The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1927-06-09
American Filler and Com
panion Fly Across At
lantic Ocean
In AIR OVER 43 HOURS
Midwest Scores Again AS
Successful Aeronaut Halls
From Dennison, Iowa

Vial CllSC DCllil-
son, Iowa, with a companion was
forced down 10 miles from Ber-
lin, Ger, late Sunday afternoon
after having battled fog for hours.
The Dennison, Iowa, man had been
in the air over 43 hour and had
flew nearly 1000 miles in at
tempt to make a nonstop flight
from New York to Berlin. He
took the air again a short time lat
er but a broken propeller landed
him in a marsh near the village OF
Kottbus, 70 miles from Berlin
With the plane repaired the fiigh;
to Berlin was completed Tuesday.
Berlin, June 7-Convoyed by Is
German planes, the deafening roar
of whose motors could hardly COM
pete with the hoarse ''hochs" of the
100000 enthusiastic spectators
gathered in and around Tempel-
hotter airdrome, Charles D. Cham
berlin and Charles A. Levine fl
ally descended upon Berlin in their
Belanca plane Columbia, this eve
ming.
It was a real welcome for the
delayed airmen. The fact that the
people of Berlin suffered great
disappointment Monday morning
when the plane was expected, fail
ed to dampen the greeting extend
ed to the Americans when they ar
rived. Crowds many times as large
as had made the pilgrimage on
the previous day to the field spent
all afternoon in picnic spirit,
scanning the sky for a glimpse of
the Columbia. The watchers
crowded the airdrome to it's ca
pacity, and lined up many rows
along the fence inclosing the i'm
mense field.
A touch of carnival was added
when about 5 p. m. brass band,
in gaudy flaming Hussar uniforms,
with gilded drapery, marched on to
the ground and played America
and German airs alternately. AS
on the day before, Berlin's huskiest
and smartest police were on duty
keeping perfect order, although in
their zeal they sometimes caused
annoyance to guests, such as the
stats of the American embassy and
consulate, foreign diplomats and
high officials of the German and
Prussian governments, by fire.
quent scrutiny of their admission
cards.
Excitement reached fever heat
when the loud siren which an
nounces the arrival and departure
of all Lufthansa's aerial trains
gave three sonorous blasts, sig
nifying that the air police on Tenn
plehofer coming tower had sighted
the Columbia. Eager eyes were
strained to the eastward, where, in
the blue late afternoon sky small
specks became visible. Bigger and
bigger, they grew rapidly, until the
naked eye could pick out the yell
low winged Columbia from the
rest.
AS the American, with it's hon
or guard of German planes, ma
jestically scared over Templehofer
field, the crowd broke into wild
cheers, waving American and Ger
man flags, clapping hands and
throwing hats in the air..
The Bellanca plane, which every
body imagined must be enormous
ly large, seemed tiny amid dts larg-
er German brothers.
Shortly before 6 o'clock the air
fleet reappeared and made big
loop over the airdrome, then slow
ly descended at 5:51, (10:51 a. m.
Minneapolis time). The crowd tried
vainly to rush the police, to break
through the close drawn lines, but
even the invited guests were not
permitted to penetrate the inner
circle thrown around the Columbia,
within which only the official well
coming party was admitted.
Amid deafening hurrahs, the
transatlantic filters stepped out of
the machine. The American Ann
bassador Jacob Gould Schurmann
warmly clasped their hands.
There were lusty cheers after
each speech, then a chorus<of voic-
es from the crowds standing on
tables, chairs and fences to look
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