The Wrangell sentinel., 1933-07-28
LOCAL NURSE TRAVELS 5000
 MILES BY AIR


 was filled with interesting experi- ences and contacts, Miss Mar1ory Major, nurse-in-charge at Wrangell Institute, returned to Wrangell on the Yukon Monday.
 Miss Major demonstrated her faith in air transportation by mak- ing the transcontinental trip to the east coast and return by plane. The distance from Seattle to the New York airport at Newark, N. J., took 30 hours. five changes being made enroute, and the return trip was accomplished in much less time with only two changes.
 Planes Comfortable
 The planes are seemingly the last word in comfort, according to Miss Major. Each carries a pilot and mate and every woman at tendant Is a registered nurse. The planes are in the air from two to three hours between stops ranging from 20 minutes to 45 minutes, the latter being the time allowed for longer than four hours at a time Everything possible is done to in sure safety and comfort. During the last stages of Miss Majors trip eastward. a brother in Newark knew the exact location of her plane from Chicago on, to the air port.
 Inspected Macon
 The trip was Miss Majors first visit outside in nine years and in addition to going to her old home in Philadelphia, she visited other eastern cities in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York and spent eleven days in Chicago. While in New Jersey she had the opportunity to see the arrival at it's Lakehurst hangar of the U. S. dirigible Ma con, at about o'clock in the morn ing. That hour was evidently chos- en to avoid the crowds and to make less difficult the landing of the big airship.
 Later, Miss Major, using her Wrangell American Lesiou mcm- bership card as passport, was per mitted to make a tour of inspection of the Macon.
 Fair Worth Seeing
 Miss Major is the first Wrangell resident to return from the Fair at Chicago. She declares that the Fair is marvellous and decidedly worth seeing. The three days she spent in the Science Building, she considers equivalent to any two years spent in a University, the exhibits being so arranged as to form a series of vivid pictures of the progress science has made.
 Lighting Effects
 The Social Science Building, she states is the product of the coop erative labors of the women's or ganizations of Illinois, every organ ization except one submerging its identity in the project in the inter est of the success of the whole. Seen by night, the Fair grounds are delight to the eye, the beauty of the lighting effects being difficult to imagine The value Of definite plan for seeing the Fair when time is limited cannot be overestimated and Miss Major is indebted to friend for such plan.
 Italian Flyers
 While in Chicago, Miss Major enjoyed the thrill of witnessing, from the vantage point of an obser- vation tower from which the event was broadcasted. the landing of General Balbo and his intrepid Ital- ian fliers. The siivery planes with their convoy of American army planes made a beautiful picture as they circled the city three times and landed three at time. A close up view of the fliers was made pos sible on two occasions later.
 Rapid Flying
 Miss Major left Chicago at ' in the evening on a Sunday and was in her room in Seattle hotel by 9:3O on Monday morning. The week intervening before the sailing of the Yukon was spent visiting Seat tie friends and preparing for the return to her duties at Wrangell