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Wilmette Life (Wilmette, Illinois), 31 Aug 1933, p. 18

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at Pair Air Race lMaj. H. ("«Jimnmie") Doolittie, * America's premier speed flyer. will act as honorary ,eferee at the Inter- nationial Air races- and Gordon Ben- nett Balloon* race, ýto be staged ai Curtiss airport September 1-2-3-4, as the aviation climax to A Cenutry of Progress, the. Chicago world's, fair. The day before the. opening of the air meet (Thursday,, August 31').bas beenl designateci as Aviation -day at the fair., On that day, Doolittle witb two -other famous flyers., Amy. John- son V.ollison and Captain James G. Haizlip will fly frein New York te the..worldýs fairand land théir plane in the exposition lagoon. OfficiaIs of the, Sbeil Petroltum corpraton.sponsors of the fli!zbt. a .nnounced today that t hey will, play hosts te all the flver participating in the races to be. staged Pt Çurtiss~ Wnrigbt-Reynolds airport. There will bie an. Aviation, day luncheon at. the Fair,,,and other attractions. Announcement that Doolittle will serve in this capacity was made lw Clifford W. Henderson. managing di-' rector of the Labor day meet. follow- ing receipt of a radiogram from* the .flyer. Who was en route to New York on the S. S. Berengaria. * Sas He% Race No More Although Doolittle bas publicly au- nouinced bis intention to give up rac- ing. bis friends believe that the terni- tation to trv out at least one of the fast sbips entered in the. world's fair events. may be too strong to resist. The former Army ace declared in July, 1931, that hie was throtigb with competitive flying. Less than two months later lie won the Bendic tropby race from Los Angeles to Cleveland, the featured cross-country, event 'of the National Air races. He continued to New York to set a new transcontinental record of 11 bours and 16 minutes. Doolittle was the first American te win the Schneider cup race. H-e 'was the victor in tbe event staged at Baltimore in 1925. TÈhe' following year hie was sent to South America XVomen flyers will race for a $2,500 cash purse and a tropby donated by. Walter E. Oison of the Oison Rig' 1company at the International Air races this week-end at Curtiss- Wright-Reyn'oids airport nearGln view. The race will be'-a 100-mile' closed course event. Among the leading contenders for the prize money and the OIson tro- pby will1 be, May Haizlip, champion pilot of ber sex, .wbo will be flying a fast, -low-wing, Wedell-Willîams Spe- cial., She will fly "No..92," oneof the four WedeIl-Williams, Specials. whicb' have been. entered in the meet. This is the same ship used last,3year by ber husband, Jimmie Haizlip, ta set a new west-east transcontinental record, and the ship she. flew at the 1932. national air races to establish a new Iandplane speed mark. for women of 255.513 miles an hour. She piloted th *e same plane- to victory- in the Aé'rol tropby race at the Los Angeles meet carlier this year. Othea Coetenulem Other leadîng women flyers whoi will be competing for the Oisoni tro-' pby include Florence E. Klingen- 1 smith. 26-year-old Minneapolis avia-i trixt,. Martie Bowman of Burbank,1 Calif'., ýMrs. Gladys O'Donnell of1 Long Beach. winner of the Aeroli trophy in 1932, and Henrietta Suim-1 mer of Los Angeles.1 Walter E. Oison, donor of the 01-1 son trophy, is well knoivn as a sports-1 man and as an aviation enthiusiast.i He bas endoved and maintains the 1Brenien Light,"ý a certified acro-; nautical beacon. atop the Oisoni Rugj company building,, as a memorial to1 the flight of the Bremen. ini wbich Maj. Fitzniaurice. Capt. Koelil ands Baron von 1-f ueiefeld inade their trans-Atlantic' hop. Mlany Sightseein g Planes Sfor'Air Race Visitors There'll be plenty. of sightseeing, planes: on hiand, to carry passengers a t the International Air races at Cur- tiss ait-port, it wvas stated at the fly- ing field this .week., The races start The first of the racinig planes to arrive at Curtiss airport for the In- ternational Air races, .vhich start Friday of this week and continue. through Labor dav, was the "Buinble Bee." It was broughit here fromi the * v~est. coast by. automobile trailer. ar- riving Tuesday3 of last week. The trip was made in four days. George Hague is pilot, of the skhip, %Vhich is owned by Charles McGrew. Hague, a newcomer to national racing com- petition won: the' first closed course event at the National Air races held recently at-Los Angeles., The event was a thirty-mile contest for, planes in the 375 cubic inch displacenient class.. Hague's average, speed in bis <four-cylinder plane fromn a standing start was 164.9 miles per hou r. "Spud" .Manning Hurt in 149000, Ft. 