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ROSTER OF GUESTS - INTERNATIONAL AIR PIONEERS

(The pioneers will begin arriving in Washington Sunday, October 11, and all will be here by Tuesday, October 13. The foreign visitors will be registered at the Mayflower Hotel; the Americans will stay at various hotels and with friends.)

BELGIUM

Cesar Battaile, Belgian industrialist, who built his first aircraft in 1910 and has been prominent in aviation circles since then.
Propser P. Cocquyt, of SABENA, a representative of the Royal Belgian Aero Club.
Lieutenant General Baron Theo Wahis, one of Belgium's earliest pilots, lost an arm in combat against the Germans in World War I and transferred to non-flying duties in the Belgian Army.

BRAZIL

Brigadier Newton Braga, a retired officer, who was one of the first pilots in South America.
Dr. Cezar Grilo, the founder of civil aeronautics in Brazil.
Major Brigadier Antonio Guedes Muniz, pioneer aircraft engine builder and airplane designer.
Jose Garcia de Souza, Brazil's foremost aviation historian and director the Brazilian Aeronautic Museum. He is the author of the famous controversial book, "Wright Brothers - Santos Dumont," in which he cited proof that the Wright brothers made the first heavier-than-air flights.

CANADA

J. A. D. McCurdy, who built his first airplane in 1908 and in 1910 received the first wireless message in a plane.

FRANCE

Charles Dollfus, co-founder in 1918 of the French Air Museum and its curator since 1927, built a full-size glider at the age of 10 in 1903, the year of the first airplane flight by the Wright brothers, and served as a pilot in the French Navy during World War I.
Louis Paulhan, a contestant at the first French aviation meet in 1909, at England's first meet the same year, and in America's first meet at Los Angeles in 1910.
Louis Breguet, aircraft designer born in 1880, started aviation experiments in his youth and designed a number of French fighter aircraft used in the first World War.