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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
CHARTS AND RECORDS FOUND
IN ARTICLES SAVED BY FLYERS
Byrd and Crew Start for Paris After Only
Five Hours Sleep; Two Forced to
Borrow Clothes.

his coat in the fashion of tennis
players
Comdr Byrd and Lieut.. Neville had
sent clothes to France by Fl. A. Glib
bons, personal representative of Rod
man Wanamaker. sponsor of the
flight. and everything from under
clothing to hats and shoes were wait
ing for them at the hotel. Acosta and
Balchen. however, had no clothes of
their own to look forward to on their
arrival in Paris.
Future Plans Unmade.
During the train trip Acosta tried
on the coats of several newspaper
men, and finally picked out one man
as being more similar to him anatomi-
cally than the others. 1t was then
arranged that 90 minutes after the
trains arrival the newspaper man
would bring Acosta a blue suit, d
shirt. tie and other necessities for his
appearance at today'S luncheon.
Acosta's feet. however, were larger
than those Of the man whose clothes
fit him, so another newspaper man of
fered to rush a pair of No. lis to the
hotel as soon as possible after the ar
rival of the train.
Comdr. Byrd and his companions
said that they had no plans for the
immediate future, but that they prob.
ably would remain in Paris a week or
so until all official functions given in
their honor had been attended. Lieut..
Balchen hopes to go to Norway to see
his mother and sisters. while Lieut..
Noville's principal plan just at present
is to buy tiny French automobile
| and take it back to America with him
AS for Acosta, he looked out of the
| windows at the rain that hadn't
ceased falling since their arrival in
| France and said he would like to be
| back in his home town, San Diego
fright now
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
COMBINED SERVICE
IN AIR TRIED OUT
Mail Plane Carries Woman
Passenger on Chicago
San Francisco Route.
By the Associated Press.

CHICAGO, July 2.-Combining air
mail and passenger carrying, the first
west-bound air mail plane to leave
Chicago for San Francisco under pri-
vate operation took the air last night
from the haywood Field with girl
in the passengers seat.
The Boeing Air Transport Co., which
Thursday night took over the east
bound air mail service from the Pa
cific Coast, last night started west
ward from Chicago the first of it's new
model planes equipped with nine-cylin-
der Pratt-Whitney wasp motors, each
capable of developing 425 horsepower.
The girl in the passengers seat was
Miss Jane Eads, Chicago newspaper
reporter. Equipped only with an over
night bag. she expected to land in
San Francisco this afternoon at 4:30
o'clock. Pacific time, % hours and 40
minutes after the take-off.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
MANY DECKS SEEN
ON LONDON STREETS
Traffic Expert Takes Look Into
+ Future-City May Resemble
+ Battleship.

LONDON, July 2.-Streets of
old London may have as many decks
as battleship a few centuries hence,
so DR.. John A. Harris, who was in
charge of New York traffic for eight
years, believes.
DIR. Harris says London's traffic
problems are even more complex
than those of New York, because
of the narrow, crooked streets and
the circles where so many thorough
fares converge.
1.-The most urgent thing in traffic
control today is the segregation of
vehicles into various categories-fast
moving motor cars on their own tier,
omnibuses and lorries on their own
and so on" said DR.. Harris. Traffic
blocks such as occur on the Strand
can be eliminated only by express
highways, multiple-decked streets and
marginal express highways, not only
for city work but for cross-country
traffic"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
PARTY FOR COOLIDGE,
SENATOR BORAH SAYS
Names President as Probable
G.. 0. P. Nominee-Smith or
Reed for Democratic.
By the Associated Press.

BOISE, Idaho, July 2.-Senator
William E. Borah, chairman of the
Senate foreign relations committee,
in a statement at his home here yes
terday on the-192S political outlook,
named President Coolidge as the prob
able Republican standard bearer, and
Gov. Alfred E. Smith of New York
and Senator James A. Reed of Mis-
souri, as most discussed for the
Democratic nomination.
The opinion seems to prevail as
find it in crossing the country that
President Coolidge will be renomi-
mated" said Senator Borah. UNLESS
President Coolidge signifies his wishes
to the contrary, 1 am of the opinion
the party will renominate him.
THE two men who are most dis
cussed for the Democratic nomination
are Gov. Smith of New York and
Senator Reed of Missouri. / would
say that Gov. Smith is very strong
in the East and Senator Reed is very
popular in the West and South, SO
that ought to make a good race"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
FLARES LIGHTED FIELD
AT CAEN FOR AMERICA
Landing Spot Was Ready Less
Than go Miles From Where
Plane Stopped.

