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[[newspaper clipping]] NEW YORK CITY POST SEPTEMBER 11, 1933 3 NRA GIRL PILOTS NEAR CRASH IN AIR Skill Averts Collision with Elinor Smith's Plane—14 Over City The skill of two women flyers narrowly averted a crash between their planes and that of Elinor Smith today as they were returning to Roosevelt Field after tossing floral blue eagles down into the city in the NRA drive. Miss Smith leading the squadron of ten planes piloted by women and carrying as a passenger Miss Isabel Leighton, chairman of the women's division of the New York NRA organization, made a sharp turn over Governors Island, bringing her ship into the path of the two trailing machines. One of these was piloted by Betty Gillies and the other by Peggy Remey. Miss Remey shot her plane upward and Mrs. Gillies dropped hers below that of Miss Smith's, thus avoiding a crash which might have wrecked all three machines. The women—fourteen of them flying ten planes—spent forty minutes "bombarding" the Times Square section and other business districts of the city with the token in a drive to bring home the NRA drive to the people of New York. The other lead planes were operated by Miss Frances Marsalis of Garden City and Miss Laura Ingalls. Included in the party were Viola Gentry of Brooklyn, Mary Wright Bain of New York, who is known as the "flying grandmother; Suzanne Humphreys of Far Hills, N. J.; Mrs. Peggy Remey of New York, Marjorie Ludwigson of Brooklyn, Bobbie Burns of New York, Opal Kunz of New York, Manila Davis of Flatwood, W. Va.; Claire Maravage of Chicago, Mrs. Floyd Bennett of Brooklyn and Annette Foltz of Portland, Ore. The climax of the drive will be reached on Wednesday, when 250,000 will march up Fifth Avenue from Washington Square to Seventy-second Street in the President's NRA Day parade. [[newspaper clipping]] [[token]] NRA MEMBER [[image - U.S. eagle]] WE DO OUR PART [[/token]] [[newspaper clipping]] NEW YORK HERALD TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933 Women Flyers Aiding the N. R. A. Campaign Here [[image - photograph of group of women with flowers in front of a plane]] Herald-Tribune photo—Acme [[caption]] Famous aviators from all parts of the country who flew over the city yesterday. Left to right, front row: Viola Gentry, Brooklyn; Betty Gillies, a flying mother, of Garden City; Mary Wright Bain, New York, a flying grandmother and the oldest in the parade; Elinor Smith, Freeport; Suzanne Humphreys, Far Hills, N. J. Middle row: Bobbie Burns, New York; Opal Kunz, New York; Manila Davis, Flatwood, W. Va.; Claire Maravage, Chicago; Mrs. Floyd Bennett, Brooklyn; Laura Ingalls, North Beach; Annette Gipson, New York, and Edith Foltz, Portland, Ore. Back row: Peggy Remey, New York; Marjorie Ludwigson, Brooklyn, and Frances Mersalis, Garden City [[/caption]] [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] DAILY NEWS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1933 [[image - photograph of group of women with flowers in front of a plane]] (NEWS photo) [[caption]] Ten planes, piloted by women, thrilled thousands yesterday by scattering carnation bouquets tied with red, white and blue ribbons. Above, Elinor Smith (A) receives a box of flowers from Isabel Leighton (B), head of women's division. [[/caption]] [PAGE 161]
