Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-08-08
HONOLULU FLIGHT FRIDAY.
Entrants i'm Contest Draws Places To-
daY: Ii Listed to Fly.

NdSs II AAiStcu ~ Fly.
SAN FRANCISCO. August s H)-
With the $4,000 prize Dole air derby
to Honolulu awaiting the starters
flag at noon next Friday and three
other long distance flights in the
Offing, American aviators today
moved forward with plans for
major OF nsive against their beloved
enemy--C ;tance.
Sharing interest with the Dole Derby
was the plan of Edward f. Schlee,
Detroit business man, to take off at
Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, within
10 days, in an attempt to lower by at
least eight days the present record
time for travel around the world.
Schlee's plane. to be christened the
Pride of Detroit, will be piloted by
William Brock, former air mail flyer.
They will seek to lower the present
2S-day record Of Evans and Wells.
Bertaud Plans Test.
At Curtiss Field, New York, Lloyd
w. Bertaud was tuning up the mono
plane Old Glory for a test flight to
Cleveland on Wednesday, for his non.
stop flight to Rome, with James D.
Hill, associate pilot.
Paul A. Redfern was perfecting ar
rangements at Brunswick, Ga. with
Southern weather bureaus before at
tempting his nonstop flight from
Brunswick to Brazil. Redfern will fly
alone and plans to take off within the
next 10 days.
At the Oakland airport today four
entrants in the Dole race parked their
planes and crossed to San Francisco
to attend the official drawing for places
in the Dole take-off. They were: Maj.
Livingston Irving of Berkeley, John
A. Pedlar, Flint, Mich; Lieut.. Bennett
Griffin Of Bartlesville, Okla, and Lieut..
Norman Goddard of San Diego.
Two others. Frank L. Clark, Holly.
wood stunt flyer, and Martin Jensen,
Honolulu's Army entry in the race.
had their machines in San Francisco,
ready for assignments to places in
the runway at either Mills Field here
or Oakland airport.
Small Plane In Race.
Clark, who has a small plane, in
Dictated that he might not start for
Honolulu if all the tentative starters
get under way on Friday. However,
if but tire or four ar able to go, the
Hollywood flyer is willing to pit his
small plane against the field.
If the three planes within striking
distance of San Francisco put in to
local airports before nightfall, nine
planes will be ready for the lineup on
Friday, uness they encounter unfor-
seen difficulties. Fourteen planes are
entered
Art Goebel, Hollywood stunt flyer,
who came through with his monoplane
from Oklahoma without a mishap,
was at Santa Monica at daybreak
heading toward the hop-off point.
Charles w. Parkhurst, Lomax, ILL.,,
also planned to get into the air at
daybreak with the idea of reaching
San Francisco in one hop. He is fling
an Airking biplano, capable of de-
veloping 100 miles an hour in the
l ,700-mile journey to the coast.
Jack Frost. flying the San Francisco
Examiners entry, was ready for the
hop-off for San Francisco from Los
Angeles.
The other entrants indicated they
would not be in sight of the starting
point before Thursday.
TripIane Among Entries.
Capt. Arthur V. Rogers of Long
Beach, flying a full Cantilever mono
plane, said he probably would fly to
San Diego tomorrow to go on the COM
pass testing table before coming to
San Francisco.
The huge triplane Pride of Los
Angeles" was at Long Beach, with no
indication from Capt. j. l.. Gifiin. her
pilot, when she would move up to the
starting line.
Capt. and Mrs. William Erwin
waited in Dallas today, determined
not to leave until their Spirit of Dali
las, bound from Dallas to Hongkong
for the SIS 900 Easterwood prize. is in
perfect tune, regardless of the start
ing date Of the Dole flight. Erwin
is a Dole entry.
Lieut.. George Covell, U. S. N, was
kept down at San Diego while he was
attempting to switch naVigators be-
cause of the illness of Lieut.. Leo
Palikowski, his navigator, who under
went an operation on Saturday. Lieut..
Comdr Frank Wagner of san Diego
may relieve Lieut.. Palikowski.
All Plans Drawn Today.
All entrants in the Dole race were
represented today by proxy at the
drawing to be held for starting posi-
tons.
Some last minute provisions Tor
emergency gasoline storage space was
anticipated today as the result OF the
ruling by Capt. Walter r. Parkln or
the Department of Commerce that all
entrants must carry minimum or
400 gallons Of gasoline and an aux
Hilary supply of 60 gallons.
The preliminary survey or planes
entered in the race shows that Mar
tin Jensen, Honolulu entry. must find
way to stow away 80 more gallons.
The San Francisco Examiners plane,
piloted by Jack Frost. has 350-gallon
gasoline-carrying capacity; Lieut..
| Charles Parkhurst's City of Peoria
will carry 372 gallons. and Lieut. Nor
man Goddard's carries but $50 gal.
! Ions, data supplied by the entrants
show.
All other planes in the flight have
a gasoline capacity of more tfAn 400
Hons