Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-11

| waiianS-that is about the only way
we can describe those loyal people
who had stood throughout the night
to welcome us to Hawaii.
Our weeks stay in Honolulu was
one continual welcome from friends
we had known in the service while
we were stationed there and those
countless others who extended the
hand OF friendship.
After those hours 10 600 feet above
the sea level when the frost formed
about the intakes of the carburetors
and we sat shivering in the cockpit,
the warmth of the Hawaiian sun was
indeed welcome.
Guests at Merry Functions.
Official and social engagements
have kept us busy at our head
quarters and at the Royal Hawaiian
Hotel, on the beach of Waikiki as
guests of the management. Between
our engagements we managed to get
into the water several times to try
out surfboard riding.
We were guests of the Outrigger
Canoe Club and We're taken on rides
in the native Hawaiian canoes, Off.
cial calls on Army, Navy and terri
torlal executives occupied some of the
time during the three days following
our arrival.
We We're received by Gov.
harrington in the capital the only
capital in the United States that was
once a palace of kings. On Sunday
afternoon we were guests at a luau
native Hawaiian feast.
We got a big thrill out of our mi.
tiation into membership of the haole
(white) branch OF the Sons and Daugh-
ters of Hawaiian Warriors.
Hawaiians presented us with beau
tiful cloaks made of feathers of the
same type as worn by the kings who
ruled the islands centuries ago.
We were just about as proud Of
those cloaks as we are of making the
flight.
Honolulus active chapter of the
National Aeronautic Association,
which is greatly stimulating CONNER.
cial aviation, entertained us at lunch.
con and presented us with handsome
watches. On our final night in Homo.
lulu the Sojourners Club. an organi.
cation of service men, presented us
with beautiful silver cups on which
were engraved a picture of our flight
and plane.
Gives Credit to the Army.
All these gifts were received not
as a tribute to us individually, but
to- the Army organization which
planned and prepared for the fight,
placing every facility at our dis
posal.
Honolulu was our goal when we
left Oakland. We rather expected
some Of the boys in the Air Service
TO meet us, but we never imagined
the entire island would open it's doors
to us and cause us to feel that every
one was our friend.
Surely Hawaii is a port OF friend.
ship. AT least we find it so. AS a
matter of fact, the fight did not
greatly fatigue us. We had later the
first morning a rest of about an hour
after breakfast. then motored to Hon.
olulu and to our hotel. Even then
we did not at once 60 to bed, but
met and chatted with a group Of
newspaper men. Then We turned in
for three or four hours of mighty
sound sleep. but by mid-afternoon
were up and made a dash for the
good old surf, booming in over the
coral sands of Waikiki.
The physical strain Of the flight Is
not formidable. Our prepa rations
and calculations worked out so well,
our flight, Our reaching Kauai lust
az we figured and our landing at
Wheeler Field all went so smoothly
that we cannot say the mental strain
was great.
Minor things that went wrong did
not count in comparison to the fact
that we were in a dependable machine
and that we had had enough expert
ence in inter-island and other flying
to know what had to be done when
plans must be suddenly shifted.
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