Show RUSSIAN FLIERS FLIERS' PREPARING TO TRIP Hope to Hop Off Thursday Thurs Thurs- day Morning for Oakland SEATTLE W Wash sh Oct 16 AP Dividing th their lr between On on their atte attending social functions in their honor and sending Bending telegrams of oC regret to lh the many clU citI cities 8 1 requested them to pay them an aerial visit visits 1 the four Russian fliers filers JI rM en cn n route rout from Moscow to New York today mado made ready to r resume sumo their jour jour- nc ney Their plane Land tand and of ot the tho SovIets SovI- SovI Soviets Sovi Sovi- ets eta yesterday was converted from froma a a. sea to a land piano undo and the aviators aviators avia avia- tors tora were confident that they would be able to take off oct tomorrow morning morning morn morn- ing for tur Oakland Cal on tho the next leg kg- of ot their flight t. Tho The Russians Russians' were IN w era ro guests of honor at Bt a banquet given night b by the aviation committee of ot the th s Seattle chamber of ot commerce The banquet which was ther the the-city's official oft oct cial welcome to the fliers fliers' was at attended attended at at- tended by m many n aeronautical ex cx- Including Lieutenant Jack Harding one of or the tho American army round tho the world aviators While hile the United States does not recognize the soviet government one of ot tho the Invitations r received was from fron the thO Arm Army Navy and Marine Corps association for southern California asking the Russians to attend the first annual banquet In Loa Angeles Octo October er 18 The fliers filer were forced to decline as ns Los Angeles An An- Angeles geles was not on their Itinerary The They will fly to Cheyenne Wyo from rom Oakland They will then go goto goto to Chicago and to Dearborn Mich l where they have have- an appointment to meet Henry Ford and antI fromI from Dearborn Del to Ne New York I |