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. Air iRaces iNamed Appointment of a Wilmette Air Race committee was announced this weék by George Woodward, regional director of the International Air races and Gordon-Bennett, Balloon, race, wbich will be. staged. at' Curtiss- Wright-Reynolds airport near Glen- .view, September 1-2-3-4. as the avia- dion finale of A Century o 0Poges exposition.. The'rmembers of the comnlittee. arc Williamn Ward Lange, Genieral North Shore chairman; Gilbert D. Owsley. Wilrnette chairman; Ernest Cazel. J.Walter Nelson, E.' W. Weber, Arch VTan Deusen, Phil Floffman and John Hoffman. Coincident with the an nouncement concerning the. formation of the com- mittee, 'Woodward made known *-the fact that information and, literature, such as automobile windshield st.ick- ers, wilI be available early next week at Snider-Cazel drug, store and the office of WiLMI-ýtTi-£LrE. Big Ait Zv.e.t of Yeat- The International Air races and Gordon-Bennett Balloon race will be the outstanding aviation events of the year, according to Woodward, who, says that reports received f romi various parts of the country, coin- bined with information obtained f rom early entries, indicate - that the meet will be a figbt to the finish ail the way tbrough. Pilots wbo participated in the 1933 National Air races are now tuning their craft for the coming conipeti- tion. At the saine time. builders of several high speed shjps that failed tc> reach Los Angeles are bending every effort to eliminate the "b)ugs" that kept their planes out of the na- tional meet. One of these sbips is reported to have a high speed of 360 miles an bour. Others are workïng frantically to complete entirely. new. creations. Invitations to send entries to Chi- cago for both the heavier anid liglit- er-than-air events have been ex- tended to the 33 nations hiaving aeronautical societies affiliated with the VederatinnAeronn2îtinueI'nter- tiss awirt ert utrnatimcî aaui~r races on Septeniber 1, 2, 3 and 4 will have no difficulty in reaching the flying field, which' is located at Lake and Shermer avenues northwes-t of Glenview, Pavedý roads lead te, the air port from -aIl directions. When the 1930 National Air races were held, at Curtiss motorists, foutid it neces'- sary to drive over dusty roads to reach the' field, but those expecting to-attend this.yecar's big air show will, have no unàpleasant experience of this kind. Will Keep New Loeming Amphîbian at Pal-Wauke Lloyd.Laflin of Lake Forest. an of- ficiaI, of the. Elgin - Watch, company, and Chester Faust, who i8- connected .with an advertising lagency,, have pur- chased a- new Loening amphibian which theçy will keep at Pal-Waukee airport *. They excpected to take de- livery on thie ship the latter part of last week- or earlyr tiis week. * FLIES TO OMAHA Hubert B. Griggs, pilot of the Bel- lanca owned by W. C. Grunow of the Grunow corporation, refrigerator, manufacturers, flew the ship to Omaha last week on a business trip. The plane is kept at the Curtiss air- port hangar. p lane, and the grandson of Adam Opel, founder of the Opel motor works. WuiM Event Four Timesp Ernest Demuyter, the only man to win the Gordon-Bennett trophy four times, will captain one of the Belgian entries. The Polish bag, 'tKoscius- zko," is to be flown by Capt. Francis- zek Hynek and Lieut. Zbigniew Burzynski.. The two ascended to an altitude of more than 30,000 feet earlier in the year. Attired only, in- leather clothing and riding in an open basket, both became seriously iîl as a result of the severe cold they encounterecl. at Curtiss-Wright airport in Gien- výiew this Sunday will, feature Capt. Vincent Taylor of the British Royal Flying corps, assisted by Ralph Ny- borg, youthful pilot and parachute jump!er. CatiTaylor>will take off in a Fie dgling biplane and will. give a demonstration of "crazyo' flying, simi- lar to that, of the famnous Lieut. R. L. R. Atcherly, also of the