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Among those who have officially entered the 1938 event are Frank Fuller, last year's winner, Bernarr MacFadden, Lee Gelbach, Jacqueline Cochran, George Armistead, Frank Cordova, Ross Hadley, Roy Hunt, Paul Mantz, Max Constant and John Hinschey. Russel Thaw, Bob Perlick and Col. Roscoe Turner are hurrying ships so that they may be at the starting line.

Probably the newsiest entry is that of Bernarr MacFadden, who took to the air when he was 65 years old, and now, at 70 will fly one of the fastest ships in the race. The publisher, who now has 1,100 solo hours in his log book, will fly the race alone, in the Northrup Gamma, powered with a Wright Cyclone F model engine of 750 horsepower. The plane has a speed of 225 miles an hour. The ship was formerly the property of Miss Cochran and was used extensively by Howard Hughes for many cross country record hops.

Frank Fuller, who will attempt to beat his own competitive transcontinental record of 9 hours and 35 minutes from Los Angeles to Bendix, N.J., will fly a Seversky, which has a 1,000 horse power engine and a top speed of 300 miles per hour.

Miss Cochran, America's No. 1 feminine pilot, will also race a modified Seversky. Miss Cochran won the woman's section of the event last year and also was the third pilot to finish the course, thus gathering $5,500 in prizes.

Two pilots will seek levels above 15, 000 feet, making the use of oxygen necessary. They are George Armistead, Los Angeles society aviator, and Paul Mantz. Armistead's ship, the "Q.E.D." is similar in appearance to the Gee-Bee's of other years. Mantz, who was Miss Earhart's advisor, claims his rebuilt Lockheed Orion will go along at 270 miles an hour in the substratosphere.

Ross Hadley will fly a Beechcraft. This ship has huge gas tanks, will probably be able to make the Los Angeles-Cleveland trip non-stop and has cruising speeds up around 250 miles an hour.