New York All Ready To Welcome Airmen

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 341, 30 April 1928, Page 9

New York All Ready To Welcome Airmen

ATLANTIC FLYERS GREAT RECEPTION PREPARED (United P.A.—By Telegraph — CopyrightJ (Australian Press Association) Reed. 9.5 a.m. NEW YORK, Sunday. After having wreathed Lieutenant Floyd Bennett’s grave at Arlington with the German and Irish Free State flags brought with them on the Bremen, the German aviators and Major Fitzmaurice returned from Washington to be welcomed by the Mayor, Mr. James J. Walker. The programme of entertainment will begin actively on Monday, and it is expected that the enthusiasm of the popular reception will equal that of Colohel Lindbergh. Mrs. Koehl and Mrs. Fitzmaurice, who are arriving with the liner Dresden on Monday, will participate in the welcome. The city’s reception will end on Tuesday. The flyers will proceed to Washington lor a day, and, returning to New York on Thursday, will receive the Distinguished Flying Medal. It is intimated now that the flyers may fly back to Europe, or, if they return by steamer, that they may make another attempt at a westward flight over the Atlantic. It is disclosed that the Bremen carried no sextant for observations. The aviators stated that on the next flight they will carry both a sextant and wireless equipment.