GLORY, NOT CASH
REWARD OF AVIATOR SMITH SELLS HIS PLANE LITTLE TO SHOW FOR IT BALANCING OF ACCOUNTS FLIER NOT DOWNHEARTED By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright; Rec. 8.50 p.m. Los Angeles, Nov. 12. “There may be glory, but there is little cash for aviation feats,” Sir Charles Kingsford Smith sadly observed on Monday as he set about selling the Lady Southern Cross in order to balance his accounts. “We chaps who blaze air trails have little to show for our deeds when it comes right down to it. 111-fate has marked us for its own.
“I hope I can get 30,000 dollars for the Lady Southern Cross,” he said. “She is worth all thaf and more. I will need that much' to repay my sponsors and. reimburse myself as .well as buy my passage home. “However, to-morrow is another day, and. I am 'not downhearted,” Sir Charles, added.
Sir Charles had intended flying round the world.
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Taranaki Daily News, 14 November 1934, Page 5
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