Enthusiastic Welcome on Arrival' in the U. S. S. Memphis:
Lionized Everywhere: Unprecedented Honour for Non-New Yorker New York, June 9. famous "Four Hundred" on Long Among offers of, financial as-distance" which Captain Lind, borgh, the trans-Atlantic flyer, has refused is a life annuity from $2,000,000 fund sponsored by a group of wealthy Philadelphians.—Reuter.
Washington, June 11, Few home-coming heroes have received such a welcome as Colonel Lindbergh when he stepped ashore this afternoon from the cruiser Memphis.
Wildly enthusiastic crowds surged against the police cordons as the srulser came to berth at the Navy Yard and joyously acclaimed the hero on whom the United States ha: showered unstinted honours, President Coolidge welcomed the illustrious citizen of our Republic; a conqueror of the air and a strengthener of the ties binding our sister nations across the} fen."
The President bestowed upon the] trans-Atlantic airman the Disting-ushed Flying Cross "as a symbol of preciation of what hemis and what]
has done."
Mr. Coolidge, praising Colonel Lindbereh's conduct abroad, declared] that the absence of self-acclaim and] his refusal to become commercialized which had marked his conduct, had] endeared him to everyone: "he has retuned unspoiled."
Colonel Lindbergh the "Lion"
Tune 12, Colonel Lindbergh was whisked from one reception to another yesterday evening after he and his] mother had dined in state with President and Mrs, Coolidge at the teniporary "White House," who the trans-Atlantic airman
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