New York May 19 (A.P.)—John Goldstrom, aviator, and E. Morris Titterington, pilot and mechanician, are out to reduce Jules Verne’s famous story “Around the World in Eighty Days’’ to 31 days.
Starting today on the Mauretania, they will follow a schedule expected to put them in Moscow a few hours after they take to the air near London.
From the Soviet capital to Yokohama they will follow the quickest and most direct route, possibly by both air and rail.
From Yokohama a fast ship will speed them to Vancouver from which point airplanes are counted on to whisk them to New York in thirty-six hours.
The itinerary includes more than 11,000 miles of land. 7,500 miles of water travel., They will travel by regular commercial lines.
The record for the trip is held by John Emery Mears, who in 1913 cut Verne’s eighty days to thirty five days, twenty one hours thirty five and four fifths seconds.
Nellie Bly made the trip in 1889 in seventy-two days, six hours and eleven minutes, and in 1903 Henry Frederick achieved a record when he circled the globe in fifty-four days and seven hours.— Boston American.
St. Croix Avis, Christiansted, USVI, June 7, 1926
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