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[[newspaper clipping]] MINNEAPOLIS MIN. JOURNAL JULY 29, 1934 [[image - photograph of two women and a man beside a plane]] [[caption]] [[underlined]] Manila Davis, right, [[/underlined]] hands in her entry for the handicap event of the women's air meet scheduled at Dayton, Ohio, August 4. [[\newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] DAYTON HERALD, JUNE 20, 1934 Wide Interest Shown in Poster Contest for Women's Air Races Much interest is being shown in the poster contest which is sponsored by The Dayton Herald for the purpose of advertising the air races to take place at the Vandalia airport August 3-5. The air meet is being arranged under the co-direction of the National Women's Aeronautical association and the Ninety-Nine, exclusive organization of licensed women pilots. One main air race and a series of lesser ones as well as stunting are included in the tentative program for this amateur sporting meet. A series of twelve prizes will be awarded to those who contribute the best posters. Several of the awards will be as follows: First, $7; second, $5; third, $3; fourth, $2; fifth, sixth and seventh, $1 each; eight, pair of tickets to aviation meet. The four final award winners will be presented a pair of tickets to Dayton moving picture shows, Victory, Keith's, Colonial and Loew's. All posters must be submitted to the Aeronautical Poster Contest editor, on or before July 10. The best will be used in display windows of the city for the purpose of advertising the air meet. Posters must bear information approximating "Air Races, August 3-5, Vandalia Airport. All other information is to be used at the discretion of the contesting artist. Posters may be in black and white or colors. They are to be 14x20 inches in size. Society women and professional pilots will take part in the events of the air meet. Among participates will be [[underlined]] Manila Davis, [[/underlined]] of Dayton, who will contest also in the all-women air race at Roosevelt field, New York, Sunday. [[/newspaper clipping]] [[newspaper clipping]] Sunday, July 30, 1933 National Air Meet Highlight Of This Week Committees of Local Women Now Busy With Their Plans For Unique Event BY HELEN KLING HOOK WOMEN of Dayton and wives of officers of Wright and Patterson Fields are anticipating with interest the coming week-end when the annual meeting of the Women's National Aeronautical association will be held, followed by the air meet. Social affairs of interest have been planned for Friday, the day of the annual meeting, when members of the local organization will be hostesses. The day will begin with registration of delegates at the Dayton-Biltmore hotel at 10 o'clock in the morning. At 11 o'clock at the same hotel Mrs. George Shaw Greene of Runnymede rd., president of the national organization, will address members of the association and preside at the opening meeting. Luncheon will follow at 1:30 o'clock, after which business sessions will be resumed. Friday evening at the Dayton Country club a banquet will be arranged, and women of Dayton and vicinity interested in the work of the association are invited to attend this affair, and meet the visiting flyers, who will be honored on this occasion. Reservations for the banquet may be made with Mrs. Edith McClure Patterson of Sawmill rd., Miss Cora Adamson of 109 Central av. or at the W. N. A. A. headquarters, 204 Custer building. Mrs. H. E. Talbott and Mrs. John Bradley Greene are honorary chairmen of the social activities committee for the meeting, and [[/newspaper clipping]] [PAGE 199]
