Old Dog Tray had his day. Not to Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd for his spectacular flight to the North Pole and back last spring at Spitzbergen but to U. S. Mail Pilot Shirley J. Short, for having flown 2,000 hours with valuable cargo in all kinds of weather and with never a serious accident or lapse in schedule, did the International League of Aviators last week award the Harmon Trophy for the best performance in 1926 by a U. S. flyer. To Pilot Georges Pelleder D'Oisy for his long distance flights (France to Africa, Paris to Tokyo) went the 1926 Harmon Trophy for France.
Mail Pilot Short's beat is between Chicago, where he lives, and Cleveland. Aged 32, stocky, black-mustached, cheerful, Pilot Short started flying during the War, has never stopped.