Evening star., 1924-07-31
NEVER WENT Rack (.
IS FLYERS BOAST
Proud Of Being Able Con-
tinuaIly to Progress
Toward Goal.
BY HAYDEN CHURCH,

special Dispatch to The Star and North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance
BROUGH, Yorkshire, July 31.-"Tell
the people at home that we leave
England very confident of completing
the last stage of our $4,000 mile trip
and winning for America the honor
OF being the first nation to fly round
the world. We realize that this last
series of hops is going to be no pic
nic-it will take US father north thar
we've been at any time yet and
across some next to unknown re-
sfons-but we expect to get through
all right and to be home in about
three weeks"
Thus spoke Lieut. Lowell Smith.
the bronZed. good-looking, serious
faced young leader of the United
States world fight, in an interview
with ths writer today. Then he
added:
Never Turned Back.
One thing of which were very
proud is that up to now we have
never turned back and never have
landed anywhere but where we in
tended to land. But in spite of the
luck we have had this globe sirdling
cruise has been terr .bly hard work
II is thing that one would not have
undertAken for a million dollars. but
only for the sake of ones country"
mad asked him for message to
me American public with which to
oestu this article: which IS being
written in the ordinarily Slumberous
out now vastly excited little village
on the Humber that is called Brough,
and that because of the presence here
or the plucky American airmen, is
ffeveIing in a week of temporary
tame as the principal theater of
world aviation.
Across the sun bathed meadows
from Brough's. solitary inn, where
am now hitting the keys of my por-
table. stand the huge sheds of the
Blackburn Aeroplane Company, whose
Dig construction works represent the
principal local industry. And in the
largest of those sheds. clad in dingy
brown oNeralls and grimy with dust
and oil, the six American boys who
nave made Jules Ferne's round-the-
world lin eighty days traveller look
silly by covering nearly 10000 miles
IN 260 Tying hours are working like
beavers, elbow to elbow with the
punch of expert British mechanics,
who are helping them to get their
ships ready for the last lap of their
history making flight.
"ce Httauy jump.
For an hour this morning before
most people in Brough were out OF
bed L watched them fitting new con-
Meeting wires, adjusting controls and
stripping the under carriages of the
Boston. the Chicago and the New
Orleans, preparatory to the fitting of
new engines and the substitution of
pontoonS for wheels in readiness for
the final series of hops across the
Atlantic Ocean
When you read this they should be
well along on their Americanwards
night, via Iceland, Greenland and
Labrador, the hopes of the whole
world with them, and the spell Of
home urging them on.
Mine has been the privilege. un-
shared by any other writer. of being
with the world flyers almost con-
land, and they have talked to me at
greater length than time has made
1t possible for them to do with per-
haps any other one individual since
they took off from San Monica. four
months ago. AS result, 1 am able
to tell here for the first time the
story of what one might cal the
human side of the world t1ight-the
side that has been all but untouched
on in the hastily collected cable ac-.
counts of the plucky young flyers
progress.
All Proud of Feat.
They are all quietly proud OF
what they have accomplished, natu-
rally. But it is in home and what
they are going to do after they get
there that these boys are most inter
ested. On that topic they will talk
sixteen to the dozen, whereas to ex-
tract from them particulars of what
happened while they were flying
over three-quarters- of the globe. one
has to do ones hardest pumping
And as for the risks they will run
while on the pioneer flight that will
take them close to the Arctic Circle
these appear nothing more, in their
minds, than a few bothersome little
details to be dealt with before they
get back to kith and kin. kith and
kin and something more, 1 Judge,
for although none of the flyers is
married when l asked Lowell Smith
yesterday If they all hadn't girls
waiting for them, he replied whIm-
sically, We hope so."
Home Craved. Most.
Home and all that it means is what
they crave most, and after that rest,
physical and mental rest, after what
they unanimously describe as the