The sun., 1919-07-01
NEW WILL FLY TO
READ DINNER HERE
Flying Club Prepares Big
Event in Honor of Cross
Sea Airmen.
AIR FLEET FOR SENATOR
Big Machines to Swoop Over
City Dropping Dodgers
Telling Of Affair.
AIR FLEET FOR SENATOR

Just about the time that the Flying
Senator" Harry s. New of Indiana. az
rives over the city tomorrow afternoon
q flock OF airplanes will be advertising
the dinner to be given tomorrow night
at the Hotel Commodore by the Ameri-
can Flying Club in honor Of Com
manders Read and Towers
The Flying Club. which Is the real
ahmen's club of the country, being COM
posed Of veteran air fighters. including
:he America ace Of aces, Eddie Ricken-
hacker, and Of engineers and inventors
that have devoted their lives to aero
nautical progress, announced yesterday
that plans for the big spread at the
Commodore have been completed.
United States Senator New of In
diana, the first Senator ever to 60 up
In the air except in a metaphorical
way, who Is the father of valuable aero
nautical legislation and who is striving
especially for a Department OF the Air.
ranking in Importance with the Depart
ments OF Army, Navy, Commerce and
Interior, will be piloted TO New York
at the rate of 100 odd miles an hour
by an army fiier in one of the useful
Curtiss JN4's.
BY the time Senator New, the guest
Of honor OF the Flying Club, gets here
there ought to be thirty or forty ma
chimes roaring over the city, partly to
announce the dinner and partly in honor
OF Commander Read and Commander
Towers.
The machines will spill dodgers and
cards announcing the dinner and Its
significance.
More than 1900 men devoted to flying
will sit down in the grand ballroom OF
the Commodore tomorrow night at 7
o'clock Job Z. Hedges, who has
cracked Jest or two in his lifetime,
will preside. and with him at the main
table will be Senator New, Commander
Read. Commander Towers, Franklin B.
Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary OF the
Navy: Brig. -Gen. Mitchell and Orville
Wright. In every respect the dinner
will be the most important and interest
ing ever attempted by fiiers and their
following. Senator New is expected to
outline new legislation In the interest
of military and commercial aeronautics.
Orville Wright will have something to
say about the new planes and their pos
sibilities. Commanders Read and Tow
ers will tell the real story of their
voyage over the Atlantic, and Assistant
Secretary Roosevelt will discuss naval
aviation.
Among others who will be guests are
Brig Gen. Thomas II. Barry. command
ing officer of the Department of the East;
Col. William A. Bishop. the Canadian
ace of aces; Major Douglas Campbell
the American ace; Brig. Gen. l.. Il. y.
Charlton. British aviation attache; Capt
T. T. Craven. Director of Naval Avia-
ton; Admiral Glennon, Major-Gen.
Charles T. Menoher, director OF the
Army Air Service; Col. Archie Miller.
commanding officer of Hazelhurst Field:
Col. T. De Witt Milling. aid to Gen.
Mitchell: Lieut.. L. c. Parsons. COM
manding officer of the Stork Escadrille;
Lieut. w. ]. Scheiffiein, the naval ace:
Capt. Elliott Springs, ranking American
ace with the British forces, and Repre-
sentative +. II. La Guardia of New
York.
Filters will come by plane from Wash
ington and other cities. Capt. Roy N.
Francis will fly from the capital and
other army officers and former air fight
ers have sent word that they are COM
ing by air. Lawrence briggs, president
of the Flying Club. expects dozen
guests by the air roads.
Tickets for the dinner may still be
obtained at the Flying Club. II East
Thirty-eighth street, or at the Hotel
Commodore,