Washington County News | 1927-05-26 | Page 6 | Lindbergh Scores on Ocean Jump

Lindbergh Scores on Ocean Jump Paris - Slim Lindbergh arrived nt ' 10: IS Sat'iiday night, after Hying from , N't'' York to Paris In "1 hours and 10 i minutes. "Am I In Paris'.'" were the ' p. lot's first words as Ihe French a I i- tors and met hanics dra T,ed him from the cockpit of the "Spirit of Si. Louis." "You're here." I told him. as the mob i Jabben d In French, which was not In . the bast understood by Ihe bewildered American. 1 nthuslasts ho'sted lb" exhausted pilot on their shoulders and , tried to fight their way across the field. The French pilots, however, splrllid Captain Lindbergh to the hangar, resiulng him from the mob. nnd then d:rdie, nway to Paris with him iiboa:d an automobile across lh" avl.ilion field. Meantime the crowd picked up an American who had fallen and her n tnmpoUod on by the mob and curled him on their shoulders lo the ad min isl rn : Ion building, where American Ambassador Myron T. Her-rick. Her-rick. I'remh n.Tlclnbi nnd the welcome committee were awaiting him. j