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The Leading Sunday Newspaper 772 Columns Today i SUNDAY MORNING, HI, I mm mm mm hi ACHIEVES Paris Flight Made After Record Jump Across Continent AMID CM LOME AMERICAN FLDER GRACEFUL LANDING OF THOUSANDS SWARMING Aliains Goal at 5:21 P. Eastern Daylight Time, 33 1-2 Ho irs HT MAV YORK nORIJ Nf.WS sERttCI: NEW YORK. May 21. It waj May t- 10 days ago tomorrow that Captain Charles Lindbergh arrived here on his record-breaking trans-continental hop. The youthful flier made one Mn overnight at St.

I you is, hut rovered the' miles in 21 hour ami 20 minute. UN tune from San Diego to IOiiN, l.HOO mile. as 14 hours and 3 minutes. From St. Louis to New York, about miles in a bee-line, he flew In 7 hours and 15 minutes.

The- time made by Ueutenants Kelly and Marready In 192:1 241 hours and 50 minutes. Ilndbergh learned to fly at Kelly Field several years ago. He was nicknamed Lucky" by his fellow -pilots in the air service. As most of the world knows today IJndbergh is the sole four-star member of the Caterpillar Club, meaning he four times made successful descents from his plane in parachutes. He has been chief pilot in the air mail service between St.

IajuIs and Chicago since It was in-an gu rated. After Take-off From Long Island, So Tired He 'Goes To Sleep on His FeeV at Reception. 'WELL, HERE WE HE SAYS NONCHALANTLY AS FLIGHT THAT HAD AMAZED WORLD ENDS BY THE ASSOCIATED TRESS. PAUIS, May 21 Captain Charles A. Lindbergh, young American aviator who had hopped off from Xew York, yesterday morning, all alone in his monoplane, arrived in Paris tonisrht.

safe and sound, as rvervone honed he would. AMAZING FEAT OF LINDBERGH JARS CAPITAL OUTJtf CALM Popular Imagination Thrills to Lone Airman. FRENCH FAILURE TEMPERS PRAISE BfY THE ASSOCIATED PRESS. WASHINGTON. May 21.

Lindbergh's history -making flight to France today thrilled Washington out of its traditional stolidity. The though, of this young airman, winging his way alone through the darkness of the night, over deserted ocean waters, and depending for his life on his own skill and e-ourage, aroused the interest and touched the imagination of the Capital as few things hae done in the past. GKKATKST KK.T OK AM. There had been the army's world-circling flight, the hop of the NC-4. across the Atlantic, the transatlantic voyage of the Ixjs Angeles and other feats of aviation which had brought admiration and praise from Washington, but the adventuresome solitary attempt of Lindbergh forced the young flier's personality into the picture and made his flight a test herein a young sportsman staked everything in the face of the forebodings of experts.

That appealed to the popular fancy. Everybody in Washington "ruMed" for Lindbergh steadily and hopefully and. as the day wore along, confidently. When news of his arrival at Paris was flashed over tbe city there was a spontaneous, city-w Ide expression of gratification, and officials. led by President Coolidge, sent their congratulations and praise speeding over the cables to the daring aviator.

ADMIRATION GROWS. Yesterday, when Lindbergh made his sensational hopoft, the word high and lew was "I hope he makes it." Today, (Continurd on 1'age Two, Col. Five.) Bad Weather Forces De Pinedo to Delay His Flight to Azores TREPASSY. N. May 21.

(A. Because of adverse weather sports from Horta, Azores, Commander Francesco de Pinedo. Italian four-continent flier, announced tonight that he would not take off from Tre-passy until early tomorrow morning. The start for the Azores had been scheduled for 8 o'clock tonight, local time. r-, 7 -7 i The sandy-haired son of the Middle West dropped down out of the darkness at Le Bourget flying field, a few miles from Paris, at 10:21 o'clock tonight (5:21 p.

m. Eastern daylight time), only 33lo hours after leaving Long Island the first man in history to go from Xew York to Paris without changing his scat. TO HIM, MERELY AMBITION ACHIEVED. To the young American, it was seemingly but the achievement of an ambition. To Paris, to France, to America, to the world, his landing tonight made him the greatest of heroes mankind has produced since the air became a means of travel.

