The sun., 1919-10-20
1,O46 MILES IN ADAY
QUEENS'S AIR MARX
Filler, Bound West, Beats
Lieut.. Maynard's Best Rec
ord by 200 Miles.
SENATOR NEWS WARNING
Says U. s. Has Lost Aviation
Supremacy Because of Wash
ington Bungling.


flying parson. was driving his plane east
ward from Cleveland on Saturday to VIC
tory in the greatest aerial race ever held.
Lieut.. II. Z. Queens. one Of the fifteen
pilots who started from San Francisco
almost unnoticed, established record Of
through the middle West
The young San Francisco fier exceed
ed by 200 miles even the longest days
travelling of Lieut. Maynard. his first
day flight of $40 miles from Mineola to
Chicago. Starting at 1905 on Saturday
morning at Bryan. Ohio, Lieut.. Queens
sped westward to Cheyenne, Wyo., maxi
ing stops Of thirty minutes each at Chi
cago, Rock Island, Des Moines. Omaha.
st. Paul, North Platte and Sidney on the
way.
During the day Lieut.. Queens overlook
Capt. Lowell H. Smith. who was leader
of the East to West fiers. and who had
started flying that day from Chicago.
Both men passed Saturday night and
last night at Cheyenne. as flying on Sun
day is forbidden. They will try to cover
to-day the 1905 miles separating them
from the Golden Gate. Lieut.. e. c. Kiel,
who finished second in the San Francisco
New York lap. also started from Bryan
on Saturday morning, but he lost one
control during the day and rested at Sid
ney, 80 miles behind Lieut.. Queens.
On his westward flight Lieut. May
nard's overnight stopping places were
Chicago, Cheyenne and Salduro. Owing
to the fact that he lost half a day at
Cheyenne because OF broken radiator.
both Lieut. Queens and Capt. Smith. and
also Lieut.. Kiel, are now in a good posi-
iton to exceed Maynards performance
in the matter OF elapsed time. For the
entire return trip the flying parson is
easily the winner.
Salduro is only 81 miles from Chey-
enne. so that the three fiiers should reach
1t about midday II they continue their
| fast speed. The San Francisco trio In
miles covered are not far behind the
three fiiers leading the forty-eight Min
cola starters.
Capt. J. o. Donaldson, flying alone in
an sE-5. a light British scout machine
will probably win second place in the
/ race, for he has been maintaining a con-
| sistent speed. and reached Binghamton
142 miles from Mineola, on Saturday
night. He will probably hop to the fln.
| ish line this morning before the San Fran.
cisco fiiers climb over the Rockies,
The third man bound eastward, Lieut.
Earl NJ. Manzelman. reached Rock Isl
| and. H.. Saturday. He probably will
not arrive at Mineola until tomorrow
| Lieut.. Alexander Pearson. who was for a
time in second place. spent Saturday and
! yesterday at North Platte, where he ID
| replacing his Liberty motor with the
second OF the motors from the Martin
bomber, which cracked UP In Nebraska
| In thick fog. Lieut.. Maynard used the
| fret motor OF the big two motored entry
Although Lieut. Maynard has I'm
| ished. the race Is not over, for in ad-
dition to the straightaway get there
| contest. there are a flying time contest
and handicap contest based upon the
type and horsepower of the various
ships. The twenty hours Lieut.. Maynard
spent in the Nebraskan corn field near
Wahoo hastily changing his motors will
he counted in his flying time, SO it is
virtually certain that he will not win
that contest. Were It not for. this mis-.
hap Maynard's flying time would be
some minutes under fifty hours, accord
ing to an unofficial estimate made by
| Cole Younger, vice-chairman of the
American Flying Club contest commit
tee. This would mako his speed for the
5,400 miles OF flying in good weather
and bad about los miles an hour.
Some flier now in the ruck among the
| reached San Francisco may finish some
time this week with a better flying time
record than the leaders. Several have
determined to fly between controls only
when conditions are most favorable. A
pilot may remain at each control forty
eight hours before being disqualified.
U. s. Loses Air Supremacy.
! In telegram received last night by
the American Flying Club congratulate
| ing Lieut. Belvin w. Maynard and his
! fellow pilots. Senator New of Indiana
said
notwithstanding the activity. now
| going on I'm the air service of the United
| States, 1t is apparent that the suprem-
+ acy of the air has been wrenched from
the control OF America. We see the
whole proposition now after this race as
| a much greater thing than even the
! early Missionaries saw It. We must de-
velop commercially in order to have an
| industry built upon peace time CONNER
| cial output to take care OF war time
military demands.
"The great fault is that we have al
lowed the development and control OF
aviation to be divided between four or
five different departments of the Gov
.ernment, each sincerely enough doing
It's best 10 develop the air service. but
from the nature Of such unbusinesslike
policy the result is that the money is
eaten up by overhead expenses and use
less duplication of effort The taxpay-
ers demand of Congress the reasons why
England and France have taken the
aerial supremacy from the United
/, States when the United States has an
pr cpriated such huge sums that on It's
face would insure complete aerial domi-
nation.
There is no doubt but that the su-
premacy OF the air has been wrenched
| from the control ~ America, the nation
whose mind conceived the airplane. built
1t and who naturally should have at
least aerial equality II not aerial SUI
| premacy. 1t is my honest conviction
that unless Americas air efforts are
concentrated at once under one head
through q separate department OF aero
nautics charged specifically with our
aerial defence and supremacy, the
United States viii never become more
than third rate aerial power no mat
ter how literally Congress continues to
make appropriations and no matter how
hard individuals may attempt to develop
their own departments"