New Britain herald., 1929-08-22
Delayed by Weather

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 Fl Paso Tex, Aug. 22 R-Their race from Santa Monica, Cal, to Cleveland temporarily halted here by storm, the r remaining con- testants in the women's air derby start their 600-mile dash across Texas today Control points in the state are Pecos, Midland. Abilene and Fort Worth where the derbyists will spend the night.
 The fiiers were scheduled to reach Midland yesterday but the hop off from here was delayed by thunder storms in the vicinity of Pecos. The disturbance later moved on Fl Paso but had cleared today, A warning was given to the fliers to hunt the ceiling" on the hop to Pecos. The Davis and Guadelupe mountains, it was explained, neces- sitate flying al. minimum altitude of 6,000 feet and maximu of 10,- 900 feet
 b Mrs. Thaden Holds Lead
 Mrs. Louise McPhetridge Thaden of Pittsburgh held her lead in the heavy plane class with an. elapsed tie of hours, 4S minutes and 31 seconds. In the light plane division Mrs. Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, Tenn, was in first place. Her elaps- ed time was s hours, 35 minutes and 24 seconds. The orange monoplane of Miss A rh If of woman transatlantic flier, was the first to land here from Douglas, AriZ., and was the first on the line to take off today. The other planes were to follow at minute inter- yals.
 The planes were under guard here last night following rumors of sa- botage in connection with accidents to ships in the race. Derby officials ordered that the guards be station ed here and at all control points on the remainder of the flight.
 Two Are Forced Out
 The plane of Claire Fahy of Los Angeles was forced out at Calexico Cal. with broken wing struts and a leaky gasoline tank, Robbie Trout also of Los Angeles withdrew after she smashed a landing gear at AL godones, Mexico. Miss Thea Raschc German f1ier, found foreign mat ter in her gasoline tank but con- tinued in the race after the tanl; had been inspected and cleaned. Miss Marvel Crosson was killed in a crash
 Miss Fahy reiterated in Los An geles last night that her plane had been tempered with She said her husband, Herbert J. Fahy, test pi,ot. had told the district attorney in San Bernardino. who is investigating sa- potage charges, that no stranded wire in the world would have broken unless it had been tamperel with. Fahy alleged that the wing wires of his wife's plane were weak ene1 with acid.
 Official Standings
 The. official standings in elapsed time to Fl Paso follows:
 Heavy planes:
 Louise McPhetridge Thaden, Pitts burgh, 6:4S:31. |, Gladys ODonnell, Long Beach, Cal. 7:o1;OS.
 Amelia Earhart. Boston, 7:19:O7.
 Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y, 7:26:26
 Florence Lowe Barnes, San Marion. Cal. 7:26:34.
 Ruth Elder, Los Angeles, S:41:23
 Blanche Moves. Cleveland, S:57:15
 Mary Elizabeth Von Mack, De- troit, 9:12:30.
 Neva Paris, Great Neck, L. l., 9:21:O1.
 Margaret Berry, Los Angeles 9:54:45.
 Opal Kunz, New York. 12:O1:46.
 Vera Dawn Walker, Los Angeles. 14:19;57.
 May Haizlip, Kansas City, 7:11:44 (unofficiaD.
 Thea Rasche, Germany, 9:5o:15, (unofficiaD.
 Light planes:
 Phoebe Omile, Memphis. S:35'24.
 Edith Foltz, Portland, Ore. 9:5t:3o.
 Mrs Keith Miller Australia. 1S;31:5S.
 San Marine, tiny country on the eastern slope of the ADennines. about 40 miles southeast of Ravenna.