Royal Flying corps. Captain Taylor's,per-. formance promises to 'be extra- ordinary- and includes new features. The program will open at 2 o'clock, with* twenty minutes of precision acrobatics, f ollowed by ,an aerial pafade of sportsmen pfilots fiying their own machines. Newton Ander-, son. of Chicago, will make, a parachute jump from 2,000 feet. He has -enter- tained the crowd several times this summer and. is a. veteran perform er. *Capt. Lewis A. "Lon" Yancey, noted trans-Atlantic pilot, will give a demonstration of the charactèristics of the autogiro. Captain Yancey is one of the foremost autogiro pilots in the country, and has, been flying over the north shore in, the interests of the -Chamnpion Spark Plùg corn- pany. Demonstration flighits in- a --train- ing plane will be made by* Dwight Morrow, chief instructor of Northý Shore Airways. Mr. Morrow bas taught more students to fly during the last fifteen years than any in- structor in the Middle West. He wilI be glad to answer any questions re- garding. training. The North Shore Airways plans to stage an interesting program each Sunday, according to Murray Boess, president of the organization, and the public is cordially invited. There is no admission charge. Curtiss-Wright] airport is located. at Shermer. and Lake avenue in GlenivieN%, and prin- cipal routes are marked .withorange arrows. 28 -New -Curtiss Hawks Polatnd has fileci the first entry in the Gordon Bennett balloon race, to be held at Curtiss airport in conjunc- tion with the'International Air races September 1-2-3-4 as the officiaI1 comipetitive aviation event of ýA Cen-, turyof Progress. exposition. .OfficiaIs. announced that' Captain Franciszek Hynek will pilot the Po- ish bag, cbristened the "Kosc.iuszko" after the .famous Revolutionary w ar hero. Lieutenant Zbigniew Burzyn- ski will bé 'assistant pilot.: accorcling, to Word received at race headquarters froni the Aero club, of Polatid. Both balloonîsts' are well-known for their actjvities in- the lightei - than - air branch of aviation., Took 4th Place "at Year Poland took fourth place ini the. race for the coveted Gordon Bennett trophyý which started, fromf Basie,. Switzerland, lIast year.' This interna- tional lighter-than-air classic occu- pies the same position in its field as the Memorial day automobile race at Indianapolis, and the motor boat contests for the Harmsworth trophy. The race is officially known as the Schnieider Cup race for f ree -balloons.. The event was inaugurated iný 190i6 when the late James Gordon-Betinett, an American, placed the first trophy in the keeping of the Aero club of France. The race has beeni staged annually since that time with the exception of the years 1914 to 1919, during the World war, and the year 1931. This years race is the 'twenty- first to be held and the first for the fourth Cordon B~ennett trophy. Put Radio Equipmeit, in Peterkijn's New Stinson. A newý Stinson Reliant owned by. Dan P terkin,* Jr., wa.s taken,1 to the, Stinson factory at Wayne, Mich., re- cently for the installation,.of radio equipment. Peterkin keeps his ship at Curtiss airport. While at the fac- tory the plane was equipped with a. new type of altimeter, an instrument for measuring the distance frorn the shih) fïo the Lyriiind Fi'rtz von Op> car manufacti rocket' Propelle ý3 "qj jçý Ln- i V ' C.xle *'l IC..Ku ilrcl ** il- --- tion work on the bleachers started s ct ne pofth ae A rmy ay and M ane copshar-ve POMCNAAbuing hem hMas eril e o ted in lanct. ne ofth'aerogram, it sandpManed osave thFOMCNAAbulis g wee Ma erial on be iedi 134-y'car-,old motor t i c i p a t i o n , spectacular acrobatic A Puss Moth, from Canada was an for some time. The course over ér, inteuitor of the demonstrations, delayed- parachute arrival at Curtiss airport last week. which the races will be held was sur- automobile and air- junips and other "sure-ire" thrillers. The Puss Moth is 'an English ship. veyed last week.