The Spokane woman. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1921-1935, 1927-08-18
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Plans whereby Spokane may accommodate the
largest crowd of visitors ever assembled here are
being made Il result of the wide enthusiasm
shown throughout the Northwest for the National
Air Races Ia be held az the Spokane airport. Sep
TENDER % and n. following the finish of the Ma
tional Air Derby from New York and the
Pacific Coast Air Derby from san Francisco
September 21.
An additional event scheduled to bring hundreds
of engineers the city during the aviation elias
sizes has just been announced by the president OF
the ae"onautic section of the National Society of
Automotive Engineers, which will convene here in
annual convention during the aviation meet. The
importance of this convention is reflected in the
hotel reservation for 80 made by Ehelbert
Favary of the Moreland Motor Truck Company.
Los Angeles
More than 100 hotel reservations for the week
of the have been received by members of
the housing committee, which, under the chairman
ship of Victor Dessert, manager of the Dessert
Hotel, has adopted the Ien1leton l,oundUp plan
of housing visitors in private dwellings Every
available resident room in the city is being listed
by the housing committee.
At the aviation field Major John T. Fancher.
managing director of the Air Derby Association,
and commander of the list division air service
unit. Washington National Guard is making plans
To house and feed the visiting military pilots and
Construction of Sl2,O00 armory building at the
field is being rushed to completion i'm time to
house many of the visiting officers. At the field
the grounds committee has already charted its
seating sections which include 100 box seats capable
of seating 600 persons. Eight hundred memberships
in the National Air Derby Association have already
been sold to 1900 people throughout the North
west Accompanying each of the box seats and
association memberships reserve parking spaces
for automobiles. The general ticket sale for the
five-tluy program will he launched within few
days
Special attention is being paid to the newspaper
representatives. who expected here from all
parts of the United States. Working in close
operation with the Air Derby Association, officials
of the Western Union, Postal and Home Telephone
and Telegraph Company have completed arrange
ments to install special wires for news services.
Probably the largest press box erected for
any event in the Northwest is being arranged for
at the Spokane air port, Major Fancher plans to
accommodate at least 100 visiting newspaper men
in an elevated press box located directly below the
bridge" which the officials handling the races
will be situated.
'The officials bridge will be top Of Of
our hangers and directly below that, but elevated
about 10 feet in the air will he the press box, said
Major Fancher. THE national air races will attract
newspaper here from all parts of the country
and we want them to have every accommodation"
A special automobile committee Is working out
details for Il motor caravan to be ut the service
of the visiting pilots and newspaper men.
sThere will he difficulty in handling the long
lines of traffic going out the paved Trent highway
to the field" said President Walter Evans, "as we
have been assured of the most hearty cooperation
of city, county and state highway patrol officers"
Colonel Thomas c. Aston, commander of the
10th infantry regiment Washington National
Guard. has charge of patrolling the field. Several
companias of his regiment will be mustered into
camp at the air port during the races.