Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-01-02
.L|NDY'S SALVADOR
FEAT IS THRILLER
Flying Colonel AccompIishes
Marvel of Aviation in
260-MiIe Hop.

F. Tropical Radio.
SAN SALVADOR. January Col
Charles, a Lindhergh, nyinS over the
sparsely inhabited iunGies and noun
tains Of four countries IN Central
America yesterday morninc. made the
csh mile airline flight from EcliZe.
British Honduras IL san Salvador in
= .>orrs and 10 minutes.
- - Impossible to follow his route
e.ronl hv air. md no ono mas ever
canc ii that way before To got from
Eoiire To san Salvador otherwise re-
cures three days IF tho hardest
travelling -~ClaYteriuS launch from
Belize To Puerto EarriCS. since few
regular ships are available; thence by
narrow. cause railway tn Guatemala
City. then II hours of steady driving
by automobile cover roads the like of
which one has to experience in order
to Imagine.
Take.OE Spectacular.
Col Lindhcrch took off from the
slightly curved and understood polo
tround 1T Beii2n at 900 o'clock just
as he reached the sea. which forms
one edge Of the field He lifted his
plane n this critical point after
run Of only 100 ya"ds---aH The room
available That feat, as we'll as his
landing ~ Rehze l7ithcrto was be-
lieYcd TO hn impossible.
He passed over The tangled forest
covering the SwCltcrinc lowlandS %
British Honduras and Guatemala lie
climbed over crafty broken mountain
ranges. which rise from deep CANYONS
tn an altitude Of 5000 feet in Hon
iuraS and Salvador, and landed per
freely at llcp2nco air field ri San
Salvador ut ":ie O'Clock. local time
Ga:10 am. New York limcA. before
the Salvadoreans expected him.
S9lVado"ean army aviators, who
had expected Ia meet the Spirit Of -.
Louis at the frontier between Saliva
dor nj Honduras 10 escort Col. Lind
h0rgh horc. took off ri llopanco Field
o. SIS am. Tho first. BreCuet
bomber. started west. pi'otcd by Lieut..
Juan Ramon Munes. with a photog.
ranhcr Then Lieut.. Jaeinto Bon
DANA. fiyin- Lincoln STANDARD. took
of with Lieut.. Gustavn Lopez as oh
server. A crowd OF about 3000' per-
sons already on the field settled down
IN hours of waiting. While stream of
automobiles end special trains from
the city added To its numbers Two
I@nriot hlplanes stood ready 10 take
CT ~ meet Col. T.indbarCh as soon as
he was sighted over the capital.
Crowd Bushes on Field.
Hardly five minutes after the Bre.
KTseJ piano had left the Lone Eagle
Was visible. distant speck 10 the
Westward lie grew swiftly larger.
and soaring down over the capital
cifTled llopanso Field, while the
cTowd went wild. scarcely believing
It's eyes.
The Spirit of 81 Louis had the air
eli 10 Itself. for the Brccuet and Lin
coin Standard planes were nowhere
To he seen and The two Henriots re-
naained forgotten on the field.
Col. LindberGh dragged the field
once. The crowd keeping it's place near
the hangers. hut few minutes later
when the flyer sNooped down again
the crowd, men cheering and women
screa r1nG broke loose and ran di-
rec,ly toward the silver monopane.
Though the Spirit of 81. Louis had
touched the ground in a distant part
of the field il seemed certain that
some Of the needless crowd would be
hurt unless the plane was stopped
sooner than appeared 10 be possible.
Coi. Lindbergh stopped the plane and
propeller remarkably nuick after a
1np-yard run. when the leaders Of the
Widespread nea9eoF@ fnUit31U0e were
less than 80 yards away
Another moment and the Spirit Of
s., Louis was hidden by the seething
throng. The American charge
d 'afajres. =. :. Dickson and th>
foreign Office master of ceremonies
Julio siejia. no PLAYED foot hall in
the United States. were among the
FIRST 10 reach the plane.
Presented Ia President.
with tho aid n the few policemen
end soldiers who soon arrived. and
with Col LindberSh himself asking
the people 10 please stay back. the
plane wss gradually cleared away
from The crowd without suffering any
ca mage. COL IinAbergh. however.
had to strip Of his flying suit between
h nashakngs with his insistent al.
Yg4.FeIT.
Then. while aylators helped IN guard
the Shirt 81 ST. Louis Col. Lindbergb.
81 slss nrual gray suit and partly pro-
,aofad from the buffeting ~ the crowd
b. an !npt0mpiu guard. walked
toward The hangar He arrived there
"a minutes after landing. hnd war
presented 10 President Tic Romero
E.ssa,ue. who Was waiting with his
cabinet the general staff ana
Il piou3tg
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