Congratulations Flood Aviators

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 378, 12 June 1928, Page 9

Congratulations Flood Aviators

AMERICA’S ESTEEM LIST OF SUBSCRIPTIONS (United P.A.—By Telegraph — Copyright) (Australian Press Association.) NEW YORK. Sunday In emulation of the example set by Australia in raising funds on behalf of Captain Kingsford Smith and Mr. C. T. Ulm, the Hearst newspapers have opened a subscription list for Mr. J. Warner and Captain Lyon with a contribution of £I.OOO. This is regarded as an indication to the wireless operator and navigator in some slight measure of the esteem in which they are held. A message from Los Angeles says Mr. G. A. Hancock, backer of the Southern Cross flight, announces that a half interest in the profits from the motion pictures of the adventure are to go to the two Americans. Captain Lyon and Mr. Warner and the other half to Captain Smith and Mr. Ulm. Pictures of the preparations for the adventure were taken by Mr. Han cock’s photographer and from his seat in a plane Mr. Ulm took scenes of interest en route to Australia.

LONDON PRESS PRAISE (Australian Press Association. > LONDON, Monday. “The Observer'* yesterday paid a glowing tribute to the aerial preeminence of the Australians. “The Times” to-day says: “Australia needs confidence, especially that of personal contact and quicker use of the airplane in her great spaces. No stimulant could be more potent than that recently given by Mr. Bert Hinkler, Sir George Wilkins, Captain Kiugsford Smith, and Mr. C. T. Ulm, who have deserved well of their country and of the world.’* PARIS LAUDS AIRMEN (Australian P.A.—United Service) PARIS, Monday. Numerous tributes are published in the French press to the trans-Pacific flyers. “LTntransigeant” says the flight leaves all others behind, even those across ihq Atlantic, because it tvas not only fraught with perils, hut constituted a tour de force in the matter of aerial navigation. “Le Matin’* emphasises that the great transoceanic flights have been accomplished in land machines. It says the flight of the Southern Cross is memorable because for the first time wireless communication was almost unceasingly maintained. WELCOME IN SYDNEY SYDNEY, Monday. The crew o£ the Southern Cross was to-day officially welcomed at the Town Hall by the Civic Commissioners. A huge and enthusiastic crowd packed the building and the adjoining thoroughfares. Lieutenant Ulm has presented the log of the Southern Cross to the national library.