Show Nungesser to to Guard Flight Across by Display of Weird Device on Plane 1 French Ace Is Believer in Power of ofF F By By MINOTT SAUNDERS S N NEA EA Service Writer PARIS May 7 I 7 Ir 7 If Captain Charles Nungesser succeeds in his ambition to make a nonstop flight fr from m Paris Pari to New Kew York he will vill give all the credit to the fet fetches ches and charms in which ho he believes Nungesser seasoned veteran of the air and one of ot the tha leading aces of the World war var still is extremely superstitious Perhaps his experience experience ence accounts for this this the the habit of ot leaving no no little detail to chance when the wing Practically ally all of the early eaily aviators were superstitious tiou and Nungesser is of that type SOME PET FEARS He will go into the air and twist and turn an airplane to test every very spar spar and nd wire but but he Would not dream of lighting from one m match lIe Jle is more afraid of a a lea leaning ing ladder than of a spill into the Atlantic Where adverse and fogs fogs fogs' and missing motors do not intimidate him a ablack ablack black cat will wili strike ten terror or to his heart Nungesser is sensitive about his aug auguries ries of good luck lucie and even his closest friends cannot always always' figure figure figure fig fig- ure out out what he is up to to at times imes He lie is perhaps a little ashamed of tho the rites he observes but this this' does not shake his faith in them SHUNS PHOTOGRAPHERS Among other things Nungesser is su superstitious about being photo graphed n n a machine in which he heIs heis heis is about to to make an important flight Pictures are bad luck lucIe he often has said Dont point your jour cameras at me me meThis This his from the very virile e. e man who was never known to toe be e afraid of of machine guns guns Publicity about abou about i his proposed flight ac across oss tire the Atlantic is bad luck too His secretiveness Is responsible responsible re for the many conflicting conflicting conflict conflict- ing reports of his plans platts Nungesser's favorite emblem is a design shaped like a heart heart or or perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps a spade since it is black black- and Includes a. a coffin two fu funeral funeral funeral fu- fu tapers a skull and crossbones cross- cross bones KNOWS ABOUT DEATH These symbols of death Nungesser Nungesser Nungesser Nun Nun- gesser believes will bring him good luck on his Atlantic flight He knows something about death because he shot down over 50 en enemy my airmen during the warHis war His good luck emblem will be ir I t. t I Captain Charles Nungesser er trans-Atlantic trans flight contestant I believes firmly in in symbols Here I he is is with the design his Lavasseur Lavasseur Lavasseur La- La vasseur biplane will carry painted on the of his Lavasseur Lavasseur Lavasseur La- La vasseur biplane when he makes his attempt to fly to to New York With the aid of or his death design design design de de- de- de sign and sand his Ws observance ce of pet rituals he confidently expects to reach New York in about thirty- thirty five hours But if he sees gees a black cat on the beach he probably will do an turn and fly back home |