AIR TRAVELLERS.
CONNECTION MISSED. BERLIN, Oct. 3. The three American journalists who are racing round the globe lost their first caretully-planned connection owing to the Hindenburg being four hours late. Accordingly they missed the air liner to Rome from Frankfurt. Mr Ekins flew to Vienna, Mr Kiernan to Basle and Miss Kilgallen to Munich. The Mayor of San Francisco has cabled offering a gold nugget as a prize for the first one dropping the Hags of one European and one Asiatic nation on the site of the Golden Gate Exhibition, which is opening in 1939.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVI, Issue 263, 5 October 1936, Page 7
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