Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-07-21

pilots to Cleveland to participate in the
races. Should they appear, they prob
ably will fly in competition with the
finest Army, Navy and Marine Corps
pilots in the United States
Approximately $500 flyers will par
ticipate in a race from Cleveland TO
Buffalo August 81. They will be homing
under the auspices of the American
Racing Pigeon Union. of which Capt. D.
c. Buscall of this city is president.
Cleveland is spending $450,000 to get
its huge l,000-acre airport in condition
for the races. A grand stand for 10000
spectators is being constructed, fronting
the field for a quarter of a mile. The
construction program also includes a
central race administration building,
contest technical station. headquarters
buildings for the Army, Navy and Ma
tional Guard units and Red Cross sta
lions. The major portion of the eX-
penditures have been utilized for level
ing, grading, surfacing and drainage of
the landing field and for construction
of permanent airport buildings and in
stallation of equipment.
Notables to Attend.
President Hoover has received num-
Der of offlcial invitations to attend the
races, one of them contained in an air
mail letter signed by 100000 Cleveland
school children.
Practically all of the famous per.
sonages in American aeronautics will
attend the races or participate in the
various events. Entrants in the nom
stop Pacific Coast-to- Cleveland race in
clude Martin Jensen, former solo en-
durance flyer; Art Goebel, Dole flight
winner; Capt. George w. Haldeman
holder of the Canada to-Cuba record
and pilot of the plane American Girl
on its transatlantic fight attempt, and
| Col. William Thaw. commandant of the
Lafayette Escadrille during the World
War. Jensen is having a plane with
| retractable landing gear built for the
| race Goebel also is having a plane
built
Frank M Hawks, holder Of the trans
continental round-trip record of SO
hours; Speed" Holman. Earl Rowland
Of Wichita, Lee Schoenhair, Freddie"
Lund and other pilots known wherever
men fly are expected to participate in
the races and aerial contests.
On the sidelines will be such aviation
notables as Casey" Jones, Eric Nelson,
Leigh Wade and Lowell Smith Of the
Army round-the-world fight, Capt.
Eddie" Rickenbacker and Reed G.
Lands, first and second ranking Ameri-
can aces in the World War; Eddie Stin-
son and Bill Brock. Reggie Robbins and
Jim Kelly, the Texans who broke the
refueling endurance record of the
| Question Mark and started an epidemic
of endurance flying, and Clearance
Chamberlin. Col. CharleSsA. Lindbergh
probably will be there with Mrs. Lind
bergh.
The aeronautical manufacturing world
probably will be represented by Anthony
! H. G. Fokker, Charles Lawrence, de-
signer of the Wright whirlwind engine
which has figured in so many record
: flights; Fred B. Rensselaer, president
of the Aeronautical Chamber Of Com
merce; william Stout, designer Of the
Ford tri-motored plane; Glenn L. Mar
tin of Baltimore, Don Alexander and
William E. Boeing.
The great transport and financial
| interests which are sending American
commercial airplane mileage beyond
the figures which have long given Eu-
rope its boosted vantage, will be repre-
| sented by Clement M. Keys, Harris M.
and others.
| From the National Capital will prob
ably 20 the leaders of civil and military
aviation, among them William p. Mac
Cracker, jr., Assistant Secretary of
| Commerce for Aeronautics: Maj Clar-
ence Young director of aeronautics Of
the Department of Commerce.; David
| S. ingalls,, Assistant Secretary of the
| Navy for Aeronautics; r. Trubee Davi-
son, who holds the same post in the
War Department; Maj Gen. James E..
Fechet, chief of the Army Air Corps,
and Brig. Gen. Benjamin D. Foulois,
one of his three brigadiers and leaders
! of the Navy Bureau of Aeronautics.