Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-24
AIR SERVICE EXTENSION
SOUTHWARK is HAILED
Huge Gains i'm II. S. Commercial Rela-
tons With Latin Republics
Anticipated.

contract entered into between the Post
ONCE Department Of the United States
and the Pan-American Anyways Inc,
calls for seven trips a week, the Post
master General reserving the right to
include in that route Guatemala and
Salvador and such other points as the
needs of the service might require.
Under the terms of the contract the
Post Office Department may require for
the transportation of mails the use of
specially built aircraft with the latest
improvements to insure the safety of
the mails and the permanency Of the
service.
500 Pounds Maximum Load.
The maximum load of mail which
may be carried on one single trip shall
not exceed 800 pounds. The route COW
ers distance of approximately 1,640
statute miles and its operation was
awarded to the Pan-American Always
several months ago, as the most salts
factory bidder in accordance with the
advertisement issued by the Post Office
Department. Slightly year has passed
since the Post Office Department called
for proposals for the transportation of
mail by air between the United States
and Central America, and today this
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Florida and Panama. 1t appears that
this route viii probably be extended in
the near future. For the present the
Postmaster General has reserved the
right to extend the service from the
Canal Zone via Cartagena (Colombia),
Maracaibo (VeneZuela) Curacao, La
Guaira. Puerto Caracas (Venezuela).
Port of Spain (Trinidad), Georgetown
British Guiana, to Paramaribo Ger
man Guiana, three times week, or
more often as the needs of the service
may require.
| The Pan-American Airways has also
been authorized to operate the air mail
service between Florida and Porto Rico.
In accordance with the contract entered
into with the Post ONCE Department.
the service calls for the following
itinerary: From Key West (Florida).
| via Havana (Cuba), Santa Clara.
Camaguely, Santiago (Cuba), Port au
Prince (Haiti, San Domingo City
dominican Republic) to San Juan
porto Rico), three times a week. This
route covers approximately 1880 statute
miles.
Contract to Be Awarded.
The Post Office Department is now
contemplating the establishment of an
air mail service with South America.
On January 81 of the current year an
advertisement was issued, calling for
proposals which will close the 28th of
this month, the time limit prescribed
TO bidders within which to file their
bids with the Postmaster General a
contract to be awarded for term of 10
years, effective April /, 1929. the max
imum load not to exceed 800 pounds on
one single trip. The proposed route win
cover approximately 3,400 statute miles
with a frequency of three trips a week,
from CriStobal Canal Zone, via Bue-
naventura and Tumaco (Colombia). Es-
meraldas and Guayauuil (Ecuador). ia
lara, Trujillo, Lima, Tomas and Mol
lendo PERU, AFRICA, Iquique, Antofa-
gaSta, Caldera, Coquimbo, to Santiago
(Chile), thereby uniting the West Coast
OF South America. The advertisement
also contemplates the probable extern
sion OF this route, from Santiago
(Chile). via Buenos Aires (Argentina),
Montevideo Uruguay. and possibly Rio
dc Janeiro (BrazfD, and La PAz (Bo-
liyia), this establishing air communica-
tons with all the Southern American
capitals and several cities in Central
America and the United States mas
much as II may be assumed that this
service will connect with the already
established route between Florida and
| Panama.
The fact that commercial aviation has
already been established to a certain
extent In several of the Latin Amrican
republics, with the result that today a
Few are in operation, although not with
the regularity that could be desired,
VIII materially aid In the establishment
OF transcontinental air mail service
with South America. For a number of
years Colombia has been operating an
air line from the coast to the capital.
This service has recently been extended
10 Ecuador and several trips are made
weekly between these two countries.
which Is being operated by the Scalda
Cooperation, controlled by German cap
ital.
Ecuador Is Terminal.
Ecuador and Peru also enjoy a sim
liar service operated by the Pan-Ameri-
can Always, which covers several
points on the northern part of Peru and
ends In Guayaquil, Ecuador. The
southern part of Peru is likewise con-
nected with Lima and other interior
cities of the republic. Bolivia has not
as yet established an international air
service. but on the other hand the in
ternational service maintained by the
Lloyd Aereo Boliviano with German
Junkers, between Cochabamba. santa
Cruz, Bent Trinidad and Chaco. NAV
be said to have had SO far better re-
suits than any other service in South
America. Chile is also operating an
air service along the coast and test
flights have already been made to Ar
gentina, with the view of later on ex-
tending the service to Buenos Aires.
Argentina and Uruguay are operating
an air service between Buenos Aires and
Montevideo, which has been established
Tor many years. In Brazil commercial
aviation is an accomplished fact.
The undertaking, therefore, does not
seem impracticable nor gigantic. Much
has already been accomplished in that
respect. 1t only remains that those in
ternational air services which today are
operated by various corporations be
consolidated under one management,
connect them and establish such new
| services as are not in operation at the
present time, and net of aerial COM
munications across the continent, from
the northern part Of Canada and the
United States to the most distant points
In South America viii be indeed a re-
markable achievement.