Evening star., 1933-09-05
GIRL FLYER KILLED.;
:.SPEED RECORD SET
Florence KIingensmith's Ship
!; Crashes-WedeII Flies
3O5 Miles Per Hour.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
CHICAGO, September 5.-Tragedy
masked the close of the international
aFsraces. Florence Klingensmith, pos
sessor of the woman's loop-the-loop air
plane record, was the victim. She was
killed while flying at 200 miles an hour
race.
The airplane, owned by Arthur Knapp
of Jackson, Mich, plunged to earth a
half mile from the flying field after
the ships tail was seen to tip as it
passed the grandstand Fabric was seen
to rip from the plane. Miss Klingen-
smith had completed seven laps for a
total distance of about go miles of the
100-mile track when the miShap oc-
CURED.
The victim, resident of Minneapolis,
was 26 years old. She was member
OF the National Aeronautical Associa-
tion and was known in aviation circles
as "Treetops." She established her
woman's loop-the-loop record in Chi
cago in 1891, completing 1,078 loops
In Az hours of flying.
She was the second victim Of the
four-day events. The other was Roy
Liggett, 22-year-old Omaha flyer. killed
Saturday when his plane fell during a
test flight.
WedeII Sets Record.
James R. Wedell, Louisiana speed
pilot, who established an unofficial
land plane speed record of more than
five miles a minute earlier in the day,
was the winner of the race in which
Miss Klingensmith lost her life, receiv-
ing $500 of the $4,000 in awards. Lee
Cah1haaI1 nf pattnrcnn Tn ond Rnv
Minor of Los Angeles, were second and
third. respectively, each taking $4,000.
All other contestants-Roscoe Turner
of Los Angeles, Leland S. Miles of Los
Angeles and S. j. Whitman Of Oshkosh,
Wis, were forced out of the race.
In setting the land record of more
than 800 miles per hour, Wedell made
four runs over three kDometer
straight-away course. His average for
the four laps was 305.33 miles an hour.
The speed on each of the four dashes,
the higher figures being those made
with the wind: 3:16.55, 1892, Bills,
and 294.32 miles an hour.
The previous record was 29438 miles
an hour. held by Jimmie Doolittle, with
whom Wedell has had a speed feud of
long standing.
Wedell made the speed flights in the
same Number "A" of his own design,
with which he competed in the National
Air Races this year, and finished second
to Doolittle in the Thompson Trophy
Race. Since then. however, Wedell has
equipped the ship with a new motor.
Minor Is Winner.
Roy Minor of Los Angeles claimed q
new speed record Of 20l33 miles an
hour for planes Of 550-cubic inch dis
placement over a closed course when he
shot Ben o. Howard's tiny white plane,
Mike" around the pylons in the So
mile Chicago Daily News Trophy Race.
Minor thus won the event on each
of the four days Of the air meet. Second
place went to Gordon Israel of St. Louis
and third to Art Chester Of Joliet. ILL.,,
one of the most consistent money win
ners of the air meet.
S. j. Whitman Of Oshkosh, Wis, aver
aged 1901 miles an hour to win the
20-mile race for midget racers Of 200
cubic-inch rating. Lyman Voepel of
Bloomington, Ill, was second. and WAL
ter Bagnick of Detroit, third.
In a parachute jumping contest Jer-
~ Wessling Of Toledo Ohio. was first.
and Joe Brown of Cincinnati, Ohio,
and Joe Crane Of Mineola, N. Y, placed
second and third.