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C 11-6-34
Sir Charles Honored but Suit Mars [[??Fet]]

Attachment Placed on Trans-Ocean
Plane as City Pays Homage
Kingsford-Smith and [[//Aid]]

   Los Angeles wined and dined Sir Charles [[??]] Smith and his navigator, Capt. P.G. Taylor, [[??con]] the broad pacific, yesterday, but a discordant [[??a]] note crept into the homage extended the ace [[??]] birdmen in the form of legal action by a [[??promot]] $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 the 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 dish, 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 planet Kingsford-Smith, when he had recovered his composure, early yesterday's 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 Austrail-
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   Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith, Australian globe-girdler, who recently flew his Lady Southern Cross 7701 miles from Brisbane to Los Angeles, all take off for Oakland today to visit his brother E.H.K. Smith, over Sunday.  He expects to fly back to Los Angels 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 the 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.
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   Sir Charles Kingsford taking care of [[??congratu]] business before arising [[??y]] the debt?  Simply because oceanic flights today are [[??]] 2 cents a c=bushel11"
   He managed a cheerful [[??]] climbed the steps into the though, and added:
   The flight I made in 19[[??]] the pacific was worth $[[??]] me.  Times are changing, Cheerio, and tell everyone never forget the lovely Tre[[??]] have had since landing [[??]] last time; it has really been [[??ous]]."
DESPITE "GREETIN[[??]]
   And this is spite of the f[[??]] the first thing that happens[[??]] Sir Charles reached Los Angeles after his last trans-Pacific flight was the slapping of an attachment against the Lady Southern Cross by a promotion who contended he had aided Kingsford-Smith in 1928, before the epochal flight of the old Fokker monoplane, Souther Cross, for which the Lockheed was named, from Oakland to Australia.
   Before leaving yesterday[[??]] Charles mailed to Police Ju[[??]] K. Gibbs in Fresno a money for $10 in payment of a sp[[??]] fine assessed against him the Sunday.  Dispatches from said the money was receive[[??]] night, together with a letter [[??ing]] Judge Gibbs and police [[??cers]] for their courtesy.
   P.S.T. [[??]] connate to Los Angeles.  [[??]] piously had left Kansas 11 a.m.
   Sir Charles [[??}} the controls of his Lady S[[??]] Cross in which he flew fro[[??]] [[??tralia]] to Oakland recently, at the Lockheed Aircraft p[[??]] Burbank at 2:05 p.m. yesterd[[??]] [[??]]er having flown from Oakland an hour and thirty-five n[[??]]. This is within twenty-one [[??]] of the record held by Col. Turner,
   The flyer was feted last ni[[??]] the Clark Hotel by P>G>B> M[[??]]. About 150 persons attended, I[[??]] ing the hotel staff and friends.
   UP in the air for a [[??]] day jaunt, Sir Charles K[[??]] Smith flew to Oakland yesterday[[??]] a visit with his brother Ha[[??]] was accompanied by John S[[??]] manager of his ocean flight[[??]] 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 [[??]] until today.
BEST PLANE IN WORLD,' SIR CHARLES DECLARES
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OAKLAND, Nov 4 (U.P.)-Boasting that he had "the best plane in the world," Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith described his flight from Hawaii which ended here today.
   "From the tie of the take-off at Honolulu, we had no trouble except for fifteen minutes about 11 o'clock last night when we bumped into a rainstorm.  That necessitated a short period of blind flying." he related. 
   "I don't remember what our position was at the time but it was  nothing like that 8000-foot spin on our flight from Suva to Honolulu, when the plane's wing flaps fell down.
SPEED CUT DOWN
   "The last half of our flight I kept cursing down the speed, throttling down until we almost stalled, trying to get here at 9:30 a.m.
   "That was my one chief worry on this flight.  Neither Capt. Taylor nor myself are tired, the flight was so easy.
   "I flew at the start at an altitude of about 6000 feet and then went between 7000 and 12,000 feet the rest of the way.
   "We started out at 140 miles an hour, then hopped the plane up to 180 miles and flew the last quarter of the journey at 125 miles an hour."
   He and Capt. Taylor ate only one sandwich apiece of their small food supply during the fifteen hours of flying.
   "And Sir Charles didn't play the ukulele that he got in Honolulu, nor did he have time to sing," Capt. Taylor remarked with a smile.
   There also was a bottle of liquor in the plane but it had not been opened.
   "We didn't need it," Sir Charles remarked laughingly.  "Nothing went wrong we weren't tired and didn't need any stimulant."
SIGHTED HILLS
   Capt. Taylor  said that a few hundred miles from the California coast line the plane ran into heavy fog and he had 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.

Will Rogers Remarks:
Santa Monica, Nov. 4 34 [To the Editor of the Times:]. The radio (God bless it) just tells us [[image]] that Sir Kingsford-Smith finished his wonderful flight, and it is one of the outstanding one of history. Great piloting, perfect navigation, and American 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 me that 55 years ago today at Oolagh India Territory, on Nov 4, 1879, a boy baby was born.  Well anyhow played a game of polo and roped calves all day, so there is life in the old nag yet.

AIR KNIGHT PLANS THIRD PACIFIC HOP
   Sir Charles Kingsford-Smith aerial 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.