Evening star., 1938-07-14
Hughes
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inside the ship after the motors we-.
cut of.
Then Thurlow poked . bearded face
out, grinned at the crowd, kissed q
woman who had showed her way to
the cabin door and ducked back in
side.
All the elaborate arrangements to
prevent damage to the plane threat
ened to 60 for naught.
Two small planes which had gone
out earlier to meet the round-the-
world flyers escorted it back to the
field and wheeled lazily about while
Hughes set his ship down.
Shortly before Hughes left the plane
a crowd broke through two sections
of heavy wire fence around
the Administration Building. Police
rushed forward and stopped them Just
short Of the plane.
Police Form Wedge.
Hughes wore the same battered
brown felt hat and rumpled gray suit
he had on when he left. He smiled
shyly from behind his heavy beard
and lighted = cigarette while police
formed = flying wedge in front of him.
The wives Of Thurlow and Connor
pushed their way through the milling
crowd to greet their husbands.
Once in front of the Administration
Building, Hughes waved aside q bat
terry of microphones, explaining he
would not speak until all members Of
his crew were at his side.
When they were brought up he made
short speech. Acknowledging the
greeting, one of the widest since Lind
'befgh returned from his epochal fight
to Paris.
When the five dog-tired men
climbed stiffly out of the plane it
had been little more than 81 hours
since they sped eastward across the
Wild Northern Atlantic, through scat
tered clouds. and winds high above
the turbulent seas.
In Is hours and IS minutes thev
hSd reached lie Bourget Field in
Paris to be greeted by the same kind
OF tumultuous crowd that had gath
cred to see the arrival of Col. Charles
A. Lindbergh IL years earlier.
A minor injury to their plane de-
layed them a few hours, and they
were on again speeding over Belgium.
over the forests and streams. villages
and cities of Germany. Poland, 1ithu-
ania. on to Moscow.
Moscow and its Kremlin. and the
numerous brightly -colored house. and
buildings that we're once churches
were quickly behind them, and they
were again over the rolling Russian
countryside. the mountains and riv-
ers, on over the Urals to the vast
siberian wastes. the endless, DANGER
Gus miles to Omsk and to Yakutsk,
Flying Through Alaska,
A short stop there and they were
gone again, flying high through the
warm air. through the perils of the
6ering Strait to Alaska.
At Fairbanks they had discarded 4
great deal Of the equipment they
would no longer need-heavy clothing,
q rubber boat. And at 8:36 pm. tE.
8. I'd they were in the air again,
numbering down toward New York,
over the treacherous canyons of the
Canadian Rockies, over the historic
! Youkon stretches where men toiled
! years ago to make their way to places
where they found gold or death-on
across Canadian forests.
For six and half hours their radio
was silent. They were unworried. On
the contrary. they were jubilant. New
York lay close at hand now.
Minneapolis was their first stop in
their homeland. And after their brief
pause there this morning, they were
on again over Two Rivers, Wis; Lud-
ington, Mich; over Sarhia, Ontario;
down across Buffalo and Southern
New York: over Scranton, Pa, and,
finally, over New York City, to the field
where they started.
Thousand League Boots.
The wealthy sportsman-aviator, who
would rather tinker with an airplane
motor than live the life of ease which
ne easily could afford, had whipped