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10 Sunday Morning

TURNER BACK HOME AGAIN
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American Planes Given Praise
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Pilot says Australian Race Prize Cash $6000, but His Costs Total $25,000
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Home from the greatest air race in history came Col. Roscoe Turner yesterday, a conquering hero-a dozen planes hovered over his ship-although circumstances forced him to take but third prize. 
At his side as the steamship Mariposa docked at Los Angeles Harbor from Australia yesterday were Clyde Pangborn, his navigator, and Reeder Nichols, his operator, in the London-Melbourne flight. 
AXIATRIX ABOARD
Also waving at the rail to the throng gathered below was a fourth entrant in the race, Fraulein Thea Rasche, the German aviatrix, who rode as a passenger in the second-place plane of Parmentier and Moll, Hollanders. 
"Well," said Col. Turner, after he had kissed Mrs. Turner, "this race showed a lot. In the first place it convinced me that regular commercial service across the Pacific, touching at Honolulu, Fiji and Austrialia, is practical. Then it showed up the superiority of Amerian commercial planes. The British first-place plane, you know, was a strictly racing job. 
PHOTOGRAPHERS BUSY
"The Europeans went crazy over our planes. My ship" - a note of pride crept in his voice-"had more pictures taken of it than any other in the world. And Miss Rasche's ship, a Douglas transport, made here, was photographed almost as many times.
"Then, I come to another matter of some moment. THis trip cost me $25,000. I got $6000 in prize money. Figure it out for yourself."
FRAULEIN GIVES PRAISE
His plane, a Boeing transport, was aboard the ship, lashed to an upper deck. 
Fraulein Rasche, buyant 30-year-old German aviatrix, joined in the praise for American planes, exclaiming:
"And how! They're good. I'll say. I get a kick out of American slang and American planes and the American aviators are swell, fine fellow."
Miss Rasche, who took quarters at the Ambassador for a two weeks' or more stay, is here to discuss problems of women aviators. Her program includes a luncheon Tuesday at which the aviation fraternity of the University of Southern California will make her an honorary life member. Mrs. Ulysses grand McQueen of Beverly Hills is in charge of the fraulein's visit. 
WORLD TRIP PLANNED
Pangborn, meanwhile, turned his thoughts from the Melbourne race in which the Turner plane got off the course to a plan for a super-flight around the world, non-stop, all refueling in the air. 
"Nichols and I and another man will probably try it, starting from New York next summer," he said. 
Panborn said the ship to be used is now under construction in New Jersey. Present plans call for refueling over Moscow and Chita, Siberia, he said. He believes the trip can be completed within four days. 
The Turner plane, a strictly commercial job, which will be put on regular United Airline service, was handicapped a a ruling on weight, Col. Turner said, explaining:
"Our reserve tanks were removed and we could not hit high speeds because it used gas too fast. We also were handicapbed by my unfamiliarity with the course. I was the only pilot who hadn't flown it. We got lost for a time."
"DEAD" PLANE CUMBERSOME
Incidentally, Col. Turner learned that moving a huge airplane under its own power is one thing and transporting it across country on trucks and trailers is quite another.  His huge Boeing transport was taken off the Mariposa and loaded on trucks and trailers to be taken forty miles to Union Air Terminal for re-assembly.
It took fifteen men and powerful derricks four hours to load the plane and about five hours more to move it through crowded thoroughfares to the airport.  Special permits were required for the moving operations.  The job was handled by Pacific Crane and Rigging, Inc.

English Race Flyers Greeted
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Col. Roscoe Turner is greeted by his happy wife as he disembarks at Los Angeles Harbor.  Picture was taken on the deck of the Mariposa.  [A. P.
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Clyde Pangborn, Turner's co-pilot in the Australian race, also was given a warm greeting on his arrival.  He says he will attempt a 'round world, nonstop flight, probably next summer.  [A. P. photo]
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Fraulein Thea Rasche, famed German aviatrix, also arrived at the harbor on the Mariposa.  She was a passenger on one of the planes that participated in the London-to-Melbourne classic.  [A. P. photo]

WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 16, 1935.

Coast-to-Coat Record Flyers Wel [[cut-off]]
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Mr. and Mrs. James H. Doolittle being greeted by Mayor Ellenstein [[cut-off]] after their record-breading flight from Burbank.  Doolittle said they flew 95 [[cut-off]] above solid banks of clouds and severe winds forced them off their course, [[cut-off]] would have been much less.  [Picture [[cut-off]]

Doolittle Sets Record Spanning Nation in Air

NEWARK (N. J.) Jan. 15 (AP)--Maj. James H. Doolittle established a new transcontinental record for transport airplanes today, touching his wheels at Floyd Bennett Airport, New York, 11h. 59m. after his take-off at Los Angeles.
Doolittle was timed at Floyd Bennett at 8:26 a.m., (eastern standard time,) and eight and one-half minutes later he set the low-winged transport monoplane down at Newark Airport.  Although previous transcontinental speed flights had ended here, Doolittle's time at the New York field was considered for record purposes.
DIFFERENCE SMALL
His time of 11h. 59m. broke by minutes the mark set last November 8 by Eddie Rickenbackeer when he flew from Los Angeles to Newark in 12h. 3m. 50s.
Looking tired by happy, the flying major was greeted here by Mayor Meyer C. Ellenstein.  Accompanying the aviator was Mrs. Doolittle and an oil company official.
"I didn't do the ship justice," Doolittle said.  "I lost an hour and a half by getting off the course and should have been here that much sooner.  I guess it was just a case of poor piloting."
WIFE BLAMES WEATHER
Mrs. Doolittle, however, said going astray was the result of "dreadful flying weather."
"The ice was bad," she said, "and weather conditions were awful.  It's all right for Jimmy to blame himself but the weather man should take some of the blame, too."
Doolittle said the ship functioned perfectly all the way, enabling him to average about 217 miles an hour for the approximately 2600-mill trip.  He left Union Air Terminal, Burbank, Cal., at 5:27 p.m. (Pacific Standard time) yesterday.

Col. Roscoe Turner
Both Turner and Pangborn have their initialed "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.

WOMAN SETS PLANE MARK
MIAMI (Fla.) Jan. 15. (AP)--Miss Helen MacCloskey today flew her 1230-pound cabin plane around a 100 - kilometer (sixty - two - mile) course in near perfect weather for
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Helen MacCloskey
a woman's world speed record of 166.67 miles an hour.  There had been no woman's record in th [[cut-off]] class.
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