The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, May 27, 1927, Image 8
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Hajra Greatest Hcare Came With Might
of Vast Crowd on Paria Klrld
Farm, May 22.?Capt. Charles A.
Lindbergh today told the story of his
flight from New York to Paris to a
group of newspaper men in the embassy,
and when he had finished every
on? was firm in the belief that he
was a res I flying genius.
"Being newspaper men," he began,
"I suppose you gentlemen are interested
first in knowing yvhat was the
most dangerous thing ubouj our
flight. The most dangerous tiling of
all was that landing at Le iiourget,
bringing that ship down on a field
with all thatjK.-rowd running. I had
more fear at the moment for the welfare.
of our plane than at any other
time in the whole flight.
"The first part of the flight was
better and easier than any of us expected.
1 he field in New York was
muddy, which made the takeoff u
little long, but we got away all right.
"All the way up the American coast
to Newfoundland, we had uncommonly
good weather?lots better than we expected.
Nut for the next 1,000 miles
it couldn t have been much worse for
us."
At this Juncture, the ambassador
remarked, "When Lindbergh says 'we'
he meuns the ship and himself."
All the way through, except when
asked for a personal opinion of something
the flier used the first person
plural in describing the voyage.
-After we got away from lund,"
continued the aviator, "we ran into
fog, then into rain, then hail. Sometimes
we flew not more than ten feet
above the water, and the highest was
10,000 feet. We went up that high
to try to get above the storm, but the
average altitude for the whole second
1#00 miles of the flight was less than
100 feet.
"If we had known that the weather
would be as bad over that part of the
ocean as it turned out to be, we would
not have started, hut once we got
into it, there was not any use in turning
back; there wasn't anything to do
but keep going.
"We were mighty happy to see the
dawn, which we ran into about two
o'clock, New York time. In the afternoon
we picked up Ireland from the
maps wo had and from what I read
home I knew that Kngland was a sort
of hilly rolling country, France pretty
flat and Ireland inclined*to be mountainous.
So when 1 saw pretty high
ranges off in front, 1 knew it was
Ireland. I
Pardon me," a voice from the outet
ring of listeners called, "but did
you do the whole flight by dead reckoning
.' I am a flier myself; my name
is CoMntfu. and 1 flew over here from
laindoti a few minutes ago to s(-?. you
and tell \ on you have done the greatest
thing I ever heard ..f,"
All heads turned. The voice was
that of Sir Alan Cobham. the greatest
of Hntish long distance aviators, the
pioneer ,.f routes to S,,uth Africa.
India .. d Australia.
'' 1" Alan Cubham." several
said and inade a path for him to approach
Lindbergh, who grasped the
Briton s hand and said, "1 am mighty
glad to meet you, ?ir. I have heard a
gre-at deal about you. We?-I?did it
all by dead leekoning. We didn't
carry any astronomical instruments,
and I didn't know how to use a sextant."
"What po.n; v did you fly l)Ver m
crossing fr..m Ireland to Frame?"
some one asked.
"Hand me tin- map; I'll tell
Lindbergh leplied.
In answer to another question, he
said he did not feel either hungry
aleep\ .luring the flight, and as to his
meals -"I ate about a sandwich and
a half and diank about a half glass of
water. I kept the windows open all
the way. Hut. you see, our ship, the
way she is built, you are protected
from straight winds, and so we didn't
have that discomfort."
"How did you fly from Cherbourg
on to Paris?"
"Oh. just came ..n in a straight line,
picked up the beams of the searchlights
all right and saw the Seine.
Then when I got a look at Kiffel
tower all |I( lip> r kncw (ha, wa<?
Paris, and I had been told at home
that Le Jh.urget was 11 kilometers
northeast of Pans.
, W hen 1 got there, 1 wa-n't quite
Hure that it was Le Houiget. That is
why I flew a.ouiul there several minutes.
I thought Le Bourgct must be
a little farther on. but when they
turned on the field lights I figured
that must be the place. Then the
crowd began racing out there into the
ights, and there wasn't any more
doubt about it."
The French journalists asked Lindbergh
what was his opinion as to the
f^Ie of Nungesscr and Coli, as he
a P?th through much the same
route they were expected to follow.
"There are a hundred things could
have happened to Nungesscr and
<oh," he said. "If they had very had
meat her this side of Newfoundland,
one of the hundred things that seems
not impossible is that they got into
a sleet atorm that they might not
have been able to get out of or climb
over. A sleet storm can bring you
down in five minutes, because ice
built up in front of the wings will
change their entire curve.
