Evening star., 1936-09-06
WOMEN FLYERS
WIN RACE H0N0RS
Miss Browning Gets Earhart
Trophy at National
Meet.
By the Associated Press.

LOS ANGELES, September s.
Women flyers. who used to be classed
as powder puff" entries in air race
events, captured the interest of the
Western Hemisphere today.
They stimulated the greatest re-
sponse from nearly $4,000 spectators
at the national air races here as word
came that feminine colleague, Mrs.
Beryl Markham, had reached North
| American shores in the first womans
solo flight Westward across the At
lantic.
At the air races, Betty Browning
| Of Wichita. Kans.. won the $500
Amelia Earhart Trophy race Of 25
miles with speed of 1856 miles an
hour, more than 21z miles a minute.
in field Of eight women flyers. Her
victory came within "a hours after
two women had placed first and Sec
ond in the $4,000 Bendix Trophy
dash from New York to Los Angeles,
always heretofore a mans race. The
Bendix winners were Mrs. Louise
Thaden of Washington and Benton
vile. Ark, first, and Miss Laura
ingalls,, Los Angeles and New York,
second.
Miss Browning's victory was in the
chief event of the second day of the
four-day national air races, an orgy Of
speed and stunts.
New Record Set.
In the Shell Trophy race. Harold
Neumann of Kansas City established
new national air race record of 223
miles an hour and won first prize
money of 81, 400, plus 81, 900 for break.
ing the record.
S. j. Whitman, Oshkosh, Wis, an
other contestant, crashed out of the
money near the finish, but was unin-
jured.
Other finiShers were Art Chester,
Glenview, Ill. second, at 222 miles an
hour, 1,500; Lee Miles, Wichita, Kans.,
third, s840. and Joe jacobson, Kansas
City. fourth, s540. This made total
with Neumann's winnings Of s6,289
instead of the $4,000 first announced.
Jacobson was one of the two men
pilots kept out of the Bendix race fn-
ish by accidents.
In the Earhart race Miss Browning
won s675. Other prize money placers
in the field of out of an original IL
entrants were:
Gladys O'Donnell, Long Beach,
Calf, second, S375: Genevieve Savage.
Coronado Calf, third, s225; jean
nette Kempke, Bay City, Mich, fourth,
$3.50, and Nancy Love, Boston, Mass.
fifth, SIS. The other three entries, fin
ishing in the following order, we're
Henrietta Sumner. Los Angeles Edna
Gardner, New Orleans, and Melba
Beard, Altadena, Calf.
Jacobson Is Cheered.
Jacobson got hearty cheer from
the crowd when he arrived at the air.
port. One Of the Bendix trophy racers,
he landed by parachute near Stafford,
Kans., yesterday when his airplane ex-
ploded in midair. He came on here by
commercial airline.
I'm all right, and I'll be flying in
there" he told the crowd.
The spot parachute jumping con-
test, which brought death yesterday
to L. c. Faulkner of San Diego, was
cancelled today by order of Depart
ment Of Commerce officials because of
the high East wind that swept the
field.
Bucking a stiff wind, three Holly
wood stunt flyers, who have thrilled
fllm audiences with work on the
screen, drew an ovation for aerial ac-
robatics and smoke displays. They
are Paul Mantz, Frank Clak and
Easton Noble.
Capt. Alexandra Papana took his
little European designed plane up for
a series Of precision stunts, likewise
earning generous applause
Amelia Earhart President.
Amelia Earhart. donor Of the wom-
ems feature race trophy. clad in slacks
and her bohbed hair blowing in the
breeze. arrived with her husband,
George Putnam.
Another transcontinental woman pi-
lot, the former Ruth Elder. arrived
for the races.
Movie celebrities, including Mary
Brian, Adrienne Ames, Bruce Cabot,
Lyle Talbot, Ruth Chatterton and
others, dotted the stands.
Army, Navy and Marine planes
from March Field, California; Barks-
dale Field, Louisiana, and the naval
air base at San Diego, Wed with stunt
flyers in a thrilling program before
and between the Earhart and shell
trophy races.
Twelve Marine planes, in command
OF Capt. T. G. Cushman, from the San
Diego base; another group of waf birds
from the 18th Attack Group, in CON-
mand of Lieut.. Col. Carlyle Wash, and
United States Air Corps sextet from
Barksdale Field engaged in mass flight,
bombing and tactical formation ex-
hibitions.
Eighteen Navy attack ships from
San Diego, in charge of Lieut.. Comdr
C. D. Glover. staged combat exercises
including the famous snake dance"
procession.
Faye Lucille Cox, former Denver,
Colo. stenographer. staged her 10000
foot delayed parachute jump, landing
perfectly in front of the stands.
Two protests were filed today with
the Contest Board of the National
Aeronautic Association, one by Viii.
liam Gulick of New York, who finished
third behind Miss ingalls, in the Bendia
race yesterday. He contended he lost
six or seven minutes, enough to have
placed HIM ahead of Miss ingalls,, be-
cause he said the crowded condition OF
Municipal Airport forced him to circ.s
the field twice
The other protest was lodged by
Henrietta Sumner in the Earhart
Trophy race. She said another pilot
whose identity was not known, cut In
on her around pylon.
Both protests will be ruled upon
later by the board.