Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-11
FLYERS IN EUROPE
LACK CREDENTIALS
ChamberIin and Levine Stay
ing Illegally, but Passports
Are Not Asked.
BY the Associated Press.

BERLIN, June 11.-Clarence Cham
berlin and Charles A. Levine. although
hailed as heroes for their transatlantic
flight, are in Germany Illegally and
probably will be in the same outlaw
status in all the European countries
they visit unless they can find time
amidst the round of entertainments
to procure the necessary papers.
Levine has a passport, but no visa.
Chamberlin said today: Il have no
passport, and 1 don't want one." Le'
vine remarked, however, that no one
had yet asked for passport and he
doubted If anybody would.
Chamberlin is occupying bedroom
in the American embassy turned over
to him by Miss Barbara Schurman,
daughter Of Ambassador Schurman.
1t is full of gifts of bottled beer, light
wines. casks, stems and loving cups:
but in order to correct any erroneous
impression that might be gathered
from this, Chamberlin emphasized
that, while he likes an occasional
single glass of beer, when at homo ne
does not drink at all.
Says He Drinks Little.
"When over here" he declared, II
Just sip enough wine to be polite IN
drinking toasts, and when / take a
glass of beer l stand OH that. L
don't want more. 1t makes me
sleepy. and, naturally, l want to stay
with the party"
Levine voiced similar sentiments,
and then came the disclosure that
gold cigarette cases from Chancellor
LNArA;ov1 SnnrnfQrV SfrnCQs
mann. bearing the engraved auto
graphs of the statesmen, are entirely
useless except for supplying friends.
Neither Chamberlin nor Levine uses
tobacco in any form.
"I was reared Methodist" Cham
berlin explained, ''and 1 suppose l am
still a Methodist"
Both, however, appreciate other
gifts that have been showered on
them, such as big bottles of orange
ade, a wooden Las-relief Of Col. Lind.
bergh from a jealous master carver,
colossal wreaths from the Naval
Flyers Association, the German
Flyers League and good friends at
Kottbus, but their highest priced
presents are the silver.framed auto
graphed portraits of President Won
Hindenburg. Among practical offer
lnRS are a LTdVGIl1E a
medicine chest, an hourglass, com.
passes and pills to prevent seasick.
ness.
Guests OF American Club.
The airmen closed their fifth busy
day on German soil with a gala din
ner and dance under the auspices Of
the American Club. They sat down
to dine with hundreds of their fellow
countrymen, who had come from
nearly all parts Of Germany for the
occasion.
In an address at this function, Am.
bassador Schurman expressed the
gratitude of his country for the re.
ception that had been accorded the
flyers, and spoke in optimistic vein OF
the disarmament movement.
II say that in an era in which man.
kind now is entering" he declared,
"a nation can no longer protect itself
by ornaments, but that the surest and
cheapest defense will be justice, good
understanding and mutual respect.
The new age calls loudly for disarm-
ament, to which 1t behooves the ma
tons to respond with alacrity. If that
goal is unattainable today, reduction
Of ornaments surely is a reasonable
expectation, which would be a happy
sequence to the Lindbergh and Cham
berlin air flights"