ROUND WORLD VENTURE
(Received 6th May, 2 p.m.) , OKLAHOMA CITY, sth-.May; My. 1(1. C. Hall, the oilman, backer of the projected round-the-world flight of Wiley Post and Harold Gatty, said on Tuesday that tho flyers had been refused permission to cross Russia. Hall said that Senators Gore and Thomas, of Oklahoma, and Borah, of .Idaho, were negotiating to obtain permission. The machine, a high-wing monoplane, is being overhauled and -fitted with special instruments at a California factory, ready for test flights on Saturday. The start and finish will -be at New York.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 6 May 1931, Page 10
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92ROUND WORLD VENTURE Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 105, 6 May 1931, Page 10
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