Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-25

cember at IstreS by Raymond Del
30498 miles per hour, was establi:
two years ago by the late James r.
Wedell in one of the Thompson racers.
A third race of the $10,000-cash-
prize caliber will be flown for the
Louis william Greve Trophy. limited
to airplanes os 550-cubic-inch engine
capacity. A number Of new airplaneS
also are ready to start in this race,
the final heat of which will be flown
Sunday.
Eight OF the best women pilots in
the races will be selected by trial to
compete in a race sponsored by Amelia
Earhart over the Thompson Trophy
course. Another spectacular race,
among many on the four-day pro-
gram, is for tiny ships in the 200
cubic Inch class. Most of these dwarf
planes are tailored" to fit the pilots
who fly them.
Women are to play an unusually
prominent part in the National Air
Races this year. Three Washington
women already are entered in the
Earhart race. They are Miss Edna M.
Gardner, Naval Hospital nurse, who
will fly the Waco in which she has
won many events in the East; Mrs.
Genevieve Moore Savage, wife of
Capt. Charles NJ. Savage, Boiling
Field adjutant, who will fly her Great
Lakes plane, and Mrs. Peggy Howard
Remey, flying Travel Air.
For the first time a woman is ex-
pected to compete in the Bendix. Miss
Jacqueline Cochran of Los Angeles
has obtained special waiver from the
National Aeronautic Association to
enter the transcontinental race at the
controls Of Northrop Gamma popped
up" to a maximum speed said to be
in the neighborhood of $50 miles per
hour. The present transcontinental
speed record of 10 hours minutes
Will be back in the BendiX this year.
Washington aviation Is to be hon.
ored at the National Air Races in the
appointment of j. Earl Steinhauer,
who has been prominent in local avia-
ton circles for about seven years, as
assistant chief starter of the races.
This is the first time local pilot has
held an important post in the annual
aviation classic.
Steinhauer. who has officiated at
If he 1Ana1 To-
past five years, will go to Cleveland
next Thursday by airline to take over
his duties for the four-day meet.
Chester H. Warrington, president of
the Aero Club of Washington. and
Harrison Buddy Somerille, presi-
dent of the Washington Air Derby
Association, are planning to fly their
own ships to Cleveland for the races.
Howard C. Stark, internationally
known authority on instrument flying,
who recently was appointed to the
staff of the Bureau of Air Commerce
as an airline inspector, has been as
signed as an inspector at large in
charge of inspection of instrument
flying equipment and procedure en-
ployed by the airlines. Other inspec-'
tors are assigned to particular sections
Of the country. Stark will give much
Of his time to smaller airlines which
do not have full-time instrument fly
ing instructors.
Stark also is to deal with regulatory
matters concerning instrument flying,
such as revision of regulations and
formulation of policies and procedures
under existing regulations, the bureau
announced.
Stark has been flying since 1922 and
holds Federal transport pilots license
No. 288. After five years spent chiefly
in transforming, he became an air.
mail pilot on the New York-Boston
route, where he began the studies
which later qualified him as an in
structor in instrument flying. Flying
the mail between Cleveland and Chi
cago from 1928 to 1880, he continued
these studies and had his system well
formulated by 1880, when he began
flying on the international routes to
South America. In 1881 he came to
Eastern Air Transport as instrument
flying instructor. In 1884 he went
abroad to instruct pilots of the great
Dutch airline system in instrument
and night flying.
Another local appointment Of in
terest is that of H Weir Cook, World
War ace and present lieutenant
colonel in command OF the 38th