"Then suppose they flew low all
the way and got into an ice field.
There you have got the worst possible
conditions, and you might not be able
to get over it. There are ice fields
off Newfoundland, where if you had
to come down there wouldn't be one
chance m a thousand to hi* found.
"The flight Nungosser and (,'oli
took from Pans to New York is much
harder than coming from New York
to Paris because of unfavorable conditions.
At New York we received
telegrams from all over the United
States, nearly all asking us to express
sorrow to the people of Paris
over the loss of Nungosser and Coli.
Their attempt touched the heart of
everybody in our country and every
one of us wanted them to succeed."
Former Non-Stop Records
Washington, May 21.? Here are i
some other non-stop Transatlantic
flights that furnish high Jights in the
history of travel, as selected by the
National Geographic Society:
Columbus: Sailed from Palos,
Spain, August 3, 1492, arrived at San
Salvador, October 12; time elapsed 69
days.
Pilgrim Fathers: Sailed from Plymouth,
Kngland, September 6, 1620,
arrived Cape Cod, November 19; time
elapsed 74 days. fDreadnaught:
Yi%kee clipper ship
sailed from New YorC June 15, 1H59,
arrived Cape Clear, Ireland, June 27;
time elapsed, 12 days.
Savannah: First steamship to cross
Atlantic, from Savannah, (!a., to
Liverpool, leaving Savannah, May 29,
1K19, crossing in 27 days.
Great Eastern: Famous early
steamship sailed from Needles, off
Southampton, England, June 17, 1K60,
arrived New York, June 28; time
elapsed 11 days.
Maurebania: Sailed from New York
to Cherbourg, September, 1924; time
elapsed 5 days, 1 hour and 49 minutes.
Zeppelin dirigible ZR-3 (later Los
Angeles): Sailed from FViedrichshafen,
Germany, October 12, 1924.
Arrived Lakehurst, N. J., October 15;
time elapsed, HI hours, 17 minutes. 1
British biplane (Alcock-Brown): I
Took off at St. Johns, N. F., June 14,
1919, arrived Clifden, Ireland, June
15; time elapsed, 16 hours, 12 minutes.
( ongressional Medal For I.indl>ergh
M i.neapolis. May 23. A bill is to
be introduced in the next session of
congress by Senator Thomas 1).
Si hall to award Charle- A. Lindbergh
with the Congressional Medal of
Honor, the -enato) said here today.
Life of Lindbergh
j ( harlcs A. Lindbergh, born in Detroit,
Mich., 19(12, being, therefore. 2">.
Family moved Little Falls. Minn.
Was graduated from Little Falls
11 igh school in 191s.
Studied engineering at tin University
of \\ iseons n, but gave it up to
go on father's farm.
Ix-ft the farm in 1922 to become
aviator, having previously been an expert
motorcycle lider.
In May. 192 1. his father. C. A.
Lindbergh, a congressman, died and
Lindbergh returned to scatter his
fathers ashes over the homestead, a<
desired by his father.
His mother is at present an instructor
in ( ass Technical High school, Detroit.
Bad Fire in Sgtaiter
hire in Sumter Wednesday, at 2:30,
fanned by the heavy wind, destroyed
property valued at $25,900. The
house of Harry \V. Cuttino was
burned and the wind fanned the
flames to the residences of Mrs. A. A.
Bradham, Samuel Sanders and Mrs.
Mary B. Warren. All four of these
houses were practically destroyed and
a garage and three outhouses to the
rear ot Davis I). Moise's residence
were also burned. Aid of the Columbia
and Cnrrlden fire departments
was requested. Columbia is said to
have responded. Camden was asked
O be ready upon the second call and
the firemen were ready and willing
to go, hut the wind stopped as suddenly
as it had arisen and Camden';
aid was not needed.
BOPl'LAR EXCURSION
To WASHINGTON. 1).
FRIDAY. JUNE 3. 1927.
Southein Railway System will operate
popular excursion above date;
tickets to sold .June 3; return limit
to reach original starting point mid
night June 8. The following round
trip fnres in effect:
CAMDEN, S. C.. $11.50.
Excellent opportunity to visit the
Nation's Capitol. Wonderful parks,
W ashington Monument. Library of
Congress. Zoological Park. Lincoln
Memorial, National Museum and Mt.
