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  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 shares. 
  Astonished by the action filed against him and the attachment placed on his faithful Lockheed Altair plane, Kingsford-Smith, when he had recovered his compsure, 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. 
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Sir Charles Kingsfor... taking care of congr... business before arising.
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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 192... 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 Charles reached Los ... after his last trans-Pacific 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, Southe... for which the Lockheed was ... from Oakland to Australia. 
 Before leaving yesterd... Charles mailed to the 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.
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P.S.T. today ...cinnati to Los Angeles. ...viosly had left Kansas at 11 a.m.
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the controls of his Lady ... Cross, in which he flew f... ...tralia to Oakland recentl... at the Lockheed Aircraft ... Burbank at 2:05 p.m. yest... ...er having flown from O... Turner. 
 They flyer was feted las... the Clark Hotel by P. G. ... About 150 persons attend... ...ing the hotel staff and fr...
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 Up in the air for a... day jaunt, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith flew to Oakland ... a visit with his brothe... was accompanied by Jo... manager of his ocean flig... 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.
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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. 
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Mayor Shaw extends the official greeting 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. 
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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. 
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AIR HEROES WELCOMED
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Crowd of 20,000 at Field 
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Police Lines Give Way as Spectators Swarm About Plane 
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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 
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might begin to dismantle the history-making 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 the 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 faraway Melbourne. 
 "Hello, Chill," shouted the two friends of her 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 of news reel cameramen who had motion-picture cameras and microphones all set up to record for posterity the 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 and members of the committee might reach the field microphones and speak to the crowd over amplifiers. 
But the program was scrambled. R. B. Barnitz, director of airports for the city, started it off by introducing Mr. Morriss, who was honored as master of ceremonies. Woodruff De Silva, assistant director of airports, pleaded with police to "give us a break." But the crowd wouldn't budge. It jammed in closer and overran the microphones. 
Morris spoke briefly, but his words were not heard. Mayor Shaw strove 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 distant 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 ariplane, 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 of the Pacific that look like specks on a map. And he never missed a point by so much as an inch. If it 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 thank you are to see me," he said, his eyes 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 rearrangement, 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 awaiting his coming.
SPEEDED 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 taken 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 Hote, while civic leaders planned 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
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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. 
"Hot 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
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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 plan 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 galons, 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
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 4. (AP) - 
Emory, Bronte, who navigated the first civilian plan to span the Pacific from California to Hawaii 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 father and the young naval reserve lieutenant's blonde bride.