Show LINDBERGH'S DIAR DIARY Y IS NOW ON DISPLAY Becomes Part of Exhibit in St Louis Museum St t Louis To llo-To Mo To the hundreds of valuable and Interesting relics relics relics- now contained In the tile Lindbergh ex at al Jefferson memorial here t has been added Col Charles A Lindbergh's own handwriting log of his air adventures beginning with the first air nIr venture In l 1022 1922 2 and en earlier notes mIles of his Ills career The reticent nature of 01 the fa- fa famous fa famous flyer is shown In the nb- nb abbreviated ab abbreviated notes some of them being so short as to require special elucidation elucidation dation For Instance where the InitIal A occurs along with a n nota notatIon notation tIon It ft means that Anne Morrow v now DOW Mrs Lindbergh accompanied him The T record which was placed on exhIbitIon on the sixth anniversary of Lindbergh's epochal flight to Parts ParIs goes back beyond his hs first rIdE In an airplane Page lODge after page covered with the names manes of cit elt ies les visited by hy motor cycle or auto auto- automobile automobile mobile attest the wanderlust which claImed him early Occasionally a ale le leg of the lie journey Is sketched In n a rudimentary map Barnstorming Flights Topping n a six Inch stack of tiny loose leaf pages Is the tog log printed In the aviators aviator's painstaking hand of his first traInIng flights at Lin- Lin coIn Neb and his 1022 barnstorm barnstorm- barnstormIng barnstorming barnstorming ing flights as n a wing walker and parachute Jumper In n that thaL year the log shows he made flights and 10 parachute jumps lumps Numerous other Incidents relating to flying flIng troubles and hazardous Jumps are recorded The Spirit of SL St Louis Louts In which Lindbergh's hs h's flight from Crom New York rork to Paris was made had Its Us own log lo nil to Itself beginning with the first test lest at San Di Diego o on April 23 S 1 1027 27 The record shows it had flown 27 hours bours and 25 minutes before the flight to Paris The trans Atlantic trans flight takes up only two lines of the log May ay 20 1027 1327 and May 21 1927 New York to Parts arts 33 hours 30 minutes Every step In preparation and ex- ex ex execution of the famous Is re reo revealed vented In the notebook When lien tIe lie arrived In Paris uris It II eem seems ho he h want lInt wanted wanted ed cd to remember just the p things Arrange for Cor care of plane Arrange e eor for or guard Cables Arrange for clothes Arrange for Cor quarters And then as an nn afterthought Postcard U U S Ills His greatest flight In the he opinion of aviators was that from frolD to SL St Louis made In lIo meteor meteor- meteorologists called the wor worst t day he could have hn cho chosen en In several months February 13 1023 lie Ie e made It In InI Inthe inthe Inthe I the remarkable time of 15 IG hours liours and 35 5 minutes On the following day he greeted children assembled on onI I the SL 81 Louis levee evee and the log records Flew v three hours over SL StLouis Louis In those three t tours lurs per per- perhaps perhaps haps he was saying farewell Carewell to his faithful partner In the unbeatable combination We for the ship two months later April later April to 30 30 to be ex ex- exact exact I act was flown from Lambert field fieldIn fieldIn In St Louis to Washington where It was placed on permanent exhibition nt at the Smithsonian Institution |