Vei non.
Baseball: Washington vs. St. lx>uls
June 4 and 5; Washington vs Cleveland
June 7.
For Pullman reservations, etc.. sec
Ticket Agents, of Southern Railway
B H. Todd, D. P. A., Columbia, S. ?
Wateree Wu WIomt.
Wateree Mills won the game from
Hartsville Cotton Mill here last Saturday
by a acore of 6 to 1. Barnes
and Taylor was the battery for Wa-,
teree, while Newsom and Morton !
worked for Hartsville. By all br<*aks
of the game the aeore should have j
been reverted. Errora on the part of;
the Hartsville team was responsible '
for nearly all of the runs for Wa |
teree. Newsorn pitched a great game i
for Hartsville, striking out sixteen |
men. Boor fielding, Both inlei<i and
outfield, changed what otherwise
xhould have been a pitchers battle
into a one-sided score. Barnes, u
left-hander, also pitched well for :
Wateree, and pulled himself -?ut of
several bad holes with the bases full.
Taylor, catching for Wateree, is a
good player. He plays for the love
of the game and works hard.
FORTY-SIX GRADUATES
(Continued from First Page)
Waters, Goldie Corbett, Eulah Evans,
Mary Jackson, Ruby Jackson, Khc-tta
Mc-u-od, Ruby Rereen, Margaret
West.
Grade 2-A ? Wood row Benson, Allen
Calder, Willie Cameron, Francis
Chapman, Sidney Kirkland, Guy
Love, Bobby Marye, Jack Mogu'.escu,
Billy Nettles, Isaac Pitts, Wuodrow
Sanders, Clinton Thigpen, Minnie Sue
Bruce, I^ena Corbett, Lillian Davis,
Virginia Davis, Catherine Dempster,
Beulah Graham, Lois Homer, Ellen
Little, Rebecca Rush, Florence
Savage, Sudie Shirley, Kula Smyr!,
Jean Van Laudingharn, Nancy Watts.
Grade 2-B?Marjory Culler, Lucile
DeBruhl, Clyburn Huggins, J. C.
Hough, Joylynn Hall, Edwin Miller,
James McKegin, Apnie May Pressley,
Willie Sheorn, Harold Smith.
Grade 3-A?Sarah Bissell, Leila
Christmas, Gladys Hames, Mary Ellen
McDowell, Emily Shannon, Emily
Sheorn, Lillie Mae Smith, Willie Mae
Smith, Lena Stevenson, Edna Strak,
Helen Tindal, Fannie Mickle, Barbara
Zemp, Helton Beard, Ned Beard, Jack
Brown, Everette Goodale, Jack Halsail,
Raymond Moore, McKain Richards,
Robert Shaw, II. B. Shirley,
Marion Smith, Ralph Trapp, William
West, Rollins Hatfield, Billy Shannon,
Henry Shannon.
Grade .'LB?Ethel Evans, Evelyn
Horton, Fledabel Horton, Thelmaj
Kinney, Martha Moseley, Louise Mc-J
Leod, Theo Smith, Louine Tolbert,
Louise Yereen, Ruth Waters, Dorothy
W <*i11s. Lacy Brayshaw, Arthur
Christ mas, Willis DeBruhl, Ix-rov
Doiity, Horace Hall. W. L. Jackson.
Edward .Jennings. Nettle- Myers.
Bruce Met ask ill. Redding Oglcsby,
B:llie Pursley.
Grade 1-A .James Chapman, Otis
( reed, Joseph Da-kins, Alfred Goodale.
Jack Hui'.e; Jerome Hoffer, Doris
Houser. Eugene Howard, Everette
Montgomery, Roland Moore, J. A.
Hast, Steven Team, Katherine Brayshaw.
( arolinc Britton. Charlotte
Brown. Mary Florence Little, Ruth
Moseley, Estelle Myers, Frances McLeod,
Mary Richey, Dorothv \'an
Landinghatn. Maw Waters, Elean.o
Watts.
Grade 1-B -Ina -DeLoache. Mary
Lee Hilton. Ora Mae Price, May Nel!
irapp, Ralph Gnodalc. Frank Hinson. I
lb's-oe Johnson. Wilburn Moselec,
Robert Rhame. Bovd Trapp, Leroy I
I.O\ e.
