Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-10-12

expected early next month. At A.
lanta the line will connect with the
new Southern Air Fast Express con-
tract airmal and passenger service to
Los Angeles.
Eventually the Eastern Air Transport
passenger service will be extended to
Miami. Several types of transport
planes are being tested by pilots of
the line, and the present equipment
may be replaced or augmented by even
larger planes than the tri-motored
Fokkers and Ford now in service.
Two Lines TO BE Affected.
The Eastern Air Transport passenger
line and the New York, Philadelphia
and Washington Anyways Corporation
line, operating hourly service between
this city and New York, are expected
to be affected by the establishment of
the new transcontinental lines, which
may bring increased business for the
East Coast systems.
Important developments will come
this month on the question Of direct
mail and passenger service between the
National Capital and the West by way
OF Pittsburgh and Cleveland and be-
tween the Capital and Norfolk, Va.
Clifford Balls contract for carrying
the airman between Cleveland and
Pittsburgh will expire October 26 and
must either be renewed by issuance of
an operating certificate by the Post Of
flee Department or new bids must be
asked for operation of the line.
The Department of Commerce now Is
completing the lighting of the WASH
ington-P Pittsburgh and Washington
Norfolk airways and the establishment
along these routes of intermediate land
ing fields and other airway facilities.
Clifford Ball, through Pennsylvania
Airlines, now Is operating passenger
service from the National Capital to
Pittsburgh and Cleveland and it Is ex-
pected the passenger service will be
converted into a mail and passenger
service this month.
Postal officials have not yet decided
whether to award contract for oper-
alton of airmail service between this
city and Norfolk and Pittsburgh, ac-
cording to Earl Wadsworth, superin-
tendent of the contract airnlail service
but will reach decision before the ex-
piration of the Ball contract.
Air passenger service between the
National Capital and Charlottesville
Va, Is to be opened within few days
by the Dixie Flying Service, which has
been operating commercially at the
Virginia university town for some time.
Single-engined Fokker Super Univer-
sails are to be used on the run, and 1t
Is understood two round trips are
planned daily. Washington Hoover
Airport will be the local terminal.
The Capital will be given direct air
mail connection through the Eastern
Air Transport line with the new trans
continental line from Atlanta, Ga, to
Los Angeles to be established on Oc-
tober Is by Southern Air Fast Express,
new transport line formed by the
Aviation Corporation, Robertson Air
craft Corporation and Southwest Air
Fast Express to operate the Southern
transcontinental airmaiI line contracted
for recently by the Post ONCE Depart
ment.
The new line will operate fleet of
nine mail and passenger transport
planes between Atlanta and Los An
geles, connecting with Eastern Air
Transport at Atlanta. The planes, of
the tri-motored Fokker Flo type, Will
carry eight passengers and mail, oper-
ating on daylight schedule pending
completion of the airway beacon sys-
tenn over the route.
Atlanta to Dallas in Seven Hours.
A seven-hour schedule will be main
tanned between Atlanta and Dallas, Tex,
and Los Angeles, Dallas being the
night layover point for both east and
west bound planes. Mail stops will be
made at Jackson, Miss; Shreveport,
La; Dallas, Fort Worth, Big Spring
and FL Paso, Tex, and Douglas, Tucson
and Phoenix, ArtZ. In addition, a spur
line will operate between Big Spring
and San Antonio, Tex.
On October is Transcontinental Air
Transport and Western Air Express will
begin operation of the new transconti-
mental mail-passenger line from New
York to Los Angeles by the mid-conti-
mental route. The Capital will be con-
nected with this line by Eastern Air
Transport at New York and Philadel-
phia; New York, Philadelphia and
Airlines Corporation at
Philadelphia and New York, and Penn
sylvania Airlines at Pittsburgh. The
Pennsylvania line also makes connec-
ton with the Northern transcontinental
lie at Cleveland