Gardner Cup Opens Aviation Week With Big Race
St Louis May 15 Prom itive directions commercial airplanes speed to St Louis May 28 to inaugurate the Gardner cup race to rival the Indianapolis 500 in aviation More than 49 planes entered in five preliminaries from across the country will contend for finals from St Louis to Indianapolis and back May 30 The Gardner race forms a highlight of Aviation week with Lindbergh flight anniversary and other events at the speedway final program to follow.
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St. Louis
Russell
Gardner JR
Indianapolis
Lindbergh
New York-Paris
Aviation convention to highlight aircraft industry and Gardner Cup race
The Aeronautical Division of the ASME hosts an aircraft show for commercial and military plane makers. The Gardner Cup race, sponsored by Russell B Gardner Jr and Fred W Gardner and sanctioned by the NAA, offers 10000 dollars in prizes plus the Gardner trophy. Five preliminaries run from Buffalo to San Antonio ending May 28, with 750 and 250 prizes. Ten race winners go to Indianapolis for a 5000 dollar prize and Gardner trophy. The Spirit of St Louis medal will be awarded to a standout promoter of aviation Daniel Guggenheim funds the award. One major airplane company plans a New York to Los Angeles passenger service within six months.
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American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Russell EB. Gardner, Jr
Fred W. Gardner
National Aeronautical Asociation
Buffalo
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Jacksonville
Fla
Fargo
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Denver
Golo
San Antonio
Tex
Parks Airport
East St. Louis
Indianapolis
Gardner
Spirit of St. Louis
Daniel Guggenheim
Peter J HansenFound Dead in Cedar Falls Home
Peter J Hansen 69 retired farmer was found dead at his home 1303 Clay street by his sister Hannah this morning in Cedar Falls He operated a farm southwest of the city until retirement ten years ago His wife died sixteen years ago Funeral plans await word from distant relatives.
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Courier
Cedar Falls
Peter J. Hansen
Clay Street
Hannah
Hansen
Here
Reverend Cecil Phillips Called to Fairbank Baptist Pastorate
Rev. Cecil Phillips of Cedar Falls has accepted the pastorate of First Baptist church in Fairbank and will begin next Sunday. He succeeds Rev. W. Van Benschoten who moves to Plain Held, Indiana. Phillips, 26, married, is a Walnut Street Baptist member with training from Iowa State Teachers College and Moody Bible Institute.
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Cedar Falls
First Baptist Church
Fairbank
W. van Benschoten
Mr. Phillips
Walnut Street Baptist Church
Iowa State Teachers College
Moody Bible Institute
Chicago
Waterloo Junior High to Graduate 58 at West High
Waterloo Junior High will graduate 58 pupils into West High School with promotion exercises next month. Miss Ruth Updegraff announced the list of graduates, including Dorothy Beaton, Willard Merryman Hilliard, Berton BIWy McDonald, Dorcas Beck, Kathryn Mak, Rodney Blackburn, Virginia Wickleod, Richard Bolter, Julano Olsson, Nathan Harber, Marjorie Parlow, Marlon Darker, Gwen Perkins, James Brandt, Lucile Porter, John Oulbertzon, Orville Rossom Berg, Gallahan Ayres, Russell Melvin Davis, Jean Reynolds, Dora Leone Dingman, Marian Ritze, Prancis Dudley, Jean Ronlf, Herold Evans, John Schubert, Artene Griffith, Leigh Strohbehn, Arthur Grange, John Shannon, Eugene Hubbard, Bob Sarser, Eloise Haringn, Rosshelle Smith, Harold Hayward, Violet Smith, Lars Hawk, Virginia Smith, Floyd Hays, Mary Stoddard, Edna Huffman, Leon Siegel, Virgil Jackson, Willard Wahl, Lea Katz, Mary Watters, Jack Limbert, Helen Wookey, Raymond Larsen, Arthur Waterbury, Alice Maria Lucht, Charles West, Lester Maize, Henry Weare, Helen McWilliams, Dick Young.
Ike Waltons to Pick Successor to Secretary Erwin
The executive committee of the Town division of the Izaak Walton League will be summoned by President A. Willford to meet in Waterloo within days to choose a successor to Harry L. Erwin of Grand Junction whose resignation as executive secretary was received yesterday. The committee includes John Brain Independence F G Goodrich Mason City Thomas Thompson Marshalltown and Willford. Erwin has run the state headquarters at Grand Junction for three years as paid secretary and says he resigns to return to banking. The Grand Canyon of the Colorado was discovered by the Spaniards in 1540.
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Izaak Walton League of America
A. ©. Willford
Waterloo
Harry L. Erwin
Grand Junction
Willford
John Brain
Independence
F. G. Goodrich
Mason City
Thomas Thompson
Marshalltown
Erwin
Izaak Walton League
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East Park Ave
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