The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-04-29
HEADS OF RIVAL AIR
SOCIETIES FALL OUT
Hawley Of Aero Club Says Jones
Of AerOnautical Is
"Unethical.'
ACCUSES HIM IN A LETTER
Friction Over Congress Of Filters
to Be Held at San Fran
cisco Fair.

| Unethical methods In organizing the In
ternational Aeronautic Congress are
charged In a letter mailed last night by
Alan r. Hawlcy. president Of the Aero
Club Of America, to y. l.. Jones. secretary
Of the Aeronautical Society. Mr.. Hawiey
declines to serve on the executive COM
mittee of the congress and serves notice
that the use Of his name must be dis
continued.
Arnold kruchman. director of @ronau-
tics Of the Panama Pacific Exposition, be-
gan the organization OF the congress on
a recent visit to New York. The organ
ixation meeting was held In his room at
the Hotel McAlpin. Charles d. walcott
secretary OF the Smithsonian Institution
In Washington, was elected temporary
president and cablegram was sent to
Count Ferdinand Zeppelin. asking him
to be honorary president.
The purpose OF the International Aero
nautic Congress Is to bring together at
the Panama Pacific Exposition during the
summer Of 1915 scientists interested in
aviation and eronautics from all parts
OF the world. The congress will last sew
eral days. and there will be experiments.
flights and lectures. T. L. Jones was
elected secretary at the organization meet
Ing here, and although II was given out
that the congress was not organized under
the auspices OF any society the business
Is being conducted from the Office Of the
Aeronautical Society In the Engineering
Societies Building in West Thirty ninth
street.
The Aero Club Of America had been
prepared to take UP the organization of
the congress. and its members were sur
prised to learn that the organization had
been effected without consulting them. Mr..
Hawleys letter follows:
Your letter of April 81, under the
seal of the Aeronautical Society. ask
Ing me to serve on the executive COM
mittee of the so-called International
AerOnautic Congress received.
l decline your invitation. For one
thing I will not be identified with a
project which IL being organized by
the unethicL methods employed In
starting this. Then your action in
starting to organize an International
\ affair under the auspices Of the Aero
nautical Society Is likewise unauthor-
lied and unwarranted. No interna-
tional affair can be successfully held
without the cooperation OF the aero
clubs OF the eighteen countries repre-
scented in the International Aeronautlc
Federation, the controlling body in
cannot secure. In your letter Of No
vember IA, 1913. to the Aero Club OF
America. in which you repudiate the
action OF your then president, W. Irv-
Ing Twombly. In asking for an inter-
national sanction for the Times Aerial
Derby, you state that the society
does not and has not at any time
recognized the authority Of any other
organization In directing. controlling,
licensing or otherwise interfering with
the discharge Of the work for which
the Aeronautical Society was or
ganizel."
Until this resolution is repealed
by the directors OF your society the
Aero Club of America, as the repre-
sentative of the International Aero
nautic Federation in America, will be
compelled to deny you the support
and cooperation of the federation.
From letters received. In which you
solicit fee OF S.. I find that you are
using the names OF members of the
Aero Club OF America, including my
own. which would make II appear
that you have the consent and ap-
proval of the proper aeronautical au-
thOrities. hereby request and notify
| you TO discontinue the use OF my
name.
am sending copy of this letter
TO all the gentlemen whose names
appear as members OF the proposed
executive committee. to all the nation
al clubs and the clubs OF the Internal
tional AerOnautic Federation and
shall use this text in replying to In
quries ! am receiving regarding this
project
Mr.. Hawley's letter was read TO T.. L.
Jones over the telephone last night Mr.
Jones said he wrote to Mr.. Hawley on
stationery OF the International Aero