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Middleton Street

February 15th 1935

Gilmore Oil Company
2423 East 28th Street
Vernon, California

Gentleman:

Your program on Aviation delighted a large audience in our auditorium last Tuesday. Both the parents and children were held spellbound. The entire program was particularly colorful and vivid.
We are very grateful to you for your courtesy in sending these charming aviatrices to us. Please accept our very sincere thanks.

Yours very truly,

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U.S. Sixth in War Planes; Britain First

NEW YORK, April 15.-(U.P.)-
The United States ranks sixth in the military air forces of the world, according to the Aircraft Yearbook for 1937, published today. American planes number 2200.
Great Britain leads with 4000 planes, 10 per cent built in the last 12 months.
France, with 3600 combat planes, was rated second. The Yearbook said France had increased its bombing squadrons and pursuit ships.
Third air power and "most mysterious of all," the Yearbook says, is Russia with 3400 planes reported, 100 built since January, 1936. Russia is capable of building planes so rapidly that [?]official Russia plans in terms of tens of thousands of military craft."
[?]aly, fourth world air force, has [?] combat planes available for [?] mediate service, as compared to 2800 in January, 1936.
Germany has upped her air forces in the last 12 months from a few hundred to 3000 planes. Her rapid expansion has been an incentive to European preparedness in aviation, the Yearbook says. The aviation annual adds that, despite the secrecy the Reich maintains, German industries are incapable of continuing the construction of planes after a declaration of war because of her lack of raw materials.

Dixon Buntz, president ternational Peace Club
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Art, Aviation Enthusiasts Plan Exhibit
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Art and aviation enthusiasts in Southern California met at a dinner in the Union Air Terminal to discuss plans for the February Fifth International Aeronautical Art Exposition to be held in the Los Angeles Museum.
Kay Ethel hill, general chairman of the exposition, presided.
Prominent artists will exhibit at the showing.
Present were Thea Rasche, German aviatrix, guest of honor; Mr. and Mrs. Sydney A. Temple, Mrs. U.S. Grant McQueen, Miss Pretto Bell, Mrs. Louise Ward Watkins, Mrs. Grace Bell, Earl hill, Mr. and Mrs. Ferdinand Perret, the Howard E. Millers (Evylena Nunn), Blanche Wheelan, Capt. W.A.F. Millinger, Bettymay Furman, Mary Charles, Miss L. Beard, Dr. and Mrs. Montgomery, Ruth Larrimer Meyers, Ralph Holmes, Marion Churchill Raulston, Bud Morris, Theodore N. Luckits, Eleanor Merriam, Mr. and Mrs. Charles J. Bensco, Mrs. W. Ruthruff, Martha Wheeler Baxter, Orpha Klinker, Mr. and Mrs. W. Grossman, Cliff Henderson, Evaleen Locke, Mr. and Mrs. Theodore A. Woolsey, Ruth McQueen, Fay McCulloch, Laura Mitchell, Mrs. M. Matlick, Mr. and Mrs. W.P. Cobb, Mrs. Mary Wintermate and W.P. Balderston.

Transcription Notes:
Not sure what to do with the warped edge on the "War Planes" article.