Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-04
byrd EXPECTED
TOTAKE SH|PFOR
HOME SATURDAY
Welcome Plans in United
States Attributed as Rea-
son for Decision.
AIRMAN NOW ANXIOUS
FOR SOUTH POLAR DASH
Visits Nungesser's Mother-Place
for Repairing America Is
Yet Undecided.

BY the Associated Press.
PARIS, July 4.--Comdr. Byrd and
his companions will probably sail for
home on one of the big liners Satur-
day. The great pressure brought to
bear on them to return to the United
States Immediately to receive the
welcome awaiting them there is given
no invitations here beyond Friday.
Comdr. Byrd, accompanied by II.
Adams Gibbons, representing Rod
man Wanamaker, and the American
charge d'affaires, Sheldon White
house, today called on the mother
of Capt. Charles Nungesser, French
aviator, who, with Capt. Coli, has
been missing since the start of their
attempted flight from Paris to New
York on May 9.
10000 Check Arranged.
The commander expressed his SYM
pathy to Nine. Nungesser and voiced
the hope that by some miracle her
son might still be found alive. AT
the same time he told her that the
Nungesser-Coli committee, of which
he is member, is sending her
check for $4,000, representing Amer
lean subscriptions.
Within 10 years Comdr. Byrd ex'
poets to see the establishment OF COM
mercial airplane service across the
Atlantic, functioning in Winter as
xx,ith tho rnUlIlQritV
of steamship service.
The leader of the latest transocean
fight believes that flying across the
ocean is largely matter or becom-
ing familiar with meteorological con-
ditions, and that when more is known
on the subject it will be possible to
shorten the aviation route between
New York ard Paris by 500 miles.
Works on Report.
He has begun work on his report
to the Navy Department. He said 1t
would be centered about meteorolog-
lean conditions and radio direction
finders. He was certain that regular
transatlantic service would have to
depend on radio direction finders at
both ends of the route and on the
planes themselves, for 1t is possible
with such apparatus to keep informed
as to the whereabouts of plane and
set its course accordingly.
Another point emphasized by the
comma nder was the necessity OF
learning more about temperatures in
as to avoid the critical temperature
of 80 degrees. where there was the
danger of ice-coated wings. Asked
about the plan of placing landing
stages at 200-mile intervals across
the Atlantic, he said: 1--WE shall have
to find some way to conquer the fogs
before landing buoys will be feasible"
South Polar Flight.
Hardly recovered from the siren.
uous and almost disa strous flight,
Comdr. Byrd is already turning his at.
tention toward his next aerial ven-
ture-a flight to the South Pole.
'It may not mean much to any one
else" he declared, but that fight
means lot to me, and I am anxious
to get started with it,"
Comdr. Byrd and his three flight
companions. Bert Acosta. Lieut..
George Neville and Berndt Balchen,
had busy time on their second day
in Paris.
They reviewed 1000 young men and
girls who came from every province
of France especially to do them honor;
then they deposited bronze wreath
on the tomb of Frances unknown sol.
dier in the Arc de Triomphe.
Overflow of Bouquets.
Throngs cheered them. An extra
room was needed at their hotel to care
for the overflow Of bouquets.
At the tribute to the unknown sol.
dier Byrd and Neville, who had sent
clothes ahead of them to France, were
dressed in white Navy uniforms.
Balchen was in a rough wooden suit
loaned to him by a Frenchman at the
seaside resort of Ver-sur.Mer, where
the America completed its long jour.
ney, while Acosta wore a borrowed
business suit.
Comdr. Byrd would like nothing bet.
ter than to fly back to New York. but
he feels that he cannot wait until re-
pairs are made to the America or an
other craft is made ready. The Fokker
Airplane Works want to put the
America back into flying shape, but
whether the repairs will be made here
or in the United States has not yet
been decided.
Today's program of the aviators in
cluded luncheon with Louis BleriOt,
first man to fly across the English
Channel, and a Fourth of July dinner
at the American Chamber of Com
merce.