Mr. Vallant's recent offer of an additional ten thousand dollars was stirring vast interest in the Pacific Ocean flight. Flyers everywhere were awakening to the fact that they had let the huge Vallant Prize go unclaimed long enough. From across the Pacific, word came that Sugeroto, that small, lithe Japanese aeronaut of princely birth, was warming up a plane for the flight. Two American aces in a great trimotor were testing out their plane with the same prize in view. Some ten other aviators were also reported as planning to get in the Cross-the-Pacific flight.