European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 13, 1963, Darmstadt, Hesse Volum. A number 26 aviatrix completes Solo hop to Australia Brisbane Australia up Avn Tolx Betty Miller 36,sunday became the first woman to Fly Solo from California to Australia. The Santa Monica calif., housewife arrived Here on the last leg of her 7,100-mile flight from a non scheduled Stop at Noumea new Caledonia. Mrs. Miller left on Klimt. In Elf. In her twin end nod Pipor Apache air plane april 30. She made mops to in will. Con ton Island the Fiji i slims and new Caledonia. The 101-Pound flier and with her one Good Lurk piece n fuzzy Hilred doll timed Dommu which she says helps i times of crisis when she merely Blanks us name. Mrs. Miller was taught to Fly hyper husband Chuck who operates q flying school in in non Monica. Reverse Courm she flow approximately the re verse course taken by Amelia end Hart when she disappeared on her Way from lne new Guinea to Howland Inland in the Central Pacific on july 2. 1037. Accompanied by her navigator. Fred Noonan. The flight from Fiji to Noumea took 7 hours 3 minutes and from Noumea to Brisbane 5 hours 57 minutes. Total elapsed flying time from California was 51 hours 38minutes. Mrs. Miller was riven an enthusiastic Welcome by 3,000 person when she landed Here. At planes de she told reporter. "1 had some moments of anxiety after 5 . This afternoon soon after i passed the Point of no re turn when one engine started to run rough. I radioed the air traffic control Center to Tell them of i cont. On Page n. Col. It Birmingham negroes riot after bombings Outlook Good for orbit shot Cape canaveral up project Mercury meteorologists announced sunday that worldwide weather conditions were shaping up favourably for the Marathon 12-Orblt apace flight tuesday of astronaut cordon l. Cooperjr. As things stand now we re on schedule said a spokesman for the National aeronautics an space administration. Meanwhile the 36-year-old astronaut tested communications needed during his 34-hour journey through space. Cooper if scheduled to ride Anatlas rocket into orbit Between 9 . And 11 30 . Not 2 and 4 30 . Get tuesday. Furl Lnor begun engineers begun to fuel the at us ahead of schedule sunday. Officials said More than 73,000pounds of rocket Grade kerosene would be pumped into the Atlas. Liquid oxygen will be loaded on the Day of the launch. Informed sources said the fuel ing was being done just to get it out of the the sources said the Early fuel ing did not mean the Atlas would be launched any earlier than tue Day. The forecast for Cope Cann Vervaat launch time Calls for partly Cloudy weather with Light wind and army Navy air Force unofficial publication of Fth . Armed form n Europe North Africa and Hio mfr frito fail 5 null Dally 10 no sunday monday May 13, 1963 daring dash that failed photo shown the Bun to which ii East German attempted to ice to went Berlin Only to bal stopped by full Ludo of Bullet one Yard from Freedom. Dpi photo Britain warns . Airlines London a the British aviation ministry sunday in Rcd two american airlines that failure to increase transatlantic fares could mean Conn sea Don of their planes on Landing in Britain. The threat was contained in a memorandum delivered sunday Topan american world airways and trans world airlines. The ministry asked the two air lines if they were already putting into practice a s per cent increase on transatlantic tourist class fares or if they intended to do , a ministry spokesman said the memorandum reminded the two lines that the fare increase has been a Legal requirement in Britain since Midnight and failure to comply could mean confiscation of the two american airlines Hud been threatened with withdrawal of Landing rights. But sunday there was no evidence of any difficulty at London Airport. Bot american airlines had flights to and out of the Airport without 5 per cent fare increase was agreed on last october by the International at transport association Iata. Bullets foil escape bus trying to crash red Wall Berlin up communist gunfire ended a daring Daylight attempt by 12 East germ no to crash in Airport Hus through the Berlin Wall sunday. The Driver lost control As bul lets splintered the Windshield an the bus careened into the Wall at the Sand Rug Bridge crossing Cairo a United Arab airlines twin engined naming or plane crashed shortly after take off sunday in the District of Kal Soublo near Cairo killing 23person. United prompt International Bald the piano was carry ing m pahm Ngen and four Crew men. Four Forel irent were aboard the aircraft up said Buenos Aires Rother of or. Martin Luther King a Motel Sedas Headquarters in a massive desegregation drive by negroes. Hundreds of negroes Fough tittles with police using their bore Knuckles rocks bricks clubs and i several cases knives. By Dawn Section of the negro area was shambles the to tree littered1th debris and several Small build nos gutted by fire. Nearly 50 persons some of and firemen were . Thousands of dollars in damage was caused by the rampaging crowds who set fire to a negro residential area. Looting of stores was reported. Jefferson Birmingham count sheriff Melvin Bailey said a 24 Block area was scaled off. Number of firearms were confiscated by officers who driven by negroes. The bombings came almost simultaneously shortly before told Light. Two bombs were thrown on the porch of a. D. King s Home shattering the Brick Walls and blasting a 2-by-4-foot Hole in the front another exploded in the front of the a. 7. Trastan Motel destroying part of the office. Two women were injured by flying Glass. Four Hen Spotte eyewitnesses told police they saw four men their faces partly covered in a 1962 car at the sit of the bombings. An arrest order was issued for the occupants of the. Car. More than 100 state troopers carrying shotguns and carbines and with extra ammunition belts poured into the area around the Motel. A tank like riot Wagon rolled through the streets to rout the shouting were touched off in two houses and four stores. The negroes threw rocks and bricks a firemen who tried to extinguish the flames and stripped one fire truck of much of its firemen were forced to flee Foont on Pago 14. Col. St. Weather partly ito4v. Str Tolm t Tift to h 41 harm of 71 m a hmm h m m aussie shipper describes 14 Days adrift in an icebox Perth Australla a Jack Drynan. Skipper of the wrecked trawler nor 6, which run aground or reefs at shark Bay 500 Miles North of Perth told sunday of being adrift 14 Days in an icebox. The nor 6 had been reported two Days overdue on april 20 and an air and sea search showed it had struck a reef and sunk in 30 feet of water rear shark Bay. No Trace of survivors was found. Drynan 38, had with him Ronald Pool 25, bar Rallen 27, and Tony Ron Santa. During the 14 Days Drynan drifted off the reef fringed coastline in the icebox which wag three feet deep his Only food was 20 oranges and nine raw eggs which to founding one of its compartments. The other food had been ruined by Salt said a Tanker once passed within 200 Yards of him heading North. On the 5lh Day. He set off on a makeshift raft laboriously fashioned from the lid of the icebox and propelled it to Shore. He reached land last or indy near the Point whore his vessel found ered. Early saturday he was res cued by the Flash Lynx boat Brou Erht ashore Drynan who has weathered Many violent storms off his native Queensland coast was in Good condition. Nor 6 Sank shortly before Day Light april 2-1 while or Lynn and two of the three crewman was pitch dark but he saw two of the Crew come to the surface he s us. As the trawler Sank the 7-by-8-foot icebox broke Loose. Drynan told police he heard voices on the Shore As he Clung tothe Box my was blown seawards. For two Days he perched on top of the Box. Then he broke a Hole i one of the compartments and remained 1 it 12 water he licked moisture won morning from the icebox lid. He spent Days baling out water with his shirt with a Huvel and a Hammer which he found in the icebox he later Cut Tho lid in half and Madea Flimsy 7-by-2-foot raft and after cont. On Page 2. Col. So
