Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1937, Page 8

A—8 *x SOVIET AVIATORS VISIT PRESIDENT Roosevelt Extends Congrat- ulations to Trio Who Flew Polar Route. President Roosevelt today extended the congratulations of the American people to the three Russian aviators who recently completed a 5,300-mile flight across the North Pole from Mos- eow to Vancouver, Wash. Soviet Ambassador Troyanovsky, who accompanied the fiyers to the White House, said the President ex- pressed great, interest in details of the flight and asked the flyers a number of questions about their experiences. ‘The fiyers, Troyanovsky said, expressed to the President their thanks for the co-operation of the United States Army and other Federal agencies dur- ing their flight. ‘The trio, Valeri Chkalov, pilot; Georgi Baidukov, co-pilot, and Alex- aner Belianov, accompanied by the Ambassador, paid a brief visit to Sec- retary of State Hull before going to the White House. This afternoon they were to make five courtesy calls at the War Department, beginning with Sec- retary of War Woodring at 3:30 p.m. Reception Planned Tonight. An official reception tor the aviators will be held at the Soviet Embassy at 9 o'clock tonight. The intrepid flyers arrived in Wash- ington yesterday shielded from inter- viewers by a double wall of language and an official ukase. Although word was sent out by the Soviet Embassy prior to the arrival of the fiyers by rail from San Francisco | yesterday morning that there were to | the problems of Arctic flight. be no interviews, it was promised the to tell, through an interpreter, of their history-making flight at a luncheon to be given in their honor by the Overseas ‘Writers at the Mayflower Hotel today. Go to New York Tomorrow. No set program has been arranged for tomorrow, giving the visitors an opportunity for sightseeing and rest- ing. They are to leave by train to- morrow morning for New York. The three proletarian fiyers spent A total of $250 in 20 minutes yesterday to outfit themselves with the proper clothes to appear before the Presi dent—a $15 Panama hat for each, a | £35 white gabardine suit, $10.50 white shoes, and socks, cravats, belts, shirts &nd handkerchiefs to match. Manager Emerson Snyder of Raleigh | ‘Haberdash pened his store at noon especially for the flyers at the request of the Soviet Embassy, and with the aid of one buyer completed the trans- actions. The aviators could not dally at their shopping, for they had to keep an appointment shortly after noon. The clothes were charged to the Embassy. The three flyers, accompanied by Boviet Ambassador Troyanovsky, were met at Union Station yesterday morn- ing by most of the Russian colony of Washington, headed by the embassy staff. Behind a police escort, they were driven to the Embassy Building, 1119 Sixteenth street, where they are the guests of the Ambassador during their visit here. Visit Bolling Field. Yesterday afternoon ‘they were driven to the Officers’ Club at the new Bolling Field, where they were guests | THE - EVEN NG _STAR," A Toast to Many Happy Landings Three Soviet aviators who conquered the North Pole route between the U. S. S. R. and the United States are shown at an informal reception in their honor late yesterday at Bolling Field. Left to right: Valeri Chkalov, pilot;, Georgi Baidukov, co-pilot; Alerander Beliakov, navigator, and Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover, chief of the Army Air Corps. . WASHINGTON, MONDAY; & secret until she comes down the church aisle to be married. Her gown has been designed by & New Yorker, but his name and the style of the gown is still the secret she wished it to be. “It will be brought down here Wed- nesday by the designer and his as- sistants will fit it for me,” was all ahe would say about it. Even the bridesmaids will be pre- pared as carefully for their part in the ceremony. Their gowns have been made by another New York de- signer, and his fitters. are expected at Owls’ Nest on Wednesday to dress the bridesmaids, who will leave for the church from the bride’s home. One detail of the bride’s costume D. C. JUNE 28, 1937. has been revealed. She will carry a rare, oid French prayer book, pur- chased for the event and especially bound in carved ivory. On Sunday the young couple avoid- ed church, but some time between now and sunset Wednesday they will have a short pre-ceremony talk with the Rev. Frederick Ashton, the Du Pont pastor. “We will just talk over the spiritual meaning of the marriage ceremony briefly,” he says. “It's a regular part of the wedding ceremony in our church.” . Cultivation of mint is rapidly devel- oping in the Rose Valley of Bulgaria. FOURTH OF JULY HOLIDAY IN NEW YORK Stop at the Hotel New Yorker, Man- hatton's largest and most hospitable hotel...2500 comfortable, outside rooms, each with circulating ice water and radio © See the spectacular Ice Show on real ice in the air-condi- tioned New Summer Terrace, with Gus —A. P. Photo. at a reception by Maj. Gen. Oscar Westover, chief of the Army Air Corps, and other Air Corps officers. Here again the Ambassador made it clear the flyers would have nothing to say to interviewers. They did, however, enter into a spirited discussion, through inter- preters, with Air Corps personnel, of They told the American pilots of the diffi- | r fiyers would be given an opportunity | culties encountered during their flight | of 63 hours 17 minutes, much of it by instruments through thick weather. In the reception line with the flyers were Gen. and Mrs. Westover and Am- bassador and Mrs. Troyanovsky. = Wedding (Continued F\iom First Page.) to examine a reproduction of Hyde Park which will be set up during the meeting. WILMINGTON., Del., June 28 (#).— For the last few days before their The Tareyton (o wedding Franklin Roosevelt, jr, and | Ethel du Pont have turned into & :pmr of blithe phantoms, in whom | every one here is interested, but whom few have seen. They slip quietly in and out of ;vals' Nest, the bride’s home, to Du | Pont family parties in their honor. They slip away from the house for | drives through the Delaware hills in | young Roosevelt'’s roadster. But no one sees them. They carefully avold the public places. 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