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DISQUALIFICATION CHANGES RESULTS IN FINAL AIR RACE
Helen Richey Is Declared Winner, Unless N. A. A. Overrules Decision.
Helen Richey, McKeesport, Pa., coholder of the world's refueling endurance flight for women, was awarded first prize of $1,000 yesterday following the disqualification of Edna Gardner, Washington, D. C., from the 50-mile feature race of the women's national air meet, held Sunday at Dayton municipal airport, Vandalia.
Miss Gardner, however has the privilege of appealing within 15 days to the contest committee of the National Aeronautical association at Washington, protesting her disqualification. 
She was awarded first prize at the finish of the race but protests were made to the contest committee, headed by L. Luzarn Custer, Dayton, and she was disqualified. 
Unless the N. A. A. overrules the decision of the committee here, the winners will stand as: Miss Richey, first; Alma-Arlene Davis, Cleveland, second; Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach, Calif., third; Helen MacCloskey, Pittsburgh, fourth, and Ruth Barron Nason, Rochester, N. Y., fifth. 
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MAY 20, 1934.
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AIR MEET FOR WOMEN PLANNED
Authority to Stage Local Event Sought of U. S. Department of Commerce.
Plans for an all-women air meet at Dayton Municipal airport, Vandalia, August 4 and 5, will be completed this week at a meeting of the executive committee of the Dayton chapter, National Women's Aeronautical society. 
The meet, conceived by Manila Davis, well-known pilot and wife of Lieutenant B. B. Talley, of Wright field, is expected to attract many of the country's famous women flyers.
The tentative program calls for a 50-mile closed race, the feature event; spot landings, deadstick landings, altitude record flight, balloon bursting and "comic" race. 
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