Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-08
WHOLEC|TYU URGED
TO DISPLAY FLAGS
ONL|NDBERGHDAY
Old Glory to Fly From Gov
ernment and Office Build
ings and Private Homes.
REAL FESTIVAL OF AIR
TO MARK HOMECOMING
Distinguished Aviators Will Greet
Hero in Sky and on Land.
Final Details Arranged.

With Col. Charles A. Lindbergh on
the home stretch, with all of the Off
cial plans for the great national DEM
onstration in his honor at the Nation
al Capital approved by the President,
with the most noted naval. military,
postal and commercial aviators in the
country invited to join the reception
committee. with all branches of the
Government cooperating to make this
the most spectacular ovation ever
given private citizen in the Capital
City, with Uncle Sans workshops to
be closed so that all employees may
have an opportunity to join in the
cheering-Washing was busy to-
day preparing the final minor details
of the big jubilation.
The widest possible display of flags
on Government buildings. <On business
houses and on private hoh es will be
a feature of the preparation. While
the Presidents stand, on which he
will decorate the intrepid boy aviator
with the highest aviation award of the
Government and the first medal OF
it's kind ever struck off, is being erect
ed. and plans are being made by the
military authorities to afford orderly
procedure so that the fullest use pos
sible NAV be made of the brief time
Lindbergh is in the Capital, thus al
lowing the largest possible number
of persons to see him.
Flyers to Greet Him.
AS many of Americas airmen who
have distinguished themselves and
brought honor to their country by eX-
ploits in the air as can reach Washing
ton by Saturday will be with the Of
fetal welcoming and reception commit
tee at the Washington Navy Yard,
when Col Lindbergh arrives, and also
at the Washington Monument cere-
monies.
Each one of them personally will
greet the flyer and fall in line behind
his car and those of the official party
on the journey to the Monument for
the presentation ceremonies.
Outstanding among the airmen will
be Cemdr. a. C. Read, commandant of
the Naval Air Station at Hampton
Roads, Va, and commander of the
NC-4. the first airplane to fly across
the Atlantic. although it was not a
nonstop Journey Ranking also i'm
Importance will be Lieut.. Oakley g.
Kelly of the Army, who made the first
transcontinental nonstop flight from
New York to San Diego. and Comdr.
Richard Evelyn Byrd. u. s. N, re-
tired, who, with Floyd Bennett, his
pilot. flew from Spitzbergen to the
North Pole and back. distance of
about 1900 miles.
Real Air Festival.
Other notable airmen will be the
participants in the flight from New
York to Nome, Alaska, and return,
which la6 hV Tt1aiy-
STREET.. now adjutant of Selfridge
Field. Mount Clemens. Mich, and who
will be with the 1st Pursuit Group of
u single-seater. speedy fighting planes
due here for the OCCASION: at least one
member of the Army world flight,
Lieut.. Russell l.. Vaughan, who made
the trip from New York to San Fran
cisco between dawn and dusk; Maj
Thomas G. Lanphier. commander OF
the Porto Rican flight and now com
mander of the 1st Pursuit Group, and
members of the recently completed
Army pan-American flight.
While these airmen will greet Col.
Lindbergh on the ground. other air.
men, in their element, will be soaring
overhead in at least half hundred
airplanes and the rigid airship LOS
Angeles. Although the reception to
Col. Lindbergh is regarded as being
national in scope. the presence of so
many aircraft, if the weather Permits,
will have the tendency of turning the
welcoming exercises into an "air fes-
tivar' of proportions never seen be-
fore
Mother May Greet Him First.
1t is not yet definitely determined
whether Mrs. Evangeline Lindbergh,
In i- mo bnr -, =, {aS.,
that greets him at the Presidents
wharf in the Washington Navy Yard
that decision being left To Mrs. Lind
bergh herself. Mrs. Coolidge has nOti-
fled the wOmen's committee of which
Miss Mabel L. Boardman is chairman
that arrangements have been made
to have Mrs. Lindbergh met at Union
Station by White House car. If she
decides to greet her son in the Navy
Yard as he steps off the cruiser Mem
phis. she will probably be escorted hv
John Hays Hammond. chairman of
the citizens executive committee. In
that event all others will deferentially
stand back and allow the mother to
be first to greet her son as he steps
ashore.
The especial task of the citizens
committee now is to try 10 accom-
modate the largest possible number
of those who are imperatively de-
manding an opportunity to fete the
flyer and to have a place i'm the re-
served section on the WaShiEStoS
Monument Grounds.
Chairman Hammond asked the
press today especially to emphasize
two points-First. that ii is abso-
iutely immpossible to make arrange
ments for any other events on the pro-
gram for "l.indbergh day" because
there is no time; second. that seats on
the Presidents stand are only for OFF,
cials: that there are not enough of
these to supply the usual official list.
and that all space in the roped-off
Standing room is for those who
must be assured of place and that
this has already been disposed of by
cards.
Another Chance Sunday.
This includes such persons as the
presidents of the various citizens as
sociations, the directors of the three
big business organizations and the of.
ficial representatives of other nations
and States.
Those who are disappointed on Sat.
urday in being unable to see Lind
bergh will be afforded another chance
Sunday over a wider area. He is to
be escorted Sunday. with military po-
lice preventing any Interruptions,
from the temporary White Hous.
about 1:15 pm. to Arlington National
Cemetery over the Highway Bridge.
1t Is nVSned that the automobile In
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