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Mr Charles Honored but Suit Mars Fet attachment Placed on Trans-Ocea Plan as City Pays Homage to Kingsford-Smith and Aide Los Angeles wined and dined Sir Charles Kingsford-and his navigator, Capt. P.G. Taylor, conquerors of Broad Pacific, yesterday, but a discordant and ironical tone crept into the homage extended the ace Australian [[?]]en in the form of legal action by a promoter seeking [[?]]from Sir Charles. The sturdy little sky clipper, from Southern cross, which had [[?]]Sir Charles and his navigator from Australia to Los Angeles [[?]] Suva, Honolulu and Oak[[?]rmed a pathetic picture at Los Angeles Municipal Airport. PLANE FOR SALE Lockheed Altair monoplane had boomed across 2400 ocean between Hawaii and a in fifteen hours, ending on the previous day, was -and couldn't be sold. An nt slapped on her sleek prevented her sale. day of Kingsford-Smith's here, Sunday there were at Municipal, Airport and, and yesterday there congratulating visitors charles and Capt, Taylor at Hotel, where the two sts of P.G.B. Morriss, nager, and last night a was given the pair by the of commerce. hough Sir Charles and his spoke gayly at the ban- at the meeting with vis-ort of pall hung over it Lady Southern Cross was an attachment, and a file against Sir Charles. ANSWER SIGNED ngsford-Smith had re- with typical dash, when the legal action, by pre signing an answer be filed tomorrow morn- all allegations in the suit, and his gay speech ght s banquet belied all by the action filed and the attachment is faithful Lockheed Al- Kingsford-Smith, when covered his composure, rday, summoned Attor- odman and prepared an the complaint announcement fight the action and fol- th a damage suit against NOTE IN RECEPTION note in the otherwise reception of the man and his navigator Sir Charles was receiv- and congratulations in the Clark Hotel. pilot, whose exploits in for seven years been tional variety and who by Americans as en- as by his own Australia on Page2, Column 1 charles Kinsford-Smith, globe-grindleer, who re- his Lady Southern Cross from Brisbane to Los ill take off for Oakland sit his brother, E.H.K. r Sunday. He expects to Los Angerles tomor- just for fun, he took skylarking in the trim silver Los Angeles-built lane. Miss Patricia El-picture actress; Missd, writer; Miss Mary istant manager of the where Sir Charles is nd Leo Goodman, at he flyer, were his guests. of the day Sir Charles ferences over prospec- ntracts. P.G.B Mor-r of the Clark Hotel, annage, manager of Sir iness interests in Syd- with him on the eon- will fly to Oakland with oday. KINGSFORD-SMITH FLIES TO BAY CITY FOR LECTURE Sir Charles Kingsford - Smith, trans-Pacific flyer, lifted his Lady Southern Cross into the air at 2.37 p.m. Yes-terday for a hop to San Fran-cisco. Where he is scheduled to lecture on his oceanic flights this week. Taking off from the Lock-heed airport in Burbank, Sir Charles said he would make a leisurely flight northward, and would not at-tempt to set any new speed rec-ord. He landed at Mills Field, [[story continues in right column]] Oakland, shortly before 6 p.m., and said he had encountered headwinds which held up his speed on the flight. The noted flyer was accompanied by P. G. B. Morris, manager of the Clark Hotel and his local representative. He plans to return here within a few days. [[story ends]] the beginning of the end of one of the most outrageous rackets ever perpetrated in Los Angeles which is saying a great deal. It would be a dismal and tragic record if one could draw up the list of the people in this city who have lost their homes through spe-cial assessments for ornamental lights, street paving and other forms of public larceny. A new law which gives property owners the right to stop the graft makes the looting more difficult. It would be a valuable contribution if one of the protectors-of-the-people associations made public a list of all the City Councilmen and Supervisors who have at any time during their careers voted for special assessments. This would be one blacklist that would be justified. IRETRACT From Arizona come hot letters of protest because of Lancer remarks about the Governor of Arizona and the bombs thrown at the Japanese farmers in the Salt River Valley. On second thought, I see they are right, Why shouldn't the fussy old country doctor rattling around in the Governor's chair be allowed to bring on a war with Japan? It would only cost us a few billions and the lives of a million or so of our finest boys. It would cost him votes to punish the bomb throwers and Governors must have votes. [[new story, headline hidden]] ocean hopper, will fly back to Los Angeles from Oakland in his plane, Lady Southern Cross, this afternoon. The famous flyer is considering another flight from California to Australia, he said in Oakland, according to wire dispatches. "By Thursday I expect to know whether I will make another flight to Australia," Sir Charles was quoted as