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THREE
JAPAN
le Derby
SIXTEEN GIRLS,
44 MEN HOP
FOR CLEVELAND

CALEXICO, Calif., Aug. 23.-(U.P.)-Gladys O'Donnell, of Long Beach, Calif., was first of the cross country air derby racers to land her plane here today.
She flew here from Santa Monica, starting point of the deby, in one hour and seven seconds. She averaged 162 miles an hour.
Phoebe Omlie, of Memphis, Tenn., was second to arrive and Florence Lowe Barnes, San Marino, Calif., third.
It was announced that compilation of elapsed times would take several hours.

Led by Jean La Rene, brunette Texan, 16 daring feminine flyers and 44 men sent 60 planes climbing into the teeth of a whipping breeze from the ocean, banked sharply at the west end of Clover field and roared away to Calexico yesterday on the first lap of the 2400-mile air Derby to Cleveland, O.
Some 3500 men and women, who made up in enthusiasm what the expected crowd lacked in numbers, saw the speeding ships, all sizes and all colors, rise, turn and vanish one by one into the shining, colorless southern sky-and "on their tails" thundered a "God speed" squadron of 12 army planes, chasing the competing flyers down the long air lane to the Mexican border.
ONE MINUTE APART
Sent on their way by Charles F. Lienesch, official starter, the planes, with the women's division in the van, left the field at intervals of one minute. In the wake of Miss La Rene's scudding ship followed the Waco monoplane of Gladys O'Donnell, the Los Angeles girl who won last year's flight from Long Beach to Chicago.
And behind Miss O'Donnell, each in a perfect takeoff, bank and turn, roared the planes piloted by Phoebe Omilie of Memphis, Tenn.; Debie Stanford of Houston, Mae Hazlipp of St. Louis and her fellow citizen, Ruth Stewart, and Joan Shankle from the old Indian army base at Fort Sill Okla.
WOMEN APPLAUDED
Louise Thaden, who followed the plane of the Oklahoma lass, drew a big hand from the eager crowd in recognition of her victory in the first Los Angeles-to-Cleveland air Derby for women. And the applause for Winifred Spooner, a plucky young woman who journeyed from Leicestershire, Eng., to make her American flying debut for glory and cash, was scarcely less.
Following Edith Foltz of Portland, Ore., Southern California's feminine daredevil of the air, Florence Lowe "Pancho" Barnes sent her blue and orange Travelair plane humming skyward. Behind her spun the planes of Mildred Morgan of Beverly Hills, Mrs. Marty Bowman of Los Angeles and Clema Granger of Santa Monica.
DAILY NEWS ENTRY
More cheers came from the stands and bleachers as Mary Charles of Santa Monica soared aloft in the goodwill Swallow plane sponsored by the Daily News. Emblazoned on its blue sides was the legend, "Greet-
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DRY CHIEF DEMANDS

SIX
16 GIRLS, 44 MEN
START FIRST LAP
OF LONG AIR RACE

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ings from the Illustrated Daily News, Los Angeles."
Blanche Noyes, fighting to be first into her home city of Cleveland, was the last of the women flyers.
But the parade went on and on. Marcellus King, from Fairmont, Minn., sent his Monocoupe teetering into the wind in the van of the waiting host of masculine pilots. Behind him sped Eldon Cessna of Wichita, Kan.; Earl Rowland, a fellow townsman; Tony Little, from Philadelphia; C. D. Beauchamp of Long Beach; Walter Carr of Detroit; Lester Glasscock of Dunedin, Fla., and George Shealy from the Georgia city made famous by the mighty Bobby Jones.
But the hearts of the fans went out in the greatest salvo of sound to grinning Eddie Schneider, "just a kid." Eddie, a New York boy, is only 19 years old, but he has 15,000 miles of transcontinental flying to his credit, holds the junior transcontinental air record and placed third  this year in the Ford reliability tour.
And chasing Schneider's "dust" went Leonard Flo from Detroit, W. Musgrave of Alameda, Alfred Spoorer, Los Angeles flyer; W. Kerr from Vallejo and H. Newman of Houson, Tex.
OTHER SPEEDERS
Here follows a list of the rest of the speeding seekers after cash and fame: 
George Quick, Texas; H. G. Meyers, Los Angeles; Gerald Nettleton, Los Angeles; R. Purcal, Chicago; Bob Turner, Asheville, Tenn.; J. E. Owen, Santa Monica; E. Quivey, Chicago; Joe Bennett, Bradford, Pa.; Bernie Rawson, El Paso; Z. D. Granville, Springfield, Mass; E. B. Christopher, Wichita; Roy Hunt, Norman, Okla.; Joe Meehan, Detroit; Owen Laczemby, Los Angeles; L. G. Foote, Los Angeles; H. H. Sharman, Salt Lake City; Gage A. Irving, Glendale; James E. Granger, Santa Monica; W. S. Postom and Lee Brusse of Burbank; A. J. Edwards, Royce Stetson, Roy Miner and W. F. Baxter of Los Angeles; Leo Golbach, Detroit; Lowell Lamareaux of Santa Monica; Ben Johnson Santa Monica; D. C. Warren, Alameda, and Pete Reinhart of Los Angeles.
And behind them all followed the plane of Waldo Waterman, referee, and a ship bearing "Charlie" Lienesch and his secretary, Paddy Willis, who withdrew as an entrant at the last minute when her Fairchild plane failed to arrive.