By the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 2.-Flares were burn
ing steadily at the Caen airfield, less
than 20 miles from where the America
came down, and the plane must have
passed close without seeing them, so
dense was the atmosphere, the Echo
de Paris says today.
The paper reports that Project
Helitas of the Department Of Calvados,
in which Caen is located, upon being
informed from Havre that Comdf.
Byrd had sent out sos signals,
thought it likely the plane might land
in the neighborhood and had the air
field lighted from 2 o'clock in the
morning Friday) until dawn.
A nearby fireworks factory sent up
rockets at frequent intervals and the
Fire Department also turned out to
help the airfield attendants in case
of a possible landing.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
CITY HALL IN GERMANY
BEARS SOVIET EMBLEM
Little Watering Place Is Haven
of Communists in New
Republic.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 1.-The little water.
Ing place of Elgarsburg, in Thuringia,
Is Soviet oasis in republican Ger
many. Since the burgomaster and the
majority of the city council are Com
munists. they have displayed the So
Wet star. with sickle and hammer.
above the entrance to the city hall
and have carved it into the doors.
The parties of che Right are greatly
agitated about this. The republican
press, while disappearing of the Soviet
emblem, points out that the Right has
no objection when a post office or
.nSler public building still fiaunts the
monarchist coat of arms.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02

BY the Associated Press
PARIS, July EN- route to Paris
today from Caen, Comdr. Richard II.
Byrd found to his happy surprise that
most of his charts and important rec
ords OF his transatlantic flight were
among the articles that were saved
from the transatlantic plane America
yesterday morning after the landing
at Ner-sur- Mer.
The discovery came when Comdr
Byrd and his three companions got
together on the train and inspected
what they had salvaged from the
plane.
The American aViatOrs were rather
tired today. None of them had more
than five or six hours sleep last night
for they were kept up at the prefec-
ture of Caen until long past midnight
and had to be up early this morning
TO catch the $40 express.
All Have Boards.
All the flyers, except Comdr Byrd,
left Caen with boards that had been
growing since their departure from
New York on Wednesday morning.
Comdr. Byrd managed to borrow a
razor yesterday evening and got a
shave. but the others had to wait
until they could reach their hotel in
Paris.
Comdr. Byrd and Lieut.. George o.
Neville wore their khaki uniforms.
which had been dried out for them
in front of the fireplace at the house
in Ver-sur- Mer where they stopped
Wednesday morning. Bert Acosta
had suit of clothes given him by
the keeper of the Ver-sur- Mer Light
house, where he and Lieut.. Bernt
Balchen bunked after their landing.
Balchen wore a suit given to him
.ast night at the prefecture of Caen
and a sport shirt that was so much
too small for him that he had to wear
the collar open and turned down over
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
BERLIN FIRE FIGHTERS
CALLED TO FREE BIRD
Department Liberates Swallow
Caught by Wing in Eaves-
holdings.

By the Associated Press.
BERLIN, July 1.-The Berlin Fire
Department, known in the jargon Of
the street as the maid for every
thing" recently performed stunt
which would gladden. the heart of any
humane society official.
Pedestrians passing a coffeeshop on
Krausenstrasse, in the center of the
business district, noticed that a swal-
low was caught by the wing in the
eaves-mouldings. All the birds efforts
to free itself We're vain. Some one
turned in fire alarm. The fire de-
partment, which has caught swarm
ing bees, helped people who have for
gotten their keys, and removed the
debris after auto collisions, added a
new page of honor to it's record by
restoring liberty to the frightened
little swallow.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
AUSTRALIA FLIGHT
CONTEST PROPOSED
San Francisco Committee
Considers Extending Prize
Hop Beyond Honolulu.

