Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-09-13
TWO FLYERS HURT
AS AIR RACE PLANE
CRASHES IN INDIANA
TkaW and Morris Found After
Lying in Wreckage for
Hours.
FOUR SHIPS REMAIN
IN NONSTOP FLIGHT
One Believed Sighted Over Kansas.
Los Angeles Crowds Await
Arrival.
Rx the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SPOKANE, Wash, September 13
Nick Manner, Spokane entrant
in the nonstop transcontinental
race from New York to Los Angeles.
was forced down. unburt. at Rawlins.
Wyo., at a33 O'Clock this morning.
Manner. who was flying Buhl Ses-
oui plans, teleerapfed to his wife
here.
TULSA. Okla, September 13 tPD.
Lieut.. Comdr. Jack Iseman, flying
Charles A. Lcvines transatlantic
monoplane. the Columbia, in the
New York to Los Angeles Nonstop
air race. passed over Tulsa at IL am.
SALINA, Kans., September 13 Up
An airplane, believed to be one OF
the transcontinental nonstop racers,
passed over Salina at 4:5O am.
travelling southwestward at high
rate of speed. Darkness made its
Identification impossible.
B. the Associated Press
DECATUR, Ind, September 13.-Col.
William Tl1aw, I'd, of Pittsburgh. and
Capt. John P Morris, also of Pittsburgh,
plotting a Lockheed Vega plane in the
nonstop air race, were forced down on
q farm Is miles south of Decatur. Ind
at 1890 o'clock this morning by d
broken oil line.
Col. Thaw suffered a dislocated hip
and both were badly bruised. They
were unable to summon aid and laid in
the wreakage of their plane until found
bv a farmer at O'Clock this morning
They were brought to a hospital here
When the aviators discovered their
oil line was broken they dropped a flare
in an effort to locate field for landing.
The fare was extinguished, however.
before the plane reached the ground
and it struck fence. The plane was
demolished.
Further examination of Capt. Morris
disclosed a dislocated shoulder and
fracture of the pelvis.
Called death Trap"
When the plane. owned by Col. Thaw'
left Roosevelt Field yesterday, others re-
ferred to it as a death trap" The
great monoplane was so constructed
that Thaw he'd no chance to Jump in
case of accident.
Cant. Morris was at the controls when
the accident occurred. The two myers
took off from Roosevelt Field at pm,
Eastern daylight saving time last
night. .ho
roce weighing more than 200 pounds,
and his plane had the most powerful en-
rine in the race. His ship was a LOCK-
heed Vega similar to the Yankee Dooole
Of Art Goebel, the favorite, but 1t nao
pratt & Whitney 500-horsepoWer mo
tor. 100 horsepower more than Goeoei
BEFORE the take-off some aviators eX-
nressed the opinion that ThaWs engine
was too heavy for the ship and conslo-
cred it possible that the vibration mlgnt
shake loose gasoline or oil lines.
Thaw Secuted Danger.
Thaw himself took little heed OF the
taIl nf danger. merely remarking when
asked about his chances in case OF acci, 4,
dent, well, I'm fat and III bounce ;,
The Thaw ship had black body with
orange wings and was marked WI with oiaeT race
No. 33. The fuselage was the cigar
shane of all Lockheed Vegas. IT, %
Morris was one of the two plio,s 80 "
take off Yesterday in such expert Style
At M least a moment of trepidation, tne
other ct e being Goebel. And this despite
the the fact that he took off after dark DARK
on @ field that has no food lights. Most
Of the pilots went down the runway t,l w a
With numerous bumps and breatn-Cask1, s,1,,
ing hops. but Goebel and the IhaW ,,.;t s.atp
roared from one end to the otnel WIZ, VIZ
the smoothness OF 2 plro nlsii' "
took the air with a birds grace.