saying. "If I do, I will hop late this week or early next week." Kingsford-Smith flew from Oakland to Australia in a tri-motored ship in 1928, and flew from Australia to Los Angeles in a single-motored Lockheed Altair, landing here eight days ago. A third crossing of the Pacific, retracing his flight of six years ago, is now in prospect, it was indicated. If it does not materialize, Sir Charles plans to fly his Lady Southern Cross to the East coast. [[end story]] SIGHTED HILLS Capt. Taylor said that a few hundred miles from the California coast line the plane ran into heavy fog and he ahd to navigate with instruments. "We struck the California coast a few miles north of San Francisco," he said, "and located our direction by sighting the tops of the hills sticking out of the fog." Commenting on the fact that he and Capt. Taylor were the first to fly from Honolulu to Oakland, Kingsford-Smith said: "It isn't my fault, or Bill's but that we have the best equipment in the world." PLANE CARRIES FREIGHT HONOLULU, Nov. 4. (U.P.) — Progressive builders in Hawaii recently used an airplane to carry a truckload of building material to the top of a mountain. They saved weeks of time. [[end article]] Will Rogers Remarks: Santa Monica, Nov. 4. [To the Editor of the Times:] The radio (God bless it) just tells us that Sir Kingsford-Smith finished his wonderful flight, and it is one of the outstanding ones of history. Great piloting, perfect navigation, and America gets in on it, too, for he had a real plane. And he got here at the right time, it takes people's minds in California off this election, they were getting entirely too serious. They think this election is making history when as a matter of fact it's only marking time. Yours, WILL ROGERS P. S. I am pretty sore today, am looking for the ones that reminded that 55 years ago today at Oolagh Indian Territory on Nov. 4, 1879, a boy baby was born. Well anyhow played game of polo and roped calves all day, so there is life in the old nag yet. [[end article]] AIR KNIGHT PLANS THIRD PACIFIC HOP Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith arial globe trotter, came back to Los Angeles yesterday, considering the idea of flying back to Australia next month. The doughty Australian already has flown in both directions across the Pacific between California and Australia. 'I am considering two propositions at the present time," said Sir Charles. "One is to take a Matson liner back to Australia December 12 and attend to business. The other is to fly back to Australia over the same route I came here nearly four weeks ago." As to what type of plane he might fly, or who would back him in such a hazardous flight, Sir Charles would not say. [[end article]] FILMS FETE SIR CHARLES Pilot's Partner Goes East Kingsford-Smith, Honored at Studio, Prepares to Fight Legal Suit Today With the plaudits of the crowd still ringing in his ears and the memory of another gala fete in his honor to buoy him, Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, self-effacing knight-errant of the skies, today will make answer to the lawsuit that is keeping his aerial steed, Lady Southern Cross, incommunicado in a hangar at the Municipal Airport. But unlike the battle with the elements in which head Capt. P. G. Taylor, his navigator, as a comrade in coveralls and helmet, this battle will find Sir Charles on the firing line alone. For Capt. Taylor departed for the East last night as a passenger aboard a TWA plane, en route to Europe to accept a lucrative commission with a large transport line. COUNTER-CHARGE PLANNED The answer, which is to be a sweeping denial of Thomas R. Catton's complaint that the trans-Pacific flyer owes him $1750, will be filed in United States Court by Attorney Leo Goodman. It will include a counter-charge that the plaintiff, a promoter, is indebted to Sir Charles. On behalf of the airman, Attorney Goodman yesterday girded himself for the legal skirmish, following a conference with P. M. Bokofsky, attorney, who nstituted the action for H. Beverly as Catton's assignee. The parley disclosed, Goodman said, that of the $1750 sued for, $1000 represents what Catton charges Sir Charles owes him "for services rendered" and $750 for expenses incidental to the flyer's 1928 flight in the now historic Southern Cross from Oakland to Honolulu. SOUR NOTE IN RECEPTION Notification on Monday that he had been named defendant in the suit and that his beloved Lockheed Altair plane had been attached by the United States Marshal came as a jarring note to the ovation accorded Sir Charles and Capt. Taylor, following their epochal crossing of the broad Pacific from West to East. But once he had met the situation with an indignant denial and had put his signature to the answer drawn by his attorney, Sir Charles cast aside his cares and shared honors iwth his flying companion at the testimonial banquet given for them at the Chamber of Commerce. And yesterday morning both con- (Continued on Page 2, Column 5)
