Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-07-10
DARGUE RETURNS
|. FROM LONGFL|GHT.
10,0OO-MiIe Jaunt Over U. S.
and Canada Is Termed
Successful.

Landing at Boiling Field yesterday
afternoon at $50 o'clock, Maj Her
bert A. Dargue. leader of the recent
! Army Pan-American good will fight
completed another good will' flight
of 10000 miles. during which he flew
over "a States and visited 100 cities,
in 70 of which he had speaking en-
gagements. Maj. Dargue was &C
companied on the entire fish: by
Walter Lochner, president OF the Ma
tional Association of Commercial
Organization Secretaries, under the
auspices of which organization the
flight was made.
Aboard the New York Il. flagship
Of the Pan-American flight, Maj.
Dargue and Mr.. Lochner left Wash
ington, May %, and worked their
way up through the New England
States to Canada, where they par
ticipated in the celebration incident
to installation of William Phillips as
the first American Minister TO the
Dominion. Returning to the United
States their Looming amphibian flew
as far West as Minnesota, then pro-
ceeded southwark to Oklahoma and
visited every State east Of the line
formed by the two.
schedule of landings and visits which
had been announced two weeks prior
to our departure is a wonderful dem.
onstration to commercial aviation
of the reliability Of the airplane,"
Maj. Dargue said last night.
Mr.. Lochner said Maj. Dargue, who
achieved wide recognition as leader of
the recent Pan.American project, was
received everywhere with the finest
kind of welcome" and his addresses
In 70 cities on the subject Of the
fight, together with the relationship
between the Pan.American republics
and the United States were received
with deep interest.
The flight, in Mr.. Lochner's opinion,
emphasized the close relationship be-
tween national defense and industry:
1t emphasized that airplane schedules
can be formulated and carried out
with a great degree of accuracy, and
that the people in the area visited are
enthusiastic over air transportation
and are proving this by working for
municipal airports.
Will Take Leave.
The last leg of the flight, about 400
miles, began yesterday morning at
Greensboro. N. c. Maj. Dargue flew
through Raleigh, where the governor
and his staff met the amphibian on
the landing field and then took off for
Newport News where landing was
| made in the water, and the maj or
delivered an address at a luncheon
| meeting.
En- route to Newport News the plane
flew over Richmond and a message
bag was dropped on the steps of the
State house. The bag contained two
messages, one addressed TO the Gov.
ernor of Virginia from F. Trubee
Dawson, Assistant Secretary of War
for Aviation, and the other to the
mayor of Richmond from Maj Gen.
Mason M. Patrick. chief Of the Air
Corps.
Maj Dargue will return to his post
as chief of the war plans section in
Office of the chief of Air Corps to-
morrow, and after cleaning up some
odds and ends pertaining to the Pan.
American flight, he will take
months leave of absence. Upon COM
pletion Of the leave, he will resume
his duties here. from which he was
| detached to lead the Army planes on
their 20.000-mile flight around South
America.
Maj. Dargue said last night that the
entire flight in this country was made
with but one Liberty engine, which
| was new at the start and which Is
still functioning perfectly.