Scandinavian American. [volume], May 01, 1947, Page 11, Image 11

About Scandinavian American. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1945-1958

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THE SCANDINAVIAN AMERICAN
lindbergh's Exploit Recalled
One night, approximately 20
years ago, it suddenly became
quiet at the Sharkey-Maloney
fight in the Yankee Stadium.
The crowd of 40,000 straw-hat
ted men and short-skirted women
stood up and prayed,
The man they were praying for
was the same man about whom
the New York Times had 10,000
anxious telephone calls in 11 hours.
He was the same man 30,000
Frenchmen stood waiting for the
next night near Paris.
Finally. among the Frenchmen
studying the sky, someone heard a
motor. Someone fired rocket
flares. And 500 feet up, the glare
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revealed the frail fuselage of the
"Spirit of St. Louis."
Very soon, millions of thrilled
people were repeating the salient
facts of Charles Augustus Lind
hergh's solo flight across the At
lantic. He was the first to make
it alone and he did it in 33 hours,
29 minutes. He won a $25,000 prize
while his rivals waited in New
York for better weather.
Much has happened in the air
since then to obscure the import
ance of Lindbergh’s flight. Today
commercial airliners regularly
make the same trip in 12 hours.
But it is doubtful whether any he
ro since then has captured the im
agination of the world by a single
act the way the slim, tall “Lone
Eagle“ did it 20 years ago.
Historians agree the sensation
Lindbergh made resulted from a
combination of the daring act it
self and the mood of the twenties.
n time of many heroes of varying
talents and virtues.
It was a time in the country of
a soaring big bull market. jazz.
xaccoon coats, the Charleston and
prohibition.
There were flagpole sitters,
marathon dancers. cross-country
walking races, channel swimmers.
the Sacco-Vanzetti executions and
college bohemians.
It was the time of the great
champions ——- Babe Ruth hit 60
home runs that year. Gene Tun
ney, Red Grange. Bobby Jones,'and
Tommy Hitchcock ruled their re
spective rooSts.
Against this backdrop of the
roaring twenties, an unknown mail
pilot and son of a Congressman
was to evoke the biggest roar.
Charles A. Lindbergh was 25
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tain in the Air Corps Reserve. He
entered the competition for the
$25,000 trans-Atlantic prize put up‘
by Raymond Orteig. and with the
funds supplied by St. Louis people. ‘
among them E. Lansing Ray, pub- I
lisher of the Globe-Democrat, Lind- ,
bergh went out to a San Diego?
factory to get his plane. i
He flew it to St. Louis and then
to Roosevelt Field, Long Island, on
May 12. The cross-country trip
was made in 21 hours and 20 min
utes. a record for its day.
At 7:52, Friday morning, May
20. Lindbergh took off for Paris
in a heavy mist. His plane had a
wing spread of 46 feet, a fuselage
28 feet long. and a maximum
speed of 123 miles an hour.
The lone flier had no radio and
all he took with him were two
sandwiches. two canteens of water,
two chocolate bars, two flashlights,
four red flares. one air raft with
pump, five cans of army emerg
ency rations, tw0 air cushions and
one hack saw blade.
Lindbergfi also had with him‘
lseveral letters of introduction to?
‘Unitod States Ambassador Myroni
‘T. Herrick and others in diplomat- {
lic circles in France. He later ex-i
gpiained to Mr. Herrick that he!
lthought “nobody knows me here."i
l Up along the Atlantic Coast. he;
Iflew in fog and rain and before;
morning. out over the Atlantic his;
ship was coated with sleet. By
mid-day Saturday he was flying,
over Ireland. and the bulletins
I were flashed on movie screens back |
‘home. Then came the Normandy'
toast and in the darkness he wast
guided by beacons along the Lon-l
don—Paris air route. the search-l
‘light on the Mt. Valerian fortress
and finally by the lights of the‘
{Eiffel Tower and the flares at Le.
Bourget airfield. =
' Then came the receptions: deco-l
rations and kisses from the Presi-i
I dent of France, the shouts of hun- .
|(lreds of thousands in the streets‘
l of Farris. Brussels and London and ‘
lformal welcomes by the kings of
lBelgium and England. ,
| President Coolidge sent the:
'f-rulser Memphis to bring the hem,“
Eand his plane home. Near the Vir- j
iginia Capes, the Memphis was
[joined by four more cruisers. six
ldestroyers and a flotilla of planes.’
i The flier and his mother rode in ‘
1 triumph through Washing t o n.
; Then came New York. Millions lin- '
'ed the streets and hung out win-i
(lows, tossing down more than 1.-‘
500 tons of confetti. The city?
spent $71,000 on the reception. I
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precarious fuel situation and the‘
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enforced in Sweden in the fall. A}
certain allotment will be given
each household. depending on the?
normal consumption. The use of;
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Norway's Building
Goals Announced
New York, N. Y.~~During a
recent press interview. Section
Chief Ove Seip of the Norwegian
Housing Directorate predicted
that attainment of 1947 building
goals will depend largely on deliv
ery of certain needed foreign
items. Regarding timber. Seip
anticipated a winter fall of 6 mil—
lion cubic meters (11'2 million
more than last year) to be divided
equally between the saw mills and
the wood products industries. Of
the former. 209/, will be set aside
to season for 1948 building, 15¢;
will be used for construction in
Nazi-leveled Finmark province.
while most of the remainder will
be channeled in to the housing
program.
Domestiv cement production will
be 450,000 tons (25,000 tons above
last year) and should moct all
home needs. Brick supplies. which
up to now have come mainly from
Norwegian kilns. are already short
in light of the wiprecedented need
for this product. Norwegian pro
ducers turned out 100 million
bricks in the top year 1939. and
80 million last year. Last year‘s
output is expected to be increased
only slightly as the industry is
not modernized and weather condi
tions will have much to do with
ultimate production. Six million
bricks recently purchased in Bel
gium will lead to additional pur
chases abroad only if the product
can match the Norwegian product
m size and quality.
Structural steel is another short
item which can not be met
'through domestic production. Dc
liveries from Belgium have been
delayed. and it is feared that
shortages of facing and reinforce
ment steel will be most serious.
Plumbing and fixtures are on
order in Czechoslovakia. England‘
and Finland, but the date of de-
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livery m by no means assured.
f‘3e‘llhm' will Nurwogian produc
tion of rement roofing tilo, roof—
mg paper. or roofing stone be suf-
I‘illent to meet all building needs.
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as many homes this year as we
did in 1946. Last year. , 6.500
apartments were constructed in
districts south of Nord Trams,
while an additional 12.000 then
under constructtion will be com
pleted this spring." In the Fin
mark section. north of the Artie
Circle. .300 permanent and 100
si-zni-ps-rmanont apartments were
completed by the end 01' 1946.
while an additional 800 of the
‘former will soon be ready for 0c
(-iipanry.
A Swedish artist. Siv Holme. on
iApril 21 opened an exhibition of
Loil paintings at the Berta Schae‘
ifer galinry in New York. She has
earlier shown her works in New
‘York and also in Paris.
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