Evening star., 1928-11-18
PROGRAM IS GIVEN
FOR AERIAL PARLEY
Delegates From so Nations
Will Attend Meeting Here
in December.

Details Of the program for the first
International Civil Aeronautics Confer
ence, which promises to- be the most
notable event of Its kind in the history
OF aviation, we're announced last night
by Leighton w Rogers, executive of
f1cer of Che conference.
Delegates will be present. from ap-
proximately so nations While the fea-
ture is to be the three-day conference
here December IL, 13 and IA. the entire
program includes events covering near
ly all of next month and Including
visits to the commercial aviation show
at Chicago during the first week of De-
cember to the Army test fields at Day.
ton, Ohio, to the Langley Memorial
Laboratories at Langley Field. Va. and
first power -driven airplane fight.
Delegates Will Use Planes.
The program includes plans for meet
ing the foreign delegates on shipboard,
transporting them by rail and airplane
to the International Aeronautics EXPOSE
ton at Chicago, and then by air and
rail to this city, then by boat, bus and
train to langley Field and Kitty Hawk.
The landing Of the delegates at New
York and other points. Of entry will be
facilitated through the customs by con-
ference representatives. At New York
the reception committee will open an
office in the Hotel Roosevelt Novem-
Der 26.
The Chicago exposition will be held
December to 9. under auspices OF the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
All delegates and representatives to the
washington conference have been In
vited. and conference headquarters VIII
be opened In the Hotel Stevens. Chi
cago. The delegates will be the guests
of the Chicago Aero Commission while
there.
Weather permitting. II is planned TO
provide free airplane transportation for
the visiting delegates between Cleve-
land and Chicago and from Chicago to
DAYTON. For this purpose the trans
portation committee. headed by Lieut..
Comdr Dew. G. watson. commandment
of the Aracostia Naval Air Station. has
obtained IS tri-motored transport
planes. a majority of them to be loaned
by private operators The delegates will
be taken from New York to Cleveland
by railroad, special train leaving
New York at $3.50 pm, December 8,
and arriving in Cleveland the follow
ing morning The delegates will be
the guests Of the Cleveland Chamber
Of Commerce and the National Air
Transport Co. while In Cleveland. The
feet of multi-motored planes will be
assembled at the Cleveland airport and
will leave about noon December for
Chicago.
Special Entertainment Planned.
December Z has been designed as a
day for special entertainment of the
conference guests at Chicago Nearly
every type Of American aircraft. both
commercial and military, with motors,
accessories and various aids to aerial
navigation, will be shown there. A
number of European aircraft also will
be exhibited, making the show one of
the greatest of Its kind ever held. A
banquet will be held for the visitors at
the Sherman Hotel the night OF De-
cember T.
On December the conference air
planes will leave for Dayton. weather
permitting. At Dayton, the home city
of the Wright brothers and the scene
of their first Airplane experiments, q
big celebration will be held commem.
Grating the twenty-fifth anniversary
Of the first, successful extended fight
in q poWer-driven airplane, made BY
Orville Wright at Kitty Hawk, De-
cen1ber II. 1903. THE city and the
Chamber of Commerce will entertain
the visitors, who will be given an on.
portunity to visit the experimental lab.
oratories Of the Army Air Corps at
Wright and McCook fields. The city
also will banquet the visitors.
A special train will bring the guests
to Washington. arriving here about
1880 pm. Tuesday. December IL. The
delegates will register and deposit their
credentials that afternoon at the con-
ference headquarters In the United
states Chamber of Commerce Building.
Conference Opens December IL,
The opening session of the conference
Will be held at 10 am. Wednesday, De.
cemoer IL. at the Chamber Of Com
inerce Building and will be followed
by luncheon from 1890 to 2 pm. SUBJ
sessions OF the conference will be held
during the afternoon and at S pm. the
visitors will be received by President
Coolidge. At o'clock that night q
reception will be held by the Secretary
Of Commerce
A plenary session of the conference
viii be held at 10 am, December 13,
followed by luncheon and afternoon
subSeSsions. That night, at $3.50 o'clock.
there will be an elaborate celebration
at the Washington Auditorium.
Morning and afternoon sessions on
Friday, December Ia, will be followed
at 3 pm. by banquet to members
OF the conference by the American dele
cation.
A spectacular aerial show will be
staged. at 1890 am. Saturday, De-
cen1ber Is, by Army, Navy and Marine
Corps aviators at Boiling Field and the
Naval Air Station. That afternoon the
delegates will inspect the laboratories
at the Bureau of Standards.
The delegates will leave Washington
by steamer at $50 pm Saturday, De-
cember is, arriving at Old Point Com
fort Sunday morning to visit the Lang
ley Field laboratories. The trip then
will be continued by bus to Kitty Hawk,
where the delegation will be the lunch~
con guests Of the XIII Devil Hills
Memorial Association. A cornerstone
will be laid there for a monument to
the Wrights to be erected by the United
State Government. On the spot from
which the first flight was made q
memorial is being placed by the Ma
tional Aeronautic Association. The del
egates will participate in both unveil-
ing ceremonies, =
The party will leave Kitty Hawk at
pm. Monday, December II, and will
arrive here early Tuesday. December
49, when the gathering will be dis
banded. Sc.
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