Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-07
HOOVER TO GREET
FRENCH AIR HEROES
Capital Plans Celebration for
CoSte and BeIIonte on
Arrival Here.
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escort the Question Mark of Mai Coste
Other escort planes are coming down
from New York with the Frenchmen
and still more planes from Boiling
Field, the Naval Air Station at Ana
costa and the Marine Corps air base
at Quantico, Va, will meet the visiting
alrmen at Baltimore and provide them
with an escort to the Capital
AT the field the flyers will be greet
ed on behalf of President Hoover by
George Akerson. the Presidents secre-
tary, and by State Department and
Army officials, with Jules Henry, charge
d'adaires of the French embassy, head
ing the embassy staff, representing the
French government.
In the party at the field, in addition
to Akerson, will be Assistant Secretary
Of the Navy Ernest Lee Jahncke, Rear
Admiral William A. Monett, chief of the
Bureau of Aeronautics; Assistant Sec
rotary of Commerce for Aviation Clar-
ence Young. Assistant Secretary Of War
for Aeronautics F. Trubee Dawson, Mai
Gen. James E. Fechet. chief of the
Army Air Corps; Brig. Gen. Albert H.
Bowley, assistant chief of staff of the
Army; Pierre Boal, acting chief of the
division of European affairs of the
State Department, and Richard South
gate, acting chief of the State Depart
nent division of international confer
enceg.
Assigned White House Car.
A White House touring car with the
top down, will be on hand to take Maj
Coste and Lieut.. Bellonte, with Akerson
and NJ. Henry, from the field to the
French embassy at 2034 Sixteenth
street.
A squadron of six motor cycle police
men has been assigned by Maj. Pratt,
superintendent of police, TO escort the
procession from the field to the embassy.
Special parking regulations have been
placed In effect, forbidding parking for
wide area about Boiling Field, along
Nichols avenue in Anacostia and about
with spaces reserved for official cars.
In addition, police cordons will be
provided along the route the procession
will take to handle the crowds expected
to turn out to greet the flyers.
The procession will leave Boiling
Field by way of Nichols avenue, along
Eleventh street to Pennsylvania, ave-
| nue., thence to the Capitol, around the
Peace Monument, up Pennsylvania ave-
nue. to the White House, north on East
Executive avenue to H street, thence
to Sixteenth street and north on Six
tenth street to the French embassy.
VIII Dine at Embassy.
The flyers will dine privately with
members of the French embassy staff
tomorrow evening, and plans have been
made for them to retire early to pre-
pare for an arduous day OF official calls,
parties and other activities on Monday.
Their first act on Monday morning
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Cemetery to place wreath on the
Tomb OF the Unknown Soldier.
From there they will go to call on
officials of the State, War, Navy and
Commerce Departments, completing
these calls in time to prepare for a
visit TO the White House at 1915, where
they will be the guests of honor at a
state luncheon to be given them by the
President, at which time the Chief
Executives formal welcome will be
given. About 80 guests, including high
Government officials, diplomats and
men high in aeronautical circles will be
present.
After the White House luncheon the
flyers will be the guests Of honor at a
big reception to be given at the French
embassy. when about 900 persons. in"
Guiding high Government officials, mem
bers OF the diplomatic corps and men
be presented to them.
To Receive French Flag.
An unusual feature of the White
House luncheon will be the presentation
of a French flag, taken by Rear Admiral
Byrd to the South Pole, to the French
flyers.
The nag was taken to the Pole by
Admiral Byrd in commemoration Of the
hearty reception given him and his
comrades on their transatlantic flight
which ended with a sn1ashed-up plane
at little French fishing village.
At the White House luncheon and at
the final event of the flyers busy day, a
banquet being given In their honor at
the Willard Hotel, tomorrow evening,
radio will carry the voices Of those well
coming them, and the flyers through
out the United States and by short
wave broadcasting to France and pos
sibly England and Germany.
Both the Columbia and National
Broadcasting systems will cover the
White House luncheon with Nation
wide long-wave networks and, in the
case of the National SYSTEMS broadcast,
short-wave broadcaSting abroad.
At the banquet the international
broadcasting viii be done by the CO.
lumbia System.
Tuesday morning the flyers plan to
leave the Capital to return to New York
and resume plans for their proposed
| goodwill tour of the country. An es-
cort of service planes, similar to that
which will meet the Question Mark at
| Baltimore tomorrow afternoon, will see
the flyers safely away from the Capital.