New Britain herald., 1927-12-30
I.Sn0- Mile Irin Ahead

Guatemala City, Guatemala, Dec. "" tP-I.unning zig-zag across Cen E,al America and linking all its capi- tels an airway Of more than 1900 miles stretched before Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh today.
 Sometime after January 5 his silver winged monoplane the Spirit o' S. Louis will come to rest in Panama and the highest honors In tn"Se peoples power will have been Haid the American flyer.
 Guatemala found that the tvo- jay stay, ending with Lindbergh' s departure this morning afforded ,n-
 Yficient time to pay him the tri- tnte which was felt due an adopted son.
 Today was a public holiday in Belize. British Honduras, which Colonel Lindbergh figured. repre- sented flight Of o5o miles from here. British and American flags and colored bunting decked the city which has never witnessed the land ing of an airplane and has only seen q few seaplanes alight in the harbor. Temporary obstacles at Newton Bar racks. the prospective landing field, were cleared away in the hope that iIndhergh could make a stop Se- fore continuing on 10 San Salvador. 250 miles from Belize.
 At San Salvador regret was ex. IrpSspI that tho rt1 ns la would be but two days.
 Honduras Plans Hmors
 Although his visit to Tegucigalpa. Honduras, 14o miles further on, Is several days off great enthusiasm is evident there in the airman's ven- ture. \ million buttons bearing his picture and the words "Welcome l.ihdbereh' have been distributed md coat lapels everywhere were decorated with them. Congress, after voting to make the f1ier an honorary colonel In the Honduran rmy. decided to bestow a laurel wreath upon him at q special session m his honor.
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 From Honduras Lindbergh plans 10 fly i50 miles to Managua, Nicara- qua, He has been warned to give the Neuna Segoyia district a wide berth because it is feared that ban dits operating there may shoot at him. His next hop will be 21o miles To San Jose, Costa Bica, and from there 320 miles to Panama. There the program includes a full day of rest, free of formality and official functions.
 The route from Guatemala to Bel ize led over high and fertile pla- teaus, picturesque and delightful val leys. The frontier crossed, it des- cended from the high attitudes in which the Lone Eagle has travelled of late down 10 the sea. Over the low Cockscomb mountains, across broken ridges covered with palms and pine clad foothills 1t swept over the lowlands to the capital of the British colony.
 Particular tribute was paid Lind Gargh prior 10 his departure by the 'iuatemalan army when it conferred upon the flyer the gold medal of merit. A parchment from the muni- "ipality proclaimed him the adop- tive son of the city"
 Arthur Geissler American minis fer, thanked President Chacon in lindbergh's behalf at a reception at the American legation.
 Toast to America.
 '1 request, ladies and gentlemen, that you offer with me a cordial lost for his eXcellency, the president General Lazaro Chacon," MT. Beis- sler said in closing his address.
 The president then proposed this fcast:
 ''To the United States Of America and those who at this moment repre- sent it among LIS. the distinguished minister. Mr. Geissler. and Colonel Iindbergh. master Of success and favored son of glory"
 Lindbergh. whose every moment ras taken up with functions of yes torday. attended receptions given by the Guatemalan army and the Amer ican club last night which kept him I'D until after midnight. Thus he had only few hours of rest before taking off this morning.