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Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19343, 22 June 1928, Page 9

Claiming that she held an aviation record for a woman, Mile. Marcehne d'Alroy, who was a through passenger on the Niagara for Sydney, said that in the course of an extensive professional tour of America she made an air voyage from Detroit, Michigan, to within 100 miles of Seattle last October, the total distance being over 20(Ju miles The record was that she was the first woman to do such a long trip on her first experience of aeroplane travel. Mile. d'Alroy completed a lecture in Detroit at 4 o'clock on a Saturday afternoon, and left the Ford air port at 4,30 in a special air taxi for Chicago, arriving there three and a half hours later. At 9 o'clock the same night she left by mail aeroplane for Salt Lake City, which she reached at nine the following morning. kne took another special air taxi from salt Lake City to Seattle at 10 a.m.. and was forced down at 1 p.m., when 100 miles from her destination. She was forced to finish the journey by motor, and failed to keep an appointment for a lecture at 3 o'clock in tne afternoon, but arranged to give it the same evening. She remarked that air travel was being much used in America for business purposes, and that she had found it valuable during* her travel in beeping appointments under difficulties.