CONNECTION MISSED

Evening Star, Issue 22461, 5 October 1936, Page 9

CONNECTION MISSED

AMERICAN WORLD FLYERS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright BERLIN, October 3. The American world flyers who are racing round the globe lost their first carefully-planned connection owing to the airship Hindenburg being four hours late. Accordingly they missed the air liner to Rome from Frankfort. Ekins flew to Vienna, Kiernan to Basle, and Miss Kilgallen to Munich. The Mayor of San Francisco has cabled offering a gold nugget as a prize for the first who drops the flags of one European and one Asiatic nation on the site of the Golden Gate Exhibition, which will be opened in 1939. [A cable published on Friday stated; Three American journalists, representing the North American Newspaper Alliance, the Scripps Howard newspapers, and the Hear'st Press, the lastnamed being a woman, left to-night in the Hindenburg to make a round-the-world trip in less than three weeks, using only scheduled and regularly established modes of passenger transportation. They will take the Zeppelin to Frankfort, then proceed across Europe and Asia in other air lines, then travel in a steamer from Hongkong to Manila, whence they will proceed in a China clipper on the first cast-bound voyage with passengers, returning by air to San Francisco and New York.]