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LIST MRS. OMLIE AS DERBY VICTOR ________ Judges Report Unofficial Winners as 51 Planes Swoop to Finish ________ BY MARION HOPWOOD Mrs. Phoebe Omile, diminutive Memphis flyer, flashed across the finishing line at Cleveland Airport yesterday, closely followed by 50 other planes and the National Sweepstakes Handicap Derby was over. Over? Well, maybe not quite over, because the rumbling and the echoes still persist. The competitors are dissatisfied with the handicap system used, and the judges and scores are still working over the final results. Reg Bowman of Los Angeles and Myron Grifin of Cleveland, scorers, early this morning announced Mrs. Omline was "to all appearances" the winner with a score of 109.13. Martie Bowman was listed second with a score of 99.05 and Mae Haizlip third 98.42. The other woman racers were listed: Editch Foltz, Louisde Thaden, Gladys O'Donnell, Clema Granger, Rush Steward, Joan Shankle, Mildred Morgan, Jean La Rene, Dobie Standford, Penche Barnes. The standings of Blanche Noyes, Cleveland entrry, and Mary Charles, both of whome had accidents en route, had not been determined. D.C. Warren of San Francisco who was fourth to arrive at the airport yesterday, ranked first in the men's division, with Leo Brusse of Glendale, second, and Eldon Cessna of Witchita, Kan., who was first of the men to reach the finish, ranking third. With Mrs. Omlie's capture of the last lap of the race it seemed probable that she was winner of the automobile to be given as the special prize for the high score winner of the Derby. The handicap system, by which the faster, larget planes were heavily handicapped, was the source of dis-satisfaction among the flyers. Not all the flyers protested, however. One of the women said: "I (Continued on Page 5, Column 5) 1 Air Derby Plane Men Pilots Led By D. C. Warren Judges Announce Unofficial Results in Handicap Sweepstakes. (Continued From First Page) don't see that anyone has any right to protest. The handicaps were made and announced before the Derby started from Santa Monica, and if anyone had had anything to say it should have been said then. As it is, I feel that we should accept the ruling and saying nothing more about." Mrs. Glays O'Donnell of Long Beach, Cal., who flew a taper-wing Waco, was particularly displeased with the results of the system. Mrs. O'Donnell outspeeded both men and women consistently on the course but her final rating was only sixth. "The smaller, slower planes had the advantage al lthe way," she siad after she landed yesterday. "If I ever enter a handicap Derby again I'll fly an old war-time Jenny." Mrs. O'Connell is a veteran racer, having won the 1929 and 1930 women's Derbies. She had an uneventful trop east this year until she reached Dayton, where she ripped off a boundary light while landing. A murmur of excitement swept over the stands as the Derby planes appeared. The nervous tension that the collision of two marine planes had left was still present, and the greeting was more hysterical than any of the other receptions. Elden Cessna's plane was the first to roll up to the space directly in front of the grand stands, and a wave of people surged out toward it. In a moment the craft was surrounded, and Cessna found some difficulty in getting from his seat. Then Phoebe Omlie's little red and yellow craft nosed up toward the fence and stopped. In a moment cameras were rushed to where she was, newspaper men followed, and in a few seconds a big crowd had gathered, fighting for a chance to see the woman flyer. As she was climbing from the cabin a horseshoe-shaped floral decoration of roses and sweet peas was draped over the front of her plane. But when she reached the ground it was snatched from the plane and tossed across her shoulders and she was asked to pose for her picture. "No," she laughed, shrugging it off, "put it on the plane. That's what got me here." Though she was tired, she stood happily receiving the congratulations of her friends. Mae Haizlip's mother pushed through the crowd, and, throwing her arms around Mrs. Omlie, kissed her warmly. Mrs. Opal Kuntz, commander of the Betsy Ross Corps, and organization of women flyers, stepped up, and, after congratulating the winner, pinned the official