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C 11 - 6 - 34 Sir Charles Honored but Suit Mars Fet... [[ Horizontal Line ]] Attachment Placed on Trans-Ocea... Plane as City pays Homage to Kingsford-Smith and Aide [[ Horizontal Line ]] Los Angeles wined and dined Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith and his navigator, Capt. P. G. Taylor, conquerors of the broad Pacific, yesterday, but a discordant and ironical note crept into the homage extended the ace Australian birdmen in the form of legal action by a promoter seeking $1750 from Sir Charles, And the sturdy little sky clipper, Lady Southern Cross, which had borne Sir Charles and his navigator from Australia to Los Angeles via Suva, Honolulu and Oakland, formed a pathetic picture at Los Angeles Municipal Airport. PLANE FOR SALE The Lockheed Altair monoplane which had boomed across 2400 miles of ocean between Hawaii and California in fifteen hours, ending her dash on the previous day, was for sale - and couldn't be sold. An attachment slapped on her sleek blue hull prevented her sale. On the day of Kingsford-Smith's arrival here, Sunday, there were festivities at Municipal Airport and downtown, and yesterday there were many congratulating visitors for Sir Charles and Capt. Taylor at the Clark Hotel, where the two were guests of P. G. B. Morriss, hotel manager, and last night a banquet was given the pair by the Chamber of Commerce. But although Sir Charles and his navigator spoke gayly at the banquet and at the meetings with visitors, a sort of pall hung over it all. The Lady Southern Cross was bound by an attachment, and a suit was on file against Sir Charles. ANSWER SIGNED True, Kingsford-Smith had responded with typical dash, when notified of the legal action, by preparing and signing an answer which will be filed tomorrow morning, denying all allegations in the promoter's suit, and his gay speech at last night's banquet belied all cares. Astonished by the action filed against him and the attachment placed on his faithful Lockheed Altair plane, Kingsford-Smith, when he had recovered his composure, early yesterday, summoned Attorney Leo Goodman and prepared an answer to the complaint announcing he will fight the action and follow it up with a damage suit against the plaintiff. JARRING NOTE IN RECEPTION The jarring note in the otherwise enthusiastic reception of the doughty airman and his navigator came while Sir Charles was receiving callers and congratulations in his suite at the Clark Hotel. The ace pilot, whose exploits in the air have for seven years been of the sensational variety and who is acclaimed by Americans as enthusiastically as by his own Austral- [[ Horizontal Line ]] (Continued on Page 2, Column 1) [[ Layered newspaper article cut off ]] Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, recently flew his Lady Southern Cross 7701 miles from Brisbane to Los Angeles, will take off for Oakland today to visit his brother, E. H. K. Smith, over Sunday. He expects to fly back to Los Angeles tomorrow. Yesterday, just for fun, he took four friends skylarking in the trim blue and silver Los Angeles-built Lockheed plane. Miss Patricia Ellis, motion-picture actress; Miss Carol Stroud, writer; Miss Mary Walker, assistant manager of the Clark Hotel, where Sir Charles is stopping, and Leo Goodman, attorney for the flyer, were his guests. The rest of the day Sir Charles spent in conferences over prospective flying contracts. P. G. B Morriss, manager of the Clark Hotel, and John Stannage, manager of Sir Charles's business interests in Sydney, sat in with him on the conferences. Stannage will fly to Oakland with Sir Charles today. [[ Article cut off ]] [[ Image ]] Sir Charles Kinsfo... taking car of congr... business before arising... [[ Layered newspaper article cut off ]] the debt? Simply be... oceanic flights today a... 2 cents a bushel!" He managed a cheer... climbed the steps into through and added: "The flight I made in ... the Pacific was worth $100 me. Times are changing, th... Cheerio, and tell everyone never forget the lovely treat... have had since landing he... last time; it has really been ... ous." DESPITE "GREETING... And this in spite of the fa... the first thing that happene... Sir Chalres reaches Los ... after his last trans-Pacifi... was the slapping of an att... against the Lady Souther... by a promotor who conte... had aided Kingsford-Smith before the epochal flight of.. Fokker monoplane, Souther... for which the Lockheed was from Oakland to Australia. Before leaving yesterd... Charles mailed to Police J. K. Gibbs in Fresno a mon... for $10 in payment of a fine assessed against him t... Sunday. Dispatches from... said the money was recei... night, together with a lette... ing Judge Gibbs and pol... cers for their courtesy. [[ Horizontal Line ]] [[ Layered newspaper article cut off ]] P.S.T. cinnati to Los Angeles. viously had left Kansas 11 a.m. [[ Layered newspaper article cut off ]] the controls of his Lady Cross, in which he flew f... tralia to Oakland recently... at the Lockheed Aircraft Burbank