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TRANS-ATLANTIC FLIGHT [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN.—COPYRIGHT.) (Reed. Sept. 7, 10 a.m.). NEW YORK, September 6. The French seaplane Lieutenant Do Vaisseau Paris, left New York for the Azores. U.S.A. RACE. CLEVELAND, September 5. A crowd numbering 350,000 people saw Roscoe Turner win the three hundred miles Thompson Trophy race at the record speed of 283.419 miles per hour. Turner was also the victor in 1934. He is the first man who has twice won the forty-five thousand dollars American Blue Riband for air racing.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1938, Page 7
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