THE LINDBERGHS

Wairarapa Daily Times, 7 December 1937, Page 6

THE LINDBERGHS

VISIT TO AMERICA. NEW YORK, Monday. Colonel and Mrs Lindbergh have returned to the United States after nearly two years of voluntary exile, presumably to spend Christmas and New Year with Mrs Morrow, Mrs Lindbergh’s mother. They will return- to England in January. Tlieir children remained in England. The Lindberghs arrived in New York aboard the liner President Harding after a voyage during which they were surrounded with secrecy, ,and during part of which Colonel. Lindbergh was disguised with dark glasses and assumed the name of Gregory.

It is believed that the guests to-night are behind lieavily-guarded Avails at the Moitoav estate. Although everyone- connected with the family denied their arrival there, there Aims bustle and activity around the estate all day. TAvelve policemen patrolled the grounds, electricians Avere busy stringing wires from a police booth at the entrance to the grounds to the house. It is learned that the couple boarded the liner at Southampton just before it sailed, liaA'ing arrived by car instead of the customary boat-train. The traA’dlers Avere addressed as Mr and Mrs Gregory Avhen they boarded the liner, although neither that name nor their oivn appeared on the passenger list. They revealed their identity to the stcAvard avlio Avas the first to A'isit tlieir cabin. They dined there for tivo days, and then occupied seats at the captain’s table, tlieir companions including the Very Reix Spencer Carpenter, Dean of Exeter, avlio Avere giA'en autographs on condition that they did not divulge tlieir identity.