by lne P5SOcldteu
SAN FRANCISCO. July THE
feasibility of extending the projected
San Francisco Honolulu prize flight
to Australia occupied the attention of
the San Francisco citizens committee
today.
Asserting flight to Australia was
the logical step since the successful
hop Of Lieuts. Lester J. Maitland and
Albert Hegenberger to Hawaii. Milo
F. Kent. head of the committee, has
asked his colleagues to consider such
a project in the interest of CONNER
cial friendship"
Might Enter Two Contests.
Kent pointed out that "A flyer to
Australia might participate in two
contests at the same time--the San
Francisco City contest. which will pro-
vide total prizes of $4,000. and the
James d. Dole prizes of $35. 900 for
the first two aviators to fly from the
mainland to Honolulu after August IL.
The COMMITTEE told Kent to see
what the public thought about the
plan, and then let the contract for
constructing a J,700-foot runway at
the municipal airport on bid of
S28.176. The runway will be 200 feet
wide, and the supervisors expect It
to be finished in three weeks.
Smiths Chances Brighter.
Meanwhile the announcement that
Capt. William Royle of Oakland would
succeed Edmund J. Moffett, San Fran
cisco real estate dealer, as manager
for Ernest L. Smiths proposed flight
to Honolulu, frightened Smiths
chances of making the flight which
he was unable to make in competition
with Maitland and Hegenberger.
Smiths plane broke when he took off
behind the Army flyers. and when re.
| pairs were made his navigator, Charles
II. Carter. refused to start on the
| ground that it was too late in the
day for proper observations and the
| Army plane, five hours ahead, had
too much start to be beaten.
There followed a dispute of several
days between Moffett and Anthony
| Parente, owner of the plane, which
| ended with the announcement by
| Parente that Moffett was out of the
deal. Royle declared the fight would
be made and that Smith would be the
| flyer.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
MRS. WRIGHT TO GIVE
MATE DIVORCE, SHE SAYS
Reports Agreement on Financial
Basis With Famous
Architect.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, July Mrs.
Miriam Noel Wright, wife of Frank
Lloyd Wright. architect of interna-
tional reputation, last night announced
that she would grant her husband a
divorce, intimating that in exchange
she would receive a cash settlement
and an annuity. She declined to re-
veal the exact terms
The agreement indicated. however,
that Mrs. Wright had yielded in her
demand that Wright give up Olga Mi
lanoff, Montenegrin dancer. with whom
he was involved in a charge of violat-
ing the Mann act. The charge later
was dropped.
Mrs. Wright said her husbands at.
torneys would sue for divorce imme.
diately.
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ped out by Windham and Stern will
be to Honolulu on the first leg, thence
to Guam or Toxic. and ultimately to
Manila, z. l., total distance of 5000
miles.
Paul Redfern, Savannah. Ga. avia-
tor, plans to have his airplane ready
to start from Atlanta August for
San Francisco, where he will enter
the Honolulu flight.
Redfern has a record of approx.
mately 1910 hours in the air and
during his several years service with
the United States customs office here
has gained experience which is ex-
pected to be of value to him on his
Pacific flight.
He says he will make only one stop
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
Dances Not So Old.

GREENSBORO, N. c., July 2 P).-
Teachers sent to teach old-time
dances at the North Carolina College
for Women ran straight into embar.
rassment. They found many Of the
girls from the mountainous districts
knew more about the dances than
they did.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
OFFICIAL IS HOST
TO AMERICAS CREW
Thousand Stand in Rain to
I Cheer Byrd and His Crew
While They Dine.
BY the Associated Press.

