AVIATION
MRS. PUTNAM. [I)Y CABLE—PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] (Received June 23, 10 a.m.). BANDOENG, June 22. Mrs. Earhart Putnam plans to take off to-morrow, either for Koepang or direct to Darwin, according to the weather. RUSSIAN~FLIGHT WASHINGTON, June 21. The Foreign Commissar (M. Litvinoff), in a telegram of congratulation to the Soviet aviators on their flight across the North Pole, apparently referred to the Spanish conflict. He cited the flight as proof of the peaceable naturei of Soviet Russia at a time when aviation was being used by certain peoples to destroy cities and villages and kill men, women, and children in order to impose a regime and ideology foreign to them.
HINDENBURG SALVAGE
(Received June 23, 1 p.m.) NEW YORK, June 22.
A message from Lakehurst announced that the remnants of the airship Hindenburg will be sold for junk, on behalf of the underwriters, to several American companies interested in extracting aluminium from the' framework. They submitted bids ranging from 4000 to 12,000 dollars, contrasting with the original construction cost of 4,000,000 dollars.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 23 June 1937, Page 13
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