The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1927-12-27
B. BONITA WITT


The Lone Eagles mother made
aviation history yesterday herself.
when. following the overhead
trail of her illustrious son, Mrs.
Evangeline Lindbergh landed a.
Valbuena Flying Field at IA
| O'Clock this afternocA. She was
the first woman ever TO fly from
the United States to Mexico City.
Mrs. Lindbergh did not meet
her son until after she had
| reached the American Embassy,
for he had gone up in his own
Spirit of St. Louis to welcome her
but in the clouds over the noun
tains the two planes passed with
out sighting each other.
1t was some time after Mrs
Lindbergh had left the field be-
fore her son could bring his plane
into a safe landing because of the
crowd on the field. and by that
time Mrs. Lindbergh had arrived
there. not bit fatigued by her
long flight from Detroit.
No queen of ancient times, indeed,
no monarch of the present, ever
has travelled in the style in which
Mrs. Evangeline L. L. Lindbergh
has gone to Mexico City to join her
famous aviation son, Col Charles
A. Lindberg.
Speeded on her air journey by
probably the greatest Croesus of
modern times, Henry Ford, her
every movement reported by wire
and radio to the four corners Of
the earth. this school-teacher-
mother goes to cement peace be-
tween nations, even as the mon
archs of old
The leave-taking and the jour
ney south probably will be spoken
of in the future a momentous.'
AS Writer Saw 1t
1t seemed so to me. The group at
that memorable departure from De-
troit on the bitterly cold day ali
seemed a part of vast drama, now
extending over continent.
There was Mrs. Lindbereh. seem
ing different from the mother who
told me the story of her sons life
the day following his arrival in
Paris after his nonstop flight from
America She showed the strain of
months OF ovation And here she
was-going TO further honors. fur
Their ovation, to a cline in which
the expressions are more fervid
The mother Of a great son has
her burden, too.
Standing next to her was Henry
Ford, bundled in long overcoat,
with fur collar, derby hat in
hand, obviously more excited than
Mrs. Lindbergh. who throughout
the months of banquets, speeches
and parades, which have followed
her sons extraordinary feat. he's
refused to permit her usual placid
ity to become disturbed. I'm
terribly thrilled she told those
who had braved the near-zero
weather to go to the airport al
Dearborn, the Ford suburb" OF
Detroit, to wish her bon voyage
| yet she was the calmest person
on board the giant 14-passengei
tri-motored plane as it rolled out
of the hanger and TAXED down the
field.
Ford Arranged 1t
| She hasn't lost her. aversion t.
being photographed. and it wa.
Henry Ford who obligingly assem-
bled various ~r0u~s around her fo
| the battery of cameras. Edsel Ford
enveloped in a racoon coat cut ol
collegiate lines, and shy little Mrs
Henry Ford, We're summoned by tn
auto (and aircraft) magnate t,
take their places alongside tn
teacher Of chemistry, who confide
she's never too busy to fly"
Mrs. Lindbergh can't understan,
why folks thing she's brave to at
tempt the wearying flight to Mexic
City She explains she often ha
flown with her son, and consider
herself veteran air sailor"
The brave person Is Mrs. Williar
B. Stout, Mrs. Lindbergh insists
who is making the trip. aIthoug
she has just recovered from a ser
Gus illness. Mrs. Stout and he
husband, head of the aircraft co
poration that bears his name, hay
made frequent flights but the
aren't veterans of the air, as is til
flying colonels mother. Both, neve
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