The Washington times., 1929-02-04
GOT URGES HOOVER TO CONVENE EXTRA SESSION ON APRIL
OFF FOR
HONDURAS
FLIGHT
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st. Louis. and with a smile said

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st. Louis, and with smile said !.
casually:
"WeiI, we're off"
And the thrill that swept the
world as that courageous airman,
alone in his plane, his keen blue
eyes looking straight ahead, sped
over the Atlantic Ocean for his Z
goal.
Would he make it?
And the surge of pride and admi.
ration in everyone's breast as the
news came flashing back from
France that he had swooped down
from the darkened skies through
huge floodlights into a milling
throng at lie Bourget Field, Paris!
He had made it-in 33 hours and
29 minutes
II am Charles Lindbergh," he
said, as he crawled out Of the cock
pit.
AS II they didn't knowi
Refused to Be Exploited
All the adulation of idolizing mil.
lions, the homage OF kings and
rulers, the medals conferred upon
him by various countries, the tumul.
tuous celebrations in his honor, the
round Of receptions, and even his
unprecedented Homecoming on a
United States warship did not
change this modest youth a whit.
Overnight he. became the symbol of
American youth and manhood, and
so he has remained to this day.
No movie offers could tempt him,
He declined huge sums of money Of
fered as gifts. He would accept only
one reward for his great flight, the
prize of $25, 900 that had been stand.
ing for years for the first man to
accomplish the feat. He refused to
be exploited. He would sign no ad.
yertisipg testimonials.
In brief, he would do nothing that
would not, in a dignified, honorable
way, promote the advancement OF
aviation" That was Lindbergh's
announced ambition once he became
interna tionally famous, and he has
adhered to 1t to this very day.
Has BIazed New Trails
Since lis epic Paris flight he has
blazed new trails. and he probably
will continue to do so until ne dies.
He flew to Mexico and to South
America as a good viii ,amhas.
sador" He was the first man ever
to fly over the towering peaks Of
the Andes Mountains. He has
flown to almost every nook and cor
ner OF the United States in the In
terest OF the promotion of aeronau-
tics.
Lindbergh was born at Detroit, :
February 4. 1902. He went to gram.
mar school in Washington soon after
his fathers election to Congress
from Little Falls, Minn. In 1918 he
was gra luated from the Little Falls
high, school. Then he matrfcuIated
at the mechanical enginee ing school
of the University of Wisconsin. In
1922 he quit the college course and
enrolled in flying school at Lin
coin. Neb. He made many barn.
stofming" trips with other aviators
and finally bought his own plane
at Amerfcus. Ga.
He enlisted as a flying cadet at
Brooks Field, Tex, in November,
1925. When he completed his
training he enlisted in the Missouri
National Guard and was commits
stoned first lieutenant. Sub
sequently he became one OF the
country's finest air mail pilots. And
then, before the nation had hardly
heard of him, he showed UP at
Roosevelt Field with his Spirit of
st. Louis" And now I'VE" be-
came famous is history.
"Lindy' on his twenty-seventh
birthday finds himself perhaps the
most -talked-of man in the world, a
credit to himself and to his coun
try.
BELIZE, British Honduras, Feb.
4 iI.N.S.l-CoI. Charles A. Lind
bergh. the worlds best known flier,
was wfnging his way toward this
city from Havana today. He is die
here about o'clock this afternoon.
This was big day in this sleepy
little Caribbean. city. The popuiace
was shaken out of its placid every
day calmness by the news that
'Isindy" had hoped off at Havana
and was en- roIlte here to inaugurate
the new air mail service between
Florida and the Panama Canal zone.
This new link in communication
between the United States and
Latin America is held to be the di.
Hoover's good viii tour and his ex.
pressed opinion that new air lines
are necessary to bind closer the ties
of the North and the South.
Colonel Lindbergh win be for.
mally welcomed by the British Off
cials, who held it was fitting
honr that the Lone Eagle" should
have the distinction OF plotting the
first mail plane.
The distance here from Havana
is approximately $50 miles in a
straight line. The airline distance
from Belize to Managua. Nicaragua,
the next stopping place. is 400. miles.
Flying facilities here are not OF
the very best, but they have been
improved since last winter, when
Colonel Lindbergh visited British
Honduras on his good will swing