Journalist Wants Sleep After World Trip New York. Oct. 19.
Smiling but tired, Mr. HI R. "Bud" Bkins, of the "New York World-Tole-iam" and formerly a. resident of Shanghai, arrived at Lakehurst Ate port in the Sky Chief to-day, com-leting his 25,804-mile globe-girdling fir ace in the oficial Lokehurst-to-Lakehurst time of 18 days, 11 hr 14 min, 33 see, He wore the same blue serge suit and gray felt hat with which he com= menced the flight. En route to the ailiees of the "New York World-"Telegram" where he arrived at 11.15 am,, accompanied -by a delegation from the Explorers' Club, Mr, Ekins laughingly stopped and purchased a newspaper from the swarm of news boys selling "extras" about his arrival home. A huge crowd greeted him at the airfield, cheering him when he disembarked from the plane, He posed for newsreel cameramen befor? faking the automobile to his news-Paper office, He defeated tis competitors, Mr. Leo Kiernan of the "New York "Times," and Miss Dorothy Kugallen of the International News Service, by @ margin of 10,000 miles and al ays! travel time, Mr. Ekins later delivered President Manuel Quezon's letter to Mr. Fiorello.
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