Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-05
v WASHINGTON today has faster
n airplane connections with
wv cities Of the West and Middle
v West than any city east of
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which went into erect alL over Tie
country last week.
security q year ago, the National Cap
ital has risen to a commanding position
on the aviation map OF the Nation.
This city has direct connections by air
with every part of the United States
and, in almost every direction. the con-
nections are faster than those enjoyed
by any Atlantic coastal city, not except
ing even New York.
The air traveller, leaving Washington
after luncheon today, can be in Detroit,
Chicago, Cincinnati or st. Louis by sup
perfume tonight; in Salt Lake City for
breakfast tomorrow or in Los Angeles
or San Francisco for supper tomorrow.
Havana, by air and rail. is "a hours
5rom Washington. Boston Is less than
i've hours away.
It is to the West. however, that the
new schedules give Neutrality-suspicious.
their chief advantage. Through Penn
sylvania Airlines the traveller from the
Capital may make direct connections at
Pittsburgh and Cleveland with planes
travelling over a network to all parts
Of the West and Middle West.
The plane leaving Washington-Hoo
yer Airport at 1905 pm. each day ar
fives in Pittsburgh at 2:05 pm. and
Cleveland at 4.l0 pm. At Pittsburgh
planes of TranScontinental and West
ern Air clear through to the West Coast
and with Main Flying Service planes to
Cincinnati and other Ohio cities. Con-
nection also may be made with planes
OF Pittsburgh Anyways to New York.
The connection with Transcontinental
and Western Air at Pittsburgh enables
the Washingtonian leaving Washington
at noon today to reach st. Louis at
653 pm. today, Kansas City at 9:10 to-
night Salt Lake City tomorrow morn
ing and Los Angeles tomorrow after
neon.
Planes to All Points.
An even larger network of airlines is
contacted at Cleveland. National Air
Transport planes leave there for New
York, Chicago, Dallas, Tex: Kansas
City, Wichita, Tulsa and other Mid
western cities. The new Century Lines,
patterned after the hourly Ludington
service between this city and New York
and using the same type planes also
connects at Cleveland for many Mid
western cities. Colonial Always mail
planes run from Cleveland to Albany,
n. Y. The recently expanded Thomp-
son Lines make direct connections to
Detroit, Bay City, Pontiac and Buffalo.
Universal flys mail or passengers from
Cleveland to Akron and Nashville and
70 st. Louis and Omaha. These lines
connect with others on combined sched-
ules which permit the traveller to go to
the limits of the country in any di-
rection.
Connecting with National Air Trans
port at Cleveland the Washington pas
senger reaches Chicago at 7 pm, five
hours from home. There he may board
. Boeing night transport which will put
him in San Francisco, Los Angeles or
other Pacific coastal points the next
day.
Travelling out Of Washington on the
Eastern Air Transport Line to the
South. the passenger may reach a score
OF cities east Of the mountains, the
Southern terminus Of the line being
Miami, where connection Is made with
Fan-American Always to the West In
dies, Central and South America East
ern connects at Atlanta with the new
Southern transcontinental line through
the Gulf States to the West Coast,
though on this line overnight stops now
are necessary at Atlanta and Fort
Worth, Tex.
Though the connections by air at
present are not direct between Wash
1ngton and Havana, a combination of
air and night rail travel brings the Gu
ban city within "a hours of Washing
ton, the plane leaving here at 1920
am. putting the traveller in Jackson
vile. Fla, at $40 that evening and per-
uniting him to catch a night train for
Miami, which connects with Pan-Amer-
lean planes leaving at 8, 9 and 9 30 am.
on the two-hour jump to Havana.
Boston and New England points are
within easy reach of Washington. Both
Eastern and Ludington Lines make con-
nections at Newark, N. j., with Colonial
planes operating on frequent schedules
70 Boston. The elapsed time is less than
nve hours, schedules calling for the
washington Newark trip in / hour and
Is minutes.
That ROckne Crash.
The crash in Eastern Kansas which
cost the life Of Knute Rockne and seven
others Is the first major American air
transport crash in Is months, since
Iranscontinental Air Transport plane
new into the ground year ago last
January near San Diego.
During the last half of 1880 air trans
port set up safety record of which any
transport medium might be proud
American transport planes travelling 49,
100000 miles to each fatal crash. Dur
ing that six-month period only five peor
pie were killed. though the average
number OF passengers flown in this
country now exceeds 10000 a day.
Rockne was flying in a Transconti-
mental a. Western Air plane. This COM
pany was formed recently by Western
Air Express and Trancontinental Air
Transport. 1t was the first bad crash
for Western Air in four years of pas
ssnger flying, though 1t is the third
crash for Transcontinental.
Though the Rcckne crash was lamen-
table, air transport needs no defense.
There will be accidents wherever people
travel, however they travel, whether by
automobile, rail, water or in the air.
The record Of American air transpor-
tation-one fatal crash to each 18,0o0,-
600 miles OF hying-is so high that it
can afford 10 stand on its position as q
safe and efficient means of travel. 1t
has come to stay, and its steady and
continued growth indicates that it en-
Joys high degree of public confidence.
There are many who hesitate to
travel by air. as there are many who
fear the sea, but their numbers are de-
creasing and the records Of the trans
port lines show that people in every
walk of life are taking to air travel in
ever-increasing numbers, confident in
the belief that the proportion of acct
dents is so small they need not be q
cause for undue worry.
What Law Seadromes?
The proposal to anchor floating air.
ports or seadromes in the oceans to
form aeronautical stepping stones from
continent 10 continent is arouSing those
who deal in international Law. The
question of sovereignty over airports on
the high seas. apparently. is one of
those knotty legal problems which avi-
alton is creating.
During the recent International
Aeronautical Juridical Congress at
Budapest it was argued that Jurisdiction
Of such airportS should be vested in the
League Of Nations. and the represent
atives Of % nations decided that the