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, 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.
 