Evening Star Newspaper, September 16, 1927, Page 10

a3 PLANES ATHERN FORBIG AR DERY 11 “Ships” Take Up Station at Roosevelt Field Seek- ing Flying Fame. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, September 16— Seeking flying fame and a share of the $42,500 offered in prizes, 11 air- planes today were at Roosevelt Field for the start of the Spokane air dreby across the continent next Monday and Tuesday. The plaes represented less than one-fifth of the 57 entrants listed for the races, which comprise a non-stop flight, one with a single halt and one with two overnight stops. For $10,000 Prize. Two of the planes entered in the ¢ e piloted by vwood, 1ll, and N ither had announc accompany them make an ove Each is to passengers. A prize of §10,000 has been offered for the winner of this event, with $5.000 for second place; $2,000 for third $1,000 for fourth. are to compete scheduled to overnight a Mont. The prizes for this $5,000, $3,000, $1,000 and $500. is to carry one passenger. Royal Windsor Entered. Crews of planes on the ground en- tered in this class were J. G. Smith, pilot, and J. B. Storey, passenger. facoma, Wash.; Jack Ashcroft, pilot, 1na Burt Crader, passenger, Towanda, Pa.: R. Johnston, pilot, Missoulo, Mont,, passenger unannounced; E die Burgin, pilot, Garden City, Island, passenger unannounced; L. O'Donrell, pilot, and Mrs. A. L. 0O'Donnell, passenger, Whittier, Calif.; Clair McMahon, pilot, Miles City, Mont., passenger unanno zene Dettmer, pilot, Tar) Y. passenger unannounced; Asher, pilot, passenger unannounced. None of the seven planes which officials said were entered in the non-stop event has arrived. The Jatest entrant is the Stinson-Detroit- er, monoplane Royal Windsor, which “Duke” Schiller and Phil Wood re- cently withdrew from an attempt to cross the Atlantic. Two prizes have been offered for this race, $10,- 000 for the winner and $5,000 for second place. —_——— Floods and droughts in Shantung Province, China, have done such great damage to crops in”the past year that farmers are joining roving bandit bands. e are Each Take Radiola Your Choice of Four Tried and True Radio Outlits Atwater Kent and Crosley A Py 3] 2110 RADIO TO REPORT HOP OVER NATION WITH LION Jensen Plans First Non-Stop Flight From Los Angeles to New York Next Saturday. By the Assoclated Press. CULVER CITY, Calif., September 16.—The splutter of a short-wave radio antenna will temper the roars of an airplane engine and a jungle beast when Leo, movie stunt lion, wings his ploneering way to New York next Saturday in an airplane with Martin Jensen in the pilot's quarters. Announcement yesterday at Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer Studios here, which are sponsoring the aerial trip, said that the radio would send back here hourly progress of the flight. The project, marking not only the first time an animal of Leo's proportions has been transported by air, but also the first attempted non-stop flight from Los Angeles to New York, will determine the feasibility of trans- porting beasts quickly from one point to another for show purposes. An insurance policy for $50,000 has heen taken out to guarantee that Leo makes the trip safely. Jensen, who piloted the Aloha to { | second place in the Dole transpacific flight, said .he would enter the plane in the New York-to-Spokane Derby. DIES FROM BOXING. Young Coast Guardsman Knocked Out in Friendly Bout. NEW LONDON, Conn., September 16 (#).—A friendly boxing bout at the Coast Guard Academy her., in which George Vorves, 20, was knocked out "€ | Tuesday by his close friend, Earl Bul- lock, resuited yesterday in the death of Vorves, Vorves did mot recover consclousness after the knockout. The youths were evenly matched as to weight. 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