Diade l-< - -Mamie Baker, Jennie
( ullei. Li/a Jackson. Lin eal Pressley,
Edna S arborough, Alma Smyrl,
Beatrice \ iiepigue. Frank Clyburn.
Rutu- (orbit*, Edward Holland, Raymond
Hin- n. f.uther Lowery, Baytow
Morris. C. W. Rhoden, Llovd
Rush.
Grade o-A?Marion Evans, Col itGardner,
Donald Hill, Douglas Kennedy.
Lawrence Kirkland, (Veil Mc(
askill, \\ illiam Moore, Joe Phillips,
William Thompson, Troy -Godwin.
Margaret Baldwin, Mary Lee Blake-1
ney, Betsy Dickens, Zaida Lang, Mary
Ellen McCaskill, Elizabeth ' Moore,
Kate Shannon, Golda Shirley, Louine
Strak, Mary Elizabeth Wrooten, Antoinette
Williams. Mae Smith.
Grade o-B?Catherine Hall, Willie
Hough, ( nrrie McLeod, Rosalie
Moore, Eva Shirley, Lorine Smith,
Jenny Tolbert, Nataline Zeigter, Billy
Baum, Harry Brown, Alvin Christmas,
James Calder. Frank Campbell,
James DeLoache, Henry DeBruhl,
Virgil Gardner. Cleo Johnson, Richard j
Jenkins, Hil! Rhp.nie, Maurice West.
Giade ?Herman Jackson, Jack
MvLain, William McLeod, Jack Shir- |
le>, Harold Shirley, Fay Baker, Lil- J
lian McCaskill, Alice Melton,-Gladys
Sharp, Mel vena Twitty, Alberta
Watts.
Grade 6-A ? Margaret Barnea, Harriet
Beard, Nancy Brown, OttVia Bud-I
din, Betty Garrison, Frances Creed,
Virginia Drawdy, ElizabetH Gardner.
Jean Harris, Sarah Kirkland, Kath '
ryne Little, Grace Love, Mary Jane'
Mackey, Meta Mogulescu^ Emily J
Zemp, Homer Baldwin, Jack Boyd. 1
Thomas Bruce, Austin Jones, Samuel '
McCaskill, James Moore. Reuben i
Pitts, Charlie Sheffield, Leonard'
Storey.
Grade 6-B?Eleanor Brown. Nannie'
Elliott, Lucile Kirkland, Mamie Ix>ng, !
Lila Ko?s, L. O. Funderburk, Woodrow
Huckabee, Dun Lang, Francia
Mcleod, Lawson Munn, John Smith,
Ia'*Iw Smith.
Grade 6-C?Grace Christina*, Allie
Bell Shcdd, Clarence Christmas, Klil:u?
Dabney, L. T. Holland, Willie
Shirley.
Grade 7 A? Harold Hough, Joe
Jenkins, Solomon Mime, Lawrence
Munn, George Khame, Grayson Shaw,
Clyde West, Alice DcPass, Kmily
Goodale, Margaret Goodale, Kileen
Graham, Harriet Loriek, Mary Love,
Margaret McCoy, Lloiae Hho<len, Sara
Lynn Kichey, Kdith Webster.
Grade 7-B Jack Dunn, Hurry Lee
Gregory, Dan Mackey, J. 11. McLeod,;
W. C. McManus, Alvin Uiley, Derrell
Sanders, I'erry Threatt, Andrew
Trapp, Alvah WattM, Walter Wooten,
Vivian Hull, Willene Hall, Clara Holland,
Lena Jennings, Genevieve Montley,
Mary Peebles, Jtuth Stevenson.
Grade 7-C?Julian Burns, Wilburn
Denton, ltobert Goodale, Claude Jackson,
KlJiott Sj^eorn, Woodrow Trapp,
John Howard, Minnie DeBruhl, Dorothy
Graham, Maggie Ix?u McCaikill,
Mary Kllen Strak, Gladys Tolbert.
NEW YORK TO PARIS
(Continued from First Page)
the young hero and save him from
those to whom he had become a
friend, a hero, a sportsman to admire
forever, but they were helpless
against the common impulse. Ignoring
the swinging batons of the gendarmes
and the loud-voiced shouts
of soldiers anxious to bring order out
of delirious but very human enthusiasm,
the crowd of common people
swirled about the young man from
America, held aloft and smiling, and'
seemingly a bit bewildered on the I
arms of a few sturdy souls.
