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piled, T don't know" He added that this was "up to the air service off cials at Washington
 Lieutenant Maughan said over the telephone also that it would take three or four hours to repair his plane He said he probably would not go to San Francisco, now that the flight was ended.
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 Was Nearing End.
 He was within 645 miles of the end Of his flight and less than two hours from Salduro, the final stop ping point before the last lap of his journey when the new leak in the oil cooler forced him to descend.
 The flight, several times cancelled. owing to indictment weather or newly defects in the oil feed line attempt which Vaughan made on July 9. on that trip he was forced down at Avenue City. Mo, 10 miles from St. Joseph, the terminal of the second lap of his flight. A clogged oil feed line caused temporary aban- Gonment of plans for the flight.
 Undaunted however, Maughan re-
  sanction of army authorities for an ether effort to beat the sun to the vest coast. The trip was being made largely to demonstrate the feasibility of moving aerial warcraft from one coast to the other of the United States as wartime maneu- yer.
 A bundle of newspapers which was thrown into the cockpit of Maughan's plane. just before he took off at Mitchell field at 4:06 a. m., eastern standard time this morning was un- done and the papers eagerly scanned by air mail employees at Rock Springs this afternoon. They were the newspapers about which Maughan had said before he de- parted, "I want to be the first news vendor to sell New York morning newspapers in San Francisco on the evening of the day of their publica- tion.'
 Vaughan Plays Safe.
 Winging his way westward Maughan raced from the Atlantic seaboard, across the Mississippi and Mussourl river valleys and toward the Rocky mountains throughout this morning.
 On the first leg of his trip from Mitchell field to Dayton, O., Maughan played safe" flying the usual airways between the two cities and using familiar landmarks to Cb- viate the danger of becoming lost which cost him a delay of more than an hour in the first attempt. He ar rived at Dayton at S:35 eastern standard time, 51 minutes behind his tentative schedule. He had covered the first lap of his trip, 570 miles In four hours ? minutes. His air speed indicator during most of the journey had registered 155 miles an hour.
 After his plane had been refueled and examined and he had partaken Cf light breakfast, he took the air at S:53 o'clock, circled the field once and headed southwest for St. Joseph, Mo.
 Arrives In st. Joseph.
 Flying high and fast, Maughan took course farther south than the one he pursued on his first flight. At Springfield his height was esti- mated at about 2,o00 feet and his speed at 163 miles an hour At 11;2o Maughan arrived at St. Joseph. He was greeted effusively by the towns people who had witnessed the disap- pointing termination of his first at tempt. more than 1900 spectators gathering to see him alight. A dis tance of 1,140 miles, he was already almost halfway across the continent, but still slightly behind the schedule he originally had set.
 He had his plane tuned up again aRd he took off at 12:03 D. m. headed for Cheyenne. the third stopping point on his schedule.
 His route from St. Joseph to Chey enne was carefully charted as he progressed and he continued to race along at the average speed which he had set earlier in the flight. At St. Joseph Maughan had announced he was saving his speed for later in the day after he had passed the Great Divide.
 Suffered From Nausea.
 The first protracted break in Maughan's schedule came at Chey- enne, where he landed It '3:32 p. m., mountain time. after encircling the minutes later, still suffering from the effects Cf nausea which had re- suited from the fumes of the leaking oil he arose, despite the handicap he then was under. to complete his transcontinental trip before daylight vanished.
 Maughan had covered 1,6S0 miles. On the basis of the total elsapsed time since he had left Mitchell field, he had traVersed nearly two-thirds Of the continent at an average speed of 1856 miles an hour. He hoped eff at 3:27. after the , oil leak had been hastily soldered, the plane refueled ad inspected and he had recovered somewhat from the nausea caused by the fumes. When forced to land at Rock Springs he had come within 645 miles of his goal
 o O o May Visit Family.
 He added that he might fly .o Logan, Utah, tomorrow to see his | wife and children and his mother i After that. he asserted Mitchell i Field. x. r., the starting point Of l his transcontinental flight today probably would be his destination