Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1935-08-25

Division. Aviation, Indiana National
Guard. as city traffic manager for
American Airlines in Washington.
Col. Cook succeeds Sigmund Janas,
who has gone to Chicago.
COL Cook has had nearly 20 years
of military and commercial aviation
experience. He learned to fly with
the French Army early in the World
War and transferred to the Amer
lean Army as a captain. He few
the airmail between Salt Lake City
and Cheyenne for the Post Office
Department during the pioneer days
of 1920. He holds the Distinguished
Service Cross, with palms, and other
war decorations for gallantry.
Promotion of Vincent P. Conroy
to the post of northern division traffic
manager OF Eastern Air Lines, in
charge of the district from Wash
ington to New England, has been
announced. He succeeds Goodrich
K Murphy, who has become as
sistant to the passenger trafic man
ager of the New York, New Haven &
Hartford Railroad. Conroy, gradu-
ate of the Naval Academy, has spent
eight years in the air transport in
dustry.
Dr. Jerome C.. Hunsaker, head of
the aeronautical and mechanical engi-
neering departments OF the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology,
former Navy airship and airplane
design expert and member Of the
Federal Aviation Commission, has
taken over the post of technical ad-
wiser to the United Aircraft Manu-
featuring Corp, In addition to his
duties at M. I. T.
-Four naval aviation cadets who sue
cessfully completed month Of elimi-
nation and preliminary aviation train
ing at the Anacostia Naval Air Sta
ton are included in the second class
of cadets which assembled at the
Naval Air Station, Pensacola, Fla,
during the past week for a year of
aviation training. The cadets who
qualify as naval aviators will be or
dered to the feet for three years
active duty.
The Anacostia cadets are William
Ronald Campbell, Samuel L. SLIDER,
Samuel Sexton Mantz and James Otis
Taylor.
The fastest and most frequent air
transport service between Washington
and Chicago in the history of airline
operations across the Alleghenies has
gone into effect during the past week.
Today there are nine flights daily
from Washington to Chicago through
joint operations by Pennsylvania Air
lines and Central Airlines from Wash
ington to Cleveland and United Air
Lines from Cleveland to Chicago.
Elapsed time for some of the sched-
ules is only hours and "a minutes
from Washington to Chicago, while
eastbound schedules, because of pre-
vailing westerly winds, have been re-
duced TO four hours.
The new connecting services make
possible for the first time a 20-hour
service between Washington and
Vancouver, British Columbia,
distance Of 2,e43 miles. The air
traveller now may leave Wash
ington at $3.50 pm. and arrive in
Vancouver at 1925 o'clock the next
morning. This is the first time Wash
ington has been linked with Western
Canada by direct service. Direct serv-
ice now is provided to every city of
more than 100000 population in Cali
fornia. Oregon, Washington and Brit
ish Columbia.
Central Airlines has cut an hour of
its schedules between Washington and
Detroit as a result of the placing
in operation Of a feet Of new low
wing tri-engined Stinson monoplanes.
The Neutrality-suspicious. schedule has
been reduced to hours 80 minutes.
When the new ships went into Serv-
ice Central also increased the number
of daily flights from three to five
round trips. The new planes are
equipped with individual passenger
radio receivers and individuality
trolled ventilators.
Pennsylvania Airlines also has in
creased speed between Washington
and Detroit, slashing 10 minutes of
the southbound schedule and IS from
northbound flights. One of the COM