The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1934-10-20
10 PILOTS HOP OFF
ON LONG DASH FOR
$4,000 FORTUNE
Col. Turner and Clyde Pang-
born Arrive at Athens
at 4::35 P. N.
LONGEST RACE ON RECORD
American Team Of Cochran and
Smith Withdraw After
1,3o0-Mile Run
BULLETIN

BaRhdad, oct. 2O.-(P)-Jlm ana
Amy Mollison arrived in Baghdad to-
night, the first of the London-to-
Melbourne air racers to reach this
control point.
They had covered $3.50 miles in
their big British de Haviland) plane
since they took off from Mildenhall
airdrome at $50 a. m.
by the Associated Press)
In the greatest race in history, 10
airplanes reared southeastward from
England Saturday, bound for $4,000
pot Of gold in Australia.
They were the contestants In the
MacRobertson International air race.
They started from Mildenhall air
drome, England, at $50 a. m. q. M.
+. u:30 a. M. EST, hoping to re-
duce appreciably the present flying
time to Melbourne. Australia, Of six
days, II hours and Sc minutes set one
year ago by Charles +. p. Ulm. The
total distance is approximately 1923
miles.
BY id-afternoon. English time, the
Dutch team of K. D. Parmentier and
j. J. Moll, flying an English Doug
las) airplane, appeared far In the lead.
They had passed over Athens at 2:l5
.. m. g. NJ. r.. with Baghdad their
proposed next stop.
Cochran Smith withdraw
American partisans were jolted by
the withdrawal from the race Of Miss
Jacqueline Cochran and Wesley Smith
Of New York after they reached Buch-
Arrest after making the 1,300-mile hop
in the good time Of on hours.
At 1885 p. m. after being unsupported
since their takoof1 from Mildenhall
airdrome, Col. Roscoe Turner and
Clyde Pangborn landed ct Athens.
The third American team Of John
H. Wright and John Polando Vas
coming along gamsly. despite some
motor trouble which caused them TO
stop for repairs at Marseille.
Woods and Bennett stayed At
Rome only IS minutes, then took Oft.
at sos p. m, for Athens.
J. D. Hewett and 6. + Kay Of New
Zealand arrived ct the Rome airport
at sos p. m.
Parmentier and Mol passed uioht
overs Athens ut AIS p. N.
Flying Officer q. q. Davies and It.
Com. G. N. Hill, British, landed ct
Bourges, France, at 1890 Z. m. re-
fueled and took off again for Mar
seille.
Gilman Has Trouble
Flying Officer Gilman arrived at
Marseille at 1918 p. m, and said he
had had engine trouble.
Stack and Turner, the British team.
resumed their flight from Abbeville
at 2:35, heading south.
Squadron leader Malcolm Mac
Gregor and Henry Waller OF New
Zealand reached Rome at 2:55 p. m.
The takeoff from the English air.
drome started at dawn, the racers
quickly taking different routes. The
speedsters, including two Americans,
hit for the nearest English coastal
point near Harwich, in the Baghdad
Decline.
The handicap contestants headed
south, crossing the Thames between
London and the estuary.
The first permissible stop was Mar
seille, France.
The most forlorn sight in the de-
serted hangers was the green ma
chine of Col. James c. Fftzmaurice.
Of Ireland. He withdrew his ma
chine because he did not want to
make changes required Of him which
would reduce his flying range.
Longest Route on Record
More hazardous flights have been
undertaken, but none over so long a
marked route with SO many entries
and . $4,000 pot Of gold for the win
ner.
The English channel crossing It.
self. the first overwater flight OF the
Continued on Page ~