The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-05-02
Crew of Bremen Are First
Foreigners to Receive
u. S. Award.
PLAN TOUR OF U. S.
viii Visit Principal Cities
in Historic JunkerS
Atlantic Craft.
BY LYLE C. WILSON
United Press STAFF Correspondent

WASHINGTON, My 2.-Ameri-
cas- honors to the brave were be-
slowed today officially upon the
Breron's valiant crew.
Pre- ident Coolidge at noon re-
ceived them in the White House
and presented to them Distinguished
Flying Crosses-decorati of merit
given foreigners today for the first
time.
They were escorted to the PreSi-
dents business offices in the White
House and introduced to the Chief
Executive by Colonel Latrobe, his
military aid. Thousands crowded in
the vicinity Of the White House to
glimpse the men who had flown the
Bremen from Ireland to lonely
Greenly Island
Ceremony on Lawn
From the business offices, the
party adjourned to the south of the
vast White House grounds, and
there the President presented the
crosses which had been hurried
here from Philadelphia by plane.
The citations, with names altered
to correspondent to the recipient,
said:
The Distinguished Flying Cross
for extraordinary achievement in
participating in aerial flight, Capt.
Koehl, with his two companions,
April 1918, 1923, by their excep-
tional skill and resourcefulnesS sue
ceeded in making the first westward
nonstop Atlantic flight by
airplane from Europe to North
America"
Announce United States Tour
From the White House, the fliers,
again besieged by welcomers who
sought to shake their hands, pro-
ceeded to the National Press Club
for a brief reception and then re-
turned to the White House for
luncheon as the Presidents guests.
The Irish airmen plan
to start a Circle tour" from New
York next Wednesday,. Points so
far decided upon for their visit are
Chicago, st. Louis. Detroit, Ottawa,
Boston and Philadelphia, according
to word at the fliers' press recep-
ton today.
Major Fitzmaurice, the Irish flier,
remarked he never wanted to see
Greenly Island" the Bremen's
landing place, again, but said the
group planned to fly back to Europe
if at all possible.
Start From New York
AS at present planned, the Bremen
will be brought to the States within
the next ten days and will be turned
over to the fliers at some point on
their tour They will start from
New York for Chicago with the Bre-
mems sister ship, the F-13.
From the White House, the fliers'
itinerary led them this afternoon to
Arlington to lay upon the grave of
the Unknown Soldier wreaths of
spring flowers. Tonight they will
attend official dinners.
Koehl and F'itzmaurice said the
Junkers monoplane F-13 probably
would arrive here today from New
York to take the fiiers away Thurs
day.
Heads of the American Govern
ment joined with thousands of capi-
tai residents to do honor to the
crew Of the Bremen at Boiling field.
Indy Attends Celebration
Col. Charles A. Lindbergh was
among those at the field to welcome
the German-Irish f1ierS, who had
stirred a worlds imagination only
slightly less than he had done with
his New York-Paris flight.
High Government officials, frock-
coated and silk hated, were on
hand to bid the Germans and their
Irish colleague, "willkommen''-wel-
come. Artillery salutes doomed out
over the Potomac in honor of the
hiers and their distinguished well
comers.
The trio arrived at the Boiling
reviewing stand shortly after 10
o'clock.