Show LINDBERGH'S DIARY DIAR Y IS NOW ON DISPLAY Becomes Part of Exhibit in St. St Louis Museum St St. Louis Mo To To the hundreds of valuable and Interesting relics now contained In the Lindbergh exhibItIon exhibition ex ex- at Jefferson memorial here has been added CoL Charles A A. w Lindbergh's own handwriting log of his air adventures beginning with the first air venture In 1922 and earlier notes of his career The reticent nature of the famous famous fa fa- fa flyer Is shown In the abbreviated abbreviated abbreviated ab ab- ab- ab notes some of them being so short as to require special V dation daHon For Instance where the Initial A occurs along with a notation notation nota nota- tion It means that Anne Morrow now Mrs Lindbergh accompanied him The record which was placed on e. e exhibition on the sixth anniversary of ot Lindbergh's epochal flight to Paris goes back beyond his first ride In an airplane Page after page covered with the names of cit cit- C les ies visited by motor cycle or automobile automobile auto auto- mobile attest the wanderlust whIch which claimed him early Occasionally a leg of the Journey Is sketched In a rudimentary map Barnstorming Flights Topping a six Inch stack of tiny loose leaf pages Is the log tog printed In the aviators aviator's painstaking hand of his first training flights at Lin LIn- LIncoln coin coln Neb ant and his 1922 barnstorming barnstorm barnstorm- ing flights as a wing walker and parachute Jumper In that year the log shows he made flights and 10 parachute Jumps Numerous other Incidents relating to flying troubles and hazardous Jumps are recorded The Spirit of ot St St. Louis Louts In n which Lindbergh's flight from crom New York to Paris was made had Its own log all to Itself beginning with the first test at San Diego on April 28 1927 The record shows It had bad flown 27 hours and 25 minutes before the flight to Paris The trans-Atlantic trans flight takes up only two lines of the log May 20 1927 1027 and May 21 1927 1027 New York to Paris 83 33 hours 30 minutes Every step In preparation and execution execution ex ex- of the famous flight Is revealed revealed re re- re- re veale In the notebook When he arrived In Paris It seems he wanted wanted wanted want want- ed to remember Just these e things Arrange for care of plane Arrange for guard Cables Arrange for clothes Arrange for quarters And then as an afterthought ought Postcards U. U. U S. S Ills greatest flight In the opinion of aviators was Vas that from Havana Bayana to St. St Louis made In what meteorologists meteorologists meteorologists meteor meteor- called the worst day he ho could have chosen In severa several months February 13 1928 He EIe made mado It In Inthe Inthe inthe the remarkable time of 15 hours and 35 minutes On the following day he greeted school children assembled on the St St. Louis levee and the log records Flew three hours over St St. Louis In those three tours perhaps perhaps perhaps per per- haps he was saying farewell to his faithful partner In the unbeatable combination We for the ship two months later later April April 80 to SO-to to be exact exact exact ex ex- act was flown from Lambert field fieldIn In St St. Louis to Washington ton where It t was placed on permanent exhibition at nt the Smithsonian Institution |