[Air Race Beats Male Rivals with Speed of 245 M.P.H.
Cleveland, Sept. 3.
Miss Jacqueline Cochran, successor to Mrs. Amelia Earhart Putnam as America's most famous aviatrix, won the U.S.$30,000 Bendix Trophy Race today and continued across the nation to Bendix, NI. to establish a new trans-continental speed record for women.
Miss Cochran's elapsed time between Los Angeles and Cleveland was 8 hours 10 minutes 31.4 seconds and her record-breaking time between coasts was 10 hours, 12 minutes and 55 seconds.
Flying the plane in which Major Alexander de Seversky broke the east-west trans-continental speed record this week, Miss Cochran averaged 249.774 miles an hour between Los Angeles rand. Cleveland. Her time between Los Angeles and Cleve-jand was 16 minutes slower than the record established last year by Mr. Frank Fuller who finished second in the race today.
Fuller's elapsed time between Los Angeles and Cleveland was 24 minutes slower than Miss Cochran. He also trailed Miss Cochran when the leading planes reached Bendix, NI., to complete the trans-continental dash.—United Press.
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