The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-16
Local AviatOrs Will Put ..Snd-
ing Field in Shape.
RED CROSS WOMEN TO HELP
They viii Prepare Lunch for
the Fourteen Visitors.
Air Circus Is Expected Here
Next Wednesday Morning.

Hundreds Of Topekans have already
made their plans to turn out for the
reception to the flying circus from
| Love field, TeXass which will land in
Topeka next Wednesday.
| At meeting of military committee
/ of the Topeka Chamber of Commerce
| this noon special committee of local
faviation service men was called into
consultation and the entire details of
the welcome were placed in their
! hands.
| \ landing field for the flyers in the
circus is to be selected by the local
pilots. The field is to be marked with
| the big white IT, which is the sign
| by which flyers recognize landing
points. A pylOn is to be erected to
show the flyers the direction of the
wind The field is to be fixed to rep
resent regulation army flying fleld
as nearly as possible.
Fourteen Men With Planes.
The flying circus of five planes is
| expected in Topeka Wednesday morn
ing. 1t is said that there are fourteen
men with the planes.
on arrival in Topeka the flyers will
| be given lunch by the members of the
| Tuesday company of the Red Cross
! canteen. Mrs. w. G.. Dickie, captain
of this company, today accepted the
responsibility of seeing that the flyers
are given a true Red Cross welcome
and feed.
A special Red Cross tent. is to be
erected on the landing field. In this
tent the flyers will be given some sort
of a light lunch and a hot drink.
AT noon the plan is to bring the
aviators to the Chamber of Commerce
for the noon luncheon. After lunch
| the circus will put on show in
the sky.
An effort is being made by the
| Chamber of Commerce to have the
| flying circus stop off in Topeka over
1 TO nTC
Curtis and Capper urging that immedi
ate pressure be brought to bear on the
war department to secure for Topeka
this favor.
Welcome by Airmcn.
It is the plan of the military COM
mittee of the Chamber of Commerce
| that the flying circus be met on land
| ing by a reception committee whose
| personnel will include every single
man in the city or county who was
| in any way connected with the air
service in the great war. This means
| the enlisted men as well as the
officers.
The air service men in the city are
| asked to register themselves at the
Chamber of Commerce before noon
! Tuesday. This may be done by tele-
| phoning to the Chamber of Com
merce. Each one of Topeka air serv-
ice men is expected 10 act Immediate
| ly on this proposition.
1t is the plan to furnish automobiles
! to transport this special committee
! from the Chamber of Commerce to
| the flying field in plenty of time to
greet the flyers when they arrive here.
| The landing field itself will be policed
| by either the Kansas State Guard or
| the Kansas National Guard
| Every effort is to be made to elimi-
nate all danger to spectators when the
| planes come swooping into the air
over in the city. No persons will be
allowed in the space designated as the
| landing field.
| AViators on Committee.
The Topeka air service men who
| conferred with the military committee
| of the Chamber of Commerce today
are: Merle Morthland, Byron Muir
| head. Chester Wahle, H. G. BOeger.
| Edwin Olander. Paul S. Jones, Vern
| Miner, Armstrong. and Young.
| The general committee on arrange
mcnts as named by Ralph r. Bae,
chairman of the military committee
today is: Merle Morthland, Chester
| Wahle. Edwin Olander. Byron Muir
head, H. G. Boeger, and Armstrong.
| This committee is in charge of the
selection of the landing field and of
| the marking of the field.