MRS. MILLER SAFE

Greymouth Evening Star, 2 December 1930, Page 5

MRS. MILLER SAFE

FORCED LANDING IN BAHAMAS THRILLS DURING GALE [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYBIGHT.] (Received December 2, 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, December 1. A message from Nassau (Bahamas) states that Mrs. Miller arrived to-day. She made a thrilling forced landing in a gale on Friday at Andros Island, in the Bahamas. Mrs. C. S. Beveridge stated that she received a telegram from her daughter, from Nassau, saying that she was safe, and asking that, her friends be'notified.

HUSBAND HOPEFUL. SYDNEY, December 1. Mrs Keith Miller’s husband, who is a Melbourne “Herald” journalist, ;|nd is at present holidaying in Sydney, is still hopeful that the missing aviatrix will be found alive. He thinks that she may have landed in the everglades of Florida, or have been picked up by a small boat. KINGSFORD SMITH STAMP. SYDNEY, December 1. A special postal stamp is being issued by the Commonwealth Post Department to commemorate the aviation achievements of Air Commodore Kingsford Smith. The basis of the design will be two hemispheres, with an aeroplane circling above. ACROSS U.S.A. RECORD. NEW YORK, December 1. A message from Burbank (California) states that Ruth Nichols Ryeney, a society woman aviatrix, who set the woman’s trans-continental 'speed record, formerly held- by Mrs Miller, arrived there to-day from New York. Her flying time was 17 hours three minutes. She flew from Kingman (Arizona) to-day, and used a large cabin monoplane.

GARDEN’S CHEQUE.' CHRISTCHURCH, December 1. Mr. Oscar Garden was the guest at luncheon of the Committee of th© Canterbury Aero Club, at Christchurch. Ho was presented with a cheque from his admirers in Canterbury in appreciation of his long flight.