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Show AIRMEN START ON LONG FLIGHT Naval Seaplane Going to Exposition Opening in Rio de Janeiro NEW YORK, Aug 17. Pointing the j nose of the Sampalo Correls seaward.1 lieutenant Hinton. U 8. N , R. F., I took off frefm the waters of Jamaica hay at 7.30 o'clock this morning and Started to put behind him the 600 miles to Charleston, S. C. the first hop in the 8500-mile flight from New i York to Rio de Janeiro. The crew numbers fle and the rear' two passengers, a motion picture cam-era cam-era man anel a newspaper- reporter. Eiinton expected to make Charleston , by tonight In about seven hours. unly a dozen or so men and women i saw the ship hop from the water. The wife of Lieutenant Hinton and a few friends. Mrs. Hinton. a slim young wife. Mood alon-. Just a few yards aside from the other watchers She had j known anxious days and nights when -her husband crossed the Atlantic in the C-4 and again w hen he, with two J other naval officers, was lost tor a time in the icy woods of Canada's northland in December. 1&J0 m the engines began roarlnc. Mrs 'Hinton clasped one hand on the other arm. With every splash as the ship ripped the surface, I he (trip of her fingers tightened. Walter was off again -this time hoping to reach Rio de Janeiro for the opening of the Bra? billan centennial exposition and then fly alons the Amazon into the land of Jungles. Mrs. 'Hinton dropped her arms wheu the ship sped away in the morning iky. Where her hand had been, there were tive d.- p red finger fin-ger marks. The flyers plan to stop tonight at Charleston, s. c.. i;iving there tomorrow tomor-row morninp for Nassau in the Ea-hfl Ea-hfl mas no |