| Summary: | Japan On Alert For Lindberghs: 89 Reporters And 27 Camera Men Wait In Tiny Nemuro For Famous Flying Americans. JAPAN ON ALERT FOR LINDBERGHS 89 Reporters and 27 Camera Men Wait in Tiny Nemuro for Famous Flying Americans. PLAN ALL COURTESIES Colonel's Appetite for Chocolate and Cheese to Be Satisfied-- Town Noted for Both. TOKYO, Aug. 17. (AP)--The flying Lindberghs were just around the corner tonight from their vacation land of Japan, waiting at Petropavlovsk on the southeast shore of Kamchatka peninsula for thunderstorms to wear themselves out on the Kurile islands and betake themselves to the open Pacific. Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, dubbed "the little blue goose" by the Eskimo women at Aklavik because of her flying abilities, had hoped to fly tomorrow the 897 miles from Petropavlovsk to Nemuro, on Hokkaido island, 613 miles north of here, but the storm and reports of fog further north deterred them. Good Spirits Prevail. Interviews with the flyers in the Russian town, a center for the mining and fishing industries, indicated they were in good spirits and enthusiastic over their trip, which thus far has taken them across the North American continent to the northern tip of Alaska and down across the ice-cluttered Bering sea to Siberia. Meanwhile Japan is excited over the coming visit. The Lindberghs' first contact with Japanese customs and people outside of the few officials they have met elsewhere will be at Nemuro, which tonight was said to have only two untenanted hotel rooms held for the visitors. Nemuro is not large and the inrush of newspaper men, news photographers, officials and the curious has taken all available accommodations. 116 News Men Wait. There were 89 reporters and 27 camera men there tonight, and more coming. Two newspapers sent chartered airplanes to rush back pictures of the once lone eagle and his flying mate. One newspaper, determined to get every word from the lips of the American aviation oracle, sent an American girl stenographer to take a verbatim report of any interviews the Lindberghs give. Hokkaido, near whose eastern tip Nemuro is located, is noted among epicures of the orient for its chocolate and its cheese. Colonel Lindbergh fancies both, so refreshments served the flyers on their arrival will include these specialties. Town to Be Host. While at Nemuro the Lindberghs will be guests of the town. The official greeters will include the town headman, Sekiten Ando, and representatives of the Japanese customs, who will escort the visitors to the just completed town hall for their formal reception. Entertainment for the visitors will include some dances of a sort peculiar to Hokkaido.
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