Smuggled on Board

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 501, 2 November 1928, Page 1

Smuggled on Board

TRUTH ABOUT ZEPPELIN STOWAWAY HEARST NEWSPAPER STUNT j (United P.A. —By Telegraph — Copyright) j (Australian and N.Z. Press Association) i Reed. 2.15 p.m. BERLIN, Thursday. The unromantic truth about the Zeppelin stowaway was revealed to-night. Clarence Terhune was smuggled aboard by Hearst Press reporters among the mail-bags two hours before the start, to lend “a human interest” touch. The Press viewpoint of the adventure has considerably changed. While the other passengers descended a ladder Clarence- Terhune, the stowaway, squirmed through a porthole. Two policemen, who were awaiting him, took him to the office of the directors. The stowaway had received a provisional passport from the American Consul from Stuttgart in the cabin of the airship. He was spirited through a side door of the Customs shed in order to foil the efforts of journalists to interview mm.

Meanwhile the spectators were shouting, “Where is the stowaway,” and from then on Clarence Terhune was the hero of the occasion. He was besieged by autograph hunters, and was kept busy signing hundreds of albums while the other passengers breakfasted and slept. He says that he is refusing all jobs in Europe, and intends to return to the “dear old United States” within a Madame Schwartzsilcken says that the report of her marriage to Trehune is absurd. “You might as well say I am going to marry the Man in the Moon,” she added.