Jersey Journal/1930/Chamber For Globe Flight By Schneider

Chamber For Globe Flight By Schneider. '''Local Group Suggests Fund of $25,000 for Project to Advertise Jersey City. ''' (reprinted from the Final Edition Yesterday) The first attempt to circle the globe by airplane from West to East is likely to be made by Eddie Schneider, 18-year-old Jersey City aviator, to carry the name of Jersey City to every part of the world. The Chamber of Commerce today approved the flight and suggested that Jersey City appropriate $25,000 to finance the flight in the interest of advertising the city and increasing the air-mindedness of Jersey City residents. The flight is projected to start from Jersey City Airport and to include a non-stop trip to Paris. Young Schneider has been planning the flight all Winter and has every detail worked out. He is now only awaiting approval of Mayor Hague and the City Commission to go ahead with his preparations. According to Schneider's plans. he will leave Jersey City in June with a light load of gas, filling up at another airport where facilities for taking off with a heavy load are better. His course, as planned, will be for a non-stop flight to Paris. from there to Berlin, and then to Moscow. After leaving Moscow. he will stop at Omsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Khabarorsk, Petrotavaborsk and Kamchatka, all in Siberia. From Siberia he will fly to Seward, Alaska, and thence to Seattle, Washington, from where he expects to make a non-stop flight to Jersey City. His route will be one of the most difficult yet tried by an aviator, although it is the best, so far as can be judged, for the west-east course. He wants to buy a Bellanca plane of great fuel capacity to make the trip. Schneider set the national junior transcontinental flight record last August. He later lost the record to another junior aviator. Wants Better Port Here. Last August 25, when he returned from his record flight and was greeted by Mayor Hague, he expressed the opinion that Jersey City was the most advantageous location for an airport in the metropolitan area and declared that a port large enough to permit planes with the heavies: loads to take off should be constructed at Droyer's Point. It is largely this thought that brought the idea of the world flight into his mind. He feels that the interest in aviation which would grow out of his flight would cause the people of Jersey City to demand an airport equal to any in the country. The Chamber of Commerce received the idea some time ago, and the aviation committee under Edwin C. Roddy, chairman, conferred with the publicity committee and decided that the cost of financing the flight would more than repay the city in advertising, not only in the United States, but throughout the world, Edwin Roddy is himself an aviator and was the first man to transport air mail in the United States. Letter to Mayor. The joint report of the two committees being favorable, Edwin B. Lord, executive vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, sent the following letter to Mayor Hague today: "We have had referred to us, a proposition from Eddie Schneider and Don Ryan Mockler pertaining to a world flight to be made by Eddie Schneider. "As a result of several meetings with our aviation committee, in consultation with our publicity committee. it has been voted by these committees to approve the project. This approval done without consideration of the risks involved from a technical or safety standpoint, it is the feeling of these committees that $25,000 would be well expended in presenting the advantages of Jersey City to the world at large. It is felt also at this would show the advantages of Jersey City as a location for an airport on account of its advantageous geographical location. "If we interpret the consensus of opinion of these committees correctly, it is thought such a flight, in addition to offering unusual opportunity to project the advantages of Jersey City, not only nationally, but world-wide, will also assist in making our people air-minded and that the eventual result would be an airport comparable to any In the country." Don Ryan Mockler is Schneider's manager. Schneider left Dickinson High School two years ago to take up aviation, studying at the Westfield Airport. He lived with his parents in Jersey City 12 years. His father is Emil Schneider, formerly a delicatessen storekeeper hem. The Schneiders live at 111 Carlton Avenue.