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COLONEL LINDBERGH RECALLED WASHINGTON, D. C, April 18 Col. Charles A. Lindbergh late today was called to active duty with the U. S. army air corps reserve. Also the famed trans-Atlantic flyer will make a confidential report on American aviation facilities for the chief of the air corps. The call for Colonel Lindbergh to return to active duty was revealed by Secretary of War Woodring. Colonel Lindbergh will enter service tomorrow. He will be assigned to duty in the office of the chief of the air corps. "While on duty," the war department stated in a formal announcement, "Colonel Lindbergh will make a survey of the aviation research facilities of the United States, governmental, educational and industrial, which are available to the United States army air corps."
