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The net paid circulation for August exceded
Daily - - 1,330,000
Sunday - 1,690,000
DAILY NEWS
NEW YORK'S PICTURE NEWSPAPER
Copyright, 1931, by News Syndicate Co., Inc. Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.
Entered as 2nd class matter, Post Office, New York, N. Y.
60 Pages  New York, Tuesday, September 8, 1931*  2

[[image - photograph of Manila Davis in flying attire]]
(NEWS photo)
MISSING.– Mrs. Manila Davis, a member of the Betsy Ross Club of women pilots, one of the eleven entrants in the amateur derby, has not been heard from since she took off from Hicksville, L. I. last Friday for Cleveland.  An alarm was broadcast for her yesterday
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HACKENSACK N.Y. EVE. RECORD
SEPTEMBER 8, 1931

AVIATRIX SILENT ON THREE-DAY ABSENCE
Bernarr MacFadden Plane Misses Continental Mark.

Louis C. Reichers, Arlington aviator who failed by 12 minutes and 32 seconds Friday to beat the transcontinental air record, today left Teterboro airport in his ship, Gold Eagle, for Cleveland.  The plane was overhauled by airport mechanics.

Meanwhile Miss Manila Davis, 28, blonde flyer, landed her ship at Teterboro and walked hastily from the field after being three days overdue from Cleveland.  She landed last night and refused to explain the delay.

The Gold Eagle, owned by Bernarr Macfadden, magazine publisher, is covered with gold leaf and bears an enlarged facsimile of a $10 piece–the gold eagle–on its body.  George De Garmo, head of the New Standard Flying Service, revealed that Reichers taught Macfadden to fly at the airport recently.  The ship is identical with Colonel Lindbergh's Lockheed-Sirius monoplane, except its landing gear can be lifted inside the ship.

Miss Davis, runner-up in the women's amateur division of the national air races, borrowed a biplane last week to participate in the air derby.  She finished ninth.
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NEW ORK TIMES,
SEPTEMBER 8, 1931

MISSING GIRL FLIER SAFE.
Manila Davis Lands at Hasbroiuck Heights 3 Days Late.

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J., Sept. 7 (AP).–Three days overdue from Cleveland, and listed as missing, Manila Davis, 28 years old, an aviatrix, swept down to a perfect landing tonight and walked from the flying field, ignoring questions as to why she was so late.

Miss Davis, who is said to come from West Virginia, has been an enigma at the airport here.  Very little is known about her.  Last Thursday she borrowed a biplane to participate in the amateur air derby from Hicksville, L. I., to Cleveland, which took place on Friday.

Saturday airport officials read that Miss Davis had finished ninth in the derby.  They expected her back some time Saturday forenoon.  She failed to appear and efforts were made to locate her.  She was still unreported Sunday and anxiety increased.
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NEW YORK WORLD-TELEGRAM,
SEPTEMBER 8, 1931.

MRS. MANILA DAVIS SAFE
Aviatrix in Amateur Derby Arrives in Cleveland.

Special to The World-Telegram
HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J., Sept. 8.– Officials of the Standard Flying Service, owners of the plane piloted by Mrs. Manila Davis in the recent amateur handicap derby to Cleveland, received word today she had reached that city safely.

She had been unreported since taking off from the Aviation Country Club on Long Island last week.
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THE NEW YORK SUN,
SEPTEMBER 8, 1931.

Girl Flyer Silent As to Disappearance

Reported as missing, Manila Davis, twenty-eight-year-old woman flyer, landed at the Hasbrouck Heights field last night.  She strode from the field, ignoring questions as to her whereabouts for the last three days.

Last Thursday she borrowed a biplane to participate in the amateur air derby from Hicksville to Cleveland.  Saturday airport officials read that Miss Davis had finished ninth.  They expected her back sometime Saturday.
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WASHINGTON D C HERALD
SEPTEMBER 8, 1931

LOST AVIATRIX FINALLY LANDS

HASBROUCK HEIGHTS, N. J., Sept. 7 (U.S.).– Miss Manila Davis, missing West Virginia aviatrix, landed here safely at 5 p. m., today, ending anxiety that prevailed for several hours when she failed to arrive on schedule from the Cleveland air show.

Miss Davis reported her plane was forced down several times because of a leaking gas tank.

Confusion arose when it was reported Cleveland officials had no record of her landing there, when she flew there for the races.
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