EKINS WINS
JOURNALISTS’ RACE QUICK TRIP ROUND WORLD Received Oct. 20, 11.5 p.m. NEW YORK, Oct. 19. Mr H. Ekins (Scripps-Howard newspapers) arrived, having circled tne globe in 18 days 14 hours 56 minutes. Three American journalists representing the North American Newspaper Alliance, Scripps-Howard Newspapers, and the Hearst Press, the last-named being a woman, left on September 30 in the Hindenburg to make a round-the-world trip in less than three weeks, using only scheduled and regularly established modes of passenger transportation. They were to take the Zeppelin to Frankfort, proceed across Europe and Asia in other air lines, and travel in a steamer from Hongkong to Manila, whence they were to proceed in the China Clipper ’plane on its first eastbound voyage to America with passengers, returning by air from San Francisco to New York.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 249, 21 October 1936, Page 7
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135EKINS WINS Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 249, 21 October 1936, Page 7
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