PRICE UPON LIFE

Taranaki Daily News, 16 October 1934, Page 7

PRICE UPON LIFE

FLIGHT FOR £30,000 VENTURE BY MOLLISONS TWO ATLANTIC JOURNEYS ■ r . .« FILM OF ASSASSINATION )■ —— RETURN FOR THE AIR RACE By Telegraph—Press Assn—Copyright London, Oct. 14. For £30,000 Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Mollison plan to-morrow a return flight to Newfoundland with films of King Alexander’s assassination, leaving them time to overhaul their machine for the centenary air race. The Atlantic flight will be the culmination of American film interests’ battle to outwit the French authorities who confiscated films about to leave Cherbourg aboard the Bremen. The Americans vainly tried to hire an English plane. Then a film magnate telephoned the Mollisons on Saturday asking their, price for an Atlantic flight. “Thirty ' thousand,” replied- Mr. and Mrs. Mollison. “Fifteen thousand each.” “That is really the price we place on our lives,” said Mrs. Mollison. “We intend to refuel at Dublin and fly the 2070 miles to Newfoundland, which is actually 483 miles less than the air race’s first hop to Baghdad. “We should reach Newfoundland in 10 hours and deliver the films to an American plane. We will return almost immediately.”