Evening star., 1932-08-31
PARACHUTE LEAPS
GIVE CROWD THRILL
Air Race Throngs See Man.
ming Drop Two Miles Before
Pulling Rip Cord.
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
! CLEVELAND, August 31.-Of all the
| thrills of the National Air Races, prob
ably none gives the spectators such
breath taking anxiety as the daring
leaps of the parachute jumpers.
Though many of the worlds greatest
flyers make their planes do tricks that
even birds can't equal. it's the boys
who jump out who give the crowds
| their greatest kick"
And Of all the jumpers, none have
made the air race crowds gasp like
H. E. (SpudD Manning, who plunges
miles downward in a death-defying
leap before he opens his parachute.
Plunges Two Miles.
Manning was in fine form yesterday
and leaped from an autegyro at IL 900
feet, with bag Of flour grasped in his
arms. Gathering velocity each fraction
of a second, he Shot toward the ground,
marking his progress by releasing a
trail of the flour.
! Rolling over and over. in the air,
Manning dropped to within 300 feet of
| the ground before he pulled the cord
which opened the umbrella-like fabric
above his head. He landed a few
moments later, unharmed, while the
thousands Of spectators arose and
| cheered
Another 3-kilometer speed dash was
| on todays program, with the hope of
breaking the worlds land plane record
| OF 278 miles an hour, but with little
expectation that the ambition will be
realized before the final day of the
races, next Monday
! The list Of today's entrants in the
dash depended upon the availability of
the several high-speed planes some of
which may not be ready until later in
the week.
Haizlip Is Entered.
James H. Haizlip, who set a new
transcontinental record Monday and
flew back from New York to Cleveland
yesterday. will be one of the flyers who
will attempt to better the 278-mile
mark, but will require re-check Of
his plane by mechanics before he at
tempts it. Haizlip speeded 275 miles
an hour on parts of his flight across
| the country, and is hopeful of better
ing the worlds record now held by
France.
Col Roscoe Turner, Los Angeles; J.
r. Wedell Patterson, La; Lee Gehlbach,
Mount Clemens, Mich; Maj James H.
Doolittle and Robert Hall of Springfield,
enter the high-speed dashes either to-
day or later in the week, with the
worlds record as their hoped-for objec-
tive
Ben O. Howard, Chicago and Kansas
City mail pilot, tried the dash yesterday
in plane of his own manufacture, but
his fastest time was 204068.
In another race for craft of 510-inch
piston displacement Howard took first
with I'll rs miles an hour over a 10-mile
course.
Heat Affects Spectators.
Thirty-five cases Of heat prostration
were reported yesterday as $4,000
watched the races, while the ther-
mometer attained "a at 4 pm.
Thomas Matag, so, was found dead
of heart failure, superinduced by the
heat, in garden for the unemployed
near the airport.
DR.. H. A. Crawford. in charge Of the
airport hospital. where the victims were
treated. said the dust. the glare and
of the proStrationS.
Jimmie Haizlip tore in from New
York at a 238-mile- hour gait yes
| terday and plunged into predictions and
plans for more and more speed He
predicted the Atlantic and Pacific may
be brought within eight hours of each
| other next year.
Expects to Go 260 Miles an Hour.
"In the high-speed trophy race Labor
day I expect the winning speed to be
near 260 miles" he said.
Mrs. Mae Haizlip, noted pilot in
her own right, was first on the field
when her husbands monoplane roared
to landing. She greeted him with a
kiss and then ducked under a wing of
| the plane when photographers closed in.
Congratulating Haizlip were Senator
Hiram Bingham and Mrs. Ameia Ear
hart Putnum
1T was just a breakfast hop COM
pared with yours" HaiZlip said to Mrs.
Putnam. who smiled, but shook her
head.
There isn't much chance, though. of
a Haizlip transocean flight, for mother,
here would probably finish that of
in hurry" Mrs Haizlip said.
Maj. Doolittle did a test hop" in
his barrel-Shaped red and white mono
plane, but did not negotiate the three
hlometer course
Sixty-one planes Of the United States
Army 1st Pursuit Group from Selfridge