Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1928-09-14
Elements Via In
Mems Stop Flight

Ms FIELD, Los ANGELES,
cspt. ls.-tPl-The elements today
stood victor in the nonstop trans
continental air derby. feature event
OF the National air race meet in prog
ress here. and $22,500 posted for thu
first fo-r finishers in the event re-
manned with race officials.
None Of the Rine planes which
hoped from Roosevelt Field. New
York Wednesday reached their goal
without a stop. through for q time
yesterday il was thought Art Goe-
bel, holder of sha west-to-east nom
stop record, had won first prize.
Goebel, winner Of the Dole air race
from Oakland a. Hawaii last August,
was the sosa pilot TO reach Mines
Field, landing hers at 1920 p. m, Pa
cific standard tia9e, amid a great
outburst Of applause from the crowd.
Goekel Lands
Goebel reyealed q had been dis
qualified BY q landing at Prescott,
Ariz., earlier In the day, when ne
grounded 60 adjust a faulty carbu-
rotor and TO take on additional gaso-
1ine.
He brought a story Of a bitter bat
tie oyer the Rocky mountains, dur
ing which his white LockhCed-Nega
monoplane met fierce h~eadwinds,
transforms. The craft, "The Yankee
Doodle" bore evidence of the vio-
5enee Of the storm, one cabin door
being torn away.
Goebel landed % hours and 20
minutes after his takcoff in New
York, which time, despite the hour
and ten minutes he was on the
ground in Arizona was 3 hours bet
ter than the east-to-west nonstop
record Of 90 hours, so minutes, 80
% seconds set BY L~icutcnants Oak
ley O. Kelley ard John A. MacReady
in 1929.
He was the favorite and was ex-
zected 10 have serious opposition
only from Col. William Tham's Lock
Sesuei planes, both forced down
e~arlFar.
Haldenan Last Down
Captain Gesrge Haldeman. Ruth
Elders pas1 her attempted trans
Atlantis flight, was the last plane
dowa in Ike aeeby, coming 70 earth
mt sos Suntain time ycster-
das az 4lsuqH rqae, N. NJ, on ac-
count of gasoline shortage following
o long fight With head winds.
A single accident married the race
when John r. Aors5s, pilot, and Col.
William Thaw II. navigator, both OF
Pittsburgh. crashed into a fence
after a brcksn MA line had forced
their LSckheed- Vega plane Sown at
Decatur Ind. Bosh were seriously
hurt.
Pilot Manner. in his orange Bull
Sesqui plane was the only one Of
thc contestants 20 choose the north
ern route, and ran into ugly weather
IN Wyoming that brought him down
after he had assumed a strategic
lead in the flight. Crossing above
Rawlins, Wyoy yesterday morning
after a long hard battle with storms
and SHOWS. the Spokane pilot was
forced down with ice forming On his
carburetor. He landed N 9:38 a. m.
mountain time.
Leak Stopped Levine's Plane
A leaky valve on an emergency
gas tank forced Lieut.. Jack Eiseman
Of the Rockawav naval air station.
flying Charles A. Levine's trans-At-
lantic Bellanca plane "The Column
bia" 10 descend al Amarillo. Texas.
Emil Hard Luck" Burgin Of Min
cola. n. T., who has earned his nick
name BY winning against similar
odds as the one encountered in this
race, had the same kind Of misfor-
tune as Haldeman and landed his
Bellanca in a eornfield at Willard.
n. NJ.
The other three were put ont
shortly after the start. Oliver lie
Boutellier Of East Orange. N. j.. re-
turned to Roosevelt Field soon after
the takcoff; Clifford McMillin Of
Syracuse, n. Y, landed at Chase. Pc.
and Randolph Page Of Worthwhile.
Mich. landed at Allentown. Pa.