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From: H. A. Bruno & Associates
30 Rockefeller Plaza
New York City
For: NATIONAL AIR RACES

For RELEASE FRIDAY, Sept. 2nd

$30,000 PRIZE MONEY DRAWS STAR FLIERS TO BENDIX EVENT, TRANSCONTINENTAL CURTAIN-RAISER TO NATIONAL AIR RACES

A $30,000 pot of gold at the end of a 2,500-miles rainbow is the prize which again draws America's outstanding fliers to the Vincent Bendix transcontinental trophy race, taking place on Saturday from Burbank, Calif. to Bendix, N.J. via the National Air Races at Cleveland.

The Bendix event, feature curtain-raiser of the Cleveland show over the coming week-end, is a free-for-all, open to men and women, with no limit placed on engine horsepower or design of craft. The race is an annual transcontinental challenge to aeronautical engineers and pilots, but when the entries closed on August 25th eleven planes--comprising the largest field ever to start--were on the list.

One woman and two men stand out as favorites in the cross-country classic. These are Jacqueline Cochran of New York, wife of Floyd Celum, industrialist and financier, who will fly a modified version of the Seversky Army pursuit planes equipped with a 1,200 horsepower Wasp engine; Frank Fuller, San Francisco paint manufacturer, who took first place and $13,000 prize money last year and who will attempt to repeat his victory with a plane and power plant which duplicate Miss Cochran's equipment, and Frank Cordova, Roosevelt Field aircraft salesman who will fly a 970 horsepower tri-motored Bellanca monoplane originally built for transAtlantic flying.

Aside from these favorites and their high-powered and relatively big planes, the race includes several midget ships and semi-stock craft, several of them equipped with altitude engines. The course is long and strain on machine and pilot is great, and no one in the field will be counted out until all the money places--and there are at least six of them--have been taken. Formidable contenders will be Ross Hadley of Los Angeles, flying a Beechcraft driven by a 450 horsepower Wasp Junior engine; Lee Gehlbach, Long Islander and well-known test