The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-30
HAIzLIP SETS
CROSS-NATION
SPEED RECORD
10 Hours 19 Minutes New
Time for Coast to- Coast
Dash Over u. S.
TURNER SMASHES MARK
Beats Jimmy DooIittIe'S
Time, Although He
Comes In Second.


NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-TWo fliers
who spent a record-breaking day
Monday in the fastest coast-to coast
flights ever made, planned to show
the fans at the national air races IN
Cleveland today some more of their
record smashing speed. They left
for Cleveland early this afternoon
Jimmie Haizlip st. Louis, and
Roscoe Turner, Hollywood, both
shattered the flying record set last
year by Jimmy Doolittle.
Haizlips elapsed time from Los
Angeles to New York was 10 hours,
10 minutes and 48 seconds-56
minutes and IL seconds under Doc
Titles time.
After Haizhp landed here,
Turner brought his red and yellow
plane roaring out of the west,
thirty-nine minutes behind the new
record-holder in elapsed time, but
still ahead of Doolittles old mark
OF IL hours and Is minutes.
Both Fly Tiny Planes
Both Haizlip and Turner were
flying in the $4,000 Bendix trophy
race from Los Angeles TO Cleve-
land.
Halzlip's earnings, won in an av-
erage mans working day, were
$1,000 in first money to Cleveland
and $4,000 additional for breaking
Doolittles record.
Turner and Haizlip both piloteo
tiny, bullet-like planes designed by
Jimmie Wedell of Paterson, La, anc
Harry Williams of New Orleans
and powered by Wasp Junior mo-
tors.
Wedell, also an entrant in the
BendiX race, won second place with
faster elapsed time for the Los An
geleS-C Cleveland distance than Tur-
ner. He also flew one of his own
planes.
Haizlip took off at Los Angeles at
6:45 a, M eastern standar dtime).
Within five minutes he was up 5000
feet.
AS the rising sun cleaned over
the Grand Canyon, his white and
black stream-lined plane shot along
at 270 miles an hour.
At noon, he passed over the Mis-
souri, river after a brief refueline
stop at Goodland, Kan.
At Lansing, Ill, he took on 13C
gallons of gas in five minutes. Their
he streaked over Cleveland in mid
afternoon.
He lifted his plane over the AL
leghanies, after flashing over tbs
finish line at Cleveland, and, ar
hour before dusk, he sighted the
Atlantic.
Haizlip travelled so fast he over
shot Floyd Bennett field. He
banked. and landed at 100 miles
an hour at 504:48 p. m. Eastern
standard time).
Oil-spattered, his face black ano
dirty with CRIME and dust, the di-
minutive 4-foot-11-inch 1liel
crawled out of his cockpit, grim
ming.
Am I the first one imp" he
asked as a crowd of about LOOK
persons cheered
Marguerite Clark Is There
Marguerite Clark Williams, movit
star of fifteen years ago and wife o
the co-designer of his plane, pre-
Sented Haizlip with bouquet.
Then there was roar overhead
and Turner shot down onto the field
Haizlip hurried out to greet him.
Turner, a large man, laughed
heartily at the sight of the grease
covered Haizlip
You were the one man wanted
to beat" he exclaimed.
Arm in-arm they went for
cup of coffee.
Out in Cleveland Jimmy Doolittl
received with a grin the news tina
his mark had been broken. H
sent Haizlip a telegram of con
gratulations, commenting, "Haizlil
is one of the best pilots and one o
my closest buddies"
1T won't be many years be
fore planes will be crossing TIT
country in seven hours or less.
Doolittle predicted. And don't for
get that I'm not through flyinl
yet