The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1927-06-13
-INDYS MOTHER GETS WARM VEL COME IN NEW YORK
SUNDAY
IS FULL DAY

Llndy's Sunday in washington
was filled to overlooking with
real action.
The hero of the air kept five
engagements. all told, ana it was
not until the evening that he had
more than a breathing spell for
himself and his mother.
His morning engagement was to
attend services Of the First Con-
gregationaI Church-services being
held in the Metropolitan Theater-
with the President and Mrs. Cool
idge. His mother went with him:
she spent virtually the entire day
at his side.
After luncheon at the temporary
White House, Indy sped to Airing
ton Cemetery. where, like all cele-
brities visiting Washington, he
placed a wreath upon the tomb Of
the Unknown Soldier.
This ceremony was his tribute to
the war dead of the nation martyrs
of the war in which, ten years ago,
he was too young to participate.
Then flying White House au-
tomobile took him to Walter Reed
Hospital, where, for half hour.
he was Honized by the thousand
or more MANNED, crippled and
broken war veterans--big- hearted
men glad to sink their own trag-
edy in an enthusiastic tribute to
the youth who has the world at
his feet.
Minimized His Own Flight
Lindbergh reminded them that
the deeds of valor of American
airmen in the war far surpassed
his own achievement, and said they
should not be overshadowed by
the sheer immensely Of the war.
Waited Reeds reception to Lind
bergh, bringing youth in the first
flush Of strength in sharp contrast
against youth wrecked by war,
was the great high light OF the
day for the flier.
His personal greeting to the hos.
pital-ridden, the 40 or more veter.
ans who were unable TO come to
the open-air reception in the am.
phitheater, showed his winsome
smile and his sunny personality al
its best.
Indy and his encourage Their
were again whisked down sixteenth
Street amid crowds that thickly
lined both curbs OF that famous
boulevard.
His destination was known to
only few as the cars swept into
the downtown section. Instead Of
going to the temporary White
House, he iourneyed TO the flying
fields in Anacostia, Boiling field
| and the Navy field, winding UP by
inspecting his own plane. 1.-THE
Spirit OF ST. Louis" which was
sitting pretty" on a navy barge
anchored off Hams point, where
countless thousands of washington.
ians motored yesterday to see it,
contributing to an automobile con.
gestion that Is without parallel in
the chronicles OF west Potomac
Park.
Assured Plane Is o. X.
After assuring himself that his
trusty plane was all right, the busy
flier, who is now fully awake to
the fact that a time-schedule must
be rigidIy adhered to il all his en-
gagements are to be kept, made an
| other jump across town. and this
time came to the Capitol plaza
where flag day exercises were held
in the presence Of $4,000 Washing
tonians,
Here he was presented with the
Cross of Honor by Charles E
Hughes, former Secretary OF State
on behalf of the United States Flag
Association.
Again he made speech modestly
disclaiming he was entitled to the
adulation being showered upon hin
in such Overlooking measure. He
said aviation had developed over q
period of more than twenty years
and that he had fortunately reaped
the benefit OF much of the work
that had gone befroe.
Afer that Indy was ready to cal
it day. He had dinner with hi.
mother and with the President and
Mrs. Coolidge at the temporary
White House, and then laid plans
with mater for her secret journey
to New York, where she is to meet
him this morning.
Mrs. Lindbergh left the White
House shortly after 3 o'clock, but
Indy did not go with her to the
Union Station.
John Hays Hammond and Capt
John NJ. Dalton, one of the junior
White House aides, escorted her tt
the special car awaiting her on the
midnight train to New York.
What Indy did after his mother
left is more or less his own secret
Throughout the day and evening
however, crowds ehbed and flowed
in Dupont Circle around the tenn
porary White House, insisting thai
he appear.
Last night, however. he was toe
tired to care much more about pub
lie ovations, and Il is understood
that he did not waste much time In
tumbling into bed when his mother