday.
 One of the westward bound planes came to grief when Pilot F. M. Leon hard was forced 10 descend yesterday at Dubois, Pa, on account Of bad weather. The second westbound plane reached Chicago yesterday and was unable to get away today.
 The eastward bound plane crashed to earth at Elko. New, yesterday. kill ing the pilot, Captain w. F. Lewis.
 Captain Allison piloted one west ward bound plane as far as Cleveland where it was taken over by another pilot on the second lap of the relay which ended at Chicago He then took the winning plane in charge at Cleve- land. returned to HaZelhust Field to- day bettering the time set for the flight by the poStotfice department by two hours and 40 minutes.
 WASHINGTON. Feb. 2S.-Postoffice department officials. while gratified with the achievement of the air mail service in delivering at New York to- night mail which left San Francisco yesterday morning, said the most re- markable part of the performance was the all-night flight from Cheyene Wyo. to Chicago. S39 miles.
 The all-night flight, made by Pilots frank Yaker and Jack Knight. dem onstrated the feasibility of night fly ing. officials say. With this state ment they coupled the announcement that orders had been issued to pre- pare for regular night flying on the New York and San Francisco route, probably about May l.
 Tt is expected that on May l. f plans are carried out" said 8 tate ment. might flying will be regularly established along the New York-San Francisco and New York mail will he delivered in approximately 36 hours, covering the whole distance across the continent"
 Otto Praeger. assistant postmaster general. described last nights flight between Cheyenne and Chicago as 'the most momentous step in civil He added that it would mean the speedy revolutionizing of the letter transportation methods and practices throughout the world
 Knight Gets Lost
 Pilot Wager made the flight be tween Cheyenne and North Platte. Neb, leaving Cheyenne at 4:59 D. m. and reaching North Platte at 7:4S ?. m. X delay of nearly three hours ensued because of repairs to the plane and then at l0:44 o'clock. Pilot Knight hopped off and arrived in Chi cago today at $40 o'clock.
 Pilot Knight. in a report said:
 Left North Platte at lO;4i D. m, cloudy. moon shining intermittently but had no particular trouble follow ing course through use of compass and occasional glimpSes of ground and river. Arrived Omaha l:lO a. m. left 1:5s a. m. Delay at Omaha due io studying route omoha to Chicago which had never flown.
 Visibility fair until about Des Moines. where I encountered fog and snow flurrieS lasting to Iowa City. Lost 10 minutes at Iowa City locating town and field and remained there un. til I got weather report from Chica. ga as weather was bad Between Iowa City and Chicago the weather was bad until about e:SO a. m. when it began improving and was compara. ticelY clenr at five in tho if,nrnins !"