Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-09
LINDBERGH TO RECEIVE LOADS
OF AIR MAIL AS CRUISER DOCKS
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ception is distinctively for Minnesota
people and a few'invited guests. He
announced after the meeting that
any applications that have been made
for tickets by persons who are not
from Minnesota will be sent back, as
the State society desires emphatically
to purge itself of any suspicion that
ii has been concentrating the Lind
| bergh reception.
Mr.. Schumenan was accompanied
| by Miss Bede Johnson. president of
| the Minnesota State Society, who con-
| firmed his statement regarding the
misunderstanding over the opening or
! Headquarters in the Gridiron room of
| the Willard Hotel to accommodate
Minnesota people.
r. r. Blythe, personal representa-
tive of Lindbergh. who has been CO.
operating with the citizens committee,
will leave Washington tonight, and
will go out from Norfolk tomorrow
morning on a destroyer to meet the
Memphis, which he will board. Outside
of the pilot. Mr.. Blythe is the only
person expected to board the Memphis
before it docks at the Presidents
| wharf in the Navy Yard.
Mr.. Blythe is carrying invitations
from every State in the union and
from scores of communities which
| want Lindbergh to visit them during
| the next two months.
Lindbergh's uniform as an officer in
| the Missouri National Guard is now
| in Washington in the custody of l. j.
| Roberts, secretary of the citizens
committee, and will be taken to Lind
bergh aboard the Memphis by Mr..
| Blythe, so that the intrepid aviator
may be in uniform when decorated
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| by President Coolidge.
Brig. Gen. Greed C.. Hammond, CHIEF
| of the Militia Bureau of the War De-
| partment, explained today the reason
he had been forced to notify historic
units of the National Guard in various
| States which had planned to come at
their own expense to Washington to
| join in the parade Lindberg day that
| it was impossible to give them place
| in the parade.
Gen. Hammond said that his first
understanding was that few such
representative organizations would be
welcomed in the parade but that later
| it had been decided by Brig. Gen.
Rockenbach. commanding for this
| district, who is marshal of the parade,
to limit the military feature so that
the parade might be taken from Peace
| Monument to the Washington Monu-
| ment grounds in % minutes.
Maj. Gen. John L. Glenn, commander
1 of the Department of the Potomac Of
| the Grand Army. today protested
against limiting the number of repre-
sentatives of the five big veterans
organizations to $50 persons for the
ceremony of massing flags in honor
of Lindbergh in the Walter Reed Hos
pital grounds. 1t finally has been de-
termined that this brief service will
be allowed in that reservation.
John Hays Hammond, as chairman
of the executive committee, today an
nounced that through Mr.. Blythe. Col.
Lindbergh has let it be known that
his participation in the exercises at
Walter Reed Hospital is primarily and
| fundamentally to be with the disabled
soldiers and that he desires no ether
| exercises to interfere with that senti-
mental feature of the program.
The Navy will be the first to par
ticipate in the official welcome of Lind
bergh. The dirigible Los Angeles, 16
torpedo planes and six destroyers will
leave early tomorrow to meet the
| Memphis so to 100 miles at sea. The
Los Angeles will go from her Lake
hurst. n. j.. station. while the planes
and destroyers will depart from Hamp-
toll Roads, Va.
The final orders for the Los Angeles,
which is to drop packages of mail, in
vitations and congratulatory messages
for Lindbergh aboard the cruiser, were
to be dispatched late today to Lake
hurst from Washington by a Navy
scouting plane. The Los Angeles un-
der the orders, will hover above the
| cruiser, throttle down to the speed of
the vessel and lower the package of
messages by line to the ship.
Parking Plans Announced.
Arrangements were completed to.
day for parking of. as many automo'
biles Of the public in the parks as
the space will permit. The parking
arrangements and the handling OF
automobiles in the parks is under the
direction of Capt. NJ. II. Parsons
chief of the protection division of the
Office of public buildings and public
parks of the National Capital.
Parallel parking of automobiles will
be permitted on both sides of the road
way in East Potomac Park leading
to and from Hams Point. At Hams
Point proper the automobiles will
park at an angle, so that as many
as possible can be accommodated
However, Capt. Parsons warned that
people who go to East Potomac PARK
should not plan to get out of that
area in a rush after the cruiser
Memphis passes the point and pro
ceeds up the Anacostia River. The
park police will he instructed to let
automobiles out Of the area as rapidly
as possible, but, it is pointed out
there probably will be a stream OF
automobiles using the Fourteenth
street roadway from the Highway
Bridge, which may make 1t difficult
for people to get out of East Potomac
Park in hurry in an effort to reach
the ceremonies in the Monument
grounds, or to get to points of van
tage along the parade route.
There will be no parking permitted
D on any of the roadways within the
. Monument grounds, nor will parking
be permitted on either of the tive
roadways on b street between Fiji
= teenth and Seventeenth streets
Parallel parking will be permitted Oh
, both sides of the roadway around thu
: Ellipse.
Capitol Exercises Sunday.
I As the closing honor in the pro
:. gram for Col. Lindbergh in the Ma