Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-09-13
MORN SHIPS CAUSE
i. 6. Globe filters
To AVOID ROCKIES
WASHINGTON, Sept. 1f.-W

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11.-W'th
; planes of the army world
FL, squadron now at Boiling field.
the filters settled ,.owr today for
another two days lay-over in the
national capital under a revised
schedule which will keen them here
for participation in the Defense day
test Friday.
y ,ntra3t to the heralded ar
rival of the planes of-his two com
ranion pill hcro day. Lieu
tenant Erik n on unceremoniously
dropped down in his plane New Or
leans at Boiling field late ycster-
day. lie flew it from Halethorpe,
near Baltimore, where he was forced
down in the flight from New YORK,
without even any Of the service men
at the field knowing ne was on the
way. Going out from here to in
spect work on the plane, he found
it shipshape after the installation
of a new motor, climbed aboard and
flew in it himself so there would
be no break of even a few miles in
his record as pilot of the world
ding craft.
Just before his arrival. the war
| department announced that at the
request of Lieutenant Lowell II.
Smith, flight conn., ,nGor, the orisi-
nal tranS-continent&l route for the
fIicrs had been changed to avoid the
high attitudes encountered along the
air mail line from Chicago to Sacrl-
mento. Instead Of taking this route
to their terminus at Seattle the
department annour ed an itinerary
that will take the filters over
sou,hcrly course down through
O lGhoma and Teas after leaving
Chicago.
TIE department explained in an
an ouncement that, owing to the
strain to which the planes have been
subjected having considerably re-
duced their efficiency" it would be
unsafe for them to attempt to fly
at an altitude of over $500 feet.
The fliers now are scheduled to
leave Boiling field Saturday morn
ing about O'Clock for Dayton, OHIO,
where they probably will remain
over Sunday.
The filters, headed by Lieutenant
Smith and accompanied by Major
General Patrick, chief of the army
air service, paid their respects today
to General Pershing and all chiefs OF
branches of the general staff of the
army.
Yours has been a wonderful
achievement, casting credit upon the
army as whole" General Pershing
said, addressing them. Il wish you
a continued success"
FANNIE REALIZES HE MUST
CROSS PACIFIC AT ONCE
TOXIC, Sept. 11.-(By the Asso-
ciated Press, )-Major Pedro Zanni,
Argentine aviator, now on an air
tour of the world today issued new
instructions to Patrick Murphy, his
advance man here, urging greater
speed in making preparations for
the Argentine's transpacific flight.
Expense doesn't NATTER" said the
aviator in a message from Hanoi,
fFenCn 1ndO-Cnlnd, Wnefo he IS pre-
pairing to hop off in a new plane re-
ceived after he damaged his former
machine in a forced landing there
some weeks ago.
Major Zanni asked Murphy to OBJ
tain the services of three fast mer-
chant steamers equipped with radio
to lay supplies in the transpa cific
route of the flight as far as Van
couVer
Regardless of whether or not Jap
anese destroyers are sent to the
Kurile Islands," Major Zanni's mes
sage said, 'the most thorough prep
arations are necessary now to make
up time lost through the Hanoi
crash or else the lateness Of the sea-
son when we must attempt the trans
pacific flight spells failure"