'Chute Jumnp Hf. E. "Spud' MarLing, daredevil parachute jumper who wvill do a two-, hmilè aei'ial higli dive dailv at' the International Air races this week-end at Curtiss airport, returned to Chi- cago last Saturdav after having per- formed at an air mieet in Montreal. His displayed a bandaged head as a memento of an escape froni death During the Montreal show Manning was "bailing out," froni a heighit of> 14,000 feet, and as lie left the plane he hit his head against the wing an d w7a s knocked out. He "came to" after having fallen nearly 10,000 feet, and almost subconsciouslv. pulled bis ripcord, opening the 'chute and al- lowing him to ]and safely. Four, stitches were required to patch his ,skull. Autogiro Brings Speaker' to Polish Day Ceremony J. L. Moss, Jr., vc-reietof Pal-Waukee airpont, flewv the 1Rèv. Igaatius Onganisciaka of South Chi- cago in an autogiro from the Chicago municipal airport to H-unmboldt park, Chicago, on Sundav, Augiist 20, where the Rev. M. Organisciaka ivas, for Prize Money t Posting of a $10,000 cash purse and the Frank Phillips trÔphy as the awards in the 100-mile unflimited free-. for-aIl, the high-speed, closed-course classic of the International Air races, was announced by Clifford W,. Hen- derson, managing director- of -the nieet, The race, formns the Labor çlay featturé of the coming Olynipiad of the air, wlîich wiIl be held at Cur- tiss-Wright-.Reynolds airport, Sep- tember. 1-2-3-4,' as the official coin- petitive aviation event of' the Chi- cago 'world's fair,-.A Century of Pïogress.ý It isto be run over a nec-- tangular course, in full view uf ,îthe st ands and- is open tôtoany type of aircrafti regeardlcss, of horsepower, which can show a'speed of 225 miles an houn or better in the qualifyîng trials. Entry of every higli speed airplane tn he êounitny is sepr. byi those in the knwwith the posting of the $10.000 cash purse, one of the largest ever offered for a closed course event, according to Hendenson. The victor of the contest. wvhich is expected to be one of the most gruelin.g ever, staged. will. be awarded permanent. possession of the tnophy and 1$2,60G in cash. > The second place winner will ne- ceive $2,000; third. $1.200: founth, $800, and fifth, $400. Two thousand dollars additional is being offercd In lap prizes. Makes Her Eirst Solo Trip to New'York City Josephine Patterson, v.hlo keeps bier Laird at Pal-WVaukee airport. made hen first long cross-country flight' alone recentlv.% She flew tô -New York City. 'Miss Pattersoxi previlus- lv had flown alonie as. fan as Cleve- land but ineyer as fan as New VYork. I-er home is. in Lake Forest. AERIAL FIREWORKS DISPLAY Clarence Clabaugh. manager of the North Shore aii-ways, will put on. anl aerial fireworks displav for the Edge- wvater Beach hotel on Monday niglit. Srptember 4 (Labor day). view stariipg rriaay Qi LMIS wevic and continulflf for four days. FLIES TO MILWAUKE] Daniel Peterkin, Jr., wbo kee STORE PLANE AT CLJRTISS new Stinson Relianit at Curtis ýA Ryau owued by the Sbively coi»- port, was off on another tri pany, real estate dealers, is being Thursday. -Milwaukee was to stored at.the Curiss afrport hangar. destination, he said. last tend the fair and to vi bis I mes brother, Charles Wilmette. ýer llrst * -O e. Mr. Mrs.. Frank Gerould of Summit, N. Sto at- J.,,who bas been visiting ber parents, r. Hol- the Henry Taylors, Jr., 431 Essex road, nes, i Kenilwc>rth, 'returtied -home last Fni- day.

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