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calibrated watch and the actioI | abroad was not made official in tim, | to arrange for this air derby under world record conditions.
 Major Luke Christopher, secretary of the national aeronautical asso citation contest committee, says oi 1 the Copenhagen action:
 Tt was decided to create a sepa- rate category for women's records national and international.
 This decision will take effect i'm mediately. In the future, all records established by women. through competition conducted in accordance with F. A. l. rules and regulations, will be officially observed. The date concerning same will be compiled as our other world records and sent to the secretary general of F. A. l. in Paris, France, for promulgation.
 "The women's records will be given the same consideration In every respect as worlds records es- tablished by men. A list of hese records will also be kept in our Of fice'
 Women's records hitherto made, and now listed as ''miscellaneous' on N. A. A. books. will stand, Ne said. These records have appeared merely because the men of the N. A. A. were chivalrous enough to set them down. The woman aviator had no official status.
 Three Worlds Records
 Major Christopher sent the com plete list to F. A. I. in Paris, to be used as Americas showing in the first tabulation of women's records from 20 countries soon to be compil- ed by F. A. l. Three automatically become the first really official American woman's records: Altitude 23,996 feet, straightaway speed, 1856 miles per hour, Louise McPhetrdige Thaden; duration, 26 hours, 21 min- utes, 32 seconds, Elinor Smith | Marvel Crosson and Louise N. Ina den were among the entrants in the l in the derby made a big showing ir the records that went abroad Phoebe Omlie, another derby racer recently made a try for the altitude record, but was shown to have failed by bureau of standard calibrations Three days less than year ago Elinor Smith started the American record scramble. On August 22 1928, she flew to an altitude of H. 663 fete, and. became the first wo- man to get her name on the N. A As polits record book. On Decem Der ?, Lady Mary Heath's famed ! Gypsy Moth bested Elinors Waco 1 biplane, soaring to a height of 14,. 432 feet, duly calbrated and record ed.
 Just five days later, Louise Mo Photridge, who has since added the name Thaden, cut in with 20,27t feet mark. That stood until May 2S, when Marvel Crosson stepped | into a Ryan brougham, and clim bed 1 to 23,996 feet which now IS the American record.
 k Duration Records
 | Viola Gentry made the first re. corded duration mark, flying
 hours, minutes, 37 seconds Decem Der 20, 1928. Evelyn (Bobbie) Trou
 Los Angeles, took the title way fror
 her January ?, 1929, with
 hour II minutes record. Twenty eight days later Elinor Smith
 Mitchell Field, New York, scared { the head of the list in 13 hours,
 minutes, 45 seconds. Robbie Trou
 let no grass grow on Metropolita
 Airport, Los Angeles. In ten day.
 she had her title back, having low
 her Golden Eagle a whole nigh
 through, starting at , D. m, an , ending the next afternoon, elapse
 time, IT hours. minutes, 37 sec