Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-01-04 | Page 16 | Lindy to Avoid Battle Area in Nicaragua Hop

lIN LINDY f TO IO A AVOID vom BA BATTLE AREA ARfA m IN H HOP r 1 TEGUCIGALPA Honduras Jan i 4 4 V AP AP Colonel Charles A. A Lindbergh lAnd Lind bergh will avoid avol tho the district 1 o of northern Nicaragua l which recently I has b been en the scene of ot fighting bc- bc J Jen en United States Stats marines und and rebels on his flight to Managua Nicaragua l lie JIe will probably fly there tomorrow V Fears been expressed at Managua Man Maya Mangua agua gua that thal Colonel Lindbergh might be made be-made made a target tor for rebel machine gun and aM antiaircraft rat fire if ho 10 flew oer o'er over their thelt strongholds V He lIe was warned to avoid this district or orto to fly high In passing over it asked aske route from When about his rom I here here Lindbergh said I t will go I from rom rota Tegucigalpa to Leon NIcara gun and anti th thence thence- to tb Managua Manigua but I m n t Sto stop at Leon A direct line from Tegucigalpa to Managua would carry him over the rebel lebel the line Jine to Leon LeonIs Is ve to thirty miles mlles west vest ot of the scene scene of or the I lecent S v V V V V VS S GIVEN BANQUET BA V VV V TheL The Lone I Eagle droPP dropped l through a misty rain fain and dark k clouds to a city bedecked with flowers in his hishon hon when honor r. he lao landed at 15 p. p m. m yesterday from San Salvador V Flower covered arches bridged the route route route-ho ho followed from the flying field through the city One of them I represented his plane the Spirit of ot I St St. Louis another the American eagle 4 and n third the volcanoes of Central S lea Ames S Si Sis Sis' pretty girls presented the ho fUel filer with a t great gleat bouquet of flowers in of or Of the women of lI lIOn Hon n- n duras duraS' V VS S Before landing Lindbergh circled the field three three three- times as the artillery roared its salute He brought the plane down exactly In front of the hanga S VS Although ugh Jt i i- iwas was very cloudy I Jl had d iI good view of the charming between here iere and San Salvador Sal Sal- vador ador li he ald This said This i is ons j of ot the best tl u fields I have seen President 1 Miguel V Pas Paz Foreign Minister Fausto V Davilla Sand and American n Minister linister George Georg-a T. T welcomed v tIl the dor of as he stepped from flom isis his jlane fao 2 Lucas Moncada presented Lindbergh Lindbergh with a gold goldey c ey y to the city V VV V RE PLEASES V At the filer flier showed V great great concern for hl IsIs his plane as is the crowd crowd- Which had been gathering I iric di break surged around It at nt the entrance Police lines Were thrown around It Lindbergh Lind lAnd bergh then V Ie left t le apparently antis satis lc fied d V V VV V Tile The familial familial- cry of ol or Viva Lindbergh Lind lAnd Lindbergh V bergh bergis which he ho has heard in every overy V Central American ca capital caWal visited V except x ept D Belize lIze British Honduras Tose froni the crowd as ns an nn automo- automo VS bile him from the field to o the theS S city V V J 1 am very pleased at my revelS revel revel- S flori HOIl here Lindbergh said later V specially especially sp ci lI with vUn the good order main nian and the arrangements made at tl the e landing field