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FIFTY-SIX BEGIN AIR RACE TODAY

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by point scoring, first-place winner of each lap to be awarded 100 percent of possible points, the points to be determined by the length of each hop. Other place winners on each jump will receive a percentage of points proportionate to the miles flown.
  
At the same time that the local group-known as the Pacific Wing-takes off from here, the eastern wing will start from Washington, D. C. The eastern swarm, with half the number of entries as the local contingent, will join the Pacific Wing at Bartlesville, Okla., and race on to Cleveland on the same point scoring basis as a combined derby.
  
The sweepstakes winner will win $2000 in cash and a twelve-cylinder automobile, while the junior sweepstakes winner-the man or woman leading the opposite wing from which the sweepstakes winner is picked-will receive $1000 in cash and an eight-cylinder speedster.
  
Second-place finishers in each of the groups will get $500 each; third place, $400; fourth place, $300, and fifth place, $200. The next twenty in line in each division will be paid $100 each as consolation prizes.
  
R. E. Drake of Pittsburgh will fly along as manager; Harding, starter; George Haldeman, referee; Dudley Steele, judge; George Woodward, chief technician; Henry L. Bakes, assistant technician, and Randall Henderson, press representative, all will go.
  
The derbyists will stop at Yuma tonight, the rest of the schedule being as follows: Monday, Tucson and El Paso; Tuesday, Roswell, N. M., and Lubbock, Tex.; Wednesday, Abilene, Tex., Oklahoma City and Bartlesville; Thursday, Jefferson City Mo., and East St. Louis, Ill.; Friday, Indianapolis and Cincinnati; Saturday, Akron and National Air Races, Cleveland Airport. 
  
Following is the official list of race contestants with their home cities:
  
Robert Buck, Westfield, N. J.; Henry C. Thompson, Tulsa, Okla.; W. R. Jack, Cleveland, O.; Roy Hunt, Norman, Okla.; Jack Berke, Dallas, Tex.; Eldon Cessna, Wichita, Kan.; Charles Spencer, Jr., Douglas, Ariz.; William E. Bleakley, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Leslie C. Miller, Los Angeles; E. C. Genereaux, Jr., Los Angeles; W. J. Powell, Los Angeles; Al Larry, Los Angeles; Lee Miles, Burbank; Peggy Edna Gilliland, Los Angeles; Aer Carnahan, Bloomington, Ill.; Thomas P. Millins, Oklahoma City, Okla.; Arthur G. Gross, Los Angeles.
  
Jean La Rene, Dallas, Tex.; Cecil A. Allen, Los Angeles; Ulrich Richter, Munich, Germany; Mary Charles, Los Angeles; Jim Granger, Santa Monica; Clema Granger, Santa Monica; Nixon Gallaway, Santa Monica; John Nagel, Los Angeles; Edwin P. Mullaney, Long Beach; Ross Hadley, Los Angeles; Marshall Headle, Burbank;  Edith Foltz, Portland, Or.; Gene Redewill, Phoenix, Ariz.; Joe Thompson, San Antonio, Tex.; Joseph G. Hager, Santa Ana; Edward G. Bush, South Pasadena. 
  
Fred Burley, Santa Ana; Waldo Waterman, Santa Monica Ted Brown, Los Angeles; J. S. McDonnell, Cleveland, O.; Marion McKeen, Los Angeles; Mildred Morgan, Beverly Hills, Neil McGaffey, Los Angeles; Martie Bowman, Alameda; Kenneth Neese, Oakland; Horace Hibbard, Lodi; William E. Angel, Culver City; Frank W. Reed, Oakland; John B. Vickers, Pomona; John Hardesty, Taft; J. L. O'Donnell, Long Beach; Frank D. Bowman, Jr., Berino, N. M.; Harry Shaw, Oakland; Bob Allen, Hobart, Okla.; Boyd Grover, Peoria, Ill.; Jack Herman, Hollister; Tommy Ogle, Albuquerque, N. M.; Claron Beauchamp, Long Beach; Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach. 



Taxiplane on Way to Start in Race from Santa Monica

Miss Spooner Coming from Canada Wants to Carry Passenger to Cleveland

SANTA MONICA, August 19.-Taxi dancers, taxicabs and taxes are all familiar to newspaper readers, but for the first time a taxigirl racer has appeared.
  
Winifred Spooner, widely known Canadian-English girl flyer, now on her way here from Montreal for the start of the race from here to Cleveland Sunday afternoon, advised the flight committee here today that her decision to enter the race hinges upon obtaining a passenger, and a woman passenger at that.
  
"It's a wager," according to Miss Spooner's wire. "And the passenger must pay for her transportation."
  
The dare asked by the English girl is nominal, according to the flight committee here, members of which are attempting to obtain a passenger for the return trip, the race to Cleveland. 

DUE TOMORROW
  
Miss Spooner is due to arrive here tomorrow to participate in the speed trials and test runs every contestant must take before a flight position is granted. More than 15 other flyers are here now and as many more are expected to arrive before Saturday. 
  
Several men flyers are here and more expected each day, as the Junior Chamber of Commerce committee has received notification that more than 50 men and women will start in the race. 
  
Officials conducting the flight tests entered in the race believe that women flyers will set speed records in the dash across-country. That is indicated, they said, from the trial flights of the women's planes.

FASTER PLANES
  
Faster planes are being flown this year and more women are flying them. The men flyers may also be expected to develop new records for transcontinental racing.
  
G. B. Granville, designer of the Gee Bee speed monoplane, arrived here yesterday in his tiny ship. It was clocked at 156 miles per hour as it roared into the home stretch. Mr. Granville flew the ship here from Springfield, Mass. Hangar talk has it that this flyer will be "among those present" when the first 10 arrive at Cleveland.



LOCAL FIRM NAME TO BE ON PLANE 

Women Aviator's Ship Will Carry Designation of Los Angeles Store

The name and colors of a well known Los Angeles business establishment were selected by Mary Charles, licensed woman aviator and entrant in the 1932 stop-transcontinental air derby and National Air Races at Cleveland. Her ship, a locally assembled Swallow biplane, powered by a motor, made by the Kinner Company of Glendale, has on its side the name of the B. H. Dyas Company. 
  
The derby flyers will leave today at noon from the Los Angeles Municipal Airport. The first stop will be at Yuma.

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MARY CHARLES

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