Show ARMY BIRD t D DeO SCOVER VER THEY T IJ TED LIVES I 1 TO ROTTEN RAFT t Nc Man Ian Calls CaUs for Demonstration and Tube Pops MANY IA Y YI MESSAGES I E S SA G E S Chief of oC Air Ail Corps Admits A mits He lie Received Great Thrill ill rn rill July I.- I. The Associated The The aerial path patho of o glory from the Golden Gat Gatto to Hawaii might easily have led to a watery grave for Lieutenants Lester LesterJ J. J J Maitland and Albart Alb rt 1 Submitting to unofficial question- question questionIng Ing In as to Just how they negotiated the 2400 mil mil over mer water journey by air the army fliers today learned that the pneumatic which they thy had carried might never have been usable because of defects When the fliers returned to Wheel Wheel- Wheeler er field during an Intermission In the round cf cr social functions In their honor to Inspect their monoplane they unpacked the remaining equip equIp- equipment equIpment ment Including the rubber boat and anda a flask of oC compressed compre ed air with which to o inflate te It flit AIR OSE aSE POPS pors A newspaper photographer in inspired in- in inspired inspired with a desire to make pictures of the tIle fliers In the rubber craft sug sug- suggested suggested its Inflation The valve was no more than opened than the hose connecting the compressed air flask with Ith the boat burst vr W g the tha th stored Oh well you had a pump some some- someone someone someone one commented Fat chance wed we'd have had to use a pump Hegenberger Heg-enberger commented comment d Details of or their inspection were still sUIl unfinished when the aviators left the field to return to Honolulu for fora a dinner r engagement with the public reception to follow Malt and and Hegen- Hegen Hegenberger Hegenberger berger received hundreds of congratulatory C messages including felicita felicita- felicitations felicitations felicitations from President Cc C ige Ray Ray- Raymond Raymond Raymond mond James D D. D Dole and Governor Fuller of Massachusetts FERID COLO ELC Gt- Gt G nor mor Zimmerman Wisconsin I. I i i M a col eel colonelcy colonelcy in fe t Wisconsin national guard Lieutenant Colonel John I L. L How How- Howard ard chief of the air corps of the Hawaii i department of the army declared sat t the flight night by Maitland ad Hegenberger indicates that without question commercial aviation flights nights Hawaii and the and between America As A erica and Europe are but a short shor distance away Within the next few year yean I think we will see the establishment of great aerial passenger traveling tra over oer long distances passengers mail mall mailand malland mailand and freight he said He STe declared that the nce of or l and Hegenberger at the end nd of their mile 2400 flight night gave him the most thrilling moment of my life |