Show I EAKER ors HOPS OFF ff ON P PANAMA At AMA TRIP Hopes to Finish Flight at Dusk Plans Single Stop En Route BROWNSVILLE Texas March 16 United Press Braving dangers I of high mountains and possible death in a wilderness wilder wilder- L i ness Captain Ira qt Eaker noted endurance en en- tt durance and war v pilot hopped off here at a. a m. m on a dawn to dusk t w flight to Panama The nose of hIS lis j wi Pan Amen w ship x can christened d by bya t a a. feminine hand was pointed southwestward to follow the sun across five lve na nat na- na t ons' ons by la lazy y gulf Ira Eaker shores over lofty x Ie Lan L'an peaks and along Isolated coast lines o othe othe the Pacific 1 B By sundown Baker Eaker hoped to land landon on field Panama Cabal Cahal Zone 1960 mlles miles away His ship bore ore the go godspeed speed of 01 Miss Mary t Fechet daughter of the United d States air corps command command- ant it who c it here a week ago I FLYING IDEAL Baker Ealter faced almost Ideal conditions as he nosed through the morning mist of the gul gulfs to the south Its Ita now up to m my engine Cap Cap- tali tain Halter Ealter remarked as the cap I hum on page G 1 I OPS OFF 1 N PANAMA NAMA TRIP in from page 1 began I have hae good gooda a a. good plane and I should 1000 persons braved morning to witness the tithe nh airport here The Thes Thes' s' s enthusiastic s in thEir well t fo a flight to the lot of the famed Question was short and snap snap- I adino I I t Eaker scanned a report Into the lc and after waving to top p a the planes plane's American an-American seemed to W ground und almost immedi- immedi aker circled the fIeld to toe e and then headed lUUl I ONCE to land and only once mile elJ mlle 60 trip HE was ra Tampico Mexico at d OCK thIs mornIng to reIt re- re It he expected to l land nd field Panama between W night J fresh and in ex- ex al condition when he tube field today ethe elthe plane a rapid in- in made sure the gas supply and saw to a few before he donned tt |