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

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

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Jersey City, N. J., March 6.—-(/P)
-—-Climbing through cold blue skies
more than five and one-half miles
over Jersey and Manhattan today,
Miss Ruth Nichols, Rye, N. Y.,
flyer, who holds coast-to-coast
speed marks, set an unofficial alti-
tude record for women. The alti-
meter on her speedy Lockheed-Vega
monoplane showed nearly 30,050
feet.
 