New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1927-07-02
Reception Accorded
American Transat-
lanic Heroes Similar
to That Accorded the
Great Lindbergh Sew
eral Weeks Ago.
Levine One Of
First to Greet Them
Byrd, Ac0sta and Neville
Possibly Injured in
Landing.

Paris, July Up - Commander
Richard E. Byrd and his three com.
panions on the transatlantic fight Of
the giant monoplane America ar.
rived in Faris from Caen at 1929
p. m. today, receiving tremendous
ovation from huge crowd that fills
| ed the st. Lazare railroad station.
The great crowd filled the station
almost to the bursting point and
overlooked into every nearby street.
Strcw Flowers In Path
| So dense was the throng that Com.
mander Byrd and his companions,
after a short reception upon their
arrival on the station platform, had
to fight their way to waiting automo-
biles while the crowd cheered wild.
ly and threw flowers in their path.
Despite heavy rain. the Ameri-
can aviators who had battled for ~
hours with fog and storm in their
transatlantic flight which ended in
the early hours of yesterday on the
beach at Ver-Sur-Mer on the coast
of Normandy IFS miles west Of
Paris, were given reception such
as that given to Charles A. Lind.
bergh who so quickly became tho
darling of Paris on his own epochal
fight.
The Place Du Havre In front Of
the st. Lazare station was crowded
as it had not been before In the
memory of veteran gendarmes.
Great Crowd Present
| Men held women high In the air
to watch the passage of the Ameri.
can fiiers while children wormed
their way through inconceivably
small places to get into the front
line and the big police force stations
ed all along the route had the hard.
est kind Of work keeping passage
way clear for the procession.
Only invited guests and members
OF the official welcoming committee
which Il luded representatives Of
the ministries OF war and commerce
and the municipality of Paris were
permitted inside the railroad station
on the arrival of the train.
CrOWQ ROOFS OF Trans
Determined to see the American
airmen, however, workmen crowded
the roofs Of every train in the vicin-
ity and passengers craned their
necks out Of windows to their great
peril in an effort to catch even =
feeting glimpse of them.
| Some one presented Commander
Byrd with a huge bunch of flowers
as he stepped out Of the compart-
ment smiling greeting to those who
welcomed him. There were many
other bouquets for the fiers, but
their bearers did not get much
chance to present them personally
so threw them through the air.
All the way from Caen to Paris.
a four-hour trip, Commander BYRD
and his companions were kept busy
accommodating autograph hunters
and most Of the passengers of the
express train left their own cars at
one time or another to enter the
car where the aviators had reserve
ed compartments.
Cheered Along Way
|
press stopped, crowds were waiting
to cheer the fliers and flowers were
given them at every halt. In one
town little girl, carrying q single
red rose-the French gift to those
they would hopor-was held up to
the windo' Of the car to hand the
flower to Commander Byrd.
At the railroad station itself 200
police sergeants lined the way to the
small waiting room where q recep-
ton committee had its chance to
shake hands with the airmen and
offer them congratulations. The
crowd could not be held back and
the aviators had to elbow and
shoulder their way past their en-
thusiastic admirers.
Greeted BY Levine
| One of the first to rush up to the
fiers and shake hands in congrat-
ulation was Charles A. Levine. who
arrived in Paris yesterday with
Clarence D. Chamberlin. Levine had
waited Is minutes surrounded by =
crowd of his own admirers who were
eager to ret his autograph.
The ceremony In the waiting room
was brief and then the tliers, emery
ing From the station and preceded
by 20 buriy policemen. had to face
a new mob of excited cheering
thousands. AS they entered their
waiting cars. they smiled and bow.
ed and even kissed hands in ac-
Acknowledgement of their welcome.
VIII Be X-Rayed
| Commander Richard +. Byrd,
Lieutenant George o. Neville and
Bert Acosta will be X-rayed this aft
ernoon under the direction OF DR..
cambridge who says that the three
men all have evidences of Commissions
as a result Of their descent into the
sea at Ver-Sur-Mer yesterday morn
ing.
| Commander Byrd, DR.. Cambridge
said, has confusion Of the chest.
The commander is unable to speak
loudly and was still clearly exhaust
ed today. He entered the Continen-
tai hotel on the arm Of DR.. Balm.
bridge who insisted that the avia-