The sun., 1919-07-26
TRUCE Is REACHED
IN AIR MAIL STRIKE
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He said when he arrived that he under
stood that the strike had been ended.
| Mail for Washington and Chicago
reached the field from New York as
usual, but was sent back again on
trucks and despatched to Its destination
| by train.
In other cities the service was also
| greatly interfered with, although not to
| the extent as in New York. At Belle
fonte no airmen appeared to take the
mail which should have left at A. NJ.
for Cleveland. Neither did the mail due
to start for New York at IL A. M leave
the ground. All the pilots in town
seemed to have vanished.
At Cleveland no aviator reported at
Woodland Hills Field TO fly the Belle
fonte jump at 7:45 A. NJ. The airplane
which was to have left for Chicago at
0 80 A. M. was delayed nearly an hour
but finally got away.
AT Chicago pilots were uncertain In
tho morning as TO whether they would
| fly, but when the time came to start
the usual trip to Cleveland at p. M.
a pilot appeared and got away after a
delay OF half an hour.
Earlier in the day, before the confer
once. Pilot Lee, one OF those discharged,
gave their grievances again.
Il won't go up In foggy weather with
one Of the big machines. which fly at 100
| miles an hour, for often I can see only
seveuty-five feet ahead. That isn't far
when you're travelling about twice that
| distance a second. The smaller ships
are all right. They are slower
I'm foggy weather IL Is often neces-
| sary to fly only $50 to $50 feet high.
The high compression Liberty motor on
the big ships is very likely to get hot
at low altitude. In that case I would
have to make a quick landing which can
ACT be done II am going over a large
city. Such flying is dangerous to the
people below as well as to me-"
stanton Combat. Statements.
Superintendent Stanton expressed the
opinion that the larger ships were as
| safe as the smaller.
THE killing Of Lamborn and the Chi
| cago blimp disaster have impressed upon
the aviators the feeling that their work
| Is extremely hazardous" he said. They
| were together more than uusal last week
| at Belmont Park and did some talking
| They sent kilograms in which there was
too much dictation.
| 81 have flown and find that conditions
are hazardous during foggy weather
but I think the larger planes can be
handled as easily as smaller planes. The
motors OF the small planes heat up al
low altitude. with a quick revolution
as readily as the motors In the larger
planes"
One of the pilots, RiddiclS, was ready
| to fiy to Washington yesterday IL spe-
officially ordered by Supt. Stanton, but
| this Mr.. Stanton was reluctant to do
| as he said, Riddick had flown be-
| tween New York and Washington for
the last fourteen days and was obvious
| ~ showing the strain. The trip was
| finally abandoned.
In Washington Mr. Praeger issued a
statement denying emphatically that the
! Curtiss mail planes with Liberty motors
were dangerous. He also denied that the
department had refused to purchase and
| install instruments to provide greater
| safety and that two men had becn killed
and ten planes smashed rece ntly, as
charged by the strikers. He character.
lied the charges OF the pilots as insin-
cere.