Evening Star Newspaper, December 15, 1927, Page 5

¢ THE EVENT CAPITAL ELATED ATLINDY'S LANDING Officials Unanimous in Praise | | from white I t fMizht th After Tension and Doubt Ends. Washington wae gripped with tenseness yesterday afternoon of a f Ereater degree than when Col. Lind bergh was en route to P rimar because his failure to Boal at the end of pall of fear for his over the city When the news did fl from Mexico City that Amer most airman had ianded tary aerodrome thousar from the President on n #tite’ of elation Perhaps the e el yortg spi the gre: hours personal safety ash th were in a not have eous re strair had ad shortly * noon 1 airman had wed by 1 of an exceedinglv Dok with the proven plane and engine room for pessimism began to that it \ together rembilny of . his fhere was ample 4nd “the attitude leaps and ho difference whether he landed fco City or not as long 4s sonally was safe President Expresses Pleasure. The positive report of the flver's ar- | rival unleashed of 1 volley of expressions the cables to the eolon President (ool declaving that enturew ould i will and vour mission | inderstood i joy fired down will be sympathet the United States and Mexico. To the President’'s message of con Eratulatio tached h only had s tion, but weuld advance the cause of | amity between these nations.” “You have performed a great. public | service,” Mr. Kel n conclud ing his: messas Amoanig- the other prominent officials who zave vent fo their feelings of joy und their expression Secretary of Commerce Hoover | “Col. Lindbergh's consistent suc- cesses indicate that his ability is based upon something besides courage and daring; that underneath it all lies a mastery of aviation. We all rejoice in_his success. Secretary Davis of the War Depart- | ment: “My_heartiest congratulations and those, of the War Department to vou en vowr latest achievement. We are proud ofyol.” New’ Prajses Demonstration. Postmaster, General New: “The na- flenal hat ie_gladly doffed in honor of this wonderful boy He has brought #reat honor and distinction to the United States and has done more to demonstrate to the world the possi bilities of travel v air than anybody or anything else. Secretary of theé Navy Wilbur con gratulated the eolonel on “another demonstration of splendid airman #hip.55 adding the hope that the feat wouid “demonstrate the necessity &n all-American airway in the West ern Hemisphere. Speaker Longworth of the House: “By direction of the House of Rep resentatives I extend sincere felici- tations upon® the successful tion of your great and sign ] ploit. We wish you a happy soj [ in the land of our esteemed friendly neighbor.” ‘ Manuel C. Tellez, the Mexican Am- | bassador; "On the oecasion of this new and . wondetful perfor ance,] which' igéthe pride, of your courage | and ability as well as a ‘'splendid show of North American manhood, permit me to be among the first to express inceré and heartfelt con- said Bdward P. Warner, assistant retary of the Navy for aero, “Delighted to hear of your 1 never-doubted™ for a miute vou would make ‘it. You pave the wav for a prompt heginning of a.new in ternational air com: | Asdstamt, Secre! Davison, War Department: 3 % | “For mysélf, afiq_orabehalf of the | chief .of, the ‘Alr “Corps, 1 wish 1o extend gincérast,eongratulations from the witole Afr Corps qp the success- ful cofficlusion of your wonderful fligh al,, Gen. Chatles P, chief Lof staft of the graphed . that “The - Army Tnited: -§tates “joins me in most | hearty' congratulations on the suc-! cessful puteome of the second epoch- | making. flight_of your career.” i “Perfect Aviator,” s Moffett. | Reay. Admiral 'Moffett, chief of Bu ‘ reau . ®f Aeronautics, commented: | “Anothér Werfect performance by a| perfect awiator, ‘bringwiz additional | glory I hpnor to gr own country and cémenting frigfidly relations with our Southern nefrhbor,"” | Lindbergh's ibysiness was made the | Nation's many Gow ernment dep; in Congress, on the streets s the people congregate 1o speculate or seek infor mation when the New York-to-Paris fiver is in the air The House had a particularly trying time of it in attemptir to mix Lind bergh with the reading of the com plicated tax bill, and three times Rep. resentative Tilson, the Republican leader, had to to explain just where Lindbhergh On Mr. Tilson's first the House enthusiastically Speaker Lon th gratulation the pilot, who only a few days vas voted the Conzres sional Medal of Honor Another action which made it a | Lindbergh day for Washington was President Coolidge’s choice of a time | to sign the bill awarding the medal to Lindbergh. The annc ment the President had concluded the malities of ma came at about thought Lindbers end of his journe FLIGHT TO MEXICO MOST INTERESTING, Summerall, Army, tel | | of the| rize stood nouncement ns to wire its con- | ince fore. even on vyhl\ r\} re were only a :;;:;p(ha\ ¥ swas flving abselutely blinc and there were four to five hours o his trip When instruments were al olutely necessary B0 hen T rater to n mean the time during possible to keep the plane on a Deel, let alone on its course, withe ketinually fiying by instruments h show an instant deviation from the direct in ne the it h w | course was set ) | compie 0 mil | w | have no way of knowing certainty 1 aged to g | course | when'T saw { can was very North Carolina until we I down on the Mexican coast While following the coast in the was necessary to come down ver the water, sometimes onls »w three hundred feet ahove the line of surf. and I often lo were at nd flew blind until I could pick 1t was far fror ant fying h of the night France there five hours of darkness fon from the wes of the This was the | on flight to was only hecaus the srthern latitud, 3ut on this wst against un because direc ther long hour on was n latitudes Conse and ) minutes ¢ was <ible cossity When T g have when 1 ¢ mad s Completely Lost. Amazin instrument was maintained daylizht came and over the cl hen another the have h course Such. however, i fact 1 judge that I must we f the ywn below when 1 but I ent the clouds That I knew around was rather a puzzle A A bad country to play 1 tried to puzzle out where and notic of mount outhern v sheds Tine rivers all 1 chain-of maun all ran east it 1 kept north mountains and that 1 path wy e some on my t until 1 the Hotel Toluea that T lcated and then set my again for 1 had been goin, the pl s of the coming to meet me glad to greet my com air in this way. army the Praises Policing of Field. Of the reception. T can only san that it was equal in all jts sineerity with th and Americ and m; m | ar mon ar | th | Mexico has been t which I received in France and and on my return to Every one has been kind 1 look forward with pleasure to v stayv in Mexico, which I trnst will ake the Mexican people reslize that ter all we have many thii in com The hond of aviation is a one between men who devote and Mexico has some Engz eat 2ir lives to it Tendid pilots. There is a difference in ptions and 1 can only unique 1l the re =ay that of and will be long_remembered. | mirable way policed m | ident Call showed M The | beautiful smooth. M Consrizht. 10 ntal or vertical path of the 10" otclock the moon came 1 think the first sight of the possible after leaving Wash somewhere in Mississippi conrse for the Gulf Smen 1 laid a cour IR it fairly close to the cours and hil heen plotted. Over Mexicr R ot plotted eonrses, incidental 1 Rving was by maps hought e o United States, which were not slwave accurate. X Ay the Guif coast was reached e < fog for 1wo or three hours and there was no check, after dark, Aftert yp. and Zround Tpgton wa I cannot say toa much for the ad- in which the field was and the protection given to v plane. T am grateful to both Pres and Gen. Alvarez for the eat courtesy and consideration they me. 1 have always wanted to come fo exico and 1 am giad to flving field is one of the most 1 have ever seen and very he here. exico's aviation in the:next days in the Tnited States, Can 2 Central and South Amer i the Biitigh Don Fimes Co. AN right { Mis. T hope 1 shall see more of" MOTHER OF LINDY REJECTS INVITATION Mrs. Lindbergh Declines to Visit Mexico—Teaches Class Today. By the Associated Prese DETROT D Evanzeline L. L. mber Ars Lindbergh today de clincd the invitation of bassador Dwizht W, Morrow to spend Christmas holidays with her in Mexico City son. ol Lindberz and ram to Mrs h_said 1er son today fhank Amt s impossible to accept their ssador Morrow dhergh was hack at s ng her chemistry usnal Lindb e willing to ad that she tau fechnical H creat strain that she felt wouid complete his 2 Wash fthout a mishap. 1 that matters when she was told ¢ lanlding at Mexico These were the exact word by the fiver's mother when hergh was reported lan ourget Field after chool here vesterday I the time 000-mile to om ngton Lindbergh son’s safe Planned Trip Long Refusing 1o leave her high school here n ifternoon, Mrs, 1 her confidence in he with an anxious tone vas familiar with the which Lindbergh was ' time, bt not deviated Trom his cou she admitted he might forced down for some Mrs, Lindbergh had heen interested i trip for many “He has i 1o nd in ess all ndbergh lared bt She V her voice veported lost he had Athough insisted 1} have been son Mexicat vears of has talked “and ways said » the He liks all parts of the world of are like that several mnths ago that to Mexico. othing of his plans now ind 1 presume they will develop as time goes on. 1 know tnat this is almost a personal trip on his part. and T understand that he is pay ing his own expenses, although he i aking the trip under Government withority. 