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AIR DERBY PAIR ESCAPE DEATH IN PLANE CRASH

Earl Rowland and Wife Come to Grief in Mountains Near Douglas, Ariz.; Craft Ruined

DOUGLAS, Ariz., Aug. 25.–Earl Rowland and his wife, Wichita, Kas., entrants in the Santa Monica to Cleveland air derby, crashed in the mountains 20 miles east of here tonight. 
The airplane was demolished, but the Rowlands escaped death.
Only bruised and shaken when the airplane spun down after its motor failed, the couple limped to a highway and were brought here by a passing motorist. 
Rowland won the 1928 New York to Los Angeles derby, and the 1929
He was in third place when the flyers took off from Tucson, Ariz., for El Paso this morning.
His airplane was so badly smashed he said it was not worth salvaging. 

56 Remain in Derby

The rest of the 56 derbyists late today were winging their way toward El Paso to pass the night and take off early tomorrow for Amarillo, Tex., next overnight control point. 
Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell of Long Beach, mother of three children, and winner of the 1930 derby, was leading all the flyers in elapsed time as the planes soared into the air here.
Ben Johnson of Santa Monica was the first to hop off. He was followed in order by Owen Laczemby, E. J. Edwards of Los Angeles, Mrs. O'Donnell and Phoebe Omlie of Memphis, and others at one-minute intervals. 
Although most of the flyers remained at high altitudes during the flight from Tucson, last night's control point, many motors were "jittering" from the heat as the planes arrived here.
Airport attaches said all the planes that had left Santa Monica Sunday had been accounted for.
The flyers were to be entertained in El Paso tonight by aviation enthusiasts and civic officials.
The schedule calls for a 350-mile [[ash?]] from Dayton to Cleveland to climax the race Sunday afternoon. 

Transcription Notes:
Unclear on "ash" in last paragraph.