Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1939-06-21
Reception, Dinner
To Honor General

Gen. Goes Monteiro, second high
ranking Brazilian to visit this coun-
try in recent months, was scheduled
to return to Washington in time to
attend a reception by Maj. Jose B.
Machado, Brazilian military attache,
at the Brazilian Embassy at S p m. to-
day and dinner at the Mayf1ower
Hotel rendered by Gen Malin Craig,
U. S. Army chief of staff, at Bpm.
An historic handshake on the
Naval Academy dock in Annapolis
yesterday sealed the new bonds of
friendship between the United States
and Brazil as Gen. Craig welcomed
Brazil's chief of staff in a ceremony
signalling the increasingly friendly
relations of the two countries.
The welcoming ceremony was
marked with the booming of guns,
armored cars and roaring planes
that twice before in recent weeks
had been put upon display for dis
tlngulshed guests. The military
greeting was similar to that given
King George vi and Queen Eliza
beth of Great Britain and President
Somoza of Nicaragua.
Arrived on Cruiser.
Gen. Goes Monterio arrived at
Annapolis aboard the cruiser Nash
vile in midafternoon. AS he ap-
preached the shore in a launch a
17-gun salute sounded. Waiting to
receive him were Gen. Craig, Adolf
A. Berle, jr, Assistant Secretary of
State, and other high ranking Off
Goals.
Naval Academy midshipmen passed
In review after the formal greet
ing. and later the visiting general
reviewed troops at Fort George G.
Meade, Md. At the latter place he
told reporters his country's army
always has feeling of deep COM
radeship" with the United States
Army.
From Fort Meade the general was
escorted by armored cars and cav
airy to the Brazilian Embassy here
the motorcade passing the White
House and State Department.
To Start Nation wide Tour.
The general will start his Nation
wide tour of United States Army
bases on Friday, travelling from coast
to coast in Army planes during his
2O-day visit. He will go first tc
Langley Field, Va. for an Air Corps
exhibition. From there he will
head south and west to important
Army posts and some of the ma
tional parks and to inspect the
fleet on the West Coast. He will
attend both the San Fraicisco and
New York Fairs and view the United
States Military Academy and the
Watertown, Mass, Arsenal before
starting home.
A machine gunnery and bombing
demonstration at Langley Field and
inspection tours of Fort Monroe also
will highlight Gen. Goes Monteiro's
visit to the peninsula Friday and
Saturday. The chief of staff will
be accompanied by six high Of
flcials of the Brazilian Army and 1t
Col. Lehman w. Miller Maj. Mathew
B. Ridgeway and Capt. Thomas
North of the United States Army
The party will arrive at Langley
Field at II am. Friday. Later a
luncheon, to which high-rankine
military and civilian officials will
be invited, will be held at the Lang
ley Field Officers Club. The party
then will proceed to Fort Monroe
and will spend the night at the
Chamberlin Hotel The next day
the visitors will be taken on a tour
of Williamsburg, and, returning tc
Langley Field, will take off fol-
Barksdale Field, Shreveport, La.
Tomorrow's schedule for Gen
Goes Monteiro and members of his
mission will include a visit to the
Lincoln Memorial at 10 am, the
Tomb Of the Unknown Soldier and
Fort Myer. He will be a luncheon
guest of President Roosevelt and
then will drive through the city.