FOUR DIFFERENT WESTWARD
HOPS UNDER WAY BY EURO
PEAN AVIATORS
LONDON, Aug. 1. (/P)—Four at
tempts to cross the Atlantic Ocean by
airplane from east to west, two Brit
ish and two Germans, are taking defi
nite shape.
Apparently the first of the four will
be that of Capt. F. T. Courtney, Brit-,
ish aviator, who plans a 7,000-mile j
flight from London to New York and !
back, stopping each way at Newfound- •
land for fuel and establishing for the
first time a tentative commercial air
plane route. lie lias been in camp^at
Calshot, a suburb of Southampton. '
His route by stages will be from
Calshot to Valencia, Ireland, a dis
tance of 4SO miles, thence 1.700 miles !
to St. Johns. Newfoundland, thence
1.200 miles to New York, following the
same route on the return.
Captain Courtney will use a Dor
nier all-metal flying boat propelled by
two Napier “Lion” engines, and will
be accompanied by Flight Lieut. F. W.
M. Downer as navigator, and R. F. Lit
tle as engineer.
The other British attempt is con
templated by Lieut. Col. F. F. Minchin
of the British Imperial Airways and
Leslie Hamilson, a British air taxi
owner. Capt. Robert H. Macintosh
may be taken along as a passenger.
The latter and Minchin have some j
6.000 hours of flying each to their
credit and the two have carried nearly
17.000 passengers across the English
Channel without accident.
The attempt will be made in a
long-range Fokker monoplane driven
by a British Jupiter air-cooled engine.
This expedition will take off from Lon
don on a nan-stop flight to Ottawa,
Ont., where a stop will be .made to
refuel after which another take-off will
be made t© “somewhere in Europe.”
The aviators will stay in the air as
long as possible in hope of setting up
a new long distance record.
One German attempt is proposed by
Lieut. Otto Koennecke, 35-year- old
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FORD'S BIRTHDAY
DETROIT, Aug. 1. (/P)—During Hen
ry Ford’s birthday celebration yester
day he predicted vast sales for his
: new automobile. He said the ma
chime will meet all the competition of
the new day.
LINDY GOES FISHING
BUFFALO, N. Y., Aug. 2. (/P)—Col.
Charles Lindberg has goite fishing
near here and is wearing borrowed
clothes once more. He traveled light,
just as he did on his famous Paris
hop.
BROTHER KILLS SISTER
BAY, Calif., Aug. 1. (JP)—A four
teen year old girl was shot and in
stantly killed by her 10 year old bro
ther here yesterday. The children
were at play on the ranch where
they live.
German army officer, who intends to
fly an all-metal monoplane carrying
two passengers who are said to be
financing the trip, and a radio opera
tor. It will be propelled by one Ba
varian and two Wright motors.
This venture is to be backed un
officially by the German government.
It will start from Berlin and an at
tempt to make a non-stop flight to
New York will be made, and then to
San Francisco. The southern route
by way of the Azore Islands has ten
tatively been selected.
Koentiecke will carry a long range
radio set. His tanks will carry;
enough fuel for 70 hours and he ex
pects to attain a speed of 124 miles
an hour. Koennecke brought down
46 enemy airplanes during the war.
The other German attempt is in the j
hands of Ernst Udet, German ace, who '
will fly a specially constructed Rohr- j
bach plane having two high-power Ba
varian motors. His plane, now being j
constructed, is of the semi-hydroplane
type. He will be accompanied by one
expert aviator and one pilot. His
course has not been definitely decided
on. An influential industrialist is
sponsoring the project.
Udet is a stunt aviator, and as a
war ace brought down 62 enemy air-;
planes. He is prominent in the new'
glider developments in Germany, hav
ing flown a glider from Zugspitze, the
highest point in Germany, for a long
distance.
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AMATEUR GOLFER DIES
DENVER, Aug. 1. (>P)— Walter J.
Travis, who 21 years ago was most
prominent American amateur golfer,
died Sunday. He won the British
amateur championship in 1904 and i
was the only American golfer to at- j
tain that honor up until last year.
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| CHICAGO, Aug. 1. (/P)—Cornelius i
Vanderbilt, Jr. arrived for conference
with his attorneys concerning possi
ble plans for divorce which were
withheld, although it was stated he j
would remain in Reno for some time. I
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PLANE CHRISTENED SICK MAN ON CHELSEA ?
NEW YORK, Aug. 1. (/P)— In a j The halibut schooner, Chelsea,
leavy downpour of rain, the single Captain Elher, arrived in port with
notored Fokker airship in which a sick cook aboard. The sick man
ames Dewitt Hill and Lloyd Bertaud will depart for the Outside for medi
an try to fly from Rome to New cal attention. Because of this emer
'ork, was christened “Old Glory.” gency trip no halibut was caught.
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