A crowd of at least 25,000 surrounded his plane, Spirit of St. Louis, when it came to earth after its epochal voyage from the new world to the old. The airman was lifted from the seat, where for two days and a night he had sat fixed, guiding his plane over land and sea, and for 40 minutes he was hardly able to talk or do anything else except let himself be carried along by a mass of men delirious with joy at his achievement. 85 TH YEAR NO. 123.

POSTPOH ED Blazing Gasoline Perils Safety )f Plane. MAYFLYWESW AND NOT AST nt THK AfOClATKD PKKr vS. ROOSEVELT FIELD, May 21. The Paris flig'ht of Clarence Chamberlain wan "indefinitely postponed" tonight when friends persuaded hi not to make an immediate attempt. GASOLINE FLAMES IT.j (iasolinc spilled from thte Rel-lanca plane as it was toeing towed across the field caught fire tonight and for a time threatened the plane with destruction.

The plane was the way from Roosevelt Field to its Curtis field hangar after Chamberlin had( announced the postponement. Caroline that had been drained off form.cd a puddle and waa believed to hare becn Ignited hy a cigaret. Firemen rushed to the blaze, when they arrived found that giuiollnc fire had burned Itself The plane was not damaged. and the out. FRIENDS DISSUADE HIM.

Chamberlin had announced that he would take the hop off tonight lass than two hours after Charles Lindbergh landed In Paris, lie had his plane hauled to the runway and was telephoning officials for permission to une the runway when friends gathered tout him to dissuade him. They showed him that. wUile "rather was good tonight, unfavorable conditions were predicted for tomorrow. Also Carl Schorr, secretary of the contest committee of the aNa-tional Aeronautical was du-covered to have gone to Washington. It wart said that the flight wo aid K-it be official unless Hchory seated the barograph.

MAY TIKN PLANK WKsT. All right, ita all off." Chambertin nul Hi length. "It's off and when we do take off It won't ior Paris In all probability. That hs been done. We'll probably fly West instead of Ka-st.

Perhaps Honolulu" Before the false start for Pars (i Itellanca. dettlgner of the plan, announced complete severance of al relations with Charles Levin, head rf the company which Is backing tie Columbia flight. He llam a attempted the role of peac maker when dissension arose betweet lvtne and Lloyd Bertaud, who was criminally selected aa navigator to fl. with Chumberlin. WEEK'S WEATHER OUTLOOK WAHIM.TOV My St.

PA The mrmthrr vatlonk foe tkw wevh I fftltowSI Middle Atlsnttr mtf A pri4 ahmm tlmiln MMMta? mr Twadl nl Main at wl Temperatare tv wmfirhal tmil. )mn Xomia B.rar Trtay ami acwia later wtrt Tfnprralarv ahnve normal net part anil wear normal taerraftrr. MB fl.ight untiim, TEN CENTS A COP) NO GREATER WlXCOMli Never has an aviator of any" nation, nor even king or ruler, had a greater or more spontaneous Wflcnmp frnm llio henrK of the common people of France. Ther very recklessness of his en- 3 i 1 1 acavor, as appeared, appealed to the quick, emotional imagina tion of frenchmen, and they were quick to respond with everything their own hearts could give. All ties of nationalism were forgotten by the he Rourget throng.

They saw in Lindbergh only a man who had gambled brilliantly with death and won. There was regret, of course, for Nungesscr and Cob. and regret, too, that the daring Frenchmen had not been first. Hut there was no bitterness in their greeting of the American winner. common Pixiru; first.

