JERSEY CITY, N. J., Mareh %.
(P.—Climbing through cold blue
skies more than five and one-half
miles over Jersey and Manhattan
‘today, Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N-
Y.. flier, whe holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofficial al-
titude recard for women.

The altimeter on her speedy
_Lockheed-Vega monoplane showed
nearly 30,054 feet. The sealed
-barograph’ placéd’ inthe plane by
the National Aeronautic associa-
tion immediately was shipped tc
Washingion for examination.
If it shows 28,074 feet, or more,
Miss Nichols will be awarded the
‘record now held by Elino> Smith,
young Long Island flier.

Miss Nichols was informed that
te attain recognition as the rec-
ord holder, she must beat Miss
Smith’s wark by more than 600
feet.

She took off from Jersey City
airport at 12°35 p. M.. and was
aloft 90 minutes. There was &
30-mile wind blowing when she cir-
cled the city, swung cver Manhat-
tan and started the long climb.

“Everything went fine,” she
said. “the engine worked perfect-
ity. I did not suffer any discom-

s

| fort.
| The plane was equipped with 2
'650-horsepower, Supe r-charged,
rine-cylinder air-cooled motor. It
is the same ship in which she set
| east to west and west te east
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| WASHINGTON, Aug. 27. —(%)—
Refreshed after a two-day’s rest
at his honie here, Herbert Hoover
today turned his attentlon to map-
ping out his program for the re-
mainder of the campaign.

* The republican presidential
nomince decided to give first at-
tention to the East, and in order
to inform himself fully as to the
situation there he has invited a
number of friends to call on him at

his new headquarters which are to
be set up here. ‘4

He now has under consideration
a visit to both New York, home
state of his democratic opponent,
and Massachusetts, but his Eastern
itinerary will not be decided upon
until after he has conferred fully
with those in charge of his cam-
paign fn that section,

The repuslican candidate's view
is that he ‘should defer further
specch-making for two weeks or
more and then begin an intensive
drive which would carry him into
the border states and the South as
well.as the Kast. He also proba-
bly will make a trip to Chicago be-
fore beginning his final swing
across the continent at the close
of the campaign.

In working out details of his
itinerary Hoover will seck: advice
of Dr. Hubert Work, chairman of
the republican national committee:
Representative Walter Newton of
Minnesota; who has charge of the

national speakers’ bYerau; Repre-
sentative John Q. Tilson, of Cin-
cinnati, director of the eastern
Speakers’ bureau, and James W
Good, of Iowa, western campaign
 