~NSSNN""N~"
CAEN, France. July 2.-Comdr
Byrd and his flight companions, com.
ing here from Ver-sur- Mer, were the
guests of honor last night at dinner
in the prefectoral place, rendered by
Maurice Heltas, project of the De-
partment of Calvados.
1t was their second meal in three
days, and they did full justice to the
toothsome French cookery. Among
the other guests were the mayor of
Caen, II. Adams Gibbons. representa-
tive of Rodman Wanamaker, hacker
White. naval attache of the American
embassy in Paris.
Thousand Cheer i'm Rain.
The proceedings were enlivened by
the Clamorous cheers of about a thou
sand persons standing outside in the
drenching cold rain, eager to catch a
glimpse of the heroes.
Their desire was fulfilled, for as
soon as the dinner was over the flyers
stepped out on the balcony and were
introduced separately to the crowd.
There were shouts for a speech, and
Comdr. Byrd readily complied.
In few words he told of his JOY at
arriving in France. He explained that
the plane had carried enough fuel to
take 1T beyond into other countries,
but that it always had been his desire
to set foot on French soil first.
Spend Night at Prefecture.
While his words were being trans.
lated, Lieut.. Neville held I'D the Stars
and Stripes and the French tricolor in
tertwined, which brought a tremen-
douS burst of cheering. The airmen
then stood while a corps of camera
men blazed away with flashlights.
Having satisfied everybody, the
flyers went to bed at the prefecture,
the project insisting that they spend
their first night in France as the
guests of the government
His graceful invitation was strongly
backed by others, who strongly OPP
posed their original plan of setting off
straightway by automobile so as to
arrive in Paris early this morning.
Comdr. Byrd, talking with a repre-
sentative of the Associated Press last
night, shed some light on the mystery
of why little was heard from the
America by wireless during the
planes wanderings over France
Thursday night.
Sent Out SOS.
He did in effect send out an SOS
at 1:4o am. in hope that a plane
would be sent up to guide him to LIE
Bourget Field, Paris, which he was
unable to locate because of the storm.
He sent no other messages after that
because, being unable to determine
how near the ground the America was
flying. he was afraid the trailing
aerial would catch on tree or roof.
AS for the compass, principal cause
of the inability to follow direct route
10 Paris, it was the earth induction
one that went wrong, the commander
said
He had two others, which he styled
ordinary mariners compasses, but
under existing conditions he was un-
able to navigate with them when the
earth inductor ceased functioning.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
3,477-Mile Flight
Credited to Byrd
By u. S. Bureau

Credit for covering a distance of
BAT miles. the air line distance be-
tween Roosevelt Field, n. Y, and the
village of Ver-sur- Mer. France. is
given the Byrd flight in figures COM
piled by the geological survey.
The compilation was at the request
Of the National Aeronautic Associa-
ton and does not take into consldera-
ton the miles covered in Byrd's devia.
ton from his course as result Oh
becoming lost in the fog.
The distance is less than made by
the other two transoceanic flights.
Tindhergh having covered $50 miles
and Chamberlin and Levine, 1905
miles.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02

between Atlanta and San Francisco.
Like Col. Lindbergh in his transat-
lantic fight, Lieut.. Douglas Davis of
Atlanta, plans to do his own navigat-
ing and to fly alone.
He will use monoplane. the con-
struction of which he will superin-
tend, capable of speed of 125 miles
an hour with load of 500 gallons of
gasoline.
Lieut.. Davis Is IS years old and be-
gan flying when IS, enlisting in the
Army Air Corps and receiving his
training at Maxwell Field, Mont
gomery. Ala, and at Arcadia, Fla.
He was made an instructor and since
his discharge in 1920 has been flying
continuously.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
THREE MYSTERY CITIES.
New York, London and Paris Best
for Story Settings.

LONDON, R.-Mystery crook
stories must be laid in New York,
Paris or London, believes Frank L.
Packard, author of 1.-The Miracle
Man" and other "thrilIers" which
have been turned into movies.
They do not seem right in other
cities, he SAYS y
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02

By the Associated Press.
ATLANTA, July 2.-Four South
erners in three planes intend to enter
the proposed air race across the Pa
cific from San Francisco OF Honolulu.
The objective of Lieut.. Jess Wind
ham and Ben Stern of Memphis,
Tenn. who plan to hop off from San
Francisco on the morning of July g..
eventually will be Manila
The flight will be financed by Mem
phis capital. The plane. an Eagle
rock, will be equipped with the same
type Of motor that Col. Charles Lind
bergh used in his hop across the At
lantic.
The itinerary Of the flight as map
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02
LURES HONEYMOONERS.
Charleston, s. c., Becoming Wed
ding Tour Paradise.

