AIR AMAZONS.
MISS EARHART IN THE LEAD.
A SPEED RECORD ESTABLISHED. SOME THRILLING ADVENTURES. (By Telegraph -Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 11.10 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 22ucl. A message from Miaklu, Texas, says that, as the women’s air Derby reached that point, Miss Earhart (the Atlantic flier) took the lead, after making the women’s speed record of 200 miles in hours -28 minutes. Her total elapsed time is 9 hours 48 minutes 17 seconds.
Mrs Gladys O’Donne, of Longbeaeh, California, remains second, Miss Rutn Nichols, of New York, is third, and Mrs Thaden fourth. Misfortune continues to follow the racers. One participant, at a height of 2000 feet, saw her plane smoking. She calmly used the extinguisher. When .she lauded, she discovered that a , cigarette had been thrown into the baggage in the plane, causing slight, damage.
Mrs Barnes made a down-wind landing at Recos, Texas, and crashed into an autounobilc. She was uninjured, but the plane is apparently out of the race.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 23 August 1929, Page 5
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