Flyers’ Nerves on Edge
MORE THREATS OF SABOTAGE Women’s Air Derby in U.S. MRS. KEITH MILLER FORCED DOWN ( I'nited P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian and X.Z. Press Association > f United Service) Received 9 a.m. MONTREAL. Wednesday. THE fourteen women still in the American Air Derby race continued from Douglas, Arizona, with their nerves on edge, due to hints of sabotage on the part of four participants.
Miss Amelia Each art. the first woman to cross the Atlantic by plane, is a competitor in the race. She refuses to allow any mechanics to touch her parachute, for yesterday Miss Marvel Crosson was killed, when, leaping from her plane several hundred feet aloft, her parachute failed. Miss Crosson was the holder of the women’s altitude record. MRS. MILLER’S PLUCK Also competing iu the race, which is from San Diego, California, to Cleveland, Ohio, is Mrs. Keith Miller, formerly of Melbourne, Australia, who flew from England to Australia last year. She made a forced landing north of Douglas and damaged her airplane. The plane is still marooned in the desert. She walked 18 miles through bush cactus and returned with fuel. Mechanics repaired the damage and Mrs. Miller re-enterecl the race.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 9
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