New Britain herald., 1927-05-24
To Fly Over Paris

To Fly Over Paris
 Lindbergh knows that the people.
 above all, want to see him in action | in his element. and he Is going to l try to give them an exhibition of
 the skill which brought him across | the ocean with the regularity of a
 crack express train. He is plan
 ming to make a flight over Paris
 Thursday aboard his "old bus" the
 Spirit of St, Louis."
 At his request, mechanics at Le 1 Bourget airdrome have already
 started overhauling his motor and repairing the damage to the canvas struts done by souvenir hunters inn
 mAdiately the plane touched the ground Saturday night. Pleased by his simple kindly manner. the me chanics offered to do anything for him. He told them that viewed by
 day, the flying field was not nearly so tiny as it seemed to him Satur- day night.
 II thought I could see several ditches, which gave me some anNi- | ety." he said, but I now see those ditches only existed in my imagina- tion."
 The blonde youth from the west.
 whose smiling features now are known to every Parisian from the innumerable photographs which have been printed, went to bed last night. tired, but thrilled by what
 perhaps was the most eventful day in his life. Chief among the hon. ors bestowed upon him was the le- zion of honor. President Doumer- que pinned the decoration on his l coat-borrowed from an embassy
 offical-and later pointing to the 1 emblem, Lindbergh said: "I go from | joy to joy, and this is one of the greatest"
 i Given Gold Medal 1 Another big moment of the well ! filled day came at the Aero club, 1 where in the presence of a notable | group of birdmen, he was presented 1 with the clubs gold medal and was ] told that Mme. Deutsch De La | Meurthe, widow of the former presi- 1 dent of the club, had provided funds 1 for a cup to be given to him.
 After hearing his praises sung by 1 Minister Of War Painleve and other statesmen, he made three sentence
 speech which was sufficient to en-
 dear him further to the hearts of 1 Frenchmen.
 Friends" he said, Y am not go- ! ing to try to make a speech. I am | just going to try to tell you how | impossible it is for me to express
 my feelings. The only thing l can
 say is how deeply all the United
 States felt the loss of your two great aviators who undertook something 1 far greater than the flight from 1 New York to Paris"
 l From now until he flies to Brus- 1 sells Saturday virtually every hour i of Lndbergh's days has been as ! signed to some official or semi off | cial function-luncheon banquets and receptions. From Brussels he 1 expects to fly to London, on Mon- day.
 May Visit Sweden
 He is not in a hurry to get home l and there is a possibility of his go ing to Sweden to visit the birth place Of his father.
 T want to see little of Europe, while I am over here" he said. T haven't accepted any offers that
 have come to me from America and I am not going to consider any un- til I get home. We didn't make the flight with that Idea in mind. We
 didn't come over here with any mill lion dollar ambitions
 He emphasized that no long dis stance flights Were on his immediate
 program-not for many months at least. The rumors that he hoped to fly across the Pacific he charac- terized as most inopportune.
 During the last hour before 1t came time to dress for the Ameri- can club luncheon in his honor, Lindbergh and the ambassador turned themselves into sort of drafting committee to answer the more important cable messages and telegrams remaining without re- plies. Some of them were from monarchS and heads of states. Lind bergh remarked that he wanted to get the text right"
 For the luncheon, he wore one of his new Paris-made suits-a natty double-breasted dark gray affair. With it he wore an obviously new pair of tan shoes and gray change able silk tie.
 The shoes were the hardest thing to obtain of the whole new outfit for the flier's foot is shaped some what differently from the one usual ly fitted along the Paris boulevards. He tried on twelve pairs before he found one that felt right.
 Before leaving for the American club luncheon. Lindbergh had picturesque caller in General N. N. Baratoss, president of the Czarist Association of Russian Mutilated