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New York City
[[stamped]] JUL 5, 1939[[/Stamped
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CLIPPER HERE, ENDS 1ST PAID ROUND TRIP
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Dixie Flying Boat Back From Marseille With 12 Aboard – 18 Hours from Horta
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PASSENGERS ARE PLEASED
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They Appear Rested After 34-Hour 27-Minute Journey-Sister Ship Off Today
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Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
PORT WASHINGTON, L. I.,
July 4.-Pan American Airways' Dixie Clipper landed here at 8:49 A. M. today to complete the first round-trip airplane crossing of the North Atlantic with paid passengers. About 300 persons, for the most part friends and relatives of the passengers and crew, were at the air base when the 41 1/2-ton craft settled on Manhasset Bay after an eighteen-hour flight from Horta, last  leg of the crossing.

Twelve passengers, ten of whom had gone over on the first eastward crossing last Wednesday, returned today. Those making the round trip were W. J. Eck, assistant to the vice president of the Southern Railway, Washington, and holder of the first transatlantic airplane ticket; H. L. Stuart of Chicago, Russell Sabor, Minneapolis, Minn.; Mark W. Cresap and James McVittle of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. Graham Grosvenor and Mr. and Mrs. E. O. McDonnell of New York, and Mrs. Elizabeth S. Trippe, East Hampton, L. I.
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The other two passengers were Juan Trippe, president of the line, and J. Carroll Cone, manager of the Atlantic division of the airline. 

The plane, under the command of Captain R. O. D. Sullivan and a crew of eleven men, left here last Wednesday afternoon with twenty-two passengers for the first regularly scheduled airplane passenger flight over the North Atlantic and arrived, after stops in Horta, the Azores and Lisbon, at Marseille on Friday.

On the return trip the craft left Marseille at 4:25 A. M. (Eastern daylight time) Sunday, arrived at Lisbon at 11:33 A. M. the same day and after an overnight stop there left for Horta at 4:04 A. M. on Monday. The flying time for the eastward trip was 31 hours 52 minutes and for the return trip 34 hours 27 minutes.

Two of the passengers, Mr. Cresap and Mr. McVittie, chartered a small plane for a flight to Newark Airport, where they boarded a United Airlines plane for Chicago. They hoped to cover the distance between Marseille and Chicago in an elapsed time of 2 days 10 hours 25 minutes.

The passengers were unanimous in their praise of the "smoothness" of the flight and said they had played bridge and backgammon on the homeward journey. They appeared fresh and rested as they left the plane and waited for customs officials to clear them.

The Atlantic Clipper, sister plane of the Dixie, will leave here tomorrow for France by way of the Azores and Lisbon.
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[[bold]] 2 End Marseille-Chicago Trip [[/bold]]
Special to THE NEW YORK TIMES.
CHICAGO, July 4.-James McVittie of Chicago and Mark W. Cresap of Winnetka, Ill., passengers on the Dixie Clipper, which arrived in New York this morning, landed at the Chicago Airport at 2 P. M. (E. S. T.) today, completing their journey from Marseille, France, in 39 hours and 42 minutes' flying time.

To speed their homeward journey after they had arrived on the Clipper at Port Washington, L. I., at 9:49 (E. D. T.), they were rushed to the Newark Airport in a plane made available by Juan T. Trippe, president of Pan American Airways, owners of the Clipper. There they made immediate connections with the westbound plane.
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[[image - Pan American Airways System logo, globe with wings over it]] PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS SYSTEM PAA

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