AVIATION
EIELSON’S FUNERAL. [BY CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] NEW YORK, March 27. A message from Hatton, North Dakota, states that Eielson, the Arctic aviator, was buried beside his mother in the local cemetery, in the presence of hundreds of the townsfolk and numerous dignitaries. Seven thousand persons witnessed the funeral. A half holiday was declared, and shops and offices and the schools were closed. A squadron of National Guard aeroplanes i droned overhead as .the funeral cortege moved to the cemetery. A NOVEL MEETING. SYDNEY, March 27. A remarkable coincidence, unprecedented in the history of Australian history, occurred at Camooweal late this afternoon, when Smith and Shiers, in the City of Sydney, and Piper and Kay, landed simultaneously, meeting in a lonely outpost. It was the more remarkable, because both planes were not running to schedule.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 28 March 1930, Page 7
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