JERSEY CITY, N. J., March 6—
Gi-—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-half
miles over Jersey and Manhattan
today, Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. ¥.,
flyer, who holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofficial alti-
tude record for women.

The altinieter on her speedy
Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
early 30,050 feet. The sealed
barograph placed in the plane by
the National Aeronautic association

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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.
 