AMERICAN ITEMS
SPEED FLY RECORD.
fUnited Press Association.—By Electric
Telegraph.—Copyright.]
NEW YORK, April 20
'A message from Roosevelt Field Btates Lindbergh with his wife set a new trans-continontai speed record when they landed at Loekhead in a Sirius plane in fourteen hours, fortyfour minutes after leaving Glendale, ■California, at 8.26 in the morning, New York time. The Lindberghs made one stop ‘of twen'ty minutes to refuel at Adohita, Kansas. The entire flight was made at altitudes of eleven thousand to twenty tliousanu feet., They made the flight to prove that trans-continental air expressplanes may fly‘more safely with less resistance at high altitudes. Police and State troops were compelled to strain to the utmos to kepe a mob from the plane, following a neat’ landing. ' : •” ■ in AMERICAN INTERESTS.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 19.
Mr Ralph Budd, President of the Great Northern Railway, is going to Russia to supervise the rebuilding of the Soviet railways.
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Hokitika Guardian, 23 April 1930, Page 5
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