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DAILY PROGRAM OF EVENTS

Events of necessity may not be run off in the order listed.
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 3
DOUGLAS CORRIGAN DAY
INAUGURAL DAY

GREATER CLEVELAND DAY--AMERICAN YOUTH DAY--JUNIOR AVIATOR DAY--AERONAUTICAL ORGANIZATIONS DAY--NATIONAL PRESS DAY--EARLY BIRDS' DAY.

BERNARD CAPEHART, Announcer     KEN BARTON, Announcer

BENDIX TROPHY RACE, Transcontinental Speed Dash Flyers will arrive during the afternoon.

Winner . . . . . . . .

Second . . . . . . . .

Third  . . . . . . . .


11:30 A.M.  TEXACO FIRE CHIEF BAND, sponsored by The Texas Company.

11:30 A.M.  NOVELTY AEROBATICS - By Leonard R. Peterson, sponsored by Dart Manufacturing Corporation.

11:40 A.M.  CAPT. ALEX PAPANA OF ROUMANIA -- in Aerobatics

11:45 A.M.  MASS FLIGHT over downtown Cleveland by the U. S. ARMY AIR CORPS, U. S. NAVAL AIR FORCES and the U. S. MARINE CORPS.

12:00 Noon  PARACHUTE SPOT JUMPING CONTEST.

12:30 P.M.  OFFICIAL ARRIVAL - U. S. ARMY AIR CORPS 27th PURSUIT SQUADRON from Selfridge Field, Michigan under command of Major Willis R. Taylor.

12:35 P.M.  OFFICIAL ARRIVAL- U. S. NAVAL FIGHTING SQUADRON FIVE from Norfolk, Va. under command of Lt. Comdr. W. L. Rees.

12:40 P.M.  OFFICIAL ARRIVAL - U. S. MARINE FIGHTING SQUADRON ONE from Quantico, Va. under command of Major W. L. McKittrick.

12:45 P.M.  1938 AVIATION ON PARADE.

1:00 P.M.   OFFICIAL INAUGURAL CEREMONIAL of the 1938 National Air Races.

1:05 P.M.   GIGANTIC DAYLIGHT PYROTECHNIC DISPLAY.

1:15 P.M.   OPENING AERIAL SALUTE--4-plane Smoke Formation, sponsored by The Ohio Oil Company.