RACE ROUND THE GLOBE

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXX, 5 October 1936, Page 9

RACE ROUND THE GLOBE

FIRST CONNECTION LOST ZEPPELIN FOUR HOURS LATE (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright) BERLIN, 3rd October. The American world flyers who are racing round the globe, lost their first carefully planned connection, owing to the zeppelin Hindenburg being four hours late. Accordingly they missed the air liner to Rome from Frankfort. Ekins flew Miss Kilgallen to Munich. The Mayor of San Francisco cabled offering a gold nugget prize for the first dropping flags, one of a European and one of an Asiatic natidn, on the site of the Golden Gate Exhibition which is opening in 1939.

A New York cable received Ist October stated that three American journalists representing the North American Newspaper Alliance Scripps Howard Newspapers and the Hearst Press, the last named being a woman, left in the Zeppelin Hindenburg to make a round the world trip in less than three weeks, using only scheduled regularly established modes of passenger transportation. They will take the zeppelin to Frankfort, and, then, proceed across Europe and Asia in oth£f air lines. They will then travel in a steamer from Hong Kong to Manila, whence they will proceed in the China Clipper on the first east-bound voyage with passengers, returning by air from San Francisco to New York.