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training at Naval Reserve aviation
bases throughout the country, three
are from Washington. The three local
men who took their month of elm
nation training at the AnacoStia
Naval Air Station are j. M. Mcqueen,
jr.; j. r. Vensel and E. L. Parke.
The class also includes is members
OF the Naval Reserve who qualified
last year, but who, because of lack
Of funds, were not given fight train
ing.
The cadets who qualify as naval
aviators will be ordered to the feet
for three years active duty.
The greatest air passenger traffic
gains in air transport history are
wiping out the losses suffered In the
early depression days by the Nations
airlines and are resulting in new
traffic records on virtually every route
in the country.
The Bureau Of Air Commerce has
reported that during May the passen-
ger total was 4,967, by far the largest
in history for that month. The May
total has been exceeded only twice
in history-in August, 1881, when
65.409 passengers were carried. and
in August, 1888, when 65,18l persons
were flown. June totals are expected
to run considerably ahead Of May
and may even surpaSs the two August
records.
During May, the bureau reported,
the domestic airlines carried 258,924
pounds of express and few 27,072.876
passenger miles, establishing au-time
records In these categories.
Passenger traffic has shown a steady
march forward since the beginning of
the year, monthly traffic totals being
as follows: January, 1882; Febru-
ary, 34,998; March, 55,198; April,
81 ,499, and May, 64,967. The total
for May of last year was only 1891.
United Air Lines and American
Airlines have announced that their
June passenger business has smashed
all existing company records and
other lines are expected to show
records in line with those of these
two great systems.
United has claimed world record
for air travel in the carrying Of
1887 revenue passengers during June
Statistics, they claim, show that this
is the greatest 30-day traffic ON any
single airline in the world. The
previous record for the line was
August, 1893, when 1883 persons
few.
American Airlines carried 1927
revenue passengers in June. April,
May and June have been, successfully,
the biggest months in the companys
history. The present outlook for July
indicates another probable record.
The Army Air Corps on May 81 last
had 116 enlisted men holding flying
ratings. OF this number 109 were
pilots and z observers. Since that
time 80 of these men have been COM
missioned second heutenants in the
Air Corps.
Sixty-eight students, graduated from
the Armys Primary Flying School, at
Randolph Field, Tex, have reported
at the Advanced Flying School, Kelly
Field, Tex, for their final four months
Of flight training. The class includes
80 officers of the Regular Army, 80
flying cadets and foreign officers
First Lieuts. Ismail Hickmet and
Ismail Raif of the Turkish Army, and
First Lieut.. Fructuoso p. Saurez OF
the Mexican Armv.
Another effort to combine the avia-
ton activities Of the Federal Govern
ment is made in the Lundeen bill, in
troduced in the House, to create a
Federal Department of Air Service.
headed by a Secretary who would
serve as a member of the cabinet.
To the department of air service
would be transferred the Army Air
Corps, the Naval Aviation Service now
administered by the Navy Bureau of
Aeronautics; the Bureau of Air Com
merce. Commerce Department; all
Army and Navy airdromes, fields and
stations and all agencies of the Gov
ernment having to do with the pro-
duction or procurement Of aircraft or
aircraft supplies for the United States.
The new Secretary Of Air Service
would be instructed as his first Of
fetal duty to investigate and report
to Congress a plan Of coordination
of the aeronautical activities Of the
Government as basis for the further
legislation which would be necessary
to define the duties and powers OF the
new departnnent