It was the common pe-ople of France who firnt hailed the Intrepid Lindbergh as he emerged from what only yesterday morning he had called hi "death chamber." Shortly after 10:10, the roar of his motor, for which thy had been waiting for hours, came out of the clear night sky to the eara of the mulitude. rolice lines were swept aside aa thousands surged over the field to welcome the man who had won their hearts and had earned immortal fame. There he is'." the cry went up as the rays of searchlights gleamed upon the monoplane gracefully descending from the darkness which had enveloped all ajid through which only tbe sound of the motor gave warning of his approach. At this instant, the crowds began their race across He field. GLIDES DOWN EASILY.

Smoothly the airplane, Spirit of St. Louis, gliaed down upon the lighted ground. Even before it had come to a pause, a hundred hands caught, bold on Pape Two, Col. Three.) Long Hop Planned In Cozy Air Home Amsterdam to Batavia Aim of Wealthy American. BY THE ASSOCIATED AMSTERDAM, Holland.

May 21. With a plane fitted out to make a coey air home. Van Lear black, wealthy American of Baltimore, ts preparing for a flight from Amsterdam to Batavia, capital of the Dutch Sast Indies, to investigate for himself possibilities of development of commercial air routes. The trip has been made only once, by the Dutch airman. Van Der Hoop who took 23 days nearly three ars ago.

The flight was then regarded as a great feat, but with the giant strides in aviation made since then, it is believed that Black can make it in the two weeks on which he plar. He plans to leave Amsterdam June 13 or 14, stopping at Budapest, Con stantinople. Aleppo. Bagdad. Bender Abcas, Karachi.

Delhi or AmbaJa. Allahabad, Calcutta. Rangoon, Bangkok Senggora and HingHpure. Black proposes to return otcr tbe same route, etartinj; July 2. i Ems i I III I II IA i MAY 22, 1927.

LINDBERGH'S LOG The flying log of Lindbergh's plane follows 7:52 a. m. (Friday) left New York for Pans. a. m.

(Friday) sighted over East Greenwich. R. I. 9:40 a. m.

(Friday) sighted over Halifax. Mass. p. m. (Friday) reported over Meteghan, N.

S. 1:05 p. m. (Friday) reported over Springfield. N.

S. p. m. (Friday) over Milford, S. 3:05 p.

m. (Friday) passing over Mulgrave, N. and straits of Canso for Cape Breton. 5 p. m.

(Friday) cleared Nova Scotia at Main-Dieu. easternmost tip. 7:13 p. m. (Friday) passed St.

Johns, Newfoundland, and headed over broad Atlantic. 6:30 a. m. (Saturday) Independent wireless says a vessel reports Lindbergh 300 miles ofT Irish coast. (Report seems doubtful.) 8:10 a.

m. Cape Race, Newfoundland, has wireless from Dutch ship that Lindbergh was 500 miles off Irish coast. 2:50 p. m. (Greenwich time) London Press Association dispatch says Lindbergh sighted 100 miles off Ireland.

10 a. m. (eastern daylight time) Radio Corporation says its Iaris office reports plane over Valencia. 10 a. m.

(eastern daylight time) Halifax reecived a wireless dispatch that Lindbergh has parted over 12:30 p. m. (eastern daylight tune) Belfast, Ireland, reports Lindbergh over Dingle Bay. Ireland. 2:06 p.

m. (eastern daylight time) Valencia, Ireland. Government wireless says Collier Nogl sighU airplane near Dingle. SMS p. m.

(eafctern daylight time) Cork. Ireland, says Civic Guard reports Lindbergh plane passing over Smerw-ick harbor, Ireland. 3:30 p. m. (eastern daylight time) reported over Cherbourg, France.

5: SI p. m. (eastern daylight time) lands safely at Lc Bourgft Field, Iarls. Service Body Denies Emsworth Petition Asking Water Main HARRISBURG, May 21. (Special) The public Service Commission today dismissed the petition of the borough of Emsworth.

