Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-11-05

ten, mOt1On picture actors, arrived
here about O'clock tonight on a
rOund-trip to Detroit and return
] VIZ aIrpiane. With them were
Mrs. Bcery, Mrs. Hatton and Mr..
| and Mrs. j. l.. Maddux, the latter
owner Of the 12-passenger tri-
mOtOred plane which completed its
iniUiai passenger carrying hight
from the Midwest.
/; TOday's flight started at Ell
+; PasO, Texas, to which point Mad
! dux plans to open an air passenger
service shortly. The huge plane
stopped en- route today at Douglas
and tucson, Arizona, and Inn
| perial, Calf.
The film actors described their
air passage as the greatest thing
ever experienced" by them, and as
wonderful flight"
j. l.. Maddux, of the MadduX Air
Lines, Inc, arrived in this city in a
12-passenger Ford monoplane at 920
o'clock Friday morning, q day late,
but two hours ahead of the revised
schedule. The plane took on fuel.
Douglas people were permitted to gaze
into the cabin, the passengers were
introduced to Governor Hunt and the
members OF the Douglas chapter Of
the N. A. A. and within an hour the
plane was gone again.
The plane had been scheduled to
arrive in this city early on Thursday
afternoon. That schedule was later
changed to bring the plane here just
at dusk on Thursday. This plan in
cluded a banquet in Aqua Prieta for
the aviators on Thursday evening An
hour before that arrival time messages
came that the plane would not leave
Ell PaSo until 8 o'clock Friday morn
ing At o'clock Friday morning the
members of the local N. A. A. received
message that the ptane would leave
Ell Paso at o'clock.
This message proved correct and the
plane did leave El Paso at 7 o'clock
and arrived in Douglas, making per-
feet landing, at Camp Jones at $40
O'clock The pilots figured that al
lowing for time spent in circling Ell
Paso and this city the actual flying
time between the two cities was two
hours. Will NJ Fox, general manager
of the Maddux Air Lines, Inc, said
that the trip could have been made in
an hour and forty minutes.
The plane was an imposing sight.
The picture, published in The Dis
patch Of Thursday, gives fair idea
Of the shape of the monster but not
of the size. The single wings measure
rs feet from tip to tip and the plane
is somewhat longer than it is wide
The entire ship was constructed of a
metal known as duralumin. This
metal is corrugated which gives the
ship strange, rough aspect.
inside in the very nose of the plane,
is the control cabin with upholstered
seats for two pilots and a complete
double set of controls. Behind this
cabin is sort of luggage compartment
or cock pit and behind that is the
main passenger cabin containing four
wicker chairs. Behind the chairs there
are divans built against the walls on
both sides of the tubular body.
This comprises the main body OF the
ship. The entire tail is metal enclosed
making sort of tunnel from the
passenger cabin to the rudder. In
this there are luggage racks and a
wash room and toilet facilities.
The Maddux party alighted when
the plane whirred to a stop and were
met by Governor c. w. P. Hunt, P.
G.. Spilsbury, of the Arizona Industrial
congress; Major Greed of Camp Jones,
and his staff and the officials of the
Douglas chapter of the NJ A. A. A
steadily growing crowd OF people
flocked onto the field and gazed at
the giant bird.
To the astonishment of everyone
j. L. Maddux anG his manager, Will
N. Fox, announced that they would
mot stop over for the banquet but
would contirue their flight inlmedi-
ately. Gov Hunt said few words in
praise of the spirit of Douglas in at.
tempting to secure aeronautical recog-
milton and announced that he would
return to Phoenix. The governor cape
to Douglas on Thursday morning and
waited over when the plane did not
arrive that day, expecting to attend
the banquet with cile aviators.
Both Maddux and Fox made definite
promises before half dozen officials
of the local N. A. A. that they will
return to this city in the near future
and that at that time they will spend
two days here, will arrange to take
the N. A. A. charter, members for a
trip in the big plane and will give
every consideration to the possibilities
for a control stop at the international
aviation field which is to be cleared
and marked off east of the city.
The chamber of commerce offices
were Immediately notified as was the
steward at the Club SOciale and plans
for the cancellation of the arrange
ments were started P. G. Spilsbury,
president of the Arizona Industrial
congress, who had come to Douglas
from an important business confer
ence in Los Angeles at. the express
request of Maddux and Fox and who
had an urgent invitation to get aboard
the plane here and return to Los An
geles in it, was almost ignored by the
fliers, he told a Disps 81 reporter yes