The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-11-05
BRITAIN SPURS ROUND WORLD
 PLANE ROUTES
Pacific Link Tentatively Charted to Asia Via
 AIeutian Isles

AOIlQOH, NOVs O.-NOEJ - 4ue greatest flying network in the world is envisioned for Great Britain, per- haps within few years. Imperial Airways has @ mandate from the governmen. to complete a chain of air routes around the globe.
 The plan is for London to be the hub, with air links branching out to all corners of the empire, across the "top of the world" to Hongkong and Singapore.
 Pioneering of the Atlantic route in conjunction with Pan-American Airways is only the first step in an ambitious plan to run the line over the top of the world and on to junction with the England Australian service at Singapore. Thus Australia and New zealand would get their Canadian mas direct by air.
 Pacific Bases Lacking
 While Great Britain controls the air bases for the Atlantic serv- ice, with the exception of the Portuguese Azores-Bermuda be- ing key point even for the south- ern route-America controls the essential Pacific bases, particular ly Hawaii. Although they have a working agreement for the Atlan- tic with Pan-America Airways, the British wish to avoid Honolulu on the Pacific service. So they are now planning to pioneer @ route by way of Alaska and the Aleu- tan chain of islands stretching across the top of the world from the American toward the Asiatic Continent.
 It has been discovered that there is a warm current, some- thing like the Gulf Stream of the Atlantic, running around the Aleutian Islands which makes the establishment of an air base there practicable. Establishment of this service is only a matter of study now.
 The immediate objective is estab- lishment of regular service across the North Atlantic, and then con- tinuing the route on across the .Canadian Continent. By the trans- Canada service, Montreal will be brought within IT hours of Van couver by a daily service designed to link up with the Atlantic serv- ice.
 Overnight Mail Service
 It Is expected that g. bi-weekly service across the North Atlantic will be in operation early next year, and within two years this may be a daily service. That would mean that a letter posted in London late in the afternoon could be delivered in New York and Montreal next morning, part ly due to the time differences be. tween the Old and New Worlds.
 For the time being the Imperial Airways is concentrating upon mail and express freight for the Atlantic service, leaving passengei trafflc to be arranged later. Pan- American Airways, however, is expected to establish passenger trafflc across the North Atlantic sooner.
 Although the Alaskan -Aleutian service is little more than an idea, British aviation experts believe that within a few years Great Britain will have the greatest chain of air services ir the world. Cubby DiModugno, Tom Smith, Samuel Ella, Joseph F. Kenny, Kenny, George Guilbert, Joseph B. Kushlis Louis Chestone, Theodore Sespanski, