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.
 
| Jersey City, N. J., March 7.—2)
'—Climbing through cold blue skies
‘more than five and one-half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan yester-
day, Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y.,
flier, who holds coast to coast speed
| marks, set an unofficial altitude
‘record for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
| Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,054 feet. The field bar)-
‘graph placed in the plane by
the National Aeronautic Associa-
tion, was immediately shipped to
Washington for examination. If it
showed 28,074 feet, or more, Miss
Nichols will be awarded the record
now held by Elinor Smith, young
Long Island flier.
 