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WOMEN'S AVIATION MEET
NOTED FLYERS EXPECTED TO TAKE PART IN PROGRAM

Plans for the most important women's aeronautical meet ever held in the United States, at the Dayton Municipal Airport in Vandalia Saturday and Sunday, Aug. 4 and 5, are being perfected, it was learned Saturday.

Permission of the department of commerce at Washington, D. C., is being sought, and if given the meet will be held under joint auspices of the National Women's Aeronautical association and the Ninety-Nine, an exclusive organization of licensed women pilots.

One main race and a number of lesser ones, stunting and other events are included in the tentative program.  Scores of women flyers, many famous ones among them, are expected to participate in what is described as "a purely amateur sporting meet."

Mrs. George Shaw Greene of Dayton is president of the National Women's Aeronautical association, and Mrs. M. J. Heron, also of Dayton, is secretary.  Miss Martha Smith, Oakwood, is president of the Dayton organization of the association.

Besides Margaret Perry Cooper, New York city president of the Ninety-Nine, other well-known flyers, who may participate are Ruth Nichols, Laura Ingalls, Amelia Earhart, Gladys O'Donnell, Mae Haizlip, Louise Thaden, Betty Lund and Dorothy Hester.

It is pointed out that few women's meets have been held, and nothing of the kind planned here.  Between 25 and 30 women pilots took part in a race in New York last year.
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Woman Holding Endurance Air Record Entered in Dayton Meet

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[[caption]] FRANCES HARRELL [[/caption]]

Frances Harrell, co-holder with Helen Richey of the women's endurance air record of 234 hours and 42 minutes, has filed her entry to participate in the Women's National Air meet on August 4 and 5 at Dayton airport, Vandalia, under the joint auspices of the Women's National Aeronautical association and the Ninety-Nine's.

Miss Harrell, in setting the endurance record, broke her own previous record, made with Louise Thaden in August, 1932, of 196 hours and five minutes.

Miss Harrell was one of the original members of the famous Curtiss flying circus of 1927-28, being the only woman in the group.  She has been the winner of many mixed races, as well as those for women pilots only. She is from Roosevelt field, L. I., N. Y.

Establishing 2 new women's endurance flight record of nine days 21 hours and 42 minutes, Frances Harrell Marsalis and Helen Richey,

DAYTON, OHIO, SUNDAY, JULY 22, 1934.
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