Aeronautics: Lindberghs

Mrs. Elizabeth Reeve Cutter Morrow hung up the telephone in her Englewood, N. J. home one evening last week and sat down with an anxious smile. She had just heard a man in the Manhattan office of Pan American Airways read her the following message: "DEPARTED BATHURST 0202 GREENWICH EVERYTHING OK KHCAL"

From time to time during the night and the next forenoon Mrs. Morrow heard other excerpts from messages which reached Pan American nearly every 15 minutes:

"PAN AMERICAN BAHIA 1217 N 1750 W 224 TRUE OK KHCAL"

"SKIES EIGHT TENTHS OVERCAST WITH...

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