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The Far East. he became CflleI OF the
Far Eastern Affairs Division in 1925.
Since August, 1927. he has been an
assistant Secretary of State. The De-
partment of State is charged with the
conduct of all international conferences
at which the United States is the host
Government.
F. Trubee Dawson, assistant Secre-
tary of War for Aeronautics, is a gradu-
ate of Yale and Columbia He learned
to fly in 1916 and joined the Naval
Flying Corps in 1917. His Office is
charged with the conduct of aeronau-
tical activities of the u. S. Army.
Edward p. Warner. Assistant Secretary
of the Navy for Aeronautics. was born in
1894 and was graduated from Harvard
and the Massachusetts, Institute of
Technology. He has engaged in aero
nautical work since 1916. In 1917 and
1918 he taught in the special Army and
Navy schools of aeronautical engineer
ing. Later, he did wind tunnel work,
investigated stability and stress analysis
and, for time, was in charge of re-
search at Langley Field. In 1919 and
1920 ne was chief physicist for the ma
tional advisory committee for aeronaut-
les. He was a professor in aeronautical
engineering at NJ. I. I. when appointed
to his present post.
William P. MacCracken, jr., Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics,
is a graduate of the University of Chi
cago and first head of the aeronautics
branch of the Department of Commerce.
He was an officer in the Army Air
Corps during the war and chairman OF
the American Bar Associations COM
mittee on tHe law of aeronautics.
w. Irving Glover, Second Assistant
Postmaster General, has been in charge
of the air mail since August /, 1925.
Under his supervision, the Government
put into force its policy of turning air
mail over to private contractors. The
task of getting the Government out of
the air mail service was completed Sep
tember l, 1927 Today private contrac-
tors are operating over 20 domestic and
four foreign routes, their planes flying
$4,000 miles daily and carrying an aver
age of 425,000 pounds of mail each
month.
Col. Charles Lindbergh was born Feb
ruary 4, 1902, and attended the Uni
versity of Wisconsin for his basic educa-
tion. He is a graduate of Brooks and
Kelly fields and was commissioned
second lieutenant in the Air Corps in
1925. He was an air mail pilot for the
Robertson Aircraft Corporation in 1925
and 1927. He now is chairman of the
technical committee of the Transconti-
mental Air Transport Co. Lindy is best
known for his New York-PariS flight.
DR. Joseph S. Ames, chairman of the
national advisory committee for aero
Iaautics. is a graduate of Johns Hopkins
University where he is now provost. He
has been a member of the national ad-
visory committee for aeronautics, since
its formation in 1915; was member OF
the special scientific mission Of the Ma
tional Research Council which visited
France and England in 1917.
HARRY GUGGENHEIM, president
A of the Guggenheim Fund, att
tended Yale from 1907 to 1908 and
later received engineering degrees from
Pembroke College, Cambridge, England.
In March, 1917, he helped form naval
aviation unit which trained in Man.
haSSet Bay. He was commissioned a
lieutenant in the naval reserve in 1917
and assigned to the Naval Aviation
Station at Baysllore, Long Island. He
was assigned to overseas duty in Oc-
tober, 1917, and served in France, Eng
land and Italy.
Lester D. Gardner, president OF the
Aeronautical Chamber of Commerce. is
a graduate of Massachusetts, Institute
of Technology and Columbia. He was
a captain in the aviation section Of the
Signal Corps after the United States
entered the war and served year in
organizing air squadrons at Kelly Field.
He is president of the Aerial Travel
Bureau and has travelled by air ex-
tensively in Europe, Africa and Asia.
In 1927 he was a delegate of the De-
partment of Commerce to the Fourth
International Congress of Aerial Navl-
cation at Rome.
Among foreigners who will attend the
conference are two leading figures in
European aeronautics Otto Merkel, di-
rector of the Deutsche Luft Hansa,
and DR.. A. K Rohrbach.
Merkel heads the largest single air.
ways operating concern in the world, the
Luft Hansa, maintaining all the German
services. Starting operations in April,
1926, it expanded to rs different lines
within single year. The present total
mileage of these lines is $4,000. At
the end of 1927, it had a fleet of 140
planes, Al being large commercial car
riers It's ships flew approximately
5,755,00 miles during the last year,
carrying 102681 passengers, 141,060
pounds of freight, 1,808, ,226 pounds OF
luggage and 1855 pounds of mail.
These figures present progressive IN
crease in the services and traffic OF
the company. And the story of its
= growth may be told to the conference
by Merkel himself.
Luft Kansas development has been
somewhat different from that of COM
mercial air companies in other coun-
tries, notably the United States, where
the aggregate mileage flown is only
slightly greater than that of the Ger
man country and the total passengers
carried somewhat less. It's services now
extend all over the continent by ar
rangement with other countries. 1t has
agreements with other concerns so that
passengers, mails and freightS are in
Interchangeable.
, OTHER notables who will attend are
~ Miss Amelia c. Earhart first wom-
an to pilot transatlantic plane; Dr.
E. r. w. AleXanderson, famous research
inventor in television; Frank B. Kel-
1ogg, Secretary of State; Andrew Mellon,
Secretary of the Treasury; William
Jardine, Secretary Of Agriculture; Cur
tbs ID. Wilbur, Secretary of the Navy;
Roy o. West Secretary of the Interior:
Rear Admiral w. A. Moffett, Dr. George
K. Burgess, director of the Bureau of
Standards, and Owen D. Young, presi-
dent of the General Electric Co.
Following are the official and un-
of1cial delegates from foreign countries:
AuStria-Official: Eugen Haden-
child, counselor Of legation. Washing
ton. Unofficial: Hofrat Deutelmoser
engineer, Austrian Air Transport Co.
Australia-Ofticial Lieut. Col. H. c.
Brinsmead @. B. E. M. c., controller
general of aviation; Capt G. F. Hughes,
president new South Wales section,
Australian Aero Club
Belgium-Official: Emile Allard,
chief engineer and director of technical
service aviation department. Unofficial
Baron G. de Bethune Royal Belgian
Aero Club.
Canada-Offcial @. j. Desbarats,