Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-12-20
AIR PORT MUST
Be BUILT HERE
MADDUX
Host at Banquet Tells That
Lack of Proper Field
Delays Plane.
URGED BY ALL.
Local Men Pledge Coopera-
ton With Aqua Prieta
and Maddux Interests.

John L. Maddux. president OF the
Maddux Air Lines, was host at
banquet and dance at the Club
Social in Aqua Prieta last evening
to more than IS members of the
Douglas chapter OF the NJ A. A. and
other aviation boosters. 1t was
brought out in the speeches OF the
evening that of four banquets held
at the Club Social in honor of the
Maddux corporation head and his
flying party this was the only one
which the president and party had
actually attended. The evening was
marked by spirit Of cooperation
and good will and by an urge on
the part OF everyone present to rush
to speedy conclusion work on the
international air port here.
Following the banquet Sunday
evening President Maddllx, OF the.
Maddux Air Lines, told the officers
of the Douglas N. A. A. and Dis
patch representative that it was rea-
sonable to forecast that as soon as.
the Douglas international airport is
properly equipped his air transporta-
tion will establish a. regular passenger
and freight service through this city.
The party which arrived in Doug
las in the big airplane included but
one lady, Miss Francis Bledsoe
daughter of Judge Benjamin F.
BledSoe, secretary of the Maddux
corporation, who was also OF the
party. The others were: President
John L. Maddux Milton E. Bacon.
member OF the board of directors OF
o;n ryT0,
president of the First National Bank
Iof Los Angeles and manager OF the
Culver City branch of the bank
Henry Stetson, son OF John B. Stet-
Il son, the hat maker; George r
Sturgis, son-in-law of the Timken
who makes the roller bearings.
Fritz Pilots Plane
| The big ship was piloted by Larry
Fritz, master pilot OF the MadduX
organization and man whose ex-
perience with flying has been very
wide. The mechanic accompanying
! the party, John Wiles, is a factory
graduate. Both pilot and mechanic
attended the banquet.
j. l.. Lyman. prominent in Cali
fornia and Arizona and former
resident OF Tucson, had been With
the party but stopped off in Tucson
and returned to urgent business in
Los Angeles by train.
Postmaster E. j. Huxtable, chair
man of the Maddux entertainment
committee, presided at the banquet
Following the introduction of the
Maddux party the assembled guests
responded to toast proposed by
Huxtable to "the beautiful young lady
of the flying party"
Pat White manager of the Arizona
Southwest Bank was introduced to
deliver the address OF welcome as
the personal representative of Mayor
A. E. Hinton and the city OF DOUGLAS.
White was introduced as "the silver
Itongued orator" He prefaced his
address by saying that to him the
honor lay in representing "such a
fine man as Mayor Hinton"
White Speaks For Mayor
White told some stories illustrative
the remarkable attitude Of the public
on aviation He said that if train
is late no one thinks OF it. If a
train goes off the track and kills
a few people it does not create q
people quickly become critical IN q
high degree and every time anyone
lis killed in a plane the world hears
of it and comments.
The speaker lauded the flight oil
Colonel Lindbergh to Mexico City
as a sealing of the friendship be-
tween the two nations and pointed
out that the international air port
has assumed a new importance anc
new impetus from this flight. HI
asked that the great enthusiasm fo7
aviation that exists in Douglas bt
harnessed at once, that the situation
be checked over and that the bound
less energy here be applied 1mme
diately through cooperation between
Douglas, Aqua Prieta and the Maddu1
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