The Archive · 1930

Welcome for Col. Stimson

Washington, Apr. 26, The battleship Texas, three destroyers and the Navy dirigible, Los Angeles, were ordered to-day to} prepare to welcome the American dogation to the London Naval Limitation Conference upon its return from England, Aeroplanes are to meet the Leviathan, which has been chosen Jao the ship on which Col. Henry Stimeon and his companions will return, at the Ambrose Lightship and escort the vessel into harbour.

Participation of the Los Angeles will he dependent upon weather conditions, and the great dirigible iJ) not go out if stormy conditions New York is expected to accord its usual noisy reception given celefbrities arriving from Europe, and it is understood that Mayor James Welker and Grover Whalen, now fFotice commissioner but former chiot of welcoming delegations, are making special preparations to see tnt the affair is a gala one. gation coramittee ate that he worked for

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