National Air Derby from New York to Los Angeles New York, Sept. 5.
Started by a pistol fired by the Mayor of Los Angeles and trans mitted dcross the continent by tel phone, telegraph and loud-speaker, 87 aeroplanes lett Roosevelt. Field to-day in the Class A section of the National Air Derby, which finishes at Los Angeles, for'prizes totalling $126,000, Today's starters make 17 stops on the Journey. About 50. oth contestants start later in other sections of the contest. One section will have to make a non-stop flight to Los Angeles—Reuter.
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