Imperial Valley press., 1927-08-10
PLANES WILL
DEPART FROM
OAKLAND FIELD
Change Made Because of
UnfavOrable Conditions
in San Francisco.
BY United Press Leased Wire

SAN' FRANCISCO, Cal, Aug. 10.
Every contestant in the Dole prize
flight to Honolulu which starts Fri
day noon will take off from the
Oakland airport, the entrants def
initelv declared today.
Until the decision of Jack Frost
to use the field across the bay from
here there was a possibility that
Mills Field, San Francisco airport,
would be starting place as well as
Oakland airport. Frost was the last
to change, agreeing with others who
had moved earlier that bunny air
currents at Mills Field were dan.
gerous.
BY maxine the move, Frost sacri.
fees the right to start at12:01 D. m.
as he must take the last nosition at
the start. Bennett Griffin and Al
Henley. Oklahoma. drew the place
nearest the starting tame.
Eight ships here are primed for
the start.
The paint on Martin Jensen g
monoplane now is drv and he e~-
! poets to make his first flight in it
today. Vance Breese builder of the
p'ane, has already taken If into tho
air. Jensen's plane is yellow, with
the seal Of Hawaii and the name
Aloha painted in red on the fns
elage and lei of red and white
roses with green leaves on the bow.
when they see that plane in
Honolulu thew will 90 wild" Jensen,
whose homo is in Honolulu. declared.
One Woman Cut
The fact that she is the only
woman left in the race did not seem
to affect Mildred Doran, Michigan
school teacher, who will he pas
senger in John Auggy Peddlar's BIZ
plane.
Mrs. William P. Erwin, who was
to have accompanied her husband.
was forced to withdraw because of
her youth. Erwin expected to take
off from Dallas. Texas TODAY to- win
two prizes. first the Dole purse for
the Honolulu flight and second the
Easterwood prize for the first to
flv from Dallas to Hong Kong. Err
win will proceed from Honolulu to
Hong Kong. IF his wife. who is 90,
ACCOMPANIED him, he could not win
the Fasterwood prize.
Federal inspectors were quickly
completing the examinations of
eight aviators, their navigators and
their planes. The aviators being
subjected to the tests were Griffin,
Peddlar, Frost, Major Livingston
Irving, Art Goebel, Lieutenant Nor
man Goddard and Frank l.. Clark.
Although reported out of the race,
Clark had not notified the contest
committee here he would not start
and his personal representative here
denied the reports.
There has only been one formal
withdrawal so far. Robert Fowler,
one of the IS official entrants,
could not obtain plane.
The crew of Jensen's Hawaiian
entry was complete today Jensen
announced appointment of CAPTAIN
Paul Schleuter, master of the steam
or city of Nome and veteran paci-
fic mariner. as navigator.
Goddard Has Mishap
Gel Fncanto,n Lieutenant Nor.
man A. Goddard's entry figured in
two mishaps at the Oakland airport,
where it is tuning up. NJ. L. Dan
forth, mechanician, lost finger
when too close to the whirling pro-
pellor. A photographer in the path
of the descending plane later caused
Goddard 10 make sudden nose drop
TO avoid hitting the man and the re-
sulting bump disarranged the plane
radio and navigating instruments.
One of the busiest men in the
west is Kenneth j. Boedecker, field
engineer for the Wright aeronauti-
cal corporation whose whirlwind mot
or is used by the majority of the
entered planes. Boedecker is rush
ing from field to field, testing, tun-
ing and advising pilots regarding
the motor.
Several companies of National
Cuardsmen and a company of ma
rines will assist police in handling
the crowds at Oakland airport dur
ing the official takeoffs, it was an
nounced today,