AVIATION
WOMEN’S AIR RACE,
United Press Association.—"Rv Electric Telegraph—Copyright).
(Received this day at noon.) NEW YORK, August 22
A message from Mialdn, Texas, says ns the Women’s Air Derby reached this point, Miss Earhart took the lead after making a woman’s speed record of 250 miles in two hours twenty-eight minutes. Her total elapsed time is nine hours forty-eight minutes seventeen seconds. Mrs Gladys Odonne (Tongheach, California)' remains second Ruth Nichols (New York) is third and Mrs Thaden fourth. Misfortune continues to follow the rares. One participant at a height c-f two thousand feet saw her ’plane smo-v ing and she calmly used an. extinguisher’. When the landed she discovered a cigarette had been thrown into the baggage in the ’plane causing light damage. Mrs Barnes made a down-wind landing at Pecose (Texas) and crashed ini-' an automobile. She w"s uirujured l' t the ’plane is apparently out of the race.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 August 1929, Page 5
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