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There is no doubt that Pilot Clarence Duncan Chamberlin and Passenger Charles A. Levine accomplished a heroic feat (TIME, June 13). Daring, they made a non-stop flight of 3,905 miles-the longest in history. Resolute, they reached Berlin after twice being forced to descend en route. Worthy, they were honored by President Paul von Hindenburg and the German people...
Coolidge's Congratulations. The Jewish Press was irate because President Coolidge ignored Passenger Levine in cabling congratulations to Pilot Chamberlin. Said The Day (Jewish daily published in Manhattan) : "At last we, too, are convinced of the great economy of our President. He is so parsimonious, he watches so closely the cash register of Uncle Sam that even the great sum of about 66c (the cost of cabling three words to Germany) is of importance...
Cancelled Stamps. Postmaster General Harry S. New reprimanded Fred Sealy, Hempstead, L. I., postmaster, because he had cancelled air mail stamps on 250 letters which Passenger Levine carried across the Atlantic. Neither Levine nor Chamberlin had any right to carry U. S. mail. Furthermore, the cancellation and the trip to Europe increased the value of each stamp from a few cents to $50 to $1,000, according to varying estimates. Several dozen of the letters bearing these stamps were said to be addressed to Passenger Levine...
...young U. S. citizens aspired last week to the publicity, if not the glory, achieved by Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and his emulators, Messrs. Chamberlin and Levine (see above). In Newark, N. J., one aspirant, Alvin ("Shipwreck") Kelly affixed a restaurant stool to the top of a 50-foot flagpole rising atop the St. Francis Hotel, then sat down on the seat...
...Draper, Chairman, Miss Ruth Chamberlin; J. O. Blckford, Miss Deborah Tappan; H. Wendt, Miss Phyllis Fanning; G. L. Russell, Jr., Miss Olive Johnson; R. J. Dunkle, Jr., Miss Ruth Litchfield; J. B. Durant, Miss Ruth Holmes; Richard Donham, Miss Martha Benedict; J. H. Burrage, Miss Elizabeth Shepard...