Allegheny county, seeking to compel the Ohio Valley Water Company to extend its mains along three streets in the northern part of the borough. The proposed extension would have served 13 residents ef Emsworth. In dismissing the petition, the commission cited that the improvement would cost approximately $4,500 and that the revenue to lie derived would not justify the investment. Approval was given by the commission for the relocation c.f State Highway Route 117 in Dunbar township, Fayette county, under which a grade crossing over the Baltimore Ohio railrewd tracks will be abolished and a new one established. Pola Negri, Bride Of Week, Starts For Home With Husband PARIS.

May 21. (A. Pola Negri and her new husband. Prince Serge Mdivam. started back for Airier- iea.

today, she to resume her screen vork and be to engage in the oil business. They entrained this morning for Cherbourg, to sajl on the Aquitania. They were married a week ago today at her chateau near the village of Straincourt, about 30 miles from Paris. bothering to turn in a report. So' most of his marks he received were! below passing.

THEN THE AIRPLANE. Then one day an airplane landed on the college campus and a new fire was lit in this aloof boy's heart. "I'm going to be an aviator," he told his mother without preamble, and forthwith signed up for instruction at an aviation school. From the moment he first curled his finders around a control stick he was a success at flying. When he as-through at the commercial school Lindbergh became a student at the army school at Kelly Field in Texas.

For two years he studied there and it was during that time that, he had his first atx-ident and first acquired the name of "Lucky" Lindbergh. While stunting in the air he crath-l with another plane and bo'h he and the other aviator had to "go over the "That's AH That Matters," Says Lindbergh's Mother BT THK ASSOCIATED PRESS. DETROIT, May 21. "That's all that matters." In these words. Mrs.

Kvangcline Ixidge Lindbergh, mother of Captain Charles Lindbergh, expressed her relief when informed that her interpid son had arrived safely at Ie Bourget flying field, France, after an epochal flight from New Vork. Mrs. Lindbergh, who had been silently waiting since the take-off yesterday morning for the word of her son's safe arrival, allowed herself a few tears of joy and then said: "I am deeply thankful for his safety and appreciative of the true sympathy expressed by so many people." Asked whether she had been confident of his success, she countered with: "How could anyone be confident Then she added. "I knew if it were possible for any pilot, given a good machine, to make the flight, that he would." AIRPLANE USED ON TRANS-SEA HOPDESIGNED IN SINGLE DAY Lindbergh'Ship" Built Under Own Supervision. NEVER DRIVEN BY ANOTHER FLIER BV Tttr.

ASSOCIATED PRESS. NEW YORK, May SI. R. F. Ma-honey, president of the Ryan Airplane Company of California and C.

G. Peterson, assistant to the president of the Wright Aeronautical Cor poration cf Paterson. N. J- told to day of the plane and engine that carried "Lucky" Llndbersrh, aviation's lone eagle, to France. The plans for the plane.

Mahoney said, were drawn in the St hours after Lindbergh went to the San Diego plant and revealed what he had in rrind. It took 0 days to build the plane and during all that time young Lindbergh ttayed on the ground, seeing that e-uch piece vas just an be wanted it. NO ALTERATIONS MADE." "When it was ready to fly." Mahoney said, "Lindberg'ii made the first flight and nobedy else has ever flown that plane yet." No alterations had to be made aTter the test flights, the airplane man said proudly, although a plane of just that tpe bad never been made before. The engine decided en was a Wright whirlwind, the same engine that Clarence Chamberlin and Richard E. Byrd are depending on to carry them over the air path that Lindlrgh has blazed.

Peterson explained that the engine is air cooled and has nine cylinders of the radial type, that is. they are placed like the spokes of a wheel and is of 225 horsepower. ENGINE STOCK MODEL. Lindbergh's engine, he said, is a regular model taken out of stock and was not mac especially for the trip. By having the engine air-e-ooled much weight is saved, a water radiator having to carry about three-fourths of a pound of water pe horsepower.