1 Imazine he will he set ting out on some other trip as soon as this ore is ended, s Fe ations. les last night sent the vam to Col. Lindbergh's wunced in Mexien alles President ( following te mother, it wa City It gives me the sincerest pleasure most cordial felicita tions for the new and glorious fri umph of your son, which also must fill vou with legitimate pride. The President ent to President Coolidge “Jt pleases me profoundly excellency my most cordial fe. licitations at thig time, when Col Lindbergh has arrived at. Mexico City after his notable flight, accomplished wiith the greatest success.’ ST 3 A new huilding to house the life sciences at the Univer f ia, Rerkeley, will h and will cost $1,500,000. to send you my mes to send 5,0°5 8%, 0%, 0,000,508 |President Calles Spent Sleepless MEXICO The anxieti over the safe December 15 cident Calles arrival of America’s air ambaseador were made evident las: night when wna revealed that he had had as little slee Col. Lindberzh himself when he greeted the flver on his arival at Valbuena Kield The President dined with A Morrow at the United k night at a nner Afterward he the national and remained up throughout the nizht Lindbergh's this morning field went to palace then he went to the MRS. LOUISE.R. DUVAL IS BURIED IN BALTIMORE carly landing Former Resident of D. C. Dies at Home of Sister-in-Law in Relay, Md. Mrs, ¢ Samuel A Lonise Revnolds Duval, wife and ur died home of her sister-in-law, Mrs. Charles White, Relay, Md., Monday. Funeral services were conducted at Ralay ves terday. Interment was in Louden Park Cemetery. Baltimore. Col. John T. Axton of the Chaplains Corps, 17, 8 A officiated the services hoth at the house and in the cemetery Duval, who until ahout 1 at the Willard Duval ] recent Iy a resident of this city at the a year Courta | tive in the United Daugh- | nfederacy, Mr and ) wer and lames € Y W. Corcoran, the philanthropist hushand, she leaves a sharty, and a sis'af, of ‘this city. Resides Fer n. William R Mrs. Eldon P BEER AGAIN ASKED. 7] resolution 15 The for CHICAGO, December pre-Christmas Jizht wines and heers has heen passed by the City Council. Similar ress tions have heen introduced, old time; said, for the Jast 10 years by the same iiderman, 1 Bathhouse 1o one pointed out votes were in the p « asked in the resolu referendum on the peating Tohn ¢ departure was that counted seven neg instead of Tilson Premature In Announcement Of Safe Landing By fhe Associated Press Tilson. of .Con prematurely House yesior- of St.. Loujs Republican Leader necticut announced from the floor of the day that the Spirit had come safely to earth iy 'the Mexican ecapital anngunge- ment he withdrew a X plaining that he information that came indirectly from the War Depar'ment, hen, rising for a third time, he assured the House that he now had anthentic news of a safe landing “Thig time,” he said, “L.got it from the newspaper men." ™ oV SEOe 20028% 50 glorious assortment, voulll find a selection 0{ TiCh. really beautiful neckwear that outstrips any other store l'l'l town. Decp glowing colors. sporty stripes. good look- ing all-over wrinl(leproo{. a gifc box. Shop patterns. Every tie pacl{cd m Silk or early. Home of the Dollar Tie D.J.KAUFMAN nc 1065 Pa. Ave. 1724 Pa. Ave. Charge Accounts Invited 15, 1927 e v Bolling Field Mechanics Who Attended to Plane Rejoice at Safe Trip. While and the day that Col. 1 paupers of word hreathed sighs relief when gh had there was no more joyous yester evening came indber landed in Mexico City ndividuals in the world Harry A. Dinger and Kallmever, nd McQuade of Bolling a group Lieut Hooe than tockenbaugh Field nouneed the Puts. who day morning of the Spirit of pro engine St. Louis in perfect condition and apable of carrying the famous pilot his goal “1 breathed the hig f any man in th 1 er, who held fu for the pl: = airworthiness, decl; today Hooe and T Kallmeyer ockenha and Quade felt the :ame way 1 did they worked on the ship, and natural Iy we felt that if anything would happen. the results would reflect on i work ut. Ding the task of pr Maj. Harvey § the field, said went of po ded correction 2 Lindhe Sunday At first Col anybody Dinger M as who was assigned to aring the plane by Burwell, commanding he and the plane “with a v morning, made in their opinfon, 1d reported to Col. Satuy ts that Lindbergh did not touch the plane,” but when he ‘Al 1 wan to aid Lient the repo made he said w0 ahead and fix ). From that on he did not in him with the were doing “I was charged with full responsi bility for the ship's condition. We ran engine tests, listened intently minutes at a time for the slightest un favorable sound soline and oil tanks an m out; we blew out nd oil lines: v inspected the oment rest self work we then washed line pluge and spent much time on an equal clear- 1nce on the valves which we found to he a little off. In short, we went over the plane with a fine-tooth comb six | times ‘Sunday afternoon we o Col. 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