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Wife of Ace Flyer Honored at Party

Ninteteen Guests Attend Fete For Mrs. Turner

Harriet Ellswork Coates spon-sored a luncheon, Mrs. J. T. Anderson received the guests in the English Room Where they were presented to the guest of honor.

Those included were Mmes. Edward G. Robinson, Leslie Arnold, Jack Maddux, Brian Bell, George Dolsoy, Florence Barnes, Elmer Pryor, Thomas Hamilton, Barba [[page folded]] Earle Bruelson, Richard C. Hai[[page folded]]
Edwina Pederson, Zola Cares[[corner torn off]] -thony Collins, James C O'Neil[[corner torn off]] -ry Reynolds, Rox Cole, Ray[[corner torn off]]


COL. TURNER RETURN SET FOR TODAY 

Clyde Pangborn With Him and Will Share in City's Spectacular Welcome

Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn are coming home today. The daring birdmen, who flew a Boeing stock transport plane to win second place in the London-to-Melbourne air derby, will dock at Los Angeles Harbor at 11 a.m. 
A fleet of thirty-five airplanes of all types will fly out over the Pacific to circle over the steamship Mariposa in an aerial greeting to the intrepid flyers.
At the dock-at berth 157 - a delegation of city and county officials, famous flyers and leaders of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and Junior Chamber of Commerce will greet the airmen. 
Aboard ship with Col. Turner and Pangborn are their radio operator, Reeder Nichols of New York, who flew in the race with them, and Thea Rasche, famous woman flyer from Germany. 

Air-Race Prize
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MELBOURNE (Australia) Nov. 5. (AP) -- Col. Roscoe Turner and Clyde Pangborn, the American team who flew an American (Boeing) transport plane from London to Melbourne, today were awarded the second prize of $7500 for the great air race. The winners were C.W.A. Scott and T. Campbell Black of England, who were awarded $50,000 and a $2500 gold cup.
Third in the speed event were Cathcart Jones and Ken Waller of England. They received $2500. 

AIR TROPHIES GIVEN SHRINE

Col. Roscoe Turner Adds to Famous Collection at Mission Inn

RIVERSIDE, May 31.-Mementoes of his famed speed flights both in this country and abroad have been presented to Mr. and Mrs. DeWitt V. Hutchings of the Mission Inn here by Col. Roscoe Turner, noted airman, for display among the aeronautic trophies at the Aviator's Shrine.
The collection already has many interesting souvenirs of famous aviation expeditions and speed flights of celebrated aviators.

WORLD LIGHT FLAG
[[page folded]] articles which Col. Am[[page folded]] donated to the shrine is [[page folded]] American flag carried around the world by himself in connection with his entry in the MacRobertson Air Race from London to Melbourne in 1935. With Clyde Pangborn, he won the third prize in the race.

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Col. Roscoe Turner 
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Both Turner and Pangborn have their initiated "wings" on the famous "flyers' wall" in the St. Francis courtyard of Mission Inn.
Of particular interest is a photograph showing the flyer with the late Will Rogers when the humorist made his first cross-country flight in 1926. That flight was considered the starting point of Rogers's interest in aviation.

WINNIE MAE TROPHY
The flying colonel also has lent to the keepers of the birdmen's shrine pieces of wood from the Winnie Mae, the ship flown by Wiley Post.
Other recent donations to the display include the flag from the stratosphere ballon, presented by Gen. Oscar Westover. Air Corps chief, and the National Geographic Society and a strut from the China Clipper, given by Glenn Martin.

[[page torn]] art of the crowd that greeted Major and Mrs. James Doolittle today at the Newark.  N.J. airport, where Doolittle landed after flying a transport plane across the continent in 11 hours and 59 minutes.
Doolittle and his wife are in front of the plane door.

DOOLITTLE SHATTERS COAST-TO-COAST MARK

NEW YORK, Jan. 15.-(U.P.)-Maj. James Doolittle came roaring in from the West this morning, shot his 10-passenger transport plane over lower New York and touched its wheels at Floyd Bennett Field for a new trans-continental record of 11 hours, 59 minutes. He averaged 230 miles an hour over 2,750 miles.
The big plane in which Doolittle, his wife, Josephine, and Robert Adamson flew from Burbank, Calif., raced the early morning sun across New Jersey to clip approximately four minutes and 50 seconds from the record held by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker.
It was a thrilling always uncertain race from the time Doolittle's craft got off its course over the Pennsylvania mountains. He appeared at one time to be hopelessly out of the running.

20,000 FEET UP.
Flying at altitudes ranging from 15,000 to 20,000 feet, the noted pilot set a furious pace across the continent, virtually without being sighted and without halting.
At sunrise, however, his radio messages indicated he was doubtful of reaching New York by 8:30 a.m., which was necessary to break the record.
Then, dramatically, at 7:30 a. m. came word he was flying over Cape May, N. J. hurtling on a direct
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COL. TURNER POISED FOR RECORD HOP

Speed Pilot Defies Reports of Bad Weather Along Route to Providence

Faced with reports of bad weather all along the route but refusing to delay his departure, Col. Roscoe Turner, speed pilot, last night had his racing plane poised at Union Air Terminal waiting to take off at 3:30 a.m. today on a proposed record-establishing hop to Providence, R. I.
Col. Turner, former holder of the transcontinental air record from California to New York, plans to fly his 1000-horsepower low-winged monoplane by way of Albuquerque, Wichita and Indianapolis, and will refuel at each of the stops.

Planes Banned at White House

Washington, Feb. 22. (Exclusive) - Because President Roosevelt's slumber has been ruffled by the drone of their motors, all airplanes will be ordered by Secretary of Commerce Roper to stay away from the White House grounds at night.

Doolittle Awarded Palm as Nation's Leading Flyer

NEW YORK, Jan. 27. (AP)-Forty members of the Gas-Craft Club, all of them ex-service, commercial and private flyers, voted today on "who is America's outstanding airplane pilot?"
Almost unanimously their choice was Maj. James Doolittle.
Tied for second place were Clyde Pangborn and Wiley Post.
Other results of the poll:
Best woman flyer, Amelia Earhart.
Greatest civilian air booster, Will Rogers.
Greatest air hero, Lieut. Frank Luke, killed in World War.
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was rated as one who has done most to advance aviation since the Wright brothers.