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Show 1 IWPFRIfM filPWR H HR?K fPITf Noted Flyer Ends Anxiety of Thousands Slightly Overdue, World's Premier Airman Conquers Mists to Achieve His Long Non-stop Flight MEXICO CITY, Dec. 4 (UP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh Lind-bergh arrived here to receive Mexico's greeting as king of the air at Valbuena flying field at 2:38 p. m. today. He had been overdue and the entire world had worried over his safety for hours. The Spirit of St. Louis was first sighted over the flying field at 2.30. President Calles and American Ambassador Ambas-sador Dwight W. Morrow were waiting in the presidential box of the top of an airplane hangar. i Not all of the 25,000 enthusiastic Mexicans and Americans who had waited for Lindbergh and his plane throughout the morning remained at the field but those who did made up in the vociferousness of their welcome for all who had gone, discouraged and anxious, to their homes. It was the climax of an exciting seven months during which a slim American, hardly more than a boy, had made aviation history. Since his departure from California in his then little-known little-known plane, Lindbergh had traversed the American con-tintinent; con-tintinent; flown the Atlantic to Paris and London; taken his plane on a tour of the United States that included every state and linked the United States and Mexico in the first nonstop non-stop flight between the respective capitals. America's aerial ambassador had come victorious from what many had come to fear was certain disaster. Unconfirmed reports of his progress had been reported throughout the morning, but nothing definite came. TAMPICO, Mexico, Dec' 14 (UP) It was believed that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh's Spirit of St. Louis passed here at 8 :50 a. m. today, seen by only a lew people because of low lying clouds and mist. A plane, believed to be Lindy's entered the Panuco river region, near the lighthouse, flying very low. Plane Heads Toward South The plane crossed the Mexican Sinclaim company's terminal term-inal and headed south. A local plane that had been awaiting. Lindbergh left from Mexico City and was expected to sight Lindbergh later. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14 (UP) An escort squadron of Mexican airplanes left at 10.25 a. m. expecting to meet Colonel Charles Lindbergh at Pachuca, 90 miles from Mexico City. Nine planes formed the escort. MEXICO CITY, Dec. 14. (UP) Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, flying his famous Spirit of St. Louis airplane, ioday was heading toward Mexico City. The highways between Mexico City and the field were 'illed with marching police and soldiers. By 7:40 a. m. 2,000 persons had arrived. A military band swung into the field playing "Yankee Doodle." Half a dozen Mexican army planes began tuning up to go to meet the American aerial ambassador. A special box erected on top of an airplane hangar and draped with Mexican and American flags, awaited President Calles and American Ambassador Dwight VV. Morrow. President Calles, and his cabinet arrived at the field at 8:30. By this time there was a crowd of 5,000. In President Calles' party, in addition to cabinet members were his close friend, General Obrcgon, former president and solo candidate for next year's presidential election, and 20 members of the chamber of deputies. Entertaining Plane Crashes i Airplanes maneuvered over the field to entertain the crowd Ambassador Morrow arrived at 8 :50. Just as he arrived on the field, one of the circling Mexican Mex-ican planes crashed. The plane was piloted by Flying Officer Samuel C. Rojas. Neither pilot nor mechanic was injured. The plane was not badly damaged. At 9 :40 the crowd numbered probably 10,000 and stretched stretch-ed for a mile and a half along the field. By 10:40 a. m. the crowd at the field was estimated to number 18,000. There never had been such a demonstration of friendship friend-ship for Mexico's sister republic in the long troubled history of their relations. |