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there be any mad rush by the
hundred thousand or more people
who will be gathered on and around
the knoll from which rises the
obeliSk erected to the memory Of
George Washington.
From the reception to the tenn
porary White House Lindbergh again
will be guarded by cavalry and police.
Saturday night as he moves from
one reception to another and during
his trips Sunday to church, Airing
ton and Walter Reed hospital, police
will guard him with the military
held in reserve in case of need.
Besides the 100 and more aviators
who will accompany Lindbergh to
Washington in the air, several hund
red others, including pilots of the
army, navy, marine corps, national
guard and armv and navy reserve will
greet him at the navy yard
These fliers will be drawn up in
double line and Lindbergh will pass
through this human lane as he moves
from the gang plank to the White
House automobile in which he will
ride to the monument grounds. An
invitation to all aviatorS of the four
services and the reserve to go to
the navy yard was issued today by
the official reception committee.
A new honor was conferred today
upon the New York -to-Paris flier
as he approached American shores
on the cruiser Memphis. This was
promotion to the rank of colonel
in the army flying service reserve.
His commission was approved by
President Coolidge and will be per-
Sonally presented to him by Secre-
tary Davis, of the war department,
at st. Louis, when he is welcomed
back to that city.
| As the Memphis steams in be-
tween Virginia's historic capes, Henry
and Charles, tomorrow afternoon
around 4 o'clock, she will be met
field and the Hampton Roads naval
by more than go planes from Langley
air station. These will accompany
her part Of the way up Chesapeake
bay and rejoin her Saturday morning
after she has turned into the Potomac
river.
From Langley field the army will
send out 25 planes. The marine
corps will send five planes, now
engaged in bombing exercises at
Roads station, the navy will send
Langley field, and from the Hampton
from IS to so planes of the scouting
air fleet.
Governor Byrd of Virginia, with his
staff, and Mayor Bright of Richmond,
will welcome Lindbergh at the Vir-
jgirlia capes,. although they will do
so from a distance, as the Memphis
will make no stop until she docks
at the navy yard here. The Vir-
ginians will go to the capes in a
private yacht and draw near the
Memphis as she slows down to take
a pilot on board.
! The official program for the en-
tertainment of the world flying hero
was extended today by the reception
committee to include breakfast
early Monday morning at the May
flower hotel by the National Aero
nautic association. From there Lind
bergh is expected to 60 direct to
Boiling field to take off for New
York.
Whether he will fly in the Spirit
of ST. Louis or an amphibian plane
of the army will be determined only
after the pilot himself reaches Wash
ington. There is suggestion that
he use an army plane and land in
the harbor so as to avoid the enor-
nous crowds that would gather at
a landing field.
The Spirit of ST. Louis, now knocked
down and Grated on the Memphis.
| will be re-aSSembled here and should
! Lindbergh make the hop to New
York in an army plane, it might
/ be taken to New York by an army,
navy or air mail pilot.
| Besides accepting the invitation to
/ the Aeronautic association breakfast,
| Colonel Lindbergh will greet repre-
| sentatives of the American legion,
the G. A. r., the Spanish American
War Veterans, the Disabled Veterans
and the Veterans of Foreign Wars at
! Walter Reed hospital Sunday after
noon when he goes there to see
the sick and disabled service mne.
The veterans organizations will
bank their colors at the space across
from the administration building and
present the fier with a parchment
! testimonial of their appreciation of
his achievement.
Instead of waiting at the presidents
stand to greet the fier, Robert Nun
geSser, brother of the missing French
! trans Atlantic flier, will go to the
navy yard as the guest of the re-
| ception committee to be presented
there to the conqueror of the At
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