Evening Star Newspaper, July 14, 1926, Page 7

Famous Plane. in Whmh Lieut. Maughan Crossed - | U.S., Goes to Scrap Pile. The famous.‘“Dawn-to-Dusk Ship,” « Which was flown by Lieut. Russell L. Maughan, June 23, 1924, from New York to. San !’hncl-co,l. no more. According to information received at the office of the chief of Air Corps ‘today, the speedy Curtiss PW-8 met an untimely end at Selfridge Field, Mount Clemens, Mich., several days @go when being landed hy Lieut John J. Williams-of that fleld. The soft and muddy condition of "Selfridge Field was held responsible for the wreck of the plane, for in landing the wheels sank lmo uu turt, the landing gear was wiped off, the plane nosed up and then fell over on its back, causing a “complete wash: out.” The pilot was uninjured. The plane had been in -constant service since the day of its memorable flight. It was equipped with large 7tuel tanks for long cruising radius, “and these had just been replaced by the regular sized gasoline tank. On the very first flight after this change the accident occurred. Alr Corps officers at Selfridge Field explained that the hard usage to which the ship had been subjected in the past was partly responsible for the failure of the landing gear struts and the resultant damage. Lieut. Maughan flew the ship 2,540 miles in the elapsed time of 21 hours 48% minutes, leaving Mitchel Field, New York, just before dawn, and Janding at the Presido, San Fran- cisco, as darkness covered the city. He made four stops on the journey for fuel, Dayton, Ohloy St. Joseph, Mo.; Rock Springs, Wyo., and Sal Duro, Utah,- The first attempt re- sulted in failure.when ‘his plane struck a cow in the fleld at St. Joseph, and he was forced to abandon the second flight at Sal Duro, Utah, when the oil line broke. Since the successful flight the lane has been in pursuit service at| elly and Selfridge Fields. The question of placing it in the Aircraft -Building of the Smithsonian Insti- tution here was raised informally several times, but no official action was taken on the proposal. CARTER’S THRILLERS BUILT ON JLLUSIONS Mechanical Stage Tricks, Used as . Plot Basis, Brought Fame to Itinerant Actor. By the Associated Press. GOSHEN Ind., July 14.-Amid the pastoral surroundings of his Elkhart River home near here, Lingoln J. Car- ter, 61 years old, author of melo- dramas popular a generation - ago, watched the curtain of lifé descend yosterday. - Funeral services will be held tomor- a:tat Sunset. his late residence. Mr, er is survived by his widow; by ‘a former marriage, Lineoln f of South Bend, Ind., and’a brother and htwa sisters, all of Salt l‘kfl City, “'Carter, an itinerant actor, discover- ¢ /a native talent for writing melo- dramas, and playgoers of years ago, who like the hair- shows. He gave them thrills; they @&ve him wealth. ‘It was as a property man and player of small parts at the old>Na- tional Theater in Chicago that Carter Ielcpmam of the plot. Even- began weayving situations around mechanical ideas. In 1886 he uced his first thriller, “Sidonia,” at the Academy of Music in Chluln He later bought the Criterion Theater in Chicago. “First select a mechanical sensa- tion and then build a plot around it,” was Carter’s’ unorthodox formula’for - writing melodramas. In a workshop on his estate he con- tinyed to make stage devices which New York producers used. PACIFIC 1] ! 1 I ' ] 1 WORLD RACERS REACH NEW YORK, BREAKING RECORD BY SIX DAYS (Continued from First Page.) that the Sikorsky plane that was supposed to meet us and take us across the continent had been dis- abled, I knew then that I would & no sleep. I met with great difficulties | th! rranging for in ai planes. “Evans’and ‘T met a real surprise when we learned that the air malil ‘would not carry us across the coun- try. In fact. a wire I sent to the air mail ‘officials ‘after ‘learning of the Sikorsky difficulties was not even answered,” Wells said. The Sikorsky plane, which was forced to 1and in Chi¢ago because of engine trouble, and which has been there for the last five days, arrived in Cleveland while Wells and Evans ;ID:; preparing to depart for New 01 “One of the greatest difficulties of our trip,” Wells sald, “has been the o oe 40 started June 16, about an hour and a |office Friday morning. He has been | Park, where the headquarters Biven quarters on the northeast corner | Air co s 1s located, of the second floor of the State, War |may be in clou touch wi , instead of in the | Davis .and Assistant "in West Potomac | Nider. after landing. If time will have been and 14 days. ev do, thelr t 28 days 4 UP).—On o TIL,- July the-world RA the last lap of their rou Journey, O. Wells reared into the eastern sky b.lm loday. op to refuel at tho clsv-hnd nylng fleld at 7:30 a.m., they daylight ‘They took off here at 335 am., central standard time. The scheduled arflw time at New total by n) in 1913, without the use of 3 es. equipment re- ‘which removed their hope of making the long $ wumsytnnd.ylorlou, The two out from New York, June 16. ‘l'h' two planes in which they arrived | § from North Platte, Nebr., last night were brought down here because they | 58 were not equipped ‘to proceed in the matter of food and sleep. With time | dark. the most precious th gone as long as five di t a stretch without” food. We could cafry no food supply because there were times when every pound of added. wi t meant just that much less gaso! rible. We had just ten minutes’ sup- ply of gasoline at the time, and it was by luck that we were able to land safely. “We hit some rough going in Ger- many that almost finished us when we crossed the mountains at night :lthwdt‘ any night flying equlmuL" e_sai time, and flfew thmxh thé inclement conditions all .the way to Cleveland. At Mitchel Field, New York, a reach the We Close Saturda& at2P.M. _ Fourteenth Street at' New York Avenue Annual -A-L-E' of Goldhe:m 3 and 4 Piece You know what that means—A SALE isn’t.an every day occasion at this store and when such an announce- ment is made you may expect blg things in clomhmg values. Entire stock of Goldheim Quallty Three-piece and | Four-piece ¥Syits (with® kmckers) are. REDUCED—in- cluding BLUE SUITS. It isn’t an opportunity ‘you're going to pass” up—you couldn’t very well afford to ignore the occasion. Regularly $40 and $45 Suits $29 75+ Régularly $50 and $85 sm 'DAVISON TO TAKE OATH. 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