Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-10
10000 WELCOME
Indy IN TEXAS
Brownsville Landing Links
U. S. ard Mexico in Daily
Air Mail Service.
BY ALFRED ID. LAROCHELLI
BY the Associated Press.

| BY the Associated Press.
BROWNSVILLE, Tex, March "a
| new communications link between Mex
leo and the United States was forged
today by Col Charles A. Lindbergh
when he inaugurated regular daily air
mail service between Mexico City ana
this American border town.
Carrying a heavy cargo OF mail and
nine passengers, Col Lindbergh reached
here at "a pm. to be greeted by an
enthusiastic crowd estimated at 10000,
which included number OF noted avla-
tors. He took off from Mexico City at
7:56 am. and made stop OF lew
minutes at Tampico.
The mail was transferred to a Texas
air transport plane to be carried to
San Antonio and thence to Dallas for
the northward fight to Chicago on the
existing air mail line, which connects
with the transcontinental route.
INAUGURATION of the Mexican service
will afford 36-hour delivery of letters
between Mexico City and New York.
Starts Back Tomorrow.
Col. Lindbergh was expected to leave
on the return flight to the Mexican
capital at 1890 am. tomorrow to reJoln
his fiancee, Miss Anne Morrow, daugh-
ter of the American Ambassador. NO
definite announcement was made,
however.
The welcoming crowd at the airport
was so large and enthusiastic that 1t
got out of hand. As the wheels OF Col.
Lindbergh's plane touched the ground
one large group of spectators broke
| through the ropes that had kept the
| landing field clear. They rushed out
and surrounded the plane. .
| Pilots of the two ships that escorted
the Lone Eagle from Mexico City had
difficulty IN making safe landings be-
cause of the throng on the field.
Col. Lindbergh and his passengers re-
manned in the cabin while officers drove
back the crowds.
Scores of airplanes few here from
various sections of the country for the
celebration. Miss Amelia Earhart, first
woman to fly the Atlantic, was among
those on hand.
Eaker Arrives for Hop.
Capt. Ira c. Eaker, pilot of the ia
| nous endurance plane Question Mark,
arrived from San Antonio in a speedy
pursuit ship. in which he had planned
| to attempt a dawn-to-dusk flight to-
morrow from Brownsville to the Panama
Canal Zone. While the flight has been
temporarily postponed owing to the
revolution in Mexico, Capt. Eaker said
he was standing by for further orders
| from Washington.
Capt. Eakers plane was christened
today. The Question Mark pilot enter
tanned the throngs with aerial acrobatics
before he TAXED his ship to the hangar
Unless Eaker receives permission to-
morrow to start his projected dawn
to-dusk" flight to Panama he will re-
turn to Kelly Field, San Antonio, he
said.
In the ship with Lindbergh on his
fight over revolution torn Mexico were
high officials of that government, in
Guiding Jesus P. Bravo, postmaster gen.
eral: Enrique Castillos, chief OF the
department of mail transport; Jose V
Chavez, chief of stamping in mail de-
partment and Guillermo Villasanno
an engineer, representing the secretary
of communication. r. v. Kent. Lind
bergh's co-pilot; William Barcik, me-
chanic. and Jacob Dale Vuelta, Mexico
City newspaper man, also were in the
ship.
After brief relaxation at the For
Brown officers Club, Lindbergh wa.
refreshed and jovial. A good flight hat
been enjoyed. The Lone Eagle woulc
say nothing of conditions In the interior
of Mexico or his coming marriage.