The sun., 1918-05-24
WOMAN BREAKS
U.S.AIR RECORD
Miss StinsOn's NO-StOp Flight
From Chicago Meets With
Accident.
HER GASOLINE RUNS OUT
Propeller Broken i'm Descent
Travels More Than 700
Miles in 10 Hours.

Katherine Stinson. attempting ~ A."
w.thou, stop from Chicago to M!neola.
l.. l.. ran out OF gasolene nea- Eug-
hamton. y. Y. last night and in landing
on hillside the p-opelier OF he" bplane
was broken and one of the wings was
damaged. The 2e-year-old aviator was
not hurt, and for consolation she hugged
the fact that she had broken both the
American records for continuous fying
and for endurance. She will start Tor
Mneola at S o'clock this morning.
over the same route two years ago
Ruth Law made a nonstop record o,
$50 miles, from Chicago to Hornel.
y. y. Miss Stinson was in the ar from
the moment she left Grant Park. CHI
ca9o at S A. NJ yesterday until she
al;ghted in a field two miles from Bns-
ham.on at 40 r. NJ.
BY the Erie Railroad the dista nee
between Bnghamton and Chicago is
1S3 miles.
Previous Record.
The previous nonstop record was held
by Lieut. o NJ Bounds o. the United
States Army at 700 miles. In Decem-
ber last Miss Stinson flew without halt
ing from San Diego to San Francisco.
SO miles. in 9 hours and 10 minutes
In yesterdays journey she was in night
ten hours.
When she left Chicago the girl thought
she had enough gasolene for eleven
hours. but winds that she encountered
caused the supply to he exhausted sooner
,ha h
she would have to land and realized
that at the very worst she had beaten
the men at their own game she circied
the city OF Binghamton several times
looking for a place TO land.
Miss Stinson selected a small plateau
on a hill north OF the city A strong
wind added to her difficulties, She
was anxious to strike the ground at
a spo, that was high. SO there would
be no mud, and the hillside seemed
from her elevation to he level.
Machine Topples over.
All her careful calculations went for
naught, for the hill was very soft The
wheels sank into II the instant they
touched the ground and instead Of
scudding along the surface the machine
toppled over
When II was righted Miss Stlnson
was carried into the city in triumph.
She was taken to hotel, where she
said that a new propeller would be OBJ
taired from Elmira. that the slight dam
age to the wing would be repaired by
local mechanics and that she and her
mount would be ready TO resume the
trip to New York in the morning.
she said the lesson Of the flight was
this: "Tell the mothers Of any young
men in the flying service. for me. that
mere /. no necessity ~ their Worrying
over their boys MY night proves that
long distances may be covered with little
danger"
Miss Stinson 10 a friend. but deadly
rival OF Ruth Law. the young woman
who startled the world In 1915 by leav-
ing Chicago one morning in q rickety old
biplane CT obsolete type and going
further In II than any American had
done In any kind Of an airplane. Miss
Sttnson left Chicago yesterday carrying
sixty-seven pieces OF United States mall
al the - cent an ounce rate.
In the pouch were q letter from Post
master Carlisle OF Chicago to Postmaster
Patt~n Of New York and . sealed state
ment from the manager Of the Chicago
Red Cross campaign to Secretary Of the
Treasury McAdoo.