Imperial Valley press., 1927-06-09
AMBITIOUS
PLANS BY
AWAIT 0RS.
Hope to Circle Globe
and Establish Trans.
Atlantic Line
TO VISIT VIENNA
Chamberlin and Levine
Discuss Possibility Of
Flying Home.
BY FREDERICK KUH
Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent)
BERLITN, June ga nonstop
flight around the globe and trans
Atlantic commercial line--two pro-
jects involving millions Of dollars
were proposed today by Clarence
Chamberiin and Charles Levine.
True to their training, Chamber
, lin, the flyer. was the one who con
sidered the 10000 mile world flight
and Levine, the business man, turn
ed to the commercial possibilities
which their transatlantic flight and
that of Charles Lindbergh opened
up. Levine said he had formulated
| n plan to invest 100000 in es-
tablishing transatlantic air ger.
vice, which he hoped to start with
in a year. Multimotored planes
with carrying capacity Of 1000
pounds would be used, he said.
Chamberlin indicated in an in
terview with the United Press that
he, like Charles A. Lindbergh, would
spurn all offers not in the interest
Of aviation.
German firms and individuals,'
Chamberlin said, "have made us Of
fers already exceeding 100000.
While we are unable to estimate the
total cash value of offers made to
us from from the United States and
other countrics-offers which range
all the way from appearance with a
circus and talking for phonograph
records to authorization of the name
Chamberlin or Bellanca for break.
fast food or automobiles--we have
decided to accept nothing except
offers calculated to benefit avia.
ton
Levine said that he and Chamber.
lin would start in their plane for
Vienna at a. m. Sunday. A squad.
ron Of Lufthansa planes will &C.
company them. They plan to ar.
rive at Munich for lunch then re.
sumo their flight TO Vienna where
they expect to arrive between $50
and p. m
Many Invitations
He said they would remain in vi.
emma few days.
Pressed with invitations to a host
Of official and social functions,
Chamberlin and Levine were uncer.
tain Of where they would meet their
wives who are on their way from
the United States.
The flyers discussed the possibil
ity of their return to the United
States in a plane. Levine said it
~ %
decide. The latter doubted if they
would attempt to fly back, and in
any event, he said, it would not be
nonstop flight.
"a flight from London to New
York." Chamberlin said, "would be
far more difficult, owing to the
winds, than the reverse. Should I
attempt the flight, it would not be
non stop, but with a landing at
ST. Johns, New Foundland.
Although our return by air is
not out Of the question, ! doubt
whether we will attempt it,
Levine said they We're consider.
ing several "big cash offers, in.
cluding one from a newspaper or.
ganization for 100000" for
flight from London to New York.
Levine announced that Premier
Mussolini urged them to fly from
Prague to Rome.
If Mussolini 3 invitation is &C.
cepted, the flyers, after leaving
Rome, would fly over the Alps to
Paris, thence to London, Levine
said.
But the only thing that had been
settled definitely today about their
plans after leaving Berlin was that
they would fly to Vienna on Sun.
day.
May Go To Moscow
The Czecho. .Slovakian government
has invited the flyers to Prague
and the Dan2ig senate yesterday in.
vited them to fly to the free city.
The Soviet government also is ex.
pecting to invite the sviators to
Moscow.
Chamberlin, who wore knickers
and leather jacket at the first
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