AMERICAN PRAISE
(Press. Assn-
PREPARATIONS FOR WELCOME
-By Telegraph — Copn-Ight).
Rec. August 20, 5 p.m. New York, August 19. The elaborate preparations to receive Mollison on the Roosevelt Field, which were prepared to-day, will be repeated to-morrow. He is expected to arrive from St. John early in the evening. In addition to the British Consulrr ofncials, Mayqr Walker's oflicial reception committee is scheduled to be present, also a large crowd of well-wishers. The newspapers are featuring the flight as the first east-west solo flight across the Atlantic, and the third solo flight, after Lindbergh's and Amelia Earhart's excepting, of course, Hinkler's flight south over the Atlantic. Mollison's skill and daring are praised, and tbe opinion is expressed that be could not have eked out his gasoline without daring navigation, considering the unfavourable winds. Amy Johnson is expected to arrive in New York by steamship in about a week.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 307, 22 August 1932, Page 5
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