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WEDNESDAY MORNING. 10-24-34 Los Angeles Times

Aviation's History Given at Meeting of Santa

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Films Trace Old Story to Distant Past

Ninety nine Members Present Program at Luncheon

BY CRETE CAGE
They were packed to the doors, men and women, at the Santa Monica Bay Women's Club Monday, for it was aviation day and guests had driven, sailed and flown by plane to attend the program which smacked army preparedness.
Cleverly arranged by the program chairman, Mrs. R. G. E. Cornish, the day started off with the motion picture on "Aerial Progress," presented by Zeno Klinker. Mr. Klinker, a Beverly Hills sportsman and lecturer, has made a hobby of collecting data on the history of aviation in films.
HISTORY TRACED
Mr. Klinker traced the history of aviation as far back as the days of Leonardo da Vinci, who attempted the construction of an airplane in the Fifteenth Century.
At luncheon the dining-room took on the air of an aviation field with waitresses dressed in flying togs and tables decorated with aircraft models.
CLUB STORY TOLD
Mrs. Clema Granger, governor of the southwestern section of the Ninety-Nine Flying Club, with members of the club, presented the luncheon program. Mrs. Granger told of the club which is compos[[ed]] of licensed women flyers and is [[the]] first National Organization [[of its]] kind. Its name is derived fr[[om the]] fact that at its inception th[[ere were]] only ninety-nine licensed [[female]] pilots in the United Stat[[es.]] Mrs. Gra [[nger]] presen [[ted]]...
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AERIAL PROGRESS HOLDS ATTENTION IN DAY'S PROGRAM
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Guests and flyers at the aviation-day program of the Santa Monica Bay Women's Club are pictured, left to right, Mrs. Walter H. Boyd, Mrs. Clema Granger, Mary Charles, Esther Jones, Mrs. R. G. E. Cornish, Elliot Rogers, Ruth Elder, Capt. Ira Acker, Mrs. Matilda Moisant, Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell, Mrs. Raymond Hoyt and Mrs. Edith Boydston Clark.
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Commemorating the historic flight of the Wright brothers at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 31 years ago, noted fliers will be feted at an aviation ball at the Biltmore on Monday, Dec. 17, the anniversary of the flight. Photo shows Col. Roscoe Turner, speed pilot, discussing plans for the ball with three women fliers. [[Pictured]] are, left to right, Ruth Laws, [[noted]] as the first woman flier in the [[night?]]; Miss Elliott Roberts, chairman [[of the Los]] Angeles 99'ers, women's flying [[and avia]]tion, and Mrs. Gladys O'Donnell, [[?]] vice president of the 99'ers [[and]] race pilot.
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DRIVE URGED

Metal Industry Studies Plans

'Advantages Emphasized at Session, and Cost Held Not Prohibitive

BY FLOYD J. HEALEY
"Times" Staff Representative
DEL MONTE, Feb. 9. (Exclusive) Steel houses, long discussed, are within striking distance and the time has come for steel men to enter that field.
Such is the opinion of W. E. Emmett of the American Institute of Steel Construction, San Francisco, as placed before the current conference of the Iron, Steel and Allied Industries of the Pacific Coast and given serious consideration by that group at its executive discussion today in concluding the annual gathering here.
DEFINITELY PRACTICAL
Saying that "there has been little accomplished" in this direction, Emmett maintained that houses built of steel are definitely practical, announced that cost will not be prohibitive, pointed to numerous advantages and insisted the time has arrived to start breaking down the sales resistance which has done much to prevent actual encroachment of steel into the household field.
"As new methods of construction are advanced this argument [the cost item] becomes less and less forceful," Emmett declared.
ADVANTAGES LISTED
Advantages of steel housing
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Endurance Air Women Still Up

OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 4. (AP)
[[J]]ean La Rene and Henrietta Summer flew on tonight in their attempt to surpass the women's endurance flight record of 240 hours. At 8:42 p.m., (C.S.T.,) the flyers [[pa]]ssed the 100th hour milestone of their flight which began Friday at [[4]]:42 p.m.

Flyer Reported Missing Found
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Feared missing since they took off from Union Air Terminal early last Thursday evening on a test flight of their flying wing airplane, Clyde Pangborn, 'round-the-world flyer, and Monty Mason, co-pilot, yesterday were located at the Los Angeles Municipal Airport.
Here the pair had gone, it was learned, to make unexpected repairs on the aileron system of their broad-winged aircraft. Pangborn said they were not forced down, but landed after the necessity for the control changes became evident. Fears arose last Thursday night when Pangborn and Mason failed to return either to the Burbank Airdrome or to their hotels.
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Tragedy Shadows Aerial Program

There was the shadow of tragedy over the dramatic aviation program which the Santa Monica Bay Woman's Club has planned for today, with Mrs. Cle[[ma]] Granger in charge.
Mrs. Granger is the widow [[of]] James E. Granger, who cra[[shed]] at Clover field a short time [[ago]] but she bravely went on with [[the]] program, in keeping with [[the]] traditions of the flying pr[[oces]]sion. She is herself one of the [[first]] standing women fliers of the [[na]]tion. 
The Chamber of Commerce [[?]] service clubs, city officials [[and]] other distinguished folk [[?]] honor guests.
In the morning Zeno K[[linker]] showed his film history of [[avia]]tion, and at luncheon there [[were]] "air" speeches by Colonel [[?]] commander of March field, [[Gladys]] O'Donnell, Mary Charles, [[Eliza]]beth Kelly Inwood, Matilda [[Moi]]sand, Edith Boyedson [[Clark,]] Ruth Elder, Elliott Rob[[erts,]] Hazel Wetzel, all of w[[hich]] connected with the flying [[proces]]sion.]
Mrs. R. G. E. Cor[[nish,]] program chairman, and [[Ray]]mond Hoyt presided.


PAPER FOR PEOPLE
Women Pilots Will Attend Club Session

Westwood Hills Women's Club will take on an "airy" atmosphere Wednesday at a luncheon program featuring a [[ta]]lk by Maj. Mary Charles of the Women's Air Reserve Corps.
She will be surrounded by a group of noted women pilots, including Mathilda Moisant, who holds the second pilot's license ever granted a woman; Pretto Bell, youthful co-ed who possessed a pilot's license at the age of 16, and Catherine Cheung, [[a]] Chinese woman pilot.
Lillian Burkhart Goldsmith will be the center of interest at the afternoon session with her current events remarks on the Japanese political question today.
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