JERSEY CITY, N. J, Mar. &—(#)
—Chinbing through cold blue skics
more than five and ane half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan today,
Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y., ther,
who holds coast to const speed
marks, set an unofficial altitude
record for women,

The altimeter on her speedy
Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,600 fect.

The sealed barograph placed in
ihe plane by the National Acro-
nautic association was immediately
shipped to Washington for examin-
ation. TE it shows 28,074 feet, or
more, Miss Nichols will be awarded
the record now held by Wlinor
Smith, young Long Island flier.

Misa Nichols was informed that
to attain recognition 46 the record
holder, she inust beat Misb Smith’s
mark of 27,448 fect by more than
600 feor

 
 
WASHINGTON ‘UPI) — President
Nixon and Soviet leader Leonid I.
Brezhnev, already planning another sum-

‘mit meeting next vear, formally pledged
today to avoid military confrontations and
threats of force that might trigger nuclear
war

The vows were contained in a policy
declaration which also said the leaders of
the two superpowers would “immediately
enter into urgent consultations with each
other’ if a nuclear conflict threatened.

Shortly before Nixon and Brezhnev
signed the agreement in the East Room of
the White House, Treasury Secretary
George P. Shultz and Soviet Trade
Minister Nikolai S. Patolichev met across
Pennsylvania Avenue in Blair House to
initial another pact intended to
commerce between the United States and
the Soviet Union. About 50 captains of
American industry were present at the
signing.

The two latest accords brought to eight
the number reached since the start of the
summit talks Monday. They were signed a
few hours before Nixon and Brezhnev were
io depart aboard the President's jetliner
 for San Clemente, Calif.. where they
planned to conclude their conferences over
the weekend.

The decision by the two leaders to hold a
third summit meeting in as many years
was announced Thursday night at a lavish
banquet in the Soviet Embassy.

Their promises to meet again in Moscow
next year were accompanied by cham-
pagne toasts. The jovial atmosphere
reflected the signing earlier in the day of
pacts intended to accelerate negotiations
to limit and reduce offensive nuclear
weapons and exchange research on
peaceful uses of nuclear energy.

Today's promises to refrain from
military confrontations went into effect
immediately upon signing of the policy
declaration about 12:30 p.m. EDT.

In the agreement, the two leaders
promised that the United States and the
Soviet Union “will act in such a manner as
to prevent the development of situations
capable of causing a dangerous
exacerbation of their relations, as to avoid
military confrontations, and to exclude the
outbreak of nuclear war between them.”
 