Evening star., 1928-05-20

both houses. both bills have gone to
the President.
On May is the House passed, ISL TO
l65. the NORM bill for government oper-
alton Of the $l60. 900 900 power and nj
trate plant at Muscle Shoals. The bill
provides for a $4,000. 900 government
corporation which should manufacture
and sell fixed nitrogen for use In fer
tilizers and should sell surplus power,
1t also authorizes completion of dam
No. and its steam plant, and author
ICES an appropriation of $4,000. 900 for
a dam on Cove Greek IN Tennessee 400
miles up river from Muscle Shoals. This
is the House substitute for the Norris
resolution approved By the Senate,
which merely provides for the compile
ton Of Dam No. 2 and authorizes an
appropriation Of $1,000. 900 to enable
the Department OF Agriculture TO ex-
pertinent in the manufacture of fer
tilizerS; selling surplus power the while.
1t remains to see whether the Senate
win accept the House substitute, which
Is said TO be acceptable TO the President.
so ending vexatiouS controversy OF
10 years.
The institution of the Transconti-
mental Air Transport, Inc. Is an epochal
event in the history of commercial air
transport It's immediate object is pro-
vision of 46-hour somewhat lessl COM
bined airplane and railroad service be-
tween New York and Los Angeles Par
ticipating in ii are the Pennsylvania
and Atchison Railway systems and go
! understandl the .Curtiss Airpiane
Motor Co., the Wright Aeronautical
National Air Transport, Inc. c. NJ.
KeyeS, president of the Curtiss COM
pany. Is also president of the new COM
pany.
Passengers win fly by day and spend
two nights In PullmanS. Tri-motorcd
planes, each carrying Ia passengers, will
be used (it is rumored that the Ford
trt-motored plane Is the type selectedl
The schedules will be based on a fly
Ing speed of 90 miles per hour. though
the planes will be capable of 100. The
planes will be equipped with all the
best safety devices and with radio and
viii enjoy steward service. Elaborately
equipped landing fields will afford every
convenience. Tickets will be sold by
the railroad companies at their regular
ofticeS. Passengers hand luggage will
be carried In the planes: the heavy lug
gage 10 go solely by train. The serv-
ice will be year-round, AStartiug With a
fleet OF about dozen air liners. Ex-
press business is not planned, says Mr..
keyes.
THE company also plans to inaug-
urAte In the near future additional air
service. particularly In the Eastern and
Middle Western States, connecting the
tranScontinental route with all the prin-
cipai cities. Among the other routes
now In contemplation Is branch from
Chicago to the Twin Cities: st. Louis
and Kansas City will be on the trans
continental line and other Western
metropolises viii eventually Be linked
to the line either by aiplane or rail-
road connection"
1t Is expected that the service win be
started Within SIN or seven months, IL
Is calculated that the cost Of the trip
VIII be only little more than the cost
OF the all-rail trip with drawing room
accommodations.
Roy Chapman Andrews, leader OF the
Anthropological Expedition to Mongolia,
under the auspices OF the American
Museum of Natural History, has suf-
Tered an unhappy accident, The cable
message informing of the facts reads
as follows: Andrews accidentally shot
LETT leg. Not permanently injured. Com
valescing Others well. New important
discoveries, Expedition soon moving
western 0nhi." There Is a competent
surgeon with the expedition.
New important discoveries, all else
seems tame beside the possibilities In
that quarter,
The Aretle,-~On May is. Gen,
umberto Mobile left Kings Ray, apits~
bergen, IN his dirigihle Italia ON his
second Arctic exploratory dash OF the
season Ills first, II viii be remembered,
was spoiled by FOG over Frans Josef
Land, Hts plans called for night 10
Lenin Land and return, On any but
the very newest maps of the Arctic
regions Lenin Land appears as Nicholas
II Land and h vaguely indicated as on
the Taimyr Peninsula. which latter a
on the Siberian coast about half way
between the Rivers yenlaei and Lena,
the which misty names suggest tundraa
and gold concessions and Quint-eyed
little ahamans. The Italia was over
Lenin Land at 2 AIN, ON the i7th.
Unfortunately, fog made II inadvisahle
to drop All exploring party, as had been
planned. The stanch craft was back
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