The Archive · 1938

Litvinoff Leaves For Geneva

Moscow, Sept, 5.

'M, Maxim Litvinoff, Soviet People's Foreign Commissar, Toft Moscow for Geneva today to attend. the League of Nations Council session,—Havas, Woman Wins Bendix Air Race Cleveland, Sept. 3.

'Miss Jacqueline Cochran, successor to Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam a America's most famous aviatrix, woo the U.S.$30,000 Bendix 'Trophy' Race today and continued across the tion to Bendix, NI. to establish a new transcontinental speed record for women.

Miss Cochran's elapsed time be tween Los Angeles and Cleveland was 8 hours 10 minutes 31.4 seconds and her. record-breaking time tween coasts was 10 hours, 12 minutes and 85 seconds, Flying the plane in which Major Alexander de Seversky broke the east-west trans-continental speed re cord this week, Miss Cochran averaged 249.774 miles an hour between Los Angeles and Cleveland, ler time between Los Angeles and Cleve: Janid was 16 minutes slower than the record established last year by Int Frank Fuller who finished second the race today.

Fuller's elapsed time between Angeles and Cleveland was 24 mit utes slower than Miss Cochran. He also trailed Miss Cochran when the leading planes reached Bendix, to complete the trans-continental dash—United Press,

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