The Washington times., 1928-12-14
Is Eindbergh spoiled?

Is Eindbergh spoiled?
The legend Of his boyish mod
esty has suffered 4 rude shock II
4 story current at the aeronautics
conference is to be believed. And
there is excellent authority for II.
The story goes that we'll
known portrait photographer, who
has an enviable collection Of pic
lures Of the great and the near
great, spotted the flying colonel
as he entered the Carlton Hotel
yesterday, en- route to the suite
OF Clarence Young, big figure
in American aviation.
The photographer noted that
Indy seemed to have plenty Of
time on his hands. and followed
him to the Young suite. The lens
man raped on the door and pre-
gented 4 photograph OF Lindbergh.
II have photographed the colonel
MANY times,a he said, "but this
is the only time when he didn't
seem to be particularly busy. VIII
you ask him." he said to the
person who opened the door, IF
he will autograph it for me?'
The man who opened the door
took the photograph to Lindbergh.
Lindbergh tore it in half.
II am not in the custom OF
having people come up until they
telephone first" he is reported TO
have said.
And he slammed the door in the
photographers face.
Miss Amelia Earhart IS being
chased all over town by reporters
and photographers ever since she
arrived in Washington yesterday.
So far she hasn't been inveigled
into interviews and is trying des.
perately to avoid them.
She dashed into the Carlton yes
terday with q fur coat collar
drawn up about her face, accom-.
panied by a man who looked
amazingly like George Haldeman.
But where she went ID a mystery.
Miss Earhart is staying in the
big Porter-Adams suite at the Hay
Adams House, but so far has been
at home to no reporters.
Carl Shorey, secretary of the
National Aeronautic Association,
Is planning a luncheon for tomor-
row to commemorate the founding
of the Order of the Early Birds,
which the members of the first in
ternational civic aeronautics con.
ference formed In Chicago during
the air exhibition preceding the
meetings in Washington.
The Early Birds, who will lunch
at the Carlton, are the boys who
flew before 1915. This absolutely
pre.war aggregation Of sky-chas'
ers has its patron saint in Orville
Wright, the grand old man land
not so old, at that of the con-
ference.
The best English spoken in the
air conference. up to today. has
been from the lips Of Capt.
Eduardo Laborde. who read the
paper of Capt. Arturo de Plaza"
ola to the meeting yesterday.
He was preceded on the plat
form by Mozaffar Mira Firouz,
second secretary Of the Persian
legation and cousin to the Shah.
Mozaffar spoke with a decidedly
British accent. and held the
lapels of his coat tightly as he
read his statement.
Among the unofficial guests at
the conference is Capt. Frank
Courtney, the canny Englishman,
who turned down one transatlantic
flight after another because the
weather was bad. He's over in
this country now, sizing up the
aviation situation and considering
a flock of offers from airways
magnates.
Glenn Gerson, manager of the
Carlton, was officiating at the
daily luncheon OF the delegates
yesterday, when he saw before
him an impressive gentleman
with a doubly impressive and
triply bristly black beard. Behind
this gentleman were some six or
seven gentlemen. equally impress.
sive.
Mister Gerson,' the bristly
beard began, I'VE, as members of
the Dutch delegation, wish to
express our gratitude for the
splendid cooperation and assist
ancs we have received from your