Seward daily gateway., 1924-05-09
REMOTE NIPPON TOWN AWAITS ARRIVAL OF
 U. 5. GLOBE FLYERS
VILLAGE OF MINATO WILL GIVE CEREMONIAL WELCOME TO
 U. s. AVIATORS


 of ten thousand souls, where Japanese whalers put out on their quest for the oceans big game is preparing for the arrival of the American round-the- world flyers, an event as yet un- equaled in the history of that place. When the American Army officers and enlisted men, in the American air planes arrive in this little Japanese village some time in June, the event will mark the first ceremonial well come that Minato has ever given to representatives of a foreign country. The American round-the-world air flight may have attracted attention throughout the United States and in Europe; certainly it has attracted in no place any awed interest than in this most provincial Japanese sea- coast town, the first hopping-off place for the island of Japan proper, that the Americans will use.
 "When we visited Minato recently" said Clifford c. Mutt, of the American Army in the Philippines, detailed to make arrangements for the landing of the American airmen in Japan, "the Governor of the province and the town authorities were most cordial to us. | The people with whom we talked of the coming trip of the American avia- tion party discussed it as an event about which they would tell their in- fants, for, they said, it was the first time that ever a semi official foreign party had paid their village notice. It is safe to say that the American air men will give the village of Minato the greatest thrill that it will experience for many months"
 All Plans Laid
 Cooperation with Lieutenant Mutt in his arrangement work in Japan are the American Embassy staff in Tokyo, including the American Military At tache, Major P. R. Faymonville, Major General Yasumitsu, head of the Jap anese air forces, Colonel Shioden, of the army, and Commander Hara of the navy, the latter three having given the American lieutenant a banquet shortly after his arrival, and others in the Japanese army and navy who are necessary in arranging for sup plies and landing places for the Ameri- can visitors. During the month of Apr. Lieutenant Mutt visited Minato, the place where the American aviators will land in Japan proper, Kasumigau ra, field near Tykyo, and fields near Oska and Kagoshima. He reported that at all these places he found sat- isfactory facilities for receiving the American planes.
 Many matters were to be discussed after the arrival of Lieutenant Mutt in Tokyo, among these being the con. dition of the harbors in such places as Minato, the likelihood of serious storms hitting the landing places at the time of the arrival of the Ameri- can aviators, whether the route from Japan to China would go thru Ko req, or directly across from Japan tc China. All these matters have beer successfully settled now, and it only remains for the American and Japan ese departments managing the flight to approve ,and Japan's share in aid. ing America in the great flight will have been accomplished.
 Interesting Stops
 The American aviators will find ar interesting crowd of spectators in at least one place which they will make on the round-the-world-flight. Leaving Atka, the planes will proceed to At tu, which is the last of the American Aleutian Islands. From there they will proceed to Parumusriru, where they will find a number of semi-aborigine types. Here, as we'll as in Minato, Jap- an, where the aviators will visit later there will be exhibited the greatest of interest in these wonderful birdmen from the Great White Mans Coun- try" but the degree of int ,lligence ex- hibited will not be so great as will be that at the Japanese villages. From Parumushiru the flight will proceed to the village of Bettubu, in the South Kuriles, and from that place to Japan proper. Japanese destroyers, carrying all necessary provisions will meet the American aviators for the first well come of Japan, at the Japanese is- land possession. Lieut.. Mutt the Amer ican army man making arrangements in Japan, will find it impossible to get to this place because of the danger in not getting back to Japan in time to meet the aviators here, so this de-