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[[left side cut off]] e Sunday Telegram ELMIRA STAR-GAZETTE SUNDAY EDITION ELMIRA, N.Y., AUGUST 2, 1931. City News + Financial Theaters + Twenty Years Ago [[left side]] NTEST TO OPEN TODAY rs Enjoy Annual Gathering at Park O VICTIM FILES SUIT Prominent in National Glider Contest [[image]] [[right side]] South Mountain Takeoffs Today To Launch Event Soaring Experts Hopeful Weather Conditions Will Be Favorable This Morning For Initial Gliding- News Reel Service Representatives Are on Hand- 20 of Gliding Machines Entered for Contest. J.Norton Wood, chairman of the aviation committee of the Association of Commerce, received the following telegram late Saturday evening from Edward S. Evans, honorary president of the National Glider Association: "Congratulations on the opening of the 1931 national gliding and soaring contest at Elmira. Convey my deep interest to all the officials, contestants and citizens who made this meet possible. Best wishes for a safe and successful contest." The second national glider contest makes its debut in Elmira today. A score of pilots whose names are the warp and woof of the aviation world will focus the attention of the country on this city where eons ago a glacier scooped out the Chemung Valley leaving a natural soaring bowl. These pilots, with a few excep- [[cutoff]] [[cutoff]]assemble early on South Mountain