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Enjoy Annual Gathering At Park [[line]] Victim Files Suit [[line]] Prominent in National Glider Contest [[line]] [[photograph: black and white image of four men, one sitting in a car in a suit, three standing at his side in similar sweaters and pants]] [[photograph: black and white image of a man in dark, round sunglasses]] [[photograph: 2 black and white images, one set to the upper-left corner of the other. Upper-left image is a man and woman standing net to a canoe, main image is of a woman in an embroidered dress with a large, flowered floppy hat]] [[3 columns]] [[column 1]] ABOVE are some of the central figures connected with the Elmira glider meeting. The top picture shows the Providence R.I., Glider Club, captained by J. Sloat Fassett, 3rd, grandson of the late Congressman J. Sloat Fassett. Left to right are Walter Snell, Mr. Fassett, A. L. Lawrence and Allen Rooke. Lower left is Sherman P. Voorhees whose marked [[/column 1]] Vermont Lad Hikes His Way To Glider Contest, Study Here [[column 2]] For the sake of attending one of the most important events in his life, the National Glider Contest, a Claremont, N.H., boy, Harold W. Davis, 19, a member of the Edison 49 Club has arrived in this city [[cutoff]] [[/column 2]] [[column 3]] a handy man at the airport, but he will also be given instruction in the fine art of handling gliders and before returning home he has hopes of taking a ship aloft. Davis left his home early Thurs- [[cutoff]] [[/column 3]] [[right side of column cut off]] SOUTH MO Takeofs To Launc [[line]] Soaring Experts Hopefu tions Will Be Favora FOr Initial Gliding-- Representatives Are Gliding Machines Ent [[line]] [[outlined]] J. Norton Wood, chairman of the association of Commerce, received the urday evening from Edward S. Evans, National Glider Association: "Congratulations on the opening and soaring contest at Elmira. Convey officials, contestants, and citizens wh Best wishes for a safe and successful [[/outlined]] The second national glider co Elmira today. A score of pilots whose names the aviation world will focus the this city where eons ago a glacier Valley leaving a natural soaring bo These pilots, with a few exceptions, comprise the gliding talent of the world. Among them are such outstanding names as Captain Frank M. Hawks, C. E. "Casey" Jones, W. Hawley Bowlus, Albert E. Hastings, "Gus" Haller, Captain Russell El Holderman, Mrs. Holderman, Mr. and Mrs. Okey Bevins, Major William L. Purcell, Mrs. Ralph S. Barnaby, Martin Schempp, Professor R. E. Franklin, Burchard Wilson, Warren E. Eaton and Wallace Backus. Seek New Records Shortly after dawn this morning the contest was scheduled to get under way. At a final meeting Saturday evening in the Mark Twain Hotel, the early arrivals agree to [[line]]
