Lindbergh Flight

NEW YORK, May 20, 1927 (UP) -- With the element of human endurance figuring so outstandingly in Lindbergh's New York to Paris flight, companions called attention to the fact that he slept only about two hours last night before taking off on a journey which will require that he remains very much awake for at least 36 hours.

WASHINGTON, May 20, 1927 (UP) -- The navy and the Shipping Board this morning notified all government and private merchant vessels in the North Atlantic to be on the watch for Capt. Charles Lindbergh on his New York-Paris flight and to wireless immediately to Naval headquarters here if Lindbergh is sighted.

PARIS, May 20, 1927 (UP) -- Charles Lindbergh's lonely challenge to death today gripped the sympathetic imagination of French men all over Paris.

ROOSEVELT FIELD, N.Y., May 20, 1927 (UP) -- Charles E. Lindbergh, alone and without ceremony sailed off into the gray of this foggy morning in his Ryan monoplane, shouting to his friends that tomorrow he will be in Paris.

DETROIT, May 20, 1927 (UP) -- Mrs. Evangeline Lodge Lindbergh, mother of the youth who today set off alone for Paris in a monoplane, faced her chemistry class in Cass Technical High School as though nothing had happened.

NEW YORK, May 21, 1927 (UP) -- Thirty hours ago Charles E. Lindbergh, intense and every nerve on edge, whirled away from Roosevelt Field, New York, for Paris. Another few hours probably will determine whether Lindbergh will go down in history as one of aviations martyrs, or one of the greatest popular heroes of all time.

LE BOURGET FIELD, France, May 21, 1927 (UP) - Captain Charles Lindbergh, the flying mail man, arrived today by air from New York. He was the first man ever to fly from New York to Paris and as the wheels of Lindbergh's monoplane touched the ground the dream of airmen that the North American and European continents should be linked in nonstop airplane flight was realized.

PARIS, May 21, 1927 (UP) -- A crowd of 500 persons awaited Capt. Charles Lindbergh at Le Bourget Field at 3:10 p.m. today. The meteorological service and pilots of London-to-Paris planes arriving here reported a 45-mile and wind from west to east which would act as a powerful pusher to Lindbergh's plane if he were within its scope.

NEW YORK, May 21, 1927 (UP) -- The log of Lindbergh's flight by Eastern Standard Time follows:

"The Lindbergh flight was more than a mere sporting event," said Chief Brandenberg of the aeronautical department of the Ministry of Transportation. "It will be outstanding during all time as a brilliant deed. German aviation extends its heartfelt congratulations and expresses its highest admiration."

DETROIT, May 23, 1927 (UP) -- The pioneer spirit of the late President Theodore Roosevelt laid the groundwork for Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh's daring dash across the Atlantic, his mother, Mrs. Evangeline L. Lindbergh believes.

NEW YORK, May 23, 1927 (UP) -- The flight of Charles A. Lindbergh to Paris presented to newspapers a problem in news coverage never before faced for it was something that never had been done before.

NEW YORK, May 23, 1927 (UP) -- Capt. Charles A. Lindbergh, 25, is the first great flyer of a new generation of flyers, in the opinion of the transatlantic flights committee of the Aerial League of America, and for an obvious reason -

DETROIT, May 23, 1927 (UP) -- I want to emphasize that everything Charlie has done he did for himself. He, to me, is the baby that you love so well in its crib grown up to manhood. He is a son that makes a mother proud to be a mother.

NEW YORK, May 23, 1927 (UP) - Before Charles Lindbergh left for Paris he thought his mother might like to have some newspaper clippings for her scrap book.