Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-07
ALL j. s. BUREAUS
TO CLOSE At NOON
.ON 'L|NDBERGH Day
Business Houses Also Ex-
pected to Dismiss Employees
Saturday Afternoon.
MOTHER MAY AWAIT
AT SHIP GANGPLANK
Read, Initial Transatlantic Flyer,
to Grasp Airman's Hand
Among First,

All emplONCS OF the ederal ana
District governments in Washington
are to be dismissed at T. o'clock noon
Saturday, "Lindbergh day" All busi'
ness houses and banks are requested
also to close at that hour in order
that the largest possible number of
the people here may have an oppor-
tunity to see the intrepid flyer and
honor.
This was atIthoritatively announced
today when Postmaster General New,
direct from a meeting of the cabinet
and representing the Presidents spe-
cial cabinet committee on the Lind
bergh celebration, conferred with
the official citizens committee
Mai. Gen. Anton Stephan, president
of the Merchants and Manufacturers
Association, asked stores to close, and
Howard Moran, president OF the DIS
trict Bankers Association, announced
that he has made a similar request Of
all financial institutions.
Mother Comes First.
Mrs. Evar. line Lindbergh. Detroit
OF the young hero of the skies, Will
probably be first to greet him as he
comes down the gangplank from the
Memphis. She is to reach Washing
ton ly Saturday morning and will
go direct to the temporary White
House as Mrs. Coolidge's guest. I'm
less Mrs. Coolidge has other plans. the
women'S committee, headed J Miss
Nab. -. Boardman. will invite Mrs.
Lindbergh to &, with them as part of
the official reception committee to
greet him at the Navy Yard, and, if
she goes to the Navy Yard, all others
will properly stand aside that she may
be the first to clasp her son.
The first man ever to fly across the
ocean ~ airship. Comdr. A. &. Read,
l.. S. n. who flew from Newfoundland
to the Azores and to Portugal and to
Great Britain in 1919, and who is now
commandant of the Naval Air Station
at Hampton Roads will be among the
first to clasp Lindbergh's hand when
he lands in Washington. Comdr
Read was today ordered to report in
Washington for this celebration as Il
guest of the official citizens committee
and will have q prominent place on
the Presidents stand.
Will Follow Lindbergh.
Three members Of the Presidents
cabinet committee are TO ride in an
official car Immediately behind the
automobile that will carry Lindbergh
and John Hays Hammond-Sacr
of War Davis, Secretary of the Navy
Wilbur and Postmaster General New
Secretary of Commerce Hoover, who
is absent on flood relief work, will
not be in attendance. Following the
cabinet car will be one in which will
ride the District Commissioners and
then the official reception committee.
which was enlarged at today's meet
ing. A committee of 12 Senators, desi-;-
mated by Vice President Dawes, and
a committee of II House members,
designated by Speaker Longworth
will join the reception committee.
The Senate committee consists of
Senators Curtis of Kansas, Repub-
lican leader in the Senate; Robinson
of Arka nsas, Democratic leader of the
Senate; Schdll and Shipstead of Min
nesota, the State in which Lindber2h
was born; Senators Reed and Hawes
of Missouri. the State from which tho
flyer received his backing for his
transatlantic flight, and Senators
Warren of Wyoming, Swanson of Nir.
Ginia. Hale of Maine, Copeland of
New York. Harrison of Mississippi
and Reed of Pennsylvania.
At the request of the White House
the following four names were added
to the reception committee: Charles
Evans Hughes. former Secretary of
State; Representative Fish of New
York, Nathan Miller and Charles
Lockwood.
Playmates Are Coming.
-Four boyhood playmates from Twin
Falls, Mimi. will also be given places
of prominence on the stand to see
Lindbergh get the Distinguished Avia-
ton Medal This ceremony will also
be given an impressive official framing
by having the Assistant Secretaries of
War, Navy and Commerce and the
Second Assistant Postmaster General,
in charge of aviation, as official wit
nesses and SPONSORS.
Complete approval by President
Coolidge of all the plans made by the
citizens committee for the big Ia
tional demonstration here Saturday
was reported at the executive meet
ing today.
1t was stated officially that there
will be but two speeches at the official
reception on the Washington Monu-
ment grounds at approximately ,
o'clock-one by the President in be-
slowing the decoration, which will
take not more than five minutes, and
a brief reply by Lindbergh.
The President will be surrounded
by members of his cabinet and the
women of the cabinet, for whom spe-
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