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Odom Sets Record
Orient-N. Y. Flight
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Reynolds flew around the world.
Odom and Reynolds, wealthy
pen manufacturer set a record of
78 hours. 55 minutes in their con
verted A-27 attack bomber.
Four months later, Odom
smashed that record. He circled
the globe in 73 hours, 5 minutes
and 11 seconds for a speed mark
which still stands. The flight start
ed and ended at Chicago.
On his first attempt to set a
long distance record for light
planes, the lanky, balding airman
flew 2,401 statute miles Jan. 13,
from Honolulu to Oakland, Calif.
Flying the same plane he used
today, Odom headed for Teter
boro but was forced to turn back
on the West Coast when he ran
into storms over the Sierra Ne
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vada Mountains.
This flight however, broke the
previous record of 2,061 miles set
| in 1937 by two Russian flyers.
Odom topped his January mark
Monday when he passed over San
Francisco at 1:50 p.m. <PST).
When he took off from Honolulu
Sunday night he carried with him
four quarts of water, a half pint
of orange juice, chicken sand
wiches and a few chocolate bars.
A Red Cross worker gave him
a flower lei and an 1883 Hawaiian
silver dollar for the New York
City Red Cross chapter’s fund
1 raising drive.
Odom streaked over the Teter
boro field at 9:05 a.m. (PST» ex
actly 36 hours after taking off at
Honolulu.
He circled the field, then came
in for a perfect landing.
The lanky pilot taxied his
B e e c hcraft Bonanza “Waikiki
Beach” along the runway, stop
ping at a hangar.
His plane was followed by an
ambulance and two fire trucks.
Hundreds of persons immediate
ly swamed around the plane as
Odom brought it to a stop at 9:09
a.m.
' A bright sun shone through and
there was a crisp north-to-north
east breeze as Odom swooped onto
the field. To the east New Yo'k’s
towering skyscrapers were clear
ly visible.
Odom hopped out of the plane
and crouched on the right wing
for pictures and well-wishing
, handclasps.
The pilot was hatless when he
emerged from the plane's door,
but quickly put on the grey hom
burg which he wore when he left
Honolulu. His first comment,
i “I feel just like a business man.
coming home on an easy trip.
The only trouble I had was over
: the Rocky Mountains, where I had
some bad weather.
“Once I let my tank go dry
while I was making a recording
here in the plane, and I found my
engine went dead.
“The plane dropped d o w n
through clouds and I had a hell
uva time finding an opening
again.”
Odom was greeted by digni'ar
ies from New York and New Jer
sey. including aviation and public
officials.
Eddie Eagan New York athletic
commissioner was listed among
the official greeters, representing
Mayor William O’Dwver of New
York.
The red and silver plane was
surrounded quickly by the milling
throng of visitors at the field ‘osee
the flier complete his record
smashing flight. They almost ob
scured the plane.
House Committee
Approves Alaska
Statehood
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to her sister state of Hawaii.”
The two bills received the unan
imous support of the publi: lanh
sub-committee on Territor es la 4
week after brief hearings.
Sub-committee chairman Red
den <D.-N. C.l asked Rep. Peter
son <D.-Fla.) to present the sub
committee’s reports on the state
hood measures to the full commit -
tee yesterday.
Redden went to North Carolina
to attend the funeral of the late
Senator Broughton (D.-N. C.).
Committee approval of Alaskan
and Hawaiian statehood is a pre
liminary to bringing the measure?
up for consideration and a vote jo
the House.
Hawaiian statehood legislation
was passed by the House in 194',
but died without committee acticr
in the Senate last year.
Alaskan statehood was appro -
ed unanimously by the House
public lands committee last vea
But the rules committee 1 ailed to
schedule it for House action be
, fore adjournment of the 80th Con
gress.
Statehood for Hawaii and Ala?
’.a has the endorsement of both
the Republican and Democratic
parties.
j President Truman twice has
.asked Congress for “immediate”
, admission of the two Territorie?
1 as States.
j As Territories, Hawaii anil
1 Alaska have no voting representa
tion in Congress. Their governor
; are appointed bv the President.
VETERANS ADMINISTRATION
REPRESENTATIVE TO BE HERE;
j Harold E. Kenny of the Veter
ans Administration plans to be in
. Nome on March 10th and will be
located at the Wallace Hotel,
where he will assist veterans and
: their dependents with any prob
lems which are handled by the
U. S. Veterans Administration.
He states that help and infor
mation will be given on disability
and death claims as well as medi
cal and dental applications and
Government insurance problems.
i
JAMES ROTH. FLORENCE
ADAMS MARRIED
Florence Adams of Nome, and
Corp. James Roth of Marks Field
were united in matrimony last
evening by U. S. Commissioner
Ted Duffield. Attendants were
Ben'rice Lee and Corp. Edgar
Burke, Jr.
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