Besides this the dansrer of radiator leakage which caused the failure of Harry Hawker's pioneering attempt to fly the Atlantic ts eliminated. Peterson said that the engine operating cost of the rip in Lindbergh's plane would he approximately $175. including gas. oil and deterioration. The engine uses approximately one gallon of gasoline for every 10 miles, not more than a heavy automobile, and one pint of oil an hour.

Hankow Captured By Anti-Red Army, Paper Is Informed LONDON. May 31. (A. Shanghai dispatch to the "Sunday Observer," says- that reports from Chinese sources which could not be confirmed stated that Hankow, slrong-hold of the radical had been captured by "Anti-Reds." The dispatch said that General Van Sen, who is reporte to have joined the adherents of Marshall Wu Pel Fu. the northern general, entered the city at 5 o'clock this afternoon.

achieve greatness in his chosen field. Horn in the Middle West in 1912. the son of Charles A. Lindbergh, who later became a Congressman. Charlie Lindbergh seemed at first destined for Lne me oi a larmer.

tp until six i years ago he was plodding industri-J outly behind plow and harrow, but every' spare minute he spent on hip old motorcycle or in any car that he could lay his hands on. ALWAYS GOES ALONE. Besides that and this ha? a bear- ing on the present flight for those who have feared the flier would be lone- some he almost always drove alone. He liked solitude, and he liker it still. On leaving farm work Lindbergh went to college to sTudy mechanical engineering but.

according to fellow students, he was not an academic success. He did more experimenting than most, they have said, tut as soon as the results wr plain to him he would go on to other work, not even; NEW DRY CHIEF TAKES CHARGE, PROMISING TO SPEEDUP WORK "Going Right Ahead Without Any Noise," Doran Says. PICKS MAN FOR FIRST ASSISTANT BV THK ASSOCIATED TREsS. WASHINGTON'. May SI.

Roy A. Haynes is out of the Government service and the duties of prohibition commissioner have beon taken over by Dr. James M. Doran. appointed to that post yesterday by Secretary Mellon.

Doran, who has been head cf the prohibition bureau's technical division, assuned charge of enforcement activities today, supplanting Haynes, who had been serving as acting commissioner. Declaring It was not necessary for Haynes to resign, Doran said: "Wc are going risht ahead, speeding up enforcement without any noif-e." TO SEK ANDRIAYS. He rcconmended arpcintment of Major Herbfrt H. yhite, now a special Investigator, as assistant prohibition commissioner and made ar-rangrments to confer Monday with Assistant Secretary Andrews, who has resigned, effective August 1. Andrews, who has charee of the prohibition, customs and coast guard services, will tx succeeded by Seymour lowman.

termer lieutenant governer of New York, as announced yesterday. The between Andrews and Doran will be followed by a gathering here during the week of June 13 to meet the new a.it.istant secretary ond the new prohibition commissioner and to map out an enforcement program. TO HIT SMI tit. I. Kits.

Among the j-uhjects to be discussed at the general cfnference be An drews' plan for coordinating tin services under his control and. as he puts It. to slop once and for ail smuggling of liquor aiid narcotics in com-rertial quantities Into the Uniterj States. In a lett-r to his subordinate chiefs today, Andrews outlined his plan, which calls for the appointment tf a committee representing the prohibition, customs and roast guard services to Insure irterloc kin looperation in anti-smuUng efforts. The plan he outlined had previously been made public but was set down in detailed form the guidance of officials affect eil.

ti that seldom has been accorded te achievement of any event in the lt-tory of the city. f'He's in." "He landed." was on I er one's lips. The word passed from luth to mouth, from the downtown tnct to the homes, and then from puse to house until within a few Veryone knew it. And everyone was Cbilant. Many thouted their joy.

IU.IH.AV Triephnne Radios Inent. It was tl OK NOISK. ires were losci. he great accomplif-h- was the only topic of con- tersation wherever persons rathered. Whistles throughout the manufac- New Stream Cuts Path of 150 Miles One-Seventh of Louisiana Covered By Water Expanse.

