NEW YORK TO LONDON.
BEATING LINDBERGH'S TIME, (By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright) Received Thursday, 7.30 p.m. NEW YORK Sept. 2.. With Harry Richniau, a noted vaudeville artist as passenger, Dick Merrill, a well-known commercial pilot, at the controls in a monoplane christened Lady Fence, took off on the first round of a trip to London, which ho hopes to reach at noon. They are to return immediately after refuelling. The livers are confident that both ways they will take Jess time tnan Colonel Lindbergh on his Paris hop. Bad Conditions .Near England LONDON, Sent. 3 Riehman and Merrill are unlikely to reach Croydon until 3 p.m. There is heavy rain on this side of the Atlantic, and conditions me bad over the Irish Sea. Chichester at Dum-dum CALCUTTA, Sept. 3, The aviator, Chichester, landed ai Dum-dum. Dum-dum is a town in Bengal seven miles north-east of Calcutta.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 September 1936, Page 7
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