Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-08-18
Aloha, Honolulu Plane, Sec
ond to Reach Goal, Gets
$4,000.
FLIGHT SUCCESS
Jensen, Lost for A Hours
Is Second to Arrive On
Field.

WHEELER FIELD, HONOLULU,
Aug. II, RY-With the arrival here at
2:20 D. m. today (4:50 p. m. San
Francisco time) of Martin Jensen's
Aloha and Art Goebel's Woolaroc at
12:23:33 p. m. (2:53:50 p. m. san
Francisco time) two of the four planes
to make successful hop-offs IN the
$4,000 James B. Dole air race from
Oakland, Calf, to Hawaii were at
their goal.
Though Jensen and his navigator
Paul Schulter, hoped off from the
mainland at 1924 sp. m. San Fran
cisco time, Tuesday, just two min
utes before the Woolaroc left the
ground, he arrived at Wheeler field
hour, minutes and q seconds in
the wake of the big blue and yellow
monoplane.
No reports of the Miss Doran and
Golden Eagle, the other two planes
that started for the islands were re-
ceived after they passed the Faral-
lone islands, just outside San Fran
,cisco
The monoplane Woolaroc, driven
by Goebel, stunt flier of the Holly
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Davis, lieutenant of the United States
navy, won the Dole prize of $25,OOO.
Other planes which started at about
the same time that the Woolaroc
roared away frim the airport OF Oak
land, California, had not been seen
since about A p. M, Pacific time
yesterday, but during the night two
planes were heard passing over the
steamship Manulani. They were not
identified, and the location of the
other contestant planes-the Golden
Eagle and the Miss Doran could not
be located.
The Woolaroc alighted at Wheeler
field, about 25 miles from Honolulu
after flying twenty six hours, seven
teen minutes and thirty three sec
onds through fog, moonlight and
sunshine. Its arrival was the signal
for a tumultuous ovation by 10000
people packed around the landing
field, thousands of whom had waited
all night to see the finish OF the
first trans nS-oceanic flight race in
history.
The first to greet the victorious
GoebeI was Mrs. Martin Jensen wife
of the pilot of the Aloha, Honolulu's
entry by popular subscription. Mrs.
Jensen dived under the whirling pro-
peIler of Goebel's plane as it came
to rest and kissed him several times.
Even as she did so, she inquired for
news of her husband whose fate and
that of the others out over the Pacific
then remained uncertain.
The roar of the motors on the
trip left Goebel's hearing temporarily
impaired.
Pardon me if I misunderstood
you My ears are still ringing from
the hum of the motors"
Meanwhile Goebel appeared in a
bathing suit and announced that he
was ready for a dip. Both Goebel
and Davis started plans for a party
tonight, inviting newspapermen to go
swimming with them.
When informed that Martin Jen-
sen, Honolulu's favorite in the race
had landed Lieut.. Davis said:
That's wonderful, am certainly
glad he made it. All that we hope
is that the others come through
safely" ''n '@sN
Lieut. Davis said that everything
on the plane went well, excepting a
little radio trouble which he was
able to repair.
"Once during the night" he con-
tinued, ''T thought we we're having
motor trouble. I crawled up to the
tail of the plane to oil some working
parts. While was extracting one of
the brushes it dropped and landed
under the floor boards. 1t started to
vibrate and sounded like the pistons
were blowing.
"I dragged out the water bottle
and the emergency rations and be-
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