Evening star., 1927-05-19
BERTAUD IS OUSTED
FROM PARIS FLIGHT
Announcement Follows His
Statement That Fight Had
Been Settled.
Ry the Associated Press.

! BY the Associated Press.
| NEW YORK, May 19.--Lloyd
Bertaud definitely will not make the
Paris flight in the Bellanca monoplane
with Clarence Chamberlin, and his
successor is already selected, Charles
| A. Levine. head of the company back
| ing the flight. told the Associated
| Press this afternoon.
| Levine's announcement followed
| tardily an almost night long confer
ence at the end of which Bertaud had
said that all difficulties had been ironed
| out and that he would go on the
| flight as navigator as originally
| planned.
Levine made no statement at the
| time, but when reports gained circuia-
ton that the situation was not quite
as Bertaud believed it to be, he was
asked to state definitely what the
results of the conference were.
Successors Name Withheld.
"Bertaud is not going" he replied.
THAT is definite. His successor has
been selected but his identity will not
be revealed until the plane is ready
to hop off"
Levine said that Frank Tichenor,
publisher of an airplane magazine,
went to his house early today, taking
with him Bertaud and G. NJ. Bellanca,
designer of the plane. He identified
Bertaud in his statement as formerly
navigator of the plane Columbia"
"Tichenor came as peacemaker and
Bellanca was neutral" he said. Der
taud repudiated statements attributed
to him in the press and attempted to
conciliate me, but / told him he was
definitely out.
He offered to withdraw the injunc-
ton suit he started against me if I
| would let him go, but l rejected his
Offer
Won't Explain Silence.
Asked why he had let Bertaud' s
statement that all difficulties had been
disposed of stand for eight hours be-
fore denying 1t, Levine said through a
representative that he was not inter-
ested in any conclusions the public
might draw from such action on his
part He said that he was not seeking
publicity and only made statement
at this time because he had been
asked for it.
Adverse weather reports further de-
layed the Bellanca flight. Stormy
areas between here and the New.
foundland coast also held to earth
1Ould1. 1h1LHdAu byl0 SliIL
F'okker monoplane America, and Capt.
Charles Lindbergh's Ryan monoplane
Spirit of st. Louis.
Marked activity about the Byrd
hangar today, however, indicated COM
pletion of final preparations for the
flight of the America. Mechanics
hustled about the huge craft, making
1t ready for what might be it's last
test flight preparatory to a start to.
mo row.
The Midatlantic. said weather re-
ports, was clear but favorable skies
the entire extent of the route probably
would not appear before tomorrow.
Lindbergh was ready to depart.
Foodstuffs and safety devices have
| been put in Byrd's plane. The food
| includes enough pemmican to last
| Byrd, his pilot, Lieut.. George o. No
Vile, and Bert Acosta, their compan-
| ion, six weeks; matted milk, hardtack
and gallons of distilled water
The safety devices include two pneu-
matte boats, one of which is IA feet
long; fishing tackle box kite, to be
used either as radio antennae or boat
! sail; a pistol for signaling and flares,
Byrd declared the preparations would
make an ocean landing as safe as
| floating on the lake in Central Park
| compared with precautions taken by
flyers in the past"
Col. Theodore Roosevelt has given
| Lindbergh a letter to deliver to Am
bassador Herrick in Paris.