Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-23
WOMAN AIR RACERS
LEAVEFOR WICHITA
Men Prepare for Dsrbies
From Pacific Coast to
Cleveland.
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one, of them will be awarded 81 900 for
the fastest time in yesterdays lap. the
biggest lap prize of the derby. Officials
here would not say whether Louise
McPhetridge Thaden Pittsburgh. nrst
arrival OF Amelia Earhart. Boston. had
covered the FL Paso-Fort Worth lap
in the shortest Time. Miss Tia uen,
however flew the 100 miles from Abb
lene IN /, hour and mlnuleS.
All vi The flyers seemed weary and
Worn when they ended the loLe hight
which TOOK them over ~ 0UU-fUot
InounIGh range.
One uIlot Branehe Noyes Cleveland
found The mesquite plains vi Western
Texas disastrous. Thirty nIIiluUes out OF
PeCoS she Sa" smoke coming from The
front COCKPIT vi her plane. She landed
ia The brush. extinguIShed a SInoidering
spare flying suit and crashed through
the underground for a take OFT. Her
landing gear was So badly damaged She
spent the night iii PecUS awaiting re-
placements. Miss NuyeS said The fire
apparently was stated Ivy d cigarette
dropped into The plane al FL HaSo.
Miss Noyes made d fast hight iiom
PecoS 10 Midland This niornIug. trfueled
her craft and continued on 10 Abilene
other brief stop before setting out for
Fort Worth
Three other ships failed 10 reach Fort
Worth. In an attempt to take of at
Pecos, Florence Low Barnes, San Ma
rino, Calf, o,erran the field and
crashed into an automobile. SHE
abandoned the race today when inspec
ton revealed her plane could not be re-
paired III time 10 oVertake the other
flyers. Edith Foltz Portland. Greg.
who Cracked up the landing gear on
her plane at PeCoS. few To Midland aft
er repairs had been made. She flew
INTO Fort Worth today, bat did not
start for Tulsa with the others. Mar
garet Perry. Los Angeles. who remained
at Abilene when she became slightly
Ill. caught up with the other flyers al
Fotr Worth this morning.
Flyers Are Entertained.
The Ayers. discardins their rough and
oil-stained flying suits for chic sports
clothing and becoming evening dresses.
were entertained last night al The home
of ANON G. Carter, Fort Worth pub
Usher.
The elapsed time vi the leaders, who
checked i'll here:
Heavy planes Louise McPhetridge
ThAden. Pittsburgh. ll:O4:3O; Gladys
ODounen. Long Beach. Calf. II :25 So;
Amelia Earhart, Boston. ll:46:52; Ruth
Nichols, Rye. N. Y, ll:5l:08.
Light planes. Phoebe Omile. Mem
phis. Tenn. l3:28:2U: Thea Rasch. Ger
many. l6:29:3l; Mrs. Keith Miller,
Australia, 24;56:!5:
Sum God Is GrOSmed.
Mechanics today groomed The Spo-
(snA in MI int
ana Art Walker flew across the conti-
nent and back without landing. for a
taks-of tomorrow OH Nonstop refuel-
ing flight 10 Cleveland and the national
air races. according to Associated Press
dispatches from Spokane
Manner and Walker planned to take
the ship over the proposed northern air
mail route. taking r. NJ. Wilson. who
piloted rcfueling plane during the
transcontinenta round-trip fight. as
a passenger. II was planned to make
one rsfuei!ng contact, probably at St.
Paul.
Because Of unfayorable weather in
the Columbia Gorge. between Portland
and Walla Walla, Wash officials an
nounCed the take-oh of the nine racing
air men in the Portland Cleveland air
derby would be delayed until II o'clock
this morning, according to Associated
Press dispatches from Portland.
Nine starters drew for take-off posi-
tons. Dick Rankin Portland pilot. won
first and was to start at 10 am. from
Swan Island Field. 4. A. Wells Of Wich-
ita, Kans.. drew second place and w.
H. Emery, Bradford. Pa. third. Fourth
position went toy Charles w. Speed"
Holman, Chicago, who recently won the
Gardiner Cup race.
Others will take off in the order fol-
lowing: Snyder Hall St. Louis Mo:
Clarence F. Bates. Milwaukee, Wis: W.
B. "Bev" Clark Portland. Greg: Maj
6. H. Eckerson, Springfield Greg: J.
G. Tex Rankin, Portland. Greg
Planes to Stop at Missouia.
The planes will stop for one hour at
Walla Walia. Wash, thence they will
fly to Spokane. The night win be spent
at Missoula. Mont. Tomorrow the fly
ers are scheduled to reach Bismarck
N. OAK. with a stop en- route at Bill
lings Mont At Milwaukee, Monday
the contestants plan to participate in
a special air field day. A stop at
South Bend. Ind. viii be made between
Milwaukee and Cleveland.
Postpone California Race Start.
Word was received in Los Angeles
today from Cliff Henderson. director Of
the national air races, requesting that