The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1928-09-14
G0EBEL LANDS
AFTER MAKING
ARIZONA STOP
.4
Yankee Doodle Only Craft 10
Reach Coast After Battling
~ Storm
MANY FORCED DOWN
Ugly Weather Brings Gamer
to Earth With Icy Wings
In Wyoming
MANY FORCED DOWN

Mines Field, Los Angeles, Sept.
l4.-UN-The elements today stood
victor in the nonstop transconti-
mental air derby, feature event Of
The national air race meet in prog
reSs here, and $4,000 posted for the
first four finishers in the event re-
mained with race officials.
!. None Of the nine planes which
hopped from Roosevelt field, New
York, Wednesday reached their goal
without = stop, though for . time
yesterday It was thought Art Goebel,
holder Of the west-to-east nonstop
record, had won first prize.
Goebel, winner Of the Dole air
race from Oakland to Hawaii last
August, was the sole pilot to reach
Mines field, landing here at 800
N. m, Pacific standard time, amid
. great outburst Of applause from
the, crowd.
Following the outburst, however,
and confusion attendant with his
rather bumpy landing, Goebel> re-
vealed he had been disqualified by
landing at Prescott, Ariz., earlier
in the day, when he grounded to ad-
just q faulty carburetor and to take
On additional gasoline.
~ Met Violent Storm
He brought story Of bitter battle
over the Rocky Mountains, during
which his white Lockheed- Vega
monoplane met fierce headwinds,
rain and sleet storms. The craft,
the Yankee Doodle, bore evidence Of
the violence Of the storm, one cabin
door being torn away.
Goebel landed % hours and 50
rinutes after his takeoff in New
Work, which time, despite the hour
and ten minutes he was on the
ground in Arizona, was three hours
better than the east-to-west nom
stop record Of 26 hours 80 minutes
q 2/5 seconds set by Lieutenants
Oakley 6. Kelley and John Z Mac
ready in 1923.
He was the fsvorite Of the long
derby because Of that performance
Of his Yankee Doodle, and was ex-
pected to have serious opposition.
only from Colonel William Thaw's
Lockheed- Vega and Nick Manners
Buhl-Sssqui planes, both forced down
earlier.
Captain George Haldeman, Ruth
Elders pilot On her attempted trans
atlantic flight, was the last plane
down in the derby, coming to earth
at sos p. M, Mountain time, yester-
day at Albuquerque, N. NJ, on &C.
.eunt Of gasoline shortage following
s-1ong fight with head winds.
Accident Mars Race
A single accident marred the race,
when John p. Morris, pilot, and
Colonel William Thaw II, navigator,
both Of Pittsburgh, crashed into Z
fence after . broken oil line had
forced their Lockheed- Vega down on
farm south Of Decatur, ILL.,, yes
terday morning. Both men were Sc
riously hurt.
Pilot Gamer, in his orange Buhl-
Sesqui plane, was the only one Of
the contestants to choose the north
ern route, and ran into ugly weather
over Wyoming that brought him
down after he had assumed / stra-
tegic lead in the flight. Flying
above Rawlins, Wyo., yesterday
morning, after a long hard battle
with storms and SHOWS, the Spokane
pilot was forced down with ice FORM
ing on his carburetor. He landed
ct 0:38 q. M, Mountain time.
A leaky valve on an emergency
gas tank forced Lieutenant Jack
lseman Of the Rockaway naval air
station, flying Charles A. Levine's
transatlantic Bellanca plane Column
bia, to descend at Amarillo, Tex.
Although he had considerable gaso-
line in his tanks, he stated he did
not think there was enough to finish
the race.
Emil lizard Luck" Burgin Of Nine
ola, N. T., who has earned his nick
name by winning against similar
odds % the ones encountered in this
race, had the same kind Of misfor-
tune as Haldeman, and landed his
Bsaanca in : cornfield It Viii
lard, N. NJ.