, 1923-07-20

with a leaking oil cooler at no
tesrday.
winging his way westward across
perilous wyoming mountain ranges
at the terrific rate of ITO miles an
hour, after covering more than two
thirds of the 2.670 mile flight. the
lieutenant was forced to descend with
oil pouring from the planes tank in
bucketfuIls and n~auseating fumes
engulhng the machine and weaken
ing its intrepid pilot.
Lieutenant Vaughan had passed
Rock Springs and had covered ebout
half the distance of the fourth leg
of his four-stop flight when he real
lied that to continue and reach his
goal-San Francisco-before night
fall, was impossible. He swerved his
plane, turned back toward Rock
Springs and landed at the air mail
field there at sos p. m. 1t was Just
is hours to the minute after he took
of from Mitchell Field. New York,
yesterday morning.
After a successful flight from the
eastern terminal through h first
two legs of the fight-from Mitchell
Field to Dayton, Ohio. and from Day
ton to st. Joseph. Mo.-Lieiitenant
Mzurhan encountered his first trouble
with the oil cooler shortly after noon
yesterday, at North Platte. Neb. By
the time he had reached Cheyenne,
wyo., completing the third leg of the
flight, he was so weakened by the
escaping oil fumes that he almost fell
from the cockpit.
Racked with nausea and in virtual
iy a semi-conscious condition. the
aviator rested while mechanics
worked desperately and soldered the
leaking oil tank. Delayed for nearly
ian hour over his original schedule
Z while stopping there. Lieutenant
Maughan hoped on. determined to
make a supreme effort to cover the
stretch of nearly 1000 miles that
separated him from his goal. Elk
pressing keen disappointment and
noticeably discouraged at the out
come of his second attempt within
ten DAYS to CROSS h nation in a day.
tho lieutenant took heart in a moral
victory and in the hope that he might
have another chance to fulfill his
life time ambition
"It was the oil cooler" Lieutenant
Vaughan told an Associated Press
correspondent as he rested his tired
body in a hotel here and told the
atorv of his flight. 1T thought we
had It fixed at Cheyenne" he CON
tinued, ''but it ecam worse and l
drove ON. Twenty miles u OF Rock
Springs II began to leak in bucket
fulls and / thought 1t best to quit
wasn't It wonderfully" he etacu'
lated. sI think It was a wonderful
thing even IL I didn't complete the
task. But those things happen ana
II was one of those things over wnich
we have no control
Tieutenant Maughan's plano was
M the air mail field here today under
going repair work to the oil tank
ana mechanics expected to have IL
ready for flight within a few hours
After n good nights rest. the aviator
TODAY PLANNED TO cross the border oil
his homestate, Utah. and visit his
mother and wife.
His FIRST act altering coming to the
hotsl bare from the air Held after
turning over his machine to the two
Attendants who were the only wit
nsgpss OF the flights termination, was
10 call on long distance telephone
his mother at Logan. Utah. and his
wife at Hebsr city. Utah to tell them
that he had failed
After visiting them n other
friends in his home town. Logan. not
forgetting the toilins own printers
for whom not so many years g he
was = humble printers devil Lieu
n Maughan probably will tax
of on a return night to Mitchell Field
via tho route he took in attempting
his transcontinental flight
Lieutenant Vaughan referred as