The Archive · 1931

Women Cast Eye on Atlant'c

New York, Aug. 10.

Tt was revealed here today that} Miss "Elinor Smith, one of Amer-fea's most noted aviatrixes who! recently. established new altitude records for women, has been pre-Paring secretly to attempt a_nonstop flight from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland, to Paris.

With Miss Smith several other aviatrixes are preparing to make nonstop flights across the Atlantic ocean. Miss Laura Ingalls is completing her plans and Miss Ruth jehol, recovered from recent, in-Juries, is also anxious. to reattempt her trans-Atlantic flight which was interrupted last month when her plane cracked up at St. Johns, Newfoundland, after a successful fight from New York.

Mrs. Geraldine Lofredo, wife of a photographer of Buffalo, New York, has obtained the use of the monoplane Liberte, in which Messrs. Helgar Hoiriis and Otto Hillig recently flew from America to Copen-ind she vill attempt, a nonstop flight to Rome—United Pre American Airmen Fined Tokyo, Aug. 11.

The Procurator's Office after considering the evidence in the Pang-born and Herndon case has decided to order the confinement of the two tors and the prohibition of the fse_of their aeroplane pending a final settlement of the case.

Aug. 12, It is understood that the order! by the Japanese authorities for the confinement of the American aviators, Pangborn and Herndon, Jdoes not mean anything in the nature of imprisonment.

It simply entails a restriction upon their movements pending the final settlement of their case. tween South America and Europe

mail riy. wilh the "object of accelerating Flying-boats will carry mails from Cadiz to liners at Las Patma: Canary Islands, and from liners Fernando Noronha to Rio do Janeiro—Through Reuter.

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