The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-01
BIRTHDAY FETE
TO HONOR Filler
( IN N. Y. TONIGHT
Hotel BakeS Huge Cake for
i. Baron HuenefeId;
Il
r Is So.
BREMEN PALS INCLUDED
Official Washington Ac-
claim to Be Received by
Sky Heroes Wednesday.

BIZ United Press
NEW YORK, May l. Thousands
of miles away from his fatherland
Baron Gunther Won Kuenefeld to-
day will celebrate his thirty sixth
birthday.
He observes this event in a city
that with open hearted enthusiasm
has displayed he has won a place
in American hearts through the
courageous flight of the airplane
Bremen across the North Atlantic
The baron and his two comrades
of that expedition, Maj. James
FitzmaUrice and Capt. Hermann
Koehl, had a more quiet day today
than was that festive celebration
Monday.
The three visited the Pulitzer
Bldg. where they were received by
Ralph Pulitzer and executives of the
New York World and North Amer
lean Newspaper Alliance. They were
accompanied by Bernt Balchen and
G. A. Duke Schiller.
Huge crowds continued to follow
the heroes today.
Leaving the Pulitzer Bldg. shortly
after noon they were taken down
into the financial district where
they laid wreaths on the statue of
George Washington in the sub
treasury building.
Streets were thronged with lunch
hour crowds and there was a small
scale renewal of the ticker tape and
torn paper storm which had en-
quilted the fiers during their formal
reception Monday.
The fliers then proceeded to call
on the British and German con-
Sulates.
The hotel learned of Won Huene-
fields birthday and has baked a
birthday cake for the occasion.
Night of Excitement
The three f1iers and Mrs. Koehl,
Mrs. Fitzmaurice and little Patsy
F'itzmaurice will attend the celebra-
ton.
Tonight the distinguished group
will be guests of honor at a munich
pal dinner at the Commodore Hotel.
Wednesday they will go to Wash
ington to receive the Nations
honors.
Monday was a turnultuous and
soul-stirring day for this trip CT adj
venturers. After the great celebra-
ton Of greeting, when New York
welcomed Fundamentally the two
men who were Americas enemies
only short ten years ago, and their
Irish comrade, they had night Of
excitement.
With Mayor James j. Walker they
went to one Of the gay musical shows
and were entertained by a bevy of
New York's clever and pretty chorus
girls. Then they went to the Shar-
key-Delaney fight at Madison
Square Garden.
No sooner had they been seated
than some one spied them and the
shouting that had rung in their ears
throughout the day was resumed.
The $4,000 fight fans ignored the
ring and shouted glad acclaim.
Cheered at Prize Fight
Finally Joe Humphreys, the vet
eran Garden announcer, looked over
to where the three sat and said:
Come on Fitz."
The shouting started again as the
grinning F'itzmaurice led his two
German pals of the air to the ring.
Fitz showed an alacrity in going
through the ropes, but heavy set
Koehl experienced difficulty in
climbing into the ring.
ST am proud of the privilege to
introduce the two monarchs OF the
air, Major Fitzmaurice, the Irish
man, and Captain Koehl, the Ger
man, sons of the two greatest coun-
tries on EARTH" HUMPHREYS said.
The crowd yelled and stamped It's
auproval and kept up such a bedlam
that it was almost five minutes be-
fore HUMPHREYS could continue his
speech and include the baron.
Municipal Station WNYC Will
broadcast New York's dinner in
honor of the crew of the trans At
lantic monoplane Bremen direct
from the Hotel Commodore tonight.
WNYC's microphone will be con-
nected to the banquet hall at ap-