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Eagtbound Mail%to Set Record(Continued from First Page)tes after Smith. It was on its way to Omaha at midnight.HELD AT CHICAGOCHICAGO. Feb. 22.—-Pilot W. 3. Smith, flying from New Yonk m the transcontinental air wall flight, landed at Checkerboard field at 3:10 p. m. today, completing tho trip from Cleveland in 2 hours and 48 minutes. Cloudy weather caused officials to refuse permission to continue the flightSan Francisco to Omaha in 15 hours and 25 minutes!:This and the tragedy at Elkowere the outstanding features early this morning of the dual flight of air mail service planes winging across the continent yesterday and today in an attempt to smash ’ all records and convince the world that the airplane has come to stay, a thing of sound utility in peace as well ■as war, no longer the miracle toy of a few years ago.The Cheyenne division of the service and the division to the west have done their full part in the matter of forwarding the 600 pounds of mail over the air lanes from San Francisco to New York, but at an early hour today It looked as though the attempt in reverse—from New‘York to San Francisco—had broken down. Planes arriving in Chicago had not been permitted to leave because of snow and rain. iRecord Good HereNot so at Cheyenne, however. If the record established here had been maintained elsewhere, the postmen of the air would have made the transcontinental handicap in something better than schedule time. Even death —the unforunato accident at Elko—failed to dampen the ardor of tho local flyers or materially a fleet the'sequence of relays that furnished almost continuous tljghi by day and night from the moment the flyers] ‘ tock o't ’ at Salt Lake City un-] til the} J.'tipped through space to the land mg fiold at Omaha.Oier the Sal l-Lake~C ity~Ch even u e-Omaha ioute, in fact, planes were mnning actually an hour or moie ahead of time, and this despite the I act that the plane icvjJoved in 'if accident at Elko was an houv behind schedule j reaching Salt Lake City. jAn instance of speedy work was given at the local field in ’he arrival and departure ofplanes on two-minute Interval, during which 300 pounds of mail hd been transferred from plane to plane.Thi*^ the first plane to reach Cheyenne, was piloted by James P. Murray and arrived at 4:5? p. m. The plane. No. 173, bad left Salt Lake City at 12:35and had -made a forty-five minute stop at Rawlins for oil.As stated in the foregoing, i just two minuteB ‘elapsed from the time of Murray’s landing to the departure of plane No. 172, Cheyenne to Omaha. This plane,. carrying its 800 pounds of mail,1 was piloted by Frank R. Yager to North Platte, where Yager stepped out and Jack Knight continued the flight to Omaha.Smith Hops OffThe second plane, No. 171, was piloted by T. O. Payne and arrived-at Cheyenne at 5:50. The] mail carried by ft—300 pounds— was transfered to plane No. 106, which left the local field in charge of Pilot Harry G. Slmth at ( 6:02 p. m. It was to stop at North Platte for fuel.Arrival of plane 106 in Omaha ahead of No. 172, the latter piloted over the North Flatte-Gmaha I route by Jack Knight, caused some uneasiness at the local field as Knight’s plane, leaving here,' had something better than a two-hour stayt of Smith’s but it Was thought likely trouble at North PJatte with the Knight machine had enabled Smith to take the lead.Payne left Salt Lake City with 171 at 2:35 p. m. He made one stop, at Rock Springs for oil, having covered the 163 miles in 1 hour 35 minutes, and then speeded her up for Cheyenne.Payne left Salt Lake 1 hour behind schedule, a result of the accident at Elko. He reached Cheyenne 1 hour ahead of schedule, having made up the hour lost, and shaved still another hour from time, two hours m all. .Murray came into Cheyenne an; hour and a half ahead of schedule. A. N. Dunphy, superintendent of the local field, said early this morning that the flight in the Cheyenne division had been a pro-, ndunced success. He had intended to stay at the field all night, hut left when hope was finally abandoned for continuance of the westbound flight.ANOTHER CUT IN OIL PITTSBURG, Pa, Feb. 23.—-The principal oil purchasing agencies announced today a reduction of 36 cents in the price of Corning crude oil. The new price, effective immediately, is $1.90 a barrel.All the land in the world, if ’ placed together in the Pacific Ocean, would make an island surrounded by 20,000,000 square, miles of sea. 1
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Wyoming State Tribune
Cheyenne, Wyoming, US
Wed, Feb 23, 1921
Page 8
Full Page
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Patrick R.
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