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JERSEY CITY, N. ds Mar. 6

Climbing through cold blue skies

more than five and Saeed, miles over
Pai “td day, Mise

Ruth Nichols, of hen N. Y¥., aviatrix,
who holds coast-to-coast speed marks
Bet an unofficial altitude record fol
women,
~The altimeter.on her speedy Lock-
head-Vega monoplane showed: nearly
80,054 feet. The fleld barograph was
shipped to Washington for exam{na-
tlon. If it shows 28,074 feet or more,
/Miss Nichols will be awarded the rec-
ord now held by Eleanor Smith, young
Long Island filer.
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JERSEY CITY, March 7, (W—
Ruth Nichols of New York, holder
of transcontinental speed records,
set on unofficial altitude record
for women. The altimeter of her
monoplane showed 30,500 feet,

 
 Surveyors in a remote region. of
western Texas discovered ruins of
an Indian village four miles long.
 