goldern wings badge of the group on Mrs. Omlie's coat. One of the first things the men and women flyers did upon alighting from their planes was to look around quickly for their flying mates. Rivals they might be, but weary hours of flying together over mountains, across deserts, in wildernesses of fog and storm, had resulted in a comdradeship that even disputes over handicap that even disputes over handicaps could not destroy. The great common adventure of the flyers was a storm that approached the proportions of a tornado while they were heading toward Enid, Okla. "A miracle of some sort must have happened," Mrs. Omile said in telling of the experience. "We all were forced to lad, but not one plane was damaged, nor one flyer hurt." When she is not flying in races and derbies, Mrs. Omlie and her husband, Vernon C. Omlie, conduct a flying school in Memphis. She is a small, plump woman, with an infectious laugh and twinkling gray eyes. A thunder storm encountered by the flyers between Dayton and Akron yesterday morning didn't worry the men's winner, D. C. Warren, very much. "Before we took off on the lap north I flew up to get a look at the air," he explained after he crawled out of the plane, his iron gray hair ruffled by the wind. "I found that at 5,00 fee ther was a 50-mile tail wind blowing, and when we all started I went up there." RIDES WITH LIGHTNING. The lightning played around his plane and he saw one of the other planes forced to a landing. But with the strong wind behind him he kept on going and reached Akron among the first of the group. The plane that Warren say might have been that of Jean La Rene of Dallas, or of Florence "Poncho" Barnes, California minister's wife. Both were forced to land in a field "somewhere north of Dayton" to wait until the storm subsided. One of the most interesting couples in the Derby were Clema Granger and her husband, Jim. They laughingly insisted that they were still speaking to one another, even though they did race as rivals. Jim Granger taught his wife to fly two years ago and was obviously proud of his pupil. The National Sweepstakes Derby offered three distinct prizes for the flyers. The three winners of the men's division will divide $6,000, the three women winners will receive the same amount and a special prize of an automobile will be given to the high point scorer, without regard for sex. These prizes will not be given out until the judges have made their final decisions and the protests, in case any are filed, have been considered. Participants in the Derby and the time of arrival at the airport were: WOMEN. Phoebe Omlie, 2:16 p. m.: Gladys O'Donnell, 2:21; Mae Haizlip, 2:21:36; Martie Bowman, 2:21:52; Edith Foltz, 2:27:21; Louise Thaden, 2:27:22; Clema Granger, 2:27:48; Mildred Morgan, 2:27:53; Jean La Rene, 2:27:58; Debie Stanford, 2:28; Penche Barnes, 2:29; Ruth Stewart, 2:29:59; C. E. Shankle, 2:30; Blanche Noyes, 2:31, and Mary Charles 2:33. MEN Elden Sessna, 2:19; Lee Brusse, 2:22; E. B. Christopher, 2:26; D. C. Warren, 2:26:52; W. E. Musgrave, jr., 2:26:54; George C. Quick, 2:27:7; G. B. Granville, 2:27:25; Marcellus King, 2:27:43; H. T. Sherman, 2:28:14; J. E. Granger, 2:28:33; Tony Little, 2:29:20; Walter Carr, 2:29:37; Lester Glascett, 2:29:49; Joe Bennett, 2:29:53; Ben Johnson, 2:30:24; Jerry Nettleton, 2:31; Lee Gehlbach 2:32:4; Charles Goldtrap, 2:32:13; L. P. Lamoreaux, 2:33:48; George A. Shealy, 2:33:55; Tony Mackiewicz,2:34:12; Eddie S c h n e i d e r, 2:34:25; E. L. Quibley, 2:34:30; H. G. Myers, 2:34:34; James Beachman, 2:35; Harold Newman, 2:37; Leonard Fee, 2:38:3; Pete Rinehart, 2:38:16; Owen Lazenby, 2:38:40; Royce Stetson, 2:40; Fred Baxter, 2:42; W. S. Peston, 2:43; Barney Rawson, 2:44; L. G. Foote, 2:45; C. D. Beauchamp, 2:46. A. J. Edward was forced out at El Paso and did not finish. The women's races at the airport, scheduled for yesterday, were postponed in order to permit the women who had flown in the derby to rest before they had to fly again. Several of the men's races were postponed also. They will probably be flown today, if the schedule permits. Ill, Takes Own Life John Hittle, 45, committed suicide late last night in his home at 2193 E. 28th Street by shooting himself in the head, according to police. Ill health was given as the cause.