BV THE ASSOCIATED PItESS. NEW ORLEANS, May 21. The restless gurgle of muddy water echoed from the northern boundary of Louisiana tonight to within 50 miles of the Gulf of Mexico after having cut a path IDO miles long and 60 miles wide across the state. One-seventh of the total area of the state was under water and the flood was threatening weak points along the Atchafalaya, 140 miles northwest of New Orleans, with a total acreage amounting to almost half as much us already has felt the weight of the waters on the Atchafalaya the current was ripping embankments to pieces. More than 2,000 workers were fighting in the mud and rain to hold the flood waters off of sugar plantations.

With the situation critical along the levee line, the evacuation of the Evangeline country proceeded rapidly. The population of the concentration camp at Lafayette had sprung to passing tbe total inhabitants of the city itself. Commander Byrd Lauds Lindbergh BV THK ASSOCIATED TRKSS. ROOSEVELT Field. N.

May 21. The christening ceremonies of the giant Fokker "America" in which Richard E. Byrd will attempt to follow the new-blazed trail to France, became chiefly a ceremony of tribute to Charles Lindbergh this after noon. Two bottles containing water from the spot where Washington crossed the Delaware were broken on the airship' prow by two granddaughters of John Wanamakcr and then Commander rose to speak to the hundreds gathered about the hangar. "My only thought today," he said, "is of Charles Lindbergh's wonderful victory.

I sard goodbye to him jester day morning and wished him Godspeed. This thing that he has done is almost superhuman. His feat is one of the greatest individual accomplibhments in history. I congratulate Charles Lindberg from the bottom of my heart. Navy Flier Sets New World Speed Seaplane Record WASHINGTON.

May 21. (A. A new world seed record for seaplanes! was claimed tonight by the navy for Lieutenant Rutledge Irvine, who was credited with a speed today of ISO. 93 miles an hour for 1.000 kilometers over the enclosed triangular course at Hampton Roads, Va, Irvine, in a navy Gvought Corsair observation plane, covered the 1.000 kilometers in four hours anj 44 min- uie.s. The previous record was 103.372 'miles hour, made bv the Italian flier.

I'asaleva. The plane he used is the type which has shattered a num-1 er of seaplane records recently. President Off On First River Cruise In Three Months WASHINGTON, May 21. (A. President Coolidge left for a weekend trip on the Potomac river aboard the Mayflower this afternoon.

It is his first trip on the Presidential yacht in three months. Survives Four Parachute Jumps From Ship. NO BRASS BAND IN PREPARATION side." They had parachutes, but at that time it was a new idea that aviators might be saved by parachutes just we 1 as bailoonists. When tbe wrecked planes landed after the collision the pilots were already on earth, congratulating each other on their escape. After two years at the army school (Continued on Page Five, Col.

Six.) STRAIGHT TO GOAL, ALONE-LINDBERGH'S RULE OF LIFE Whistles Blcm, Bells Ring As Word of Safe Arrival of Lindbergh It Flashed Here Pittsburghers Cele brate Achievement Of Flier. FLIGHT TOPIC OF EVERYONE When Captain Charles Lindbergh's fn hlt luck that rode at one side of him the ship with which he conquered Atlantic, triumphed over death that rxie the other side, and the official word of his safe landing on the I Plane on Campus Is Beacon To Youngster. i BORN FLIER FROM START BV THK ASOCITED r-REsS. NEW YORK. May 21.

The life story of Charles Lindbergh is a record cf fie attainment of a high ideal towi'h unswerving tion. At heart the gangling aviator is "jus.t the boy he looks" say his friends. and his though not always the same, is one not unMmilar to that held by virtually every American boy. He lwd a "bent" and he hoped to rourget fly in? field. Just outside furJnff district of the city gave up Paris, was flashed here at 5:31 o'c'o IoUlls of Meant in one shrieking Ma--t last night, Pittsburgh let loose demonstration of noise and JubiL.

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