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Show PARIS SLUMS HONOR FLYER Tribute Paid to Lindbergh By Parisians; Ace Inspects His Own Plane PARIS. May 23 (FP) Paris today to-day was raising higher and higher the standard which New York must attain if its greeting to Captain Charles A. Lindbergh on his return home shall match that of this city. Men At Salute-Men Salute-Men stood at salute today nnd women threw bouquets as Lindbergil passed in an automobile through thickly populated slums of northeastern north-eastern Paris returning from a visit to his plant at Le Rourget Field. It was another of those triumphant trium-phant rides which have .Income Lindbergh's lot since he amazed the world Willi his feat of flying alone across the Atlantic ocean. The laboring labor-ing people lined the streets. Lindbergh inspected at Le Eour-get Eour-get the plane, being constructed for Paul Tarascon. who plans to flv from Paris to' New York in August. The craft is. a monoplane of 3S0 horse power. Lindbergh - inquired - especially whether the plane would float, and was assured that it was as solid as a boat Plane Is Ready He tinkered with liis Ryan. monoplane mono-plane today at Le Bourget Field and pronounced it ready, except for a minor adjustment or two, to carry him to Brussels and Londoir. There si ill was enough Roosevelt Field gasoline in the tanks for the projected flights, and Lindbergh intimated in-timated that he would carry ou with American fuel.. |
