The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-07
NEWS STORIES
SENT BY AIR
First Ever Transmitted, Come
Across Atlantic in British
Dirigible, Just Ar
rived.
COPY AND PHOTOGRAPHS
United Press Writer Sends His Manu-
script Over sea With
tho Big Bal
loon.
COPY AND PHOTOGRAPHS

Idore are the first news stories
ever transported across the Atlantic
by airship. They arrived on the Brit
ish navy dirigible R-34. Before he
stepped aboard the airship at East
Fortune, Scotland, Lieut.. Commander
Zachery Lansdowne. o. 8. N, tooA
charge Of an envelope addressed to
the United Press at New York. oon
tanning the following news stories and
several photographs. Tho transporta.
ton of this envelope by airship across
the seas Is significant of remarkable
further possibilities in carrying writ.
ten and pictorials news between the
old world and the new.l
LONDON, June 80, (By Airshtp
Across the Atlantic)-The copy" and
pictures in this envelope are the first
regular news matter ever sent across
the Atlantic by air mail.
Through the courtesy Of the emitted
States navy and the British air min
istry. they were placed aboard the
R-34 few hours before 1t cut loose
from Scotland.
Lieut. Commander Zachary Lans.
downe, u. s. N, the only American
aboard the British air dreadnaught,
personally took charge Of the package.
A United Press repres entative car
rfed 1t from the London bureau Of the
United Press and handed 1t to Com
mander Lansdowne at the British air
station.
The incident forecasts new epoch
In practical journalism. 1t represents
the first application of a new method
Of news disseminating which undoubt-
edly in few years will be one OF
the accepted practices Of newspaper
dom on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Importance of this In future
journalistic possibilities is patent. 1t
proves the feasibility of promptly sup
plying reader on the other side of
the ocean not only with bare facts, but
with photographs, assisting him to
visualize what he is reading.
Pressed tightly in the envelope
against the sheets of an interview
with Howard q. Coffin, is picture Of
Coffin, with the American aviation
commission in London.
Coordination Of picture and story Is
an old device in local fields OF journal
ism. This is the first time 1t has
been applied to the foreign field while
retaining speed in transmission
lBy Edwin Hullinger, United Press
Staff Correspondent
by Air Ship Across the Atlantic.l
LONDON, June 30-"An aerial mail
from England to America, which, |
believe, within two or three years,
will grow into frequent and depend
able trans-ocean traffic, begins, with
the voyage of the R-S4 to Long
Island, Howard B. Coffin, council OF
national defense member of the avia-
tfon commission, declared to the
United Press here today.
In an interview which has the dis
tinction Of being the first regular
news story ever carried across the At
lantio by air cruiser, Coffin forecast
that peace will speedily bring tre-
mendeus achievements in this new
art OF transportation, SO uniquely a
product of war.
"The United States in like period
WIN be crossed and criss-crossed by
the trans-continental air Hmiteds," he
should see great inter-continental
air thoroughfare between North and
South America.
All TIE COilIiueutS Will We SoIi'
nected by crowded air routes during
the next decade. What this involves in
international comradeship and preven
ton of wars is obvious. For the his
tory Of civilizations advance is largely
q history of the progress of transpor'
tation.
-The air era is already at hand.
"This is the practical significance of
a third crossing of the Atlantic within
a month"
Coffin, national authority, on avia
ton was one of the first big auto
mobile manufacturers to offer his ser
vices to the government in 1917. The
American aviation commission arrived
in England recently on it's research
tour through the allied countries OF
Europe.
Several years-perhaps two OF
three-should suffice to place cross
Atlantic flying on a commercial
basis" Coffin said. Il believe a large