CHARLESTON, S. c., R.-This
historic old city is becoming the
honeymoon paradise" Of the South.
Magnolia Gardens, famed the world
over; a romantic atmosphere and
preservation of the South's aristoc-
racy are held to be the principal
drawing factors.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-02

New York City College alumni pre-
scented a bust of Thomas Jefferson to
the institution as an eightieth birth.
day gift
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there was a bump which shook every
mans teeth loose.
Three Rendered Deaf.
Neville, Bert Acosta and Balchen
had been rendered practically deaf
by the strain of the long fight, and
as nohe of us could hear the others.
each thought he alone was safe.
But our little rubber RATS behaved
admirable. We got out of the plane
everything we wanted and then we
started for shore. and we landed
safely.
That is the outline of the story
have to tell today. In another article
| will give the details Of the fight
| over the Atlantic.
/ might say we had rain, wind and
| fogs all the way across the ocean. We
could not get out of the fog. We
went up, but there we found fog too.
Most of the time we flew at 10000
feet. During the ocean flight Acosta
did most of the plotting, Balchen TAX
ing over the controls when we hit
land. 1t was he who did the landing
on the water, and it was admirably
done.
Flew About 1900 Miles.
There was no part of the flight in
| which we did not have difficulties. The
compass worked we'll until we hit
France, but at that we got far off
| our course.
We figure we flew in all some 1900
miles.
One thing stands out about the
| o. nd hn iC hnh 30
motors. They worked perfectly all
the time and never once showed the
| slightest error or failure.
Our radio proved its value, for ii
| showed it is practicable to keep more
or less in touch with ships at sea and
thus help keep on the course.
l think that perhaps our effort to
keep away from freezing weather
might have had to do with our getting
further south than we should have.
Once ice formed on the motors and
we were, of course. worried about the
effect the ice might have on our
propellers.
Harder Than Polar Flight.
The greatest surprise and greatest
thrill of the whole trip was when we
found ourselves over the water and
knew we were not far from Deauville.
There is much to be told about our
flight as a whole. but the memory of
that five hours in the pitchy darkness.
the agony Of that experience. still
holds my mind and / cannot think of
much else.
For the sake of comparison. can
say that nothing in my North Pole
flight, no hard experience. no strain,
came anywhere near equaling what
we endured in that aimless flight over
France, lost and almost helpless.
When we landed we had enough
fuel to have gone only 80 more miles.
AS for our future plans, they have
not yet taken shape.
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Canada. Mexico. Cuba South America Japan
Europe and the British Empire by the New
York Times Co. Reproduction in whole or
in part forbidden without permission. All
rights reserved.l
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Once we were right near our goal,
with enough gasoline to fly three
hours, or nearly 800 miles. and we
could not make the 10 miles which
separated us from the flying field for
which we were bound.
Trouble Not Located.
1t did not take long for us to see
we had missed Paris and were just
wandering around. Then we saw
our compass hand had gone wrong.
We do not know yet what was
wrong with it. We do not know
whether if it had behaved we could
have landed in that inky blackness.
There we were.
We sent out one message about l
o'clock that we were lost, but could
get no reply. No one of us four had
any idea where we were or where
we were going. We were lost COM
pletely and totally.
Lieut.. Balchen was doing the pilot
ing. He did as well as any one could
have done, for we were in a great
prison of darkness and we could not
see our way out
And then came the surprise of
our lives; we saw sea beneath us.
We did not know where we were.
We know now we had done half
circle and come back doubling on our
tracks back over the coast, not so
far from where we had crossed it
five hours before.
Then we knew that in one hour,
or perhaps half an hour, we could
go no further because our gasoline
supply would be exhausted. We
might at any moment have had to
make a forced landing. and we did
not know where we were, except that
we were over the sea and the sea
was calm.
Tide Covered Beach.
In the pitch darkness we could
make! out nothing of the countryside.
We could see it was high tide and
that the shore was so covered with
water that there was no beach to
land on.
/ then took the decision to land on
the sea and get ashore as best we
could. l told the others what !
wanted to do. l told them it was
less dangerous than coming down in
IN utterly unknown land. less danger
JUS for us as we'll as for those we
might hit if we came down in a
Town.
l was convinced it was the safest
and wisest course to take. 1t was
risky, but less risky than coming
down anywhere else, and the decision
justified itself by it's success.
The plane was partly wrecked and
it's fuselage badly damaged, but 1
think we will be able to mend her
up again. The French Air Service
and the marine authorities, who are
taking care of the plane. have been
very kind and very skillful.
. The landing gear was stripped the
moment the plane struck the water
and when she made a second dip
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BYRD LOST 6 HOURS,
HE SAYS, IN OWN
STORY OF FLIGHT

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there was a bump which shook every
mans teeth loose.