For half an hour they pushed one
another this way and that, trying to
take young Lindbergh from his plane
to the administration buildings on
the landing field, where noted men
of his own country and of France
had long been waiting to welcome
him with due formality. When finally
they got him there, his tired and
trembling fingers were grasped in a j
handshake by America's ambassador
to France, Myrop T. Herrk'k, and by
Frenchmen of high position.
But Lindbergh was too weary
seemingly to fcnow what it was all
about. smiled and said: "Thank
you. I am awfully happy," and then
his fatigue could be fought off no
longer, and he seemed to go to sleep
standing there on his feet. y
OuUlda'the crowd w?s howling for
a sight of the hero who had won the
heart of France, as no American
probably had before. brilliant search*
lights were focused on the balcony
of the building, into which Lindbergh
had been carried, but the crowd had
to be disappointed?Lindbergh could
do no more.
The American ambassador came to
the balcony and waved the aviator's
helmet at the crowd, which kept
shouting: "The pilot?-the pilot, let
us see Lindbergh!"
Lindbergh, asleep on his feet, wah
lifted up and carried to an automobile
and hurried to Paris, a few miles
I away, to sleep after so many hours,
| when even to close his eyes for a
moment might have meant death.
Tonight he lies in bed in his country's
embassy. It was after midnight
when he reached ' there?-41
hours after he got out of bed in New
York to make the great adventure in
which already so many others had
failed. 1
It was on the ambassador's insistence
that the youth permitted himself
to go to the embassy, and the
car had difficulty in making its way
through the tremendous traffic to the
residence of America's official representative.
Three French aviators assist*!
the birdman to alight. He
^tumbled as he slept in their arms.
"Gyod old fellow," they shouted, as
they bade him goodnight.
before he went to bed Captain
, Lindborfe+vanformed Ambassador Herrick
that he had brought two or three
i letters of lft{ft>dtictibn with him, because,
he explained: "This is a new
country to me and nobody knows me
here."
"Now you go to bed," said the ambassador,
"and don't worry about being
a stranger.' There isn't any one
in France who won't know you when
you awake."
Paris itself had stayed awake until
it had news of the American's arrival,
then automobiles began trickling into
! the city. Little groups along the
j road called: "Did he come?" "Lindbergh,
has he come?"
Those in the automobiles waved and .
shouted back: "The American has
come." ;
Many wanted the exact time, wanted
the details, for they had apparently
waited on the roadside for many
hours.
Bourget, which is four miles north,
of Paris, was surrounded by automobiles
and the scant police traffic force
oon lost coXd
nd ofun lo,in "nd"^J
nearly Xyiilthl u_h*" ??*1
them c/uW get b?l
The appearand ?,
'logs from the . & M
in* of U Uouru, , ;'1"6!
in years yav,. ? "r *? rJ
barker., who brought*? " I
K'?n "?* on pin..L0?ii
?"<< blur
Lindbergh (1# ' I
"pot where Captaias .."""J
Loll took off two w "Hi
of the two French , |
nnnds during ?h* s 1 *?J
??i the People,
were and generous
of the man from the
forget their country^*?
?dly amonyut th,.m
Nunge.ser, l'??r (:?H V*
landed, but the word *
dU'ckly that he > I
odmln.atr.tion boUdioT#
Lindbergh! j,in|r"*B
"houted. "Show
otTUeAn^C,,"m?-^l
t the lnd0 ut
;ii crowd- Thty rtJ
Lindbergh I"
The ambassador caaw J
with an aviator's helm?-H
woo Lindbergh's ?0
held aloft a great bo?h 9
obviously presented to thtfl
these things, even if t|?fl
to the airman, did not
We want , ?
crowd kept on. ?ur.
Mr. Ambassador. Bravo 'M
must have Lindbergh " '
The police force a ppej
in the early afternoon S
''"I on,-,, the people
their work and }JW
came marching along j.
streams, until the bu M JH
merely islands. 'pjle
climbed on everything tk/jl
a view. One man amwerfX?
with a dangerous eatliie inltl
an upper story ledW iJgM
"> 4he front of the tofldu# w
he could see the fW4.
The roofs of other
crowded, and men and ihl
climb the latticework,. most oil
gave way, resulting in manyM
Hut generally the falls vw??
by flower beds, and even il
crowds belfiw. Against this til
were power\ewj. i
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