The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1930-08-21
BISMARCK
TO. GREET filters
coming SATURDAY
Four Take OF From Seattle on
Air Derby; Will Stop
Here for Lunch
TO LEAVE BISMARCK At $50

o. W. Roberts Heads Local
Committee; Others Named
to Assist in Management
Preparations to receive the con-
testants In the Seattle-t TO- Chicago air
derby, who will stop in Bismarck Sat-
urdey, were completed today by o. w.
Roberts, chairman of the aeronautics
committee Of the Association Of Com
merce.
The filters left Seattle today with a
projected stop at Portland and an
overnight stop at Spokane.
Only four men are entered in the
race, a small number when compared
with entries in similar derbies In for
mer years. The contestants are John
Blum Of the Northwest Air Service at
Bryn Mawr, near Seattle: Nick
Manner Of the Manner Air Transport
company, Spokane: Frank Hammer,
flying for the Wenatchee, Wash,
chamber of commerce, and Bert Rouff
Of the Coast Air Lines, Seattle.
The planes will leave Billings,
Mont, where they will stop Friday
night. at 10 o'clock bismarck time)
Saturday morning. They r expected
to reach here between n and two
o'clock Saturday afternoon and are
scheduled to leave Bismarck for
Aberdeen, s. D., at $3.50 p. m. They
will stop at Aberdeen for the night.
Other stops will be made at Fargo,
st. Paul and Milwaukee. the goal
being the Curtiss- Reynolds airport at
Chicago where the national air races
are being held.
First prize in the 2,130 mile race is
$500. The second places carries a
42,l00 prize and third place $l,400.
Some Of the cities to be visited will
give lap prizea.
Name Local Officials
O. w. Roberts will be referee IN
charge of the contest here and M. H.
Atkinson will be his assistant. Other
local officials for the ace will be:
Chief starter-F. J. Bavendick; as
sistant starter. DR.. H. T. Perry.
Chief timer-Captain H. H. Noyes;
assistant timer, Col. Frayne Baker.
In charge Of grounds-Lieutepant
w. r. F. Bleakney.
Servicing committee-Glenn Smith
of the Standard OH Company: Harry
Potter OF the Kendall Oil company:
H. L. Hairless Of the Texaco Oil
company and j. A. Kohler Of the Sim
clair Oil company.
The servicing committee will have
charge of supplying the planes with
gas and oil while the fliers eat lunch
con.
The Fort Lincoln Field a marked
in the standard manner today, both
for the accommodation of the derby
lists and for North Dakota filters.
The Seattle to- Chicago derby is
only n Of a number which started
today and which have Chicago as
their focal point. Others started at
Long Beach, Calf; Hartford, Conn.,;
Miami, Florida and Brownsville.
Texas. There were races for women
as we'll as men and the last OF the
contestants is expected to reach Chi
cago next Wednesday.
Mrs. O'Donnell Leads Women
The women filters, who hoped from
Long Beach August II, were winging
toward Amarillo, Tex, with a sched-
uled stop at Lubbock. They will cross
Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa
and Wisconsin before they finish at
Chicago next Monday. There are
six pilots in this race. with Mrs.
Gladys O'Donnell. who finished
second in the women's derby last
year after having had only 40 hours
Of solo flying, holding the lead.
The two-man derby, Bronsville to
Chicago, was moving further north
after a night stop at Fort Worth.
John H. Livingston Of Aurora, ILL.,.
held an advantage Of more than one
hour over w. @. Moore Of Kansas
City when the planes landed at Fort
Worth last night. This derby finishes
at Chicago Saturday. the day the ma
tional air races open.
Another derby finishing Saturday
started at Miami yesterday. Art
Killips of La Grange, ILL.,, had q IA
minute lead over Art Davis Of Lans-
ing, Mich. with the third pilot, George
Burrell, also Of La Grange, Is min
utes back of Davis. This derby Is
ziz-zagging northward. It's itinerary
marked by Macon and Augusta, Ca,
Murfreesboro, Tenn, and Cincinnati,
o.
Five Flying West
From Hartford. Conn.,, five planes
were scheduled to arrive in Chicago
Sunday after night stops at Syracuse,
N. Y, Cleveland. O., and South Bend.
Ind.
More women will take the air to-
morrow when the eastern women's
derby starts from Washington, .. G.
There are six entries.
The hi-speed, nonstop Los Ang-
eles-to-C Chicago derby will start and
finish next Wednesday. The list Of
entrants includes william 8. Brock,
who flew from New York to Tokyo
in 1928; 1t. Col. Roscoe Turner.
holder of the north-south trans-con-
tinental record; L. F. Schoenhair,
we'll known coast flier; and Wiley
Post. Post plans to try for victory
not only in the Los Angeles Chicago
race. but also to continue on to New
York In an effort to break the trans
continental record. To do this he will
carry twc paragraphs. enc Of which
vii, be dropped at Chicago.