The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-09-28
PLAN TO DRIVE
 THELENCTH OF l. SOUTH AMERICA
BK EVERETT A. BAURFAN

united Press Staff COErespOiadent
 Huenos Aires (Up)--An epic av- eomobile trip from Cape Horn to Unracas--the length of the South American continent twill be under sakef1 in November by the four Mail- to brothers, famous drivers who have already made world headlines with their drive from Bueros Aires % New York City in i940-41.
 The aim of the Maillos is to prove eo the world that automobile traf- fic from one end of the South Amer lean continent to the other is now practicable. Starting out from wind-swept Tierra del Fuego, the four brothers will guide their 1040 two-door Plymouth over the barren Patagonian deserts north to Buenos Aires, and thence by an excellent highway across Argentina and the Andes to Santiago, Chile. Reclimb- ing the Andes, they will 90 next to La PaE, Bolivia, and then to Lima, Peru, one of the toughest legs of their trip. From Lima they con. tinue due north to Bogota, and then west by Q new road linking the Colombian capital with Caracas.
 On the northward trip the four brothers will take c trailer, which will be left behind, however, on the return trip, when the Maillos hope to hang up the amazing record of only 300 hours over ii, 150 kilometers of mountain and desert lying be- tween Cracas and Buenos Aires. The 300 hours, they explain, will be time spent in driving, not the total length of their trip.
 Permits for special gasoline ale lowances in the countries through which they will travel are being SC. cured for the Maillos by the La Plata Cultural and Sports Institute, which is sponsoring the trip. By use of e special tourist garnet" issued by the Argentine Automobile Club, the four brothers also hope that it will be possible to reduce frontier and customs formalities to c minimum. They expect to reach Caracas some time in January and set out on their return trip in Feb- Tuary.
 None of the Maillo brothers is professional mechanic. Three are merchants, and the fourth news paperman, in their native city of La Plata. Since youth, however. they have been intensely interested in automobiles and devoted their spare time to Q study of engines. Today, all four are experts in au- tomobile repairs. They were un- known in the local automobile world when they began their famous >.five to New York for the first time, in 1887. This attempt met with disaster in the Peruvian noun- tains. A road all the way from La PaS northward to Lima was non. existent at that time. To ford treacherous mountain streams, the brothers had to recruit as many as 400 Indians from neighboring tribes. They scaled road-less mountain ridges by literally pushing their car over the top. The brothers got across the Andes, but their car was q wreck, and they returned to Bue- nos Aires.
 m october, is4o, the brothers set out again, this time with more luck. Seven months and 19 days la ter they were driving down New York's Fifth Ave. With the excep- ton of the stretch on the Panaman. ian peninsula north to Cristobal- impossible jungle country - the brothers made the entire trip over land. Leaving New York on July 70, io4l, they were back in Buenos Aires on November 18th of the same year.
 m is4i, the Argentine Automo: bile Club announced that Grand Prize of South America race would be held between Buenos Aires and Caracas. The feat had to be post poned, however, because of the Pe- ruvian. .Ecuadoria border incident and the outbreak of the war with Japan. There was great public disappointment because the trial could not be effected, for 1t was felt that the race might stimulate Q flood of inter American tourism. Test of the continent-long road way, however, will now be made by the Maillo brothers.