Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-25
'L|NDBERGH' LEAVES
|! BY AIR FOR MIAMI
Plans to Inaugurate Rapid
AirmaiI Service Between
u. S. and Argentina.


After an overnight visit In the
National Capital, Col. Charles A.
Lindbergh took of from Boiling Field
at GAS o'clock this morning on q nom
stop flight to Miami, Fla, in his new
low-wink Lockheed Sirius monoplane,
in which he and Mrs. Lindbergh have
just established a new elapsed-time
speed record of less than Is hours from
the trip from the Pacific to the Atlantic
coast
Tomorrow Col. Lindbergh is to in
augurate a new airmail service, which
will cut mail time between all the
principal cities Of the United States and
the distant capital of Argentina and
other South American cities to seven
days.
Plans Trip Over New Line.
Lindbergh is to fly the first mail
plane over new line which will in
volve the worlds longest overseas
flight on regular scheduled service.
From dawn to dusk on Sunday he is to
fly over the open sea, except for So
mile stretch Of the Central American
Coast which will be skirted from Cape
Gracias a Dios toward the South. After
leaving the Cuban Coast early Sunday
morning the plane will be out of sight
of land during the 600-mile hop to the
Central American cape. They must rely
on radio and their own navigation to
carry the big plane across.
The new airmail service, which IN
effect reduces the airmail distance be-
tween North and South America by
l 900 miles, was celebrated at a brief
ceremony on the steps of the District
Building this morning, under the au-
spices Of the Washington Chamber Of
Commerce.
Accompanied by his mother, Mrs.
Evangeline, Lindbergh, Col. Lindbergh
flew to the National Capital from New
York yesterday afternoon, landing ut
evening. Mrs. Lindbergh returned to
New York by train last night, while her
son spent the night with Clarence M.
Young, Assistant Secretary of Com
merce for Aeronautics, at his apart
ment in the Hay-Adams House.
Visits Naval Air Station.
Lindbereh stopped for a short time
at the Naval Air Station, Lakehurst,
N. j., yesterday afternoon to obtain
weather data from the meteorological
officer there for use In his long ocean
While in the Capital Col. Lindbergh
had a brief. conversation with Harry
F. Guggenheim, Ambassador to Cuba,
at whose home he is to stay tomorrow
night while In Havana.
Col Lindbergh will be aided by favor
able winds and clear weather on the
nonstop flight to Miami, distance of
923 miles. according to weather reports
at Boiling Field. The bic. scalQet and
black monoplane the colonel Is flying
has a cruising speed OF 100 miles per
hour and on the transcontinental fight
his average speed was approximately
172 miles per hour.
Lindbergh is to leave Miami tomorrow
afternoon in mail plane Of Pan-Amer.-
lean Always, carrying the first batch OF
mail on the new seven-day service.
Leaving Havana Sunday morning, he
will arrive at Christobal, Panama, Sun
day evening, remaining there for sew
eral days. He will fly the mail plane
back to Havana some time next week.
Inauguration of the new seven-day
service between. leading cities Of this
country and the great cities Of Southern
South America has been one OF the
dreams of President Hoover since his
South American trip prior to his
Inauguration.
viii Concentrate Mail at Miami.
Mail from American cities destined
for South America will be concentrated
every, day at Miami, Fla, and Browns
vile, Tex, over the existing domestic
airmail lines. From Miami and Browns
vile 1t will be flown over converging
lines Of Pan-American Anyways to
Cristobal, Panama, from which 1t will
be flown over the Pan-American-Grace
line down the West Coast Of South
America and across the Andes.
The first movement Of mail over the
great converging network in this coun-
try Is to begin tomorrow night. Four
pilots will relay the mail along the
Atlantic coastal route through the Ma
tional Capital, operated by Eastern Air
Transport, and will connect with the
Pan-American plane which Lindbergh
will fly tomorrow at Miami
At o:10 o'clock tomorrow night Pilot
John r. Armstrong will take of from
the Eastern Air Transport terminus at
New York, carrying airmail from Mon
treal, Boston, Albany, Buffalo and other
New England and upper New York
points, beginning the flight that Is to
end in Buenos Aires, 1000 miles to the
South.
Armstrong will pick up mail at Phil
adelphia and Washington, continuing
to Richmond, where his plane will be
taken over by Pilot Earl Potts, who will
continue to Atlanta. Two other pilots
win relay the mail to Lindbergh at
Miami.