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WOMAN IN HOP TO N.Y. CRASHES

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Aug. 31. The Department of Commerce radio station reported tonight a woman by the name of Mary Charles crashed in her plane late this afternoon twenty miles west of Winslow, Ariz., en route from Burbank, Calif., to Winslow.

The Department said it had been advised by Winslow airport attendants the woman escaped unhurt but her ship was badly smashed.

Capt. Mary Charles was one of six women pilots who took off yesterday in three planes from Union Air Terminal in the first transcontinental formation flight ever attempted by members of their sex. They were bound for the National Air Races and Atlantic seaboard airports.

All the pilots are members of the Women's Air Reserve. The Others were Col. Florence Lowe Barnes and Lieut. Viola Neill in Plane No. 1; Lieut. Patty Willis, who accompanied Captain Charles, in Plan No. 2, and Capt. Bobbie Trout and Capt. Nancy Drake-Chaffee in Plane No. 3

The air trip, made possible by cooperation of the Gilmore Oil Company, has been designated the "Red Lion Flight"


Aviatrix In Forced Landing Near Crater

WINSLOW, Sept. 1. Mary Charles, with Miss Paddy Willis as passenger, made a forced landing near Meteor Crater last night. The landing gear of the plane was carried away and they were shaken up but not seriously hurt. Miss Charles and Miss Willis were en route to the national air races in Cleveland along with two other planes piloted by Florence Barnes and Bobby Trout. Mrs. Barnes and Miss Trout reported Miss Charles' trouble here and her place was trucked to Winslow for repairs. Mrs. Barnes and Miss Trout proceeded on towards Cleveland this morning. Miss Charles and Miss Willis expected to leave as soon as repairs were completed.