The Daily Alaska empire., 1935-11-20

scheduled to take to the air for Honolulu beginnin that is announced asa 4Ohour mail service from Ne York to Honolulu. Truly, it is magnificent achieve nent
 An interesting word picture of what advance hs cen made in the air leading up to the China Clippe told by Reginald M. Cleveland, writing in the Ne York Times Commenting on the China Clippe ervce MT Cleveland writes:
 With the take-off from Alameda this month of a huge four-engined clipper ship of the air Manila bound, in the opening of Pan American Airways' transpacific service, only the North Atlantic will remain bare of air transport scheduled wings It only eight years ago last May that Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh opened the air trail across the Att lantic. That ocean, well as the wider ocean to the west, will soon know the shadow of great pinions-the hum of whrring en- zines carrying at 150 miles hour mail, passengers and goods lanes without track but definite the course of an ocean liner.
 In less than decade the continents have been linked in a web, invisible but actual, which has curtailed the time of international travel from weeks to days, from days to hours and made neighbors of the far of the earth.
 From London it's filaments swing over Europe down the spine of Africa to Cape Town and across Mesopotamia to India to Singapore and, at last, across the Timor Sea to Australia down under" From Amster- dam they run above middle Europe to skirt the Indian Ocean and reach even to Soera- baya, 5000 miles away in the Dutch East Indies.
 From Paris one can fly to Marseilles and thence eastward to Saigon in Indo- China, or, at the Mediterranean port, ones letters can wing southwestward to Senegal, the Cape Verde Islands and across the South Atlantic to Natal in Brazil From Berlin one can go by air to Moscow and on across the steppes or to Oslo or Leiningrad or dispatch mail and goods across Spain to Dakar on the west African Coast and thence by flying boat to the East Coast of South America.
 Alaska China and the far reaches of Soviet Russia have their scheduled air services. The, storied cities of romance-Baghdad Delhi TaShkent--all are stops the airline net work. Tn the Western Hemisphere all Of Latin America is already served by the far reaching system of Pan American; 32 900 miles of airways which ring the Caribbean, traverse most of the perimeter of South America and bring Buenos Aires within five days of New York.
 The United States, from the international angle has the Latin-American system, the Alaskan system and the Chinese system of Pan American In addition to it's direct route from California to China, soon to be opened, this line has surveyed a route from Hawaii, further southward to New Zealand which, given satisfactory conclusions to international negotiations, may also see in the compara- lively future the spread of mighty wings.
 The Pacific route, which has been pioneer ed during the summer with successively longer flights to bases laid out in advance by crew of specialists working from chartered steam tota mil forna short to Hawaii-thence to Midway Island Wake Island, Guam Manila and the swirling Canton River in China where landing concessions have been obtained in the Por- tuguese colony of Macao.
 On this mighty air network, Alaska has an import mt place as a result of Pacific Alaska Airway ctivities in the Territory. The time may not be ia istant when Alaskans will get view of the grea Upper ships as they take the northern route t iberia and Europe via Juneau and Nome