Show Notable Feats of Girl Aviators Refute Scientists Scientist's Claims Cla I ls That Women Are Unfit For Flying By HARVEY ANDERSON Special Correspondent of The Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Cons Press Association NEW EW YORK Aug Miss O. 20 Miss Mildred Doran plucky Michigan school schoolteacher schoolteacher teacher eacher whose fate on her Hawaiian flight has held the world spot spot- spotlight light Ight this week is one of a gallery of ot gallant women who have pio plo pioneered veered the air along with men The Th colossal monument now being built in Oklahoma to honor the pioneer mother may well be followed by y some great memorial to the women who ho have met the hazards of ot a anew anew new ew element clement with ith unflinching courage BEACHEY TRAGEDY This writer stood beside Miss LlUan Gatlin 12 years ago and watched Lincoln Beachey drop into San Francisco bay I Im going to make the world remember him she said Miss Gatlin Gatliu later was the first woman to fly across the American continent making the trip in a mall plane on the anniversary of ot Beachey's death Each succeeding year jear ear she has leas arranged a ceremonial at t Beachey's s grave She inspired other women flyers with high aspirations ions and has devoted recent lecent j years cars to furthering aviation among women Miss Ruth Law an American girl made the first flight between Chi- Chi Chiago Chicago Chicago cago ago and New York a distance of ot miles in nine hours and one minute She followed this performance with wills amazing stunt flying In n 1919 she planned a trans Atlantic voyage put but ut was unable to obtain a dependable plane BROKE DISTANCE RECORDS Miss Katherine Stinson Texas school girl suddenly hopped lopped into the air late In 1916 1915 It was about this time that Art Smith had lad the world dizzy with his loops When the war broke out Miss Stin- Stin Stinson son on made a desperate effort to get In to as flier filer Failing in this she joined the he Red fled Cross and drove an ambulance She broke Ruth nuth Laws Law's record for far or the Chicago ew New York flight by making a non stop nonstop stop flight of miles Soon after sho she flew fiew miles from San Diego Jo to San Francisco Franciscon In n a It nonstop flight Miss Stinson later opened an aviation school in San Antonio Texas and has trained hundreds of ot fliers Her sister also is an aviatrix Miss Harriet an American girl made the first flight across the English channel in tn 1912 1112 She had been flying about one year and had amazed the world with ith her daring and skill shill A short time later she was killed when a defect detect in her plane caused her to crash Miss Blanche Stuart Scott a student flying fl fi above aboTe Miss Quim- Quim bley saw her fall This incident remains as a test of the air behavior ot or women gripped dripped with horror as she was was Miss Scott brought her plane safely to earth and rushed to the aid of Miss too too late THRILLS WITH STUNTS Miss Elliott Lynn British flier continues to thrill huge hue crowds in London ondon with astounding feats ot or looping diving tall tail spinning and side slipping After a recent rec nt crash she bhe immediately took the air again with no lessening of her breath taking breath taking stunts Mme Lubia now conducting a beauty parlor in fn New NewYork NewYork NewYork York was until recently the holder ot or the worlds world's altitude record for lor women She Sho Hew flew Russian planes during the war wal and participated In sensational engagements and piloted a ten passenger Fokker monoplane thousands of miles Lady Lally Bailey wife of ot Sir Abe Bailey and Mrs Geoffrey De Haviland wife of or the aeroplane plane designer now claim the women's record with flights ot or more than feet Miss Caroline Sikes ot of Toronto is not only a II flier filer but a parachute jumper jumper When the aeroplanes on the recent national air tour reached New ew York they were escorted to Curtis field by a woman flier Miss flier Miss Jessie E E. Horsfall Miss Horsfall is a skilled air airwoman woman of wide experience ence once and is one of the tho editors of Aero Digest GERMAN AVIATRIX Fraulein Thea Rasche game little Gorman German flier filer is in New York planning a trip across the Atlantic She has thrilled crowds hero here with leer her ier performance in her plane and although she also smashed up the other day da trying to dive under a Hudson river bridge she is at it again and tells the world that thal she will wm surely ride the air to Germany G She Sh has ordered a plane similar in design to the one Ill Chamber used In Germany Japan England and France women are aro beginning to fly Year Years ago a learned Austrian psychologist wrote a ponderous treatise on the psychological psychological incapacity of women for flying He pre pre- predicted predicted that there never would l be bo any noteworthy women fliers It was about this time lime that Miss Miss- Stinson went aloft and began looping the loop Ever since women have been busy making the profound scientist look Jook foolish Not only womanhood Jut but all the world yields deference to lo o Miss Doran and her brave rave companions of ot the air |