at 2:05 p.m. yest... er having flown from O... an hour and thirty-five This is within twenty-on... of the record held by O... Turner. The flyer was feted las... the Clark Hotel by P. G. ... About 150 persons attend... ing the hotel staff and fr... [[Layered newspaper article cut off ]] Up in the air for a day jaunt, Sir Charles Smith flew to Oakland a visit with his brothe... was accompanied by Jo... manageer of his ocean fli... Australia. Sir Charles took off from pal Airport at 8:25 a.m. an... in Oakland an hour and minutes later. He said whe... that he would return later day or possibly remain in th... until today. [[ Horizontal Line ]] [[ Layered newspaper article cute off ]] Kin Li Hero, Air Last ni... Pacific sta... man who tance pilot the begin the most perpetrat... which is It woul... record if list of the have lost t... cial assess... lights, str... forms of p... A new la... oweners the makes the It would be if one of the rest of "We starte... hour, then h... 180 miles and of the journ... hour." He and C... lone sandwich. [[ Top of Page ]] MONDAY MORNING Los Angeles Times *** NOVEMBER 5, 1934. - [PART I.] 3 When Australian Ace Brought Lady Southern Cross to Land at Los Angeles [[ Image ]] His epochal flight at an end, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, the Australian ace, just as fresh as when he began his historical trip, breaks into a smile of victory. [[ Image ]] Mayor Shaw extends the official greetings of Los Angeles. Sir Charles, hand outstretched, is in the cockpit of Lady Southern Cross, His navigator, Capt. P. G. Taylor, is seen at the right with a hand over his head. So great was the press of the enthusiastic crowds which met the flyers that it was only with difficulty they made their way from the field. [[ Image ]] Among the first to congratulate Sir Charles on his achievement was his old friend and compatriot, P. G. B. Morriss, local hotel manager, with whom the flyer is whispering. [[ Horizontal Line ]] AIR HEROES WELCOMED [[ Horizontal Line ]] Crowd of 20,000 at Field [[ Horizontal Line ]] Police Lines Give Way as Spectators Swarm About Plane [[ Horizontal Line ]] (Continued from First Page) natured in spite of the clamor and buffeting they received, left for the city. The mob surrounded the plane, and fondled it. Scores of persons scratched its glazed wings and fuselage out of curiosity. It was literally covered with fingermarks and prints of smudgy hands. CRAFT LOCKED UP. [[ Page folded ]] might begin to dismantle the history-maing ship, police wheeled it away and locked it up in a hangar. They had great difficulty in driving the admiring throng from the hangar, after pushing it off the field. As the intrepid airman stepped out of the cockpit and dropped to the ground beside his ship, there was a rush of cameramen and friends. P. G. B. Morriss, friend and compatriot of Sir Charles, was first to reach his side. On his heels was Miss Mary Walker, a close friend of Lady Kingsford-Sfith, who waits for her knighted husband in far-away Melbourne. "Hello, Chill," shouted the two friends of the flyer. That, they said, is their favorite nickname for Sir Charles. SHAW EXTENDS GREETING Mayor Shaw managed to plow through the throng and extend greetings and the proud welcome of a great city. He was followed by Walter J. Braunschweiger, representing the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Scores more rushed pell-mell upon the flyers, to the dismay o f news reel cameramen who had motion-picture cameras and microphones all set up to record for posterity at end of a history-making flight. All they got in the news reels were "shots" of the madly milling throng, and the microphones recorded a bedlam of noise. Rising to the demands of the moment, police by sheer force opened a lane so that the flyers [[cut off]] valiantly to voice the city's welcome over the air, but his words were lost. The Chamber of Commerce representative, Mr. Braunschweiger, got a bit of luck. He paid tribute to the flyers and their plane, predicting that the trans-Pacific flight, as well as the London-to-Melbourne Air Race, proved "that regular transoceanic airplane transport service is feasible and may be realized in the not too distance future." Capt. Taylor, gallant navigator of the flight, came in for words of praise from William May Garland, chairman of the Mayor's reception committee, and also from Lloyd Stearman, president of Lockheed Aircraft, builder of the plane. GREATEST CREDIT Sir Charles himself gave the greatest credit for the success of their flight to Capt. Taylor. "Anyone can fly an airplane, as long as he can manage the controls," Sir Charles said, "but it takes a good man to navigate such a flight. "To my friend, Bill Taylor, I want to give all the credit for getting us safely here," he said. "Bill picked out those tiny spots in the middle [[cut off]] hadn't been for his wonderful ability and good fellowship, the flight might not have been possible. You know the Pacific is a bit of a sea, it really is pretty big," ADDRESSES SHAW In response to the uproarious greeting given him, Sir Charles addressed Mayor Shaw. "I am very happy to be here. You know, I'm much more happy to see you than you are to see me," he said, his eyez wandering back to the limpid blue sky out of which he had just dropped after one of the most spectacular flights in aviation history. Capt. Taylor, too, had a few words to say to the waiting throng, but his words were lost in their cheers. "It was a great flight," he said, "and I'm glad to be here. It was a privilege to fly with a man like Sir Charles." That concluded the ceremonies at the airport for, by prearrangement, Sir Charles had been scheduled to talk over a nation-wide hook-up over the N.B.C. network at 4 p.m.; and he was accordingly whisked away to the R.