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Passenger Plane Mark Shattered by Rickenbacker

Douglas Airliner Roars From Burbank to New York in 12 Hours, 3 Minutes, Stopping Only at Kansas City

BY HENRY McLEMORE
[Copyright, 1934, by the United Press]

NEWARK (N.J.) Nov. 8. (U.P.)- Blazing through the sub-stratosphere like a silver comet, a giant Douglas airliner under command of Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker tonight swerved down on the mile-long runway of this airport to establish a new coast-to-coast record for passenger planes.
  Just as the sun rose beyond the hills surrounding Union Air Terminal at Burbank, Cal., today, we hammered down a take-off track, stuck our nose toward the heavens, leveled off, and headed for home.
  Twelve hours, three minutes and fifty seconds later the huge ship rolled to a stop here, breaking the mark of 13h. 2m. established by America's great war ace in February of this year.

ONE STOP MADE
  We made only one stop-at Kansas City-where a ground crew of fifty, working like beavers, swarmed about the ship to pour 750 gallons of gasoline and 150 [[ripped]] into her silver side.
  As the last drop gurgled in, after a pause of twelve minutes, burly Si Morehouse, pilot of the Eastern Airline, gave the monoplane the gun and we were off for New York.
  Six of us were on board when we took off this morning, including Capt. Rickenbacker, Morehouse, Capt. Charlie France, reserve pilot, James L. Kilgallen and the writer.

HIGH ABOVE MOUNTAINS
  Half an hour after we left we had cleared the hills by thousands of feet, and were soaring along nearly three miles in the air, high above the San Bernardino range. Down below us, looking like nothing so much as inverted chocolate ice-cream cones, were hundreds of peaks.
  At 6:30 Coast time, we had slipped by the San Bernardinos and were skirting the southern tip of the Mojave Desert, which, under the sparkling rays of the risking sun, reminded one of a Paisley shawl. Green, purple and red patches, mingled with all the pastel shades, were spread before us.

OVER GRAND CANYON
  At 7:15 a.m. straight over our bow, we sighted the Grand Canyon. Although fifty miles ahead, we were riding so high that we could see clear down to the bottom of the deepest gorge, where the Colorado River, looking like a long strip of chewing gum, meandered from curve to curve.
  Fifteen minutes later we drove straight across the jagged canyon, a vivid mass of color.
  At 7:40, two hours after the take-off, Rickenbacker stepped out of the control room to inform the newspapermen that "Everything is riding sweet."
  "We've averaged 192 miles an hour since we left, and that's not bad,
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Retail Auto Code Upheld by Court

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 8. (AP)-The N.R.A. code for the retail automobile business was upheld in Federal District Court here today when an injunction was issued to prevent a dealer from violating price provisions.
  Judge St. Sure issued the injunction against James W. McAlister, head of a distributing firm, who had declared intention to ignore the code by making his own "trade in" values on cars.

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Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, who yesterday commanded record-breaking passenger plane dash from Burbank to New York.

FLYER SEEKS ADDED GLORY
Australia-Via-London Trip of 17,000 Miles Aim of Kingsford-Smith

  The Lady Southern Cross, trim Lockheed monoplane of Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, was poised last night for a flight of greater consequence to aviation that his epochal Pacific crossing which ended last Sunday in Los Angeles.
  The aerial clipper, freed of the legal fetters provided by an attachment levied against her last Monday, will fly a 17,000-mile route to Australia via London, Sir Charles announced after the Lockheed Altai in which he and his navigator, Capt. P. G. Taylor, spanned the Pacific on a flight of more than 7000 miles from Australia had be released.
  The action against Sir Charles was brought by Thomas Catton, a promoter, who in 1928 had undertaken to find financial backing for Kingsford-Smith in a projected flight to Honolulu from a California flying field.

TELLS OF HIS PLANS
  Catton asked $1750 for "services" and incidental expenses and had the Lady Southern Cross, named for the Fokker tri-motored monoplane of the 1928 flight, Southern Cross, attached at Municipal Airport last Monday.
  Sir Charles, when the attachment had been lifted, immediately made a statement of his future plans.
  "I shall fly 17,000 miles to Australia this time," he said at Paramount studios, where he was a guest of honor at a luncheon. "This will be one of the longest flights in the history of aviation.

GUEST ON HANCOCK BOAT
  "I would much prefer to make my way home by boat in a leisurely manner. but I think plans have just about materialized for me to fly from Los Angeles to New York, from
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