Evening star., 1934-02-20

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points. Offutt brought the mail which
had been delayed by the crack-up
Of Lieut.. Edward German in thick
weather at Greenville, S. c. Gorman's
mail was relayed by Lieut.. H. L.
Jones to Richmond and was taken
over there by Offutt, who few it to
New York.
Arrives on Schedule.
At Sis o'clock this morning Lieut..
Thayer S. Olds of the crack 1st Pur-
suit Group, Selfridge Field, Mich,
roared into Washington Airport from
Cleveland with the first mail from
the West, exactly on schedule. Olds,
a member of the Caterpillar Club,
crossed the Alleghenies in the tail
end of the mountain storms which
grounded all air traffic yesterday.
Shortly after 8 o'clock the parade
of Army mail planes really began.
At $50 two extra sections came from
Richmond and the South. This
overflow mail was carried in Boiling
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Lieuts. E. A. Joyce and D. H. Ken
nedy of Langley Field. Joyce, after
stopping at Washington Airport only
long enough to discharge Washington
mail, continued on to New York
Kennedy was held here for q half
hour awaiting the arrival Of a load
of mail by truck from the Washing
ton City Post Office and then fol-
lowed Joyce into the Northeast.
A moment after Kennedy's de-
parture, a plane of the 36th Pursuit
to take aboard mail for Pittsburgh
Cleveland and the West 1t was
loaded and took off on schedule at
1880 directly into the teeth of the
icy wind, with Lieut.. Kiele Of the
seth Squadron at the controls.
More Due Tonight.
After the departure of the Cleve-
land plane there was brief lull in
which Lieut.. L. g. Saunders, in charge
of the airmail ground detachment at
Washington Airport, caught up on his
paper work" and organization plans,
The next plane due here will be
from Cleveland and Pittsburgh. 1t is
due at Washington Airport at
O'Clock, and. if the mail Is heavy, may
be followed by one or more extra sec
tions.
At 6:10 an Army plane Is due from
New York with mail for points as far
south as Miami It probably will be
necessary to run more than one Sec
ton on this trip Lieut.. Kennedy
probably will bring the first section
down. At 1885 pm. another regular
schedule to Pittsburgh and Cleveland
will be flown and at las plane Is
due here from Cleveland, followed
five minutes later by one from New
York, bound for Atlanta.
Snatched up from his routine Army
life at Langley Field 10 days ago
without even time to pack a. proper
kit, Saunders was jammed into the
breach here to build up an Army or
ganization for the handling Of local
airmail operations, including ter
minal for the line to Cleveland and
the West. For the past 48 hours he
has not slept, and yesterday he was
so busy he forgot to eat.
"Moving ON Time"
Were sroggy, but the mail h NOV
ing on time" he said.
The chief dificulty is lack Of proper
communication facilities, it was point
ed out. Eastern Air Transport, oper-
ating the coastal airmail service,
maintained its own teletype service
for the reporting Of airplane move
ments. The Army was forced to come
in without such service, and has had
considerable difficulty keeping track
of its ships.
I'VE are using the teletype .facili-
ties of the Department Of Commerce
whenever they are clear; and are
using Army radio and commercial
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