Douglas Daily Dispatch

COL. LINDBERGH TAKES PANAMA PRESIDENT FOR AN AIR TRIP

PANAMA, Jan. 10 (AP) — The president and vice-president of Panama were passengers in a Dehaviland biplane flown by Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today, providing a high spot in a day full of festivities in honor of the noted flyer's visit.

After a short test flight, Col. Lindbergh took President Chiari up for a 15-minute trip. When the executive stepped from the aircraft after the first ride of his life, he said: "Admirable; magnificent; a man must fly in order to realize how insignificant he is in the universal order of things."

After cabinet members had hastened to congratulate the chief executive, Tomas Gabriel Duque, vice-president of the republic and owner of the Star and Herald, a member of The Associated Press, stepped into the plane and went up with Lindbergh for a 15-minute flight.

The flyer was entertained at luncheon, receptions and sight-seeing trips. Everywhere he went he was acclaimed with the utmost enthusiasm. This morning he laid wreaths on the statues of Bolivar, South American Liberator, and Balboa, Central American discoverer, and at the foot of a monument to firemen killed in action.

Lindbergh was given a model in rare native woods of his famous plane, the Spirit of St. Louis, when he visited the Panama Normal school. At the Masonic temple he was offered a globe made of native mahogany and cedar, on which the routes of his New York-to-Paris, Washington-to-Mexico City, and Central American flights were traced. The globe was set up on a replica of a book supposedly recounting his achievements, but which upon pressure of a secret button, opened disclosing a Panama hat.

Colonel Lindbergh probably will spend an extra day in the canal Zone for much needed rest, it was said today at the office of the American charge d'affaires.

The aviator's program calls for two days in Panama, one in the Canal Zone, and one in Balboa.