U.S.A. AIR RACE
WON BY ROSCOE TURNER CLEVELAND, September 5. A crowd numbering 350,000 saw Roscoe Turner win the 300-mile Thompson Trophy race at the record speed of 283.419 miles an hour today. Turner was the winner in 1934, and he is the first man twice to win the 45,000-dollar American blue riband of air racing.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 7 September 1938, Page 5
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