Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-03
Paul Codes. to
Take Plane on
Return Hop.
CRAFT DAMAGED
FOR SOUVENIRS
$4,000 Await Pilots
Upon Arrival in
Texas City.

= BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September 3.-The
Question Mark, flown from Paris
to New York by Coste and Bel
lonte, will be flown back from New
York to Paris by Paul Codos,
French aviator, as soon as CoSte
and his comrade have completed
flights in the plane to Dallas, Tex,
and to Washington, it was an
nounced today
Codes will sail from France with
a mechanic in a few days to be in
New York when the Question
Mark returns from United States
flights.
The plane will be thoroughly over
hauled and Codes will attempt to re-
trace the flight Coste and Bellonte made
from LIE Bourget to Curtiss Field
If the flight is successful it will mark
the first round trip across the North
Atlantic by the same plane.
VIII Leave at am.
Rising early today from the first
rest they had had since Sunday night
in Paris, Dieudonne CoSte and Maurice
Bellonte prepared to receive the city's
greetings and to take of at o'clock
Eastern standard time) tomorrow
morning for Dallas, Tex. and the
SIS 900 prize which awaits them there
Msrred somewhat by souvenir hunt
ers, their scarlet plane 80" was still be-
lieved to be capable of flying half way
across the continent without extensive
repairs. to qualify for the purse posted
three years ago by Col william Easter
wood. Dallas millionaire, for the first
one-stop flight from the French capital.
BY the terms of the prize offer they
must take of within 20 hours of their
arrival at Curtiss Field last evening.
The airmen found themselves sur
rounded this morning, long before their
official reception began, by the acclaim
of a world which still knows how to
appreciate task of daring well done.
Coste Telephones wife.
Tailors bobbed in and out of their
hotel suite putting the last touches on
new clothes ordered last night and
fashioned through the night by many
deft fingers. The flyers arrived with
only their greasy coveralls and flying
toys, and needed presentable attire for
their public appearances today.
Coste was on the telephone before
9 am. talking to his pretty wife In
Paris-but it Yves just private con-
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least, nobody listened in.
Late today Coste and Bellonte will
go to Curtiss Field and inspect their
plane, to see that it is being prepared
for tomorrow's 10-hour flight to Dallas.
They will remain in Dallas only long
enough to rest and overhaul their motor
before starting back to New York.
They will visit Washington, either on
their way home from Dallas or on a
separate trip to be made after they
return.
Associated With COSte.
Codes long has been associated with
Coste in aviation, having been with the
French captain as mechanic and CO.
pilot on several of the latter's record
breaking flights.
He was with Coste when the latter
crashed on an attempted five-day flight
to Indo-China in the Winter of 1929
and also with Coste when he set three
new air records for closed circuit flight
It was Bellonte, however, who flew with
Coste to Manchuria last year to set the
distance record for straight-line flight
OF more than 5000 miles.
Codos Is World Wa flyer and for
several years was a regular pilot on the
Paris-London airline across the chan
mel, probably the best known and most
travelled of all airlineS of the world.
DALLAS PLANS RECEPTION.