The Bismarck tribune., 1929-04-09
NORTHERN AIR MAIL
Route Manner TOPIC
TO KIWAN|S lunch
Spokane Flyers Party Guests
OF Club; Dick WenzeI Talks
Oh Organizations Aims

! Nick Manner talked northern air
mail route to the Kiwanis club lunch
con- at noon. Flying In from Valley
City. he and his mates of the Ford
! trimotor plane were brought to the
| club meeting as guests. and the
Spokane air pilot spoke for them and
for the airway project he has been
working up by various flights between
Spokane and the Twin cities.
Dick Wenzel. Of tho WorSmcn'5
Compensation bureau, gave talk OH
IiiWanis aims. practices and princi-
pics. Another item of the luncheon
was tho choice of delegate to the
Milwaukee convention. the honor
falling to Harry Hanson after he and
Paul Wachter were tied in the ballot
ing and the flip OF a coin had elm
mated Wachter. The latter becomes
alternate. thereby.
Says L: Can BE Done
Flo. Manner said the only obstacle
to the northern air route is the cry.
1T can't be done" But he has
shown it can be done. with an or
binary plane. heretofore, and now he
is proving it all over again with the
three-engined type. That type Of
plane has arrived at the stage OF sue
cess, he said. The prior type had
some engine problems to solve, but
they have been worked out, he SAID.
The old problem was so to adjust
them that when ono tcr two went
dead, the third engine would con-
tinuc TO function effectively The
new type also is OF greater horscpow-
cr--960. To it the mountains which
used to be the threat of a problem
mean nothing, he said.
Flights Have Opened Airports
Eventually. he predicted, the gov
crnnent will establish the northern
flying route as mail line At present
he is maintaining flying service
from Spokane to Portland The OBJ
jcct now is to extend this eastward.
So Tar there is one transcontincntal
line. the government air mail route
from New York to Chicago and
through Cheyenne and Salt Lake to
San Francisco, with Los Angeles con-
ncctiOns.
While the agitation proceeds for
the northern route, all air activities
In this section of the country. such
as the Spokane national air derby of
l927-the first successful one-do |
great good for flying. They have re- |
suited in opening airports across the !
and arc calling attention
to the availability Of its air lanes for
flying services
Why Kiwanis Chooses"
Dick Wenzel was introduced as
Professor Gaddis, Of Aunt Lucia"
fame. He explained why Kiwanis
chooses two members of any particu-
lar business, profession or vocation
while Rotary limits membership to
one. kiwanis. he said knows it is
better to draw to two kings than to
one ace. There were some signs of
he observed, as he
looked around for the reaction to the
disclosure.
klWanlS is more interested in the
spiritual than in the material things
of life, although it started out with
We Trade as its motto It doesn't
care, he observed, that President
Hoover is compensated at Is cents a
minute, Jack Dempsey earns % cents
IN the same time when he puts on a
hight. while Doug Fairbanks and
Chaplin draw down G7 and
Gloria Swanson gets $l.67 a minute
Tor holding her breath in the supreme
crisis.
kiWanis stands for its motto, I'VE
Build The basis of is program is
service. 1t is for the things of heart
for the big brother idea. the
square deal for the underprivileged
;hild. the future citizen.
Guests introduced included the
aviation party with Nick Manner. who
we're Art Walker. co-pilot, Rex Heath
II the Ford works, Neil Kein1 and
Bob kurnkamp, OF Valley City; DR..
Eastman. OF Hazen; G. E. Keyes. who
'ame her from Des Moines to be as
ociatcd with the Provident Life; Bert
5tearn, merchant. and Albert Lee,
tanker, og Valley City: Herbert Bird,
y Dedham, Mass; and F. E. Copelin,
Bismarck.
Invitations were received from Mrs.
hermann Schcffer. to attend a recital
i her music pupils at the Auditor
um. April 10, and an Indian operetta.
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