MRS KEITH MILLER SAFE, SAYS MESSAGE TO MOTHER.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19242, 2 December 1930, Page 1

MRS KEITH MILLER SAFE , SAYS MESSAGE TO MOTHER.

Telegram Reports Arrival of Missing Australian Airwoman. (United Press Association. —By Electric Telegraph.-y Copyright.) (Received December 2, 11.55 a.m.) NEW YORK, December 1. According to a telegram received by the mother of the aviatrix, Mrs Keith Miller is safe. Mrs Miller has been missing since Friday, when she left Havana for Miami, and hope of finding her alive was abandoned by most of the searchers. A message from Nassau (Bahamas) states that Mrs Miller arrived to-day. She made a thrilling forced landing in a gale on Friday at Andros Island in the Bahamas. Mrs C. 5. Beveridge stated that she received a telegram from her daughter from Nassau saying that she was safe and asking that her friends be notified.

HUSBAND IS STILL HOPEFUL OF RESCUE,

(Received December 2, 5.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, December 2. Mrs Keith Miller’s husband, who is a Melbourne “Herald” journalist and is at present holidaying in Sydney, is still hopeful that the missing aviatrix will be found ali<re. He thinks that she may have landed in the Everglades of Florida, t or been picked up by a small boat.!

Mrs Keith Miller, much of whose early flying was done in Australia, has had a varied career. She received much of her education in the .South Island, New Zealand. In 1927 she and Captain Lancaster, another Australian, flew from England to Australia, and although weather and other circumstances were against them, their performance was accomplished only through a plentiful allowance of grit and determination to win through, in

spite of discouragements _ and heartbreaking delays. Australia welcomed them three months after England had said good-bye. Following this flight, Mrs Miller was concerned in projects to fly the Atlantic—for which a ’plane was actually built—to fly from New York to Bermuda, nonstop, and to fly round the world. Captain Lancaster and Captain Lyons were the central figures in these projects. Mrs Miller then invaded America, where she substantially lowered first the East-to-West, and then the West-to-East, women’s traris-Continental flying records this year, both of which had been set up a very short time before by Miss Laura Ingalls, of the United States. Having started out to break records, Mrs Miller next proceeded to shorten the time for a two-stop flight from Pittsburgh to Havana, Cuba. It is on the return flight, on which she had intended to make only one hop, that Mrs Miller has gone astray. It is significant that the report from Havana when she left stated that weather conditions to the north were poor.