Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-09-06 | Page 14 | Chicago Erects Cross as Memorial to U. S. Airmail Pioneers and Heroes

Chicago Erects Cross as Memorial To U. U S S. Airmail Pioneers and Heroes Br fly y Associated l Frees CHICAGO Sept 6 A 6 A wooden cross ross was erected today in Grant park ark in memory of the men who blazed the trail when the Uni United ed States Slates mail mall service winged its way westward and and th the pilots pilots' who died following that trail The spot picked for tor the cross was the ic place where on September 6 1918 the ic wheels of the first mail plane to toly fly ly here from New York made its landing Later the Chicago Historical society will place a permanent marker on n the site Memorial exercises in m monor honor onor of ot Max Miller and Eddie Garder Gardner Gard Gard- ncr ner er who piloted this trail blazing plane ilano and all the aviators who lost their lives in the conquest of a continent con- con nent were in m charge of or C Captain B. B B. B Lipsner father of the nations nation's air r mail service Th The light flight of Miller and Gardner from rom the eastern seaboard attracted little attention at the thc time The world war was then in progress The flight inaugurated air mail service I between the nations nation's two largest cities now points on the mail mall aerial I artery of or the nation over which is carried 45 per cent of the governments government's governments government's governments government's govern govern- ments ment's air mail Those early days and later nights of flying over the New York Chicago Salt Lake San City Francisco route I were beset with hazards now largely eliminated through better ships better bet I ter lighted airways and better landing landing landing land land- ing fields Among the men who are still flying fly fly- ing the paths they traveled a n decade ago are W. W D. D Williams between New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Chicago Jack Knight Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago and Omaha E. E Hamilton Lee Omaha and Cheyenne Harold Lewis Salt Lake City and Cheyenne and Harry Hucking Salt Lake City and Oakland Cal All AU have f flown lown over a million miles in jn the United States air mail ser ser- vice