JOURNALISTS’ RACE ROUND WORLD
EKINS ON LAST LAP. (United Press Assn.— Telegraph Copyright.) Honolulu, October 18. H. Ekins, one of the three American journalists circling the world by aeroplane, is due in San Francisco at noon to-day. He expects to breakfast in New York to-morrow. The China Clipper plane arrived at Cavite Harbour yesterday. Mr Leo Kiernan and Miss Dorothy Killgallen, the two othei’ journalists, were among the passengers.
The three American journalists le£t New York on September 30 with the intention of making a trip round the world in less than three weeks using only regular modes of passenger transportation. They crossed the Atlantic in the German Zeppelin, the Hindenburg, but through the Zeppelin being four hours late in arriving at Frankfurt-am-Main, they missed their first connection with the air-liner which was to take them across Europe. They then separated, using different air routes to Hong Kong. From there they planned to go by steamer to Manila to connect with the Pan-American Airways trans-Pacific service.
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Southland Times, Issue 23025, 20 October 1936, Page 7
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