| 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.
 
BISMARCK, N, D,, Aug, 2B
(AP)—ov, A. G. Sorlie, of North
Dakota, died here this morning.
” Death was caused by heart dis-
ease from which the governor has
been critically il] for the past

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