-K.-O. studios in Hollywood, where another microphone awaited his coming. SPPEDED TO HOLLYWOOD With police sirens screaming Kingsford-Smith and Taylor were speeded through the streets of Hollywood. They arrived in time for Sir Charles to make a brief talk to the nation, after which the pair were taked to the Clark Hotel. There they took to bed, to catch up on the sleep lost since they hopped off from Brisbane, October 20, last on their three-hop flight to the United States. Late last night the flyers were still asleep in their rooms at the Clark Hotel, while civic leaders pianned a private dinner in their honor in the hotel grill for tonight. The dinner is being arranged by the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce and the Junior Chamber of Commerce with only about 200 invited guests. ----- TAYLOR SHY AT CROWD'S PLAUDITS OAKLAND, Nov. 4. (AP) -- Capt. P. G. Taylor, navigator in Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith's flight from Brisbane to Oakland, was a modest fellow when the crowd flocked around the plane on its arrival here today. Capt. Taylor, a clerkish-looking man with thinning blond hair and deep set blue eyes, just sat in the cockpit as the propeller ceased spinning. "How was the flight last night?" Sir Charles was asked. "Ask him," he replied between puffs of a cigarette, pointing to Taylor. "After all, he brought us here. I just flew the plane." But Taylor didn't have much to say. "Sir Charles was in charge of the flight," he remarked tersely. ----- KINGSFORD-SMITH LANDS PLANE SAFELY AT OAKLAND (Continued from First Page) feet, circled the field once and then landed perfectly at a fast speed. Sir Charles, wearing a blue denim flying suit with a big fur collar idled the plane up to the welcoming stand. There were only three city officials there to greet him, but some 500 spectators already had arrived at the field prepared to await his arrival. As the ship came to rest, Sir Charles rolled back the cowling on the cockpit and out popped his grease-stained, somewhat weary but grinning face. "I would like to have a cigarette, a bath and then something to eat," he remarked. Eager hands thrust cigarettes at the aviators, who grinned as the crowd pressed close to the plane. "Well, it's very nice for all you people to be out here to greet me," Sir Charles said, "but I have business to do." He said he was worried about the safety of his plane, probably because of souvenir hunters, and sailors immediately took charge of it and pushed it into a hangar, where it was to be fueled for a flight to Los Angeles. When the plane roared into the air from Wheeler Field at Honolulu yesterday at 2:15 p.m. (4:45 p.m. E.S.T.) it was loaded with 600 gallons, or more than two tons of gasoline. There were still 150 gallons in the tanks when the Lady Southern Cross arrived here. ----- DECORATION PRESENTED TO BRONTE SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. (AP)--Emory Bronte, who navigated the first civilian plane to span the Pacific from California to Hawai seven years ago, was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross at ceremonies here today. While Bronte was receiving honors before a gathering of 500 persons at the City Hall, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith was being acclaimed for completing a flight from Brisbane to Oakland. Rear-Admiral Thomas J. Senn, representing President Roosevelt, pinned the bronze decoration on Bronte's coat. In the audience were Bronte's [[cut off]]ther and the young naval n[[cut off]] lieutenant's blonde bride. ----- [[upside down portion]] affected by the manufacture, transportation and sale of Christmas merchandise, are indirectly benefited by the vast turnover of Christmas merchandise." Plane Breaks Fort Worth to Chicago Record CHICAGO, Nov. 4. (Exclusive)--Aided by a stiff tail wind, a new Douglas airliner sped into Chicago this afternoon, breaking by half an hour the flight time record from Fort Worth, Tex., for loaded passenger planes. The new time, according to officials of the American Air Lines, who were aboard the ship, was 3 hours, 52 minutes. The average speed was 213 miles an hour. The plane had just been received on the west coast and was being flown east by Pilots J. G. Ingram of Fort Worth and William B. Lester of Chicago. Hitler Defied by Protestants [[cut off]]
