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DOOLITTLE OFF IN RECORD BID
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aviation manager for the Shell Oil Company in San Fransisco.
Will Rogers, film comedian, had been invited to fly eat with Doolittle, but declined because he "forgot his parachute flares." Rogers left Grand Central Air Terminal, Glendale, on a TWA plane at 4 p.p. for South Bend, Ind., to attend a Notre Dame banquet this evening.
Flying an all-metal, ten-place transport ship, equipped with a 735-horsepower Wright Cyclone motor and two-way radio telephone-Maj. Doolittle said he hoped to make the flight to Floyd Bennett Field nonstop.
Should it be necessary to refuel, he said, it would be done at Cleveland. He said he would fly most of the time at altitudes of 15,000 to 20,000 feet. The pilot and passengers are equipped with oxygen tanks. 

PRESENT RECORDS
The ship was timed out of Union Air Terminal by Harold Hitchman and Larry Terkelson, official timers for the National Aeronautic Association. Its time of arrival will be clocked by association timers.
The present passenger-plane, record is held by a ship in which Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker flew the route on November 8, 1934, in twelve hours, three minutes and fifty second. Doolittle hoped to beat this record by more than one-half an hour.
The transcontinental speed record id held by Col. Roscoe Turner, who made the coast-to-coast hop in 1933 in ten hours and five minutes. 

SURPRISE MOVE
Maj. Doolittle's planned attack on the transcontinental transport-plane record came suddenly and unannounced yesterday. 
Shortly after noon be made a flying trip to the California Institute of Technology at Pasadena, where he conferred with Prof. Irving B. Krick of the Guggenheim aeronautic division, regarding weather conditions along the cross-country route.
Advised that wind and weather were favorable, he rushed to the Burbank airport where his wife and Adamson were waiting to accompany him on the fight.
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"SLEEPER" AIRLINER
ARRIVES IN NEWARD
NEWARK (N.J.) Jan. 14. (AP) - With eleven passengers aboard, an American Airlines plane landed at Newark Airport at 7:40 p.m. (eastern standard time) tonight, inaugurating the line's new coast-to-coast sleeper service. 
Passing the night on a sleeper plane which left Los Angeles at 7:15 p.m. (Pacific standard time) yesterday, the passengers were transferred to a new high-speed Douglas monoplane at Forth Worth, Tex.