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Announcement now comes of the fact that Major Howard Wehrle left Saturday night, February 13th, for Philadelphia, to take over the general managership of the international air races to be held there in September of this year in connection with the sesquicentennial celebration there of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Another representative of the Kinnear company probably will be sent here to act for Major Wehrle in his absence.
  Howard has become nationally known through his efforts to promote the general welfare of civilian flying. He is one of the several men who launched the Air Terminal Association idea in 1922, resulting in the purchase of Richards Field.
  In the fall of 1924, he spent three weeks in organizing and managing the Wichita air meet. At the request of Henry Ford, Major Howard managed the Ford airplane reliability tour which passed through Kansas City. He had charge of all flying at the air meet here in connection with the National American Legion convention in 1921. It was at this time that the Rotary Club here purchased a valuable cup which was to be used in the future at these annual air meets. The winner of the cup on three consecutive occasions became its permanent holder. The cup has never been won the number of times required but Major Wehrle has now arranged to put this cup up for final disposition at the races to be held in Philadelphia.

Major Howard Wehrle to Philadelphia
  The Kansas City Rotary Club is losing a far too large a number of valuable members to the East but we suppose as long as our geographical position remains in the Heart of America and a stepping stone to the higher and more fertile fields of the east, it will ever be thus.
  Howard has acted as official "starter" at the Pulitzer trophy races in Omaha. Detroit, St. Louis, Dayton and New York. He was one of the organizers of the National Aeronautic Association and one of its first governors.
  Howard will be gone from Kansas City some eight months but will retain his membership in the club here making up his attendance by visiting the Philadelphia Rotary Club each week. His many Rotary friends here will miss him but we look forward to the time when he will return and attend our meetings each Thursday.


THE KANSAS CITY JOURNAL, THURSDAY, FEBRUAR

A 'New and Old' Exhibition by Studebaker

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--Press Photo.
  As one strolls through the aisles of the American Royal building, view ing the exhibitions in the eighteenth annual automobile show, he will little think that the sleek, stream-line figures that line the booths are outcomes of the "contrivances" pictured in the above photographs.
  The Studebaker museum in South Bend, Ind., is one of the most com plete in its line in the country. Aside from No. 1, a new Studebaker Big Six five-passenger coupe, the photos are taken from exhibits in the museum. T hey are:
  No. 2. A carriage presented by the United States government to General Lafayette for use during his visit to this country in 1824, exactly 100 years ago. No. 3. President Lincoln's carriage, used by him on the night he was assassinated. No. 4. A Canastota wagon, built in 1830 by John Studebaker, father of the five brothers who established the Studebaker business. [?] The carriage used by General Grant during his last term as president of the United States.

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