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Ira L. Hill
In a quite inadequate, almost obsolete, type of biplane at which up-to-date aviators smiles indulgently, a slight young woman, flying "just for fun," achieved the most dramatic feat of the year in American aviation. On Nov. 20 Miss Ruth Law established a new 590-mile non-stop, 'cross-country record for the western hemisphere by her flight from Chicago to Hornell, New York. Of course, we might say that Miss Law broke the world's record for flight by women pilots. But since she wishes us to think of her achievement as an aviator, not as a woman, we will say that her record has been surpassed only by the French aviator, Lieutenant A. Marchal, who flew 812 1/2 miles from Nancy, France to Cholm, Poland. Miss Law has been flying for five years, but this was her[[covered]] at long-distance flight. Last May she [[covered]] Bay and won the [[covered]]
[[Green Ribbon]] SPECIAL [[Blue Ribbon]] CLUB OHIO ,1917
[[Photo Caption]] Ruth Law, American Aviatrice, is on a Recruiting Mission in Boston With Her Dog, Poilu, a Veteran of Trench Warfare 
WOMEN
Bill Is Offered to Admit Women to Flying Corps
Ruth Law, Who Seeks to Serve Uncle Sam, Lobbies for Hulbert Measure
Herald Bureau.
No. 1,502 H Street. N.W.,
Washington, D.C., Thursday
Ruth Law, aviatrix, will be a military flyer in France under the American flag if a bill introduced to-day by Representative Murray Hulbert, democrat, of New York, becomes a law. There were many indications to-day that the House would pass it. Miss Law, clad in what apeared to be a bona fide army uniform, modified to suit the charms of the wearer, lobbied for the Hulbert bill in the House corridors. She interviewed members, making known her desire to serve Uncle Sam, and if the ready promise given by every man she talked to is an indication, the bill will pass.
The bill provides that during the existence of war "effective and able bodied women between the ages of eighteen and thirty-five may be enlisted in the military forces of the United States upon such terms and conditions as the President or Secretary of the Navy prescribe and may be commissioned as officers in the aviation section of the Signal Corps."
Mr. Hulbert says an early hearing will be had on the bill before the Military Affairs Committee. Miss Law will be a witness. Many members are now trying to obtain a promise that the hearing will not be in executive session.
Bill in House to Get Ruth Law in Air Corps
Washington, Dec. 6 -A resolutions designed to permit Ruth Law to be commissioned in the Army Aviation Corps was introduced to-day by Representative Hulbert, of New York.
The resolution would authorize army enlistment of women between eighteen and thirty-five in the discretion of the President and Secretary of War.
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SHE RETURNS TO SERVE HER COUNTRY - Miss Ruth Law, who is pictured above with her Belgian police dog, has returned from France with intentions of enlisting for aviation service in the United States army. She was made famous by her record flight from Chicago to New York in an aeroplane. She is from a family of dare-devil aviators and automobile racers.
(Photograph copyright by Underwood and Underwood)
14 AMERICAN MOTORIST December, 1916
Miss Ruth Law Queen of the Air
Here is an excellent likeness of Miss Ruth Law, recently crowned queen of the air, standing beside the two-year-old, and almost obsolete type of Curtiss biplane in which she flew from Chicago to Hornell, N. Y., a distance of 590 miles, without stopping, thereby establishing a mark at and around which both aviators and aviatrixes may soar in contests of skill and nerve until they shatter it. Further facts concerning Miss Law's feat may be found on page 18.
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