AVIATION

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1929, Page 5

AVIATION

AMERICAN AIR DERBY. .United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received ibis day at 11 a.m.) NEW YORK, August 25. The last 1 St. Louis, completing the laps from Wishita and Kansas City in the Roman Air Derby, is to arrive here to-day.-jjlance Noyes is leaving Tor her last hip- ... i ; Mrs Thaden is still leading. Miss Ruth Elder has announced her engagement to Mr Walter Camp, son of the famous, football coach. Mrs Perry, who was forced to withdraw, is dangerously ill off typhoid at Fort-Worth, Texas. RACE NOT TO BE ABANDONED. (Received this dnv at 12.25. p.m.l LONDON, Aug. 25. The Chairman of the' Schneider Cup Committee, says the race will not be abandoned. It will be decided on the date fixed, even though there are no other conipetitrrs than the three British planes to carry out the programme.

News from America, however, suggests that a United States machine mav make a last'minute appearance.

The general belief is that this will be the last Schneider Cup race.

ITALIAN’S WITHDRAW

(Received this dav at 11 a.m.) LONDON, August 25

The Dalian Air Attache states that the 'ltalian Schneider Cup team has withdrawn, from the race.

threatening storms, is proceeding towards the coast at a speed of approximately eighty miles a.n hour with favourable weather probably for the duration of the voyage. All are well aboard and the dirigible is expected to reach California late to-day. Preparations for the receptions at Los Angeles are complete. ZEPPELIN’S PROGRESS. (Received this day at 11.25. a.m.) BAY OF WHALES, August 24. The zeppelin’s signals were heard yesterday, coming so clear that we could hear them on the loud speaker late in the evening. We heard the position given as fifteen hundred miles from Tokyo, and flying three hundred metres above the spa. ,

FURTHER REPORTS

360 MILES OFF COAST. NEW YORK, August 25. A Philadelphia message states the Reading roalroads station received * message from the Graf Zopoelin at five o’clock this afternoon, local time, reporting that the dirigible was then running on a southerly course towards California with approximately four hundred miles to go before reaching San Francisco.

A message stated the Zeppelin is making for the upper Californian coast. We will not visit Seattle. A storm is spreading over tli n northern portion of the Pacific. We may go direct, to Los Angeles. Our position is 130 west 39.45 north.

This position puts the Zeppelin 360 miles o the coast, west of Cape Mendocino.