Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-08
HOOVER RECEIVES
FRENCHMEN TODAY
Coste and BeIIonte Have Full
Schedule ON Visit
to Capital.
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quietly for a moment in their open
cockpits, looking out over the crowd,
before rising to shed their flying
clothes. They looked fresh and we're
quite calm, despite the tumult of ap-
plause and the rush of the crowd
toward them.
Then they rose in their seats and
pulled of their helmets and goggles.
Coste wore a white scarf, which he
pulled of. They disclosed dark blue
suits which would have been appro-
pirate for an afternoon stroll on their
own Partisan boulevards. AS they stood
looking down, preparatory to climbing
out, Jules Henry, sweeping his hand
upward toward them in a wide arc, his
face beaming happily, introduced MIR.
Akerson, who, he explained, represent
ed President Hoover.
Greeted by Akerson.
Akerson smiled q welcome and spoke
one, too, but 1t was lost in the roar OF
the crowd. Coste smiled in response
and said:
at am grateful that the President has
sent you to greet me. Please return to
him my greetings and express my ap-
probation"
Even then the flyers were unable to
leave their plane. They held an i'm
which they flew for 81 hours in crossing
the Atlantic and in which they had
previously spent many hours on other
flights which have caused their names
to ring around the world.
Most of the members of the official
welcoming delegation thrust hands up
to them. Maj, Gen. James e. Fechet,
chief Of the Army Air Corps, followed
Mr.. Akerson and Herbert Hoover, jr.,
was behind Gen. Fechet in line that
was beginning to form.
When the myers finally were able to
climb out they were surrounded closely
by . group of officials and diplomats,
among them Clarence M. Young, AS
sistant Secretary of Commerce for
Aeronautics; Pierre del Boal of the
State Department, Prince de Ligne, the
Belgian Ambassador, and Rear Admiral
william A. Moffett, chief of the Navy
Bureau Of Aeronautics.
"BeIIonte Has Red Hair!"
The Army Band, which had been
playing at intervals before the Question
Mark appeared, struck up the stirring
measures of THE MarSeillaise." CoSte
and Bellonte stiffened to attention. Hats
were swept of and the right hands of
Army and Navy officers and men went
to salute. Before the strains of the
French national anthem had finally
stilled the clamor of the crowds, how
ever, the voice of woman spectator
was heard crying in surprise, why,
Bellonte has red hair!"
Bellonte's fair complexion was burned
to a vivid red, while CoSte, with his
black hair, has been burned to dark
olive brown. While the band played
the crowd remained quiet, but when the
last chord died the mass of humanity
surged once more toward the plane
while soldiers struggled to hold clear
space around the plane.
A small group of excited Frenchmen
worked themselves close to Coste and
Bellonte and. between shouts of "Vive
Ia France!" called out to their country
men in French. Coste and Bellonte
turned to them and shouted in reply
before they found themselves In an
other semi-circle. This time 1t was the
photographers. Coste shrugged his
shoulders as an extra heavy charge of
fiashlight powder doomed and the
smoke curled up under the overhanging
scarlet wing of his plane.
with dif11culty soldiers and police
cleared q path for White House car,
which was driven close to the plane.
Coste, Bellonte, Akerson, M. Henry and
Capt. Charles r. Train. naval aide,
climbed in and started through cheer
ing crowds to the French embassy.
An Army crew, under direction OF