Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-06
DOOL|TTLE MAKES
272-M|LE SPEED
Is Near Land Plane Mark
in Test-Bayies Plans
Trial Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CLEVELAND, September 5.-Maj.
Jimmy Doolittle, yesterdays maker OF
new transcontinental speed record,
flashed through the air at 272.034 miles
per hour today in a speed trial at the
National Air Races; but Lowell Bayles.
Springfield, Mass, made plans tonight
to go faster tomorrow.
Bayles intends his flight to be the
races first oficially timed assault on
the world speed record for land planes.
2788 miles per hour. He will fly his
Gee-Bee monoplane, which took him
286 miles per hour Tuesday with 20
mile wind behind him.
Women Seek Record.
Another assault on a speed record
tomorrow was planned by some OF the
women pilots. They were aiming at the
2lO-mile record for American women,
set last Spring by Ruth Nichols at
Detroit.
The event in which the women pilots
were entered in their quest for a new
speed record is the Arol Trophy race,
with a purse of $500, the feature event
Of tomorrows program.
Some Of the fastest planes at this
years races will be flown by the women.
Mae Haizlip of St. Louis Is to fly the
San Franciscan II. one OF the mystery
ships designed by Keith Ryder of San
Francisco. It was built TO do 240 miles
an hour.
GLADYS ODonnell, Long Beach. Calf.
has qualified her plane at ITO miles an
hour. Mrs. Joan Faye Shankle OF Fort
Sill. Okla, has qualified with q Lock-
ed-SiriuS at 1865.
The plane to be flown by Miss Maude-
Irving TAFT, society girl of Springfield,
Mass, Is credited with q speed Of more
than 200 miles an hour. 1t is a Gee
Bee "Y" low-wing monoplane with a
Wasp C motor.
Many Lady Birds Entered.
Among the other lady birds who are
| to enter the Arol event are Mrs. Opal
Kunz of New York and Florence Kiln
gensmith Of Minneapolis. holder Of the
women's inside loop record; Rhoda Da-
Lund, Troy, Ohio; Mrs. Amelia Earhart
Putnam, New York, and Mildred Nor
gan. Beverly Hills. Calf.
Eleven so-called "high-hat" flyers
arrived at Cleveland Airport during to-
days program from HickSville, N. Y.
| after a stop last night in Buffalo. All
| OF this group ware claSsed as sports
men pilots who fly for the fun of 1t.
| Allen Eustis. 81. New York broker, was
|
! and of the Lawrence Trophy. Robert
Buck OF Hillside, N. j., was second.
Hall Wins Free-fOr-AH.
In today's 25-mile closed course free
| for-all race Robert Hall of Springfield,
! Mass, took Bayles' plane to win at q
! speed of 1843 Ray Moore, San Fran
| cisco, flying the mystery ship" San
| Franciscan I. was second at 1882.
| Among the notables of aviation who
visited the races today were Wiley Post
! from Detroit in the Winnie Mae. their
! Iockheed monoplane in which they cir
| cled the globe in slightly less than nine
days.
Tomorrow the crows are 10 see a
| dramatic meeting of Maj. Ernst Udet,
sensational German war ace. and Com
mon Pleas Judge Wanamaker Of Akron,
who was shot down by Udet during the
! war.
Judge Wanamaker was the first
American Army aviator downed behind
! the German lines. Udet followed him
/ to the ground, gave him first aid ana
otherwise proved to be a friendly
! enemy"
! When they meet for the first time
! since that battle of the air. Judge Wan
! amaker is to assure the German that
| he holds mo hard feelings" Udet Is
| the pilot who has been thrilling the air
! race crowds with stunts so daring that
| the Department of Commerce as a
measure of safety forbids American fly
ers to do them.
Derby Standing Revised.
The Contest Committee announced
| tonight that after juggling figures for
! a week. it had determined that Mae
Haizlip of Ferguson, Mo- had won sec
! ond place instead of third in the wom-
| ems division of the Santa Monica
Cleveland handicap derby which ended
last Sunday. Mrs. Martie Bowman OF
! Burbank, Calf, who had been awarded
second, was moved down to third place
in the revision. Mrs. Phoebe Omlie OF
Memphis won the race with 1913
points. Miss Haizlip scored 99.42, and
| Mrs. Bowman 98e8.