German Plane Achieves Azores-New York Hop Berlin, Sept. 6.
The Deutsche Lufthansa plane: Nordmeer which started from Horta, Azores, for New York at 1 o'clock yesterday morning, has according to 8 report received" by the Deutsche Lufthansa, landed safely in New Yorke at S01 o'clock yesterday aft noon, thus completing the flight sixteen hours one minute, The sister-plane of the Nordmeer, the Nordwind, left New York for Cleveland on 'Saturday last in connection with the national air races, the greatest American air event of the year. The arrival of the four-engined Junkers plane whose motors are driven by heavy all, provided a sensation at Cleveland.' The plane which arrived punctually to the minute, carried out an exhibition fight and then came down in the yacht harbour on Lake Erle. A Jarge crowd thus had the opportunity to get a close view of the plane which with its sister plane Nordmeer has crossed the Atlantic thirty times.
On Sunday, the Nordwind returned to New York from where she is to Start for Horta, Azores, in the course today.—Trans-Ocean, German National Prizes Nuremberg, Sept, 7, The award ty the Fuehrer and Reichs chancellor of three German national prizes for 1938, each amount jing in value to Rin, ' 100,000, was announced last night by Dr. Josef Goebbels, Reichs Minister for Propaganda, at 2 session of the National Socialist Party Congress on cultural One prize was awarded to Dr, Fritz Todt, Inspector General of German traffic routes the second prize to Dr, Ferdinand Porsche, motor car constructor and designer of the "People's Car," while the third Willi Messerschmitt, Germany's two most successful aeroplane builders—Trons-Ocean.
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