Evening star., 1935-10-13
LATIN AIR HEADS
. DUE HERE TODAY
South and Central America
Officials Visit Marks
Aviation Week.

A group of distinguished aviation
officials Of South and Central Ameri-
can countries will arrive in Washing
ton today and tomorrow for a three
day series of conferences, studies and
social functions as one of the out
standing features of Washington's
observance of Air Navigation week,
which opens tomorrow and continues
to next Monday.
The Latin Americans will come to
the Capital in two groups, one flying
here via Brownsville and Fort Worth,
Tex, and the other coming via Havana
and Miami. A special committee,
representing both civilian and military
aviation interests, has been set up to
receive them and to arrange entertain
ment.
After their three-day visit here the
visitors will fly to Baltimore Phila-
delphia, Camden, New York and
Chicago.
Personnel of Group.
Making up the party are Francisco
Mendes Goncalvez. director of civil
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T, chief of railways and air trans
port of Bolivia; Cesar S. Grillo,
director of civil aeronautics of Brazil;
Horacio Olivares, director Of aero
nautics of Chile: Raoul Guardian,
minister of foreign affairs of Costa
Rica; Austen Para, chief airport in
spector of Cuba: Maj. Frank A. Felix
Miranda, corps of andes of the National
Army Dominican Republic; Capt. Juan
Ramos Munez, chief of the Army Air
Corps and chief of the civil aviation
department, Ell Salvador: Charles
Fequiere. engineer in the public works
service, Haiti Lieut.. Col. Luis Farrell,
Mexico: FREDERICK Recaverren. inspec-
tor general of aviation, Peru, and Louis
Felipe Marquee, provisional director OF
. civil aviation. Uruguay.
Tomorrow they will be received at the
Commerce Department by Secretary
Roper and Eugene L. Vidal, director
Of the Bureau of Air Commerce. At
noon they will be guests at luncheon
at the Pan-American Union. and In
the afternoon they will see film on
air safety at the Commerce Depart
ment.
At 8 o'clock Col. Robert G. Ebert,
chairman of the Air Commerce Plan
ming Committee, will be host at a
dinner at the Mayflower.
D.oolittle to Make Speech.
On Tuesday the visitors will call
at the Smithsonian and attend a
meeting of the Pan-American 1nsti-
tute of Geography and History at the
Pan-American Union. Maj. James H.
Doolittle is scheduled to make an ad-
dress. At noon they will be guests at
luncheon at the Commerce Depart
ment of the Bureau of Air Commerce,
In the afternoon Willis r. Gregg,
chief of the Weather Bureau, will play
host and show them the workings of
his department and its use of aviation.
The special committee named to
receive them will be hosts at a dinner
at the Shoreham Hotel that evening.
On Wednesday visits will be made
by air to the Naval Air Station. Ana
costa; Langley Field, and to the
Langley Memorial Laboratories. The
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce
will give them dinner at the May
flower that evening.
To Leave Thursday Morning.
At 9 am. Thursday the party will
leave for Glen Martin Field at Balti-
more to continue their North Ameri-
can tour.
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the visitors is composed of Col. j.
Monroe johnson, Assistant Secretary
of Commerce; Davil L. Behncke, pres
ident, Air Line Pilots Association: !:
Harllee Branch. Second Assistant
Postmaster General; Capt. L. T.
Chalker. chief of the aviation divi-
sion, United States Coast Guard: Paul
Goldsborough, president, Aeronautical
Radio. Inc; Dr. Gregg of the Weather
Bureau; Director Vidal, Normal B.
Haley, director, Bureau of Air Mail,
Interstate Commerce Commission;
Rear Admiral E. j. King, chief, Bu-
reau Of Aeronautics, Navy Depart
ment; DR.. George w. Lewis. director
of research for the National Advisory
Committee for Aeronautics; Senator
William Gibbs McAdoo, president, Ma
tional Aeronautics Association: Thorn
as A. Morgan. president, Aeronautical
Chamber of Commerce of America;
Richard Southgate, assistant chief,
division of protocol and conferences.
State Department.; Brig. Gen. Oscar
Westover, acting chief, Army Air
Corps, and Col Samuel P. Wetherill,