CRASH TO DEATH
AMERICAN SPEED AIRMAN Received Sept. 4, 10-50 p.m. NEW YORK, Sept. 3. A message from Cleveland states that Douglas Davis, the Atlanta aviator, who earlier in the day unofficially broke the land aeroplane speed record of 304.98 miles an hour, crashed to death as he led a field of fast racers, including Roscoe Turner, in a iiundredmile special event at the National Air Races. At a terrific speed he went into a spin and drove head-on- into the ground from a thousand feet altitude. Turner won the event with an average speed of 248.12 miles an hour-
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 7
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100CRASH TO DEATH Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 77, Issue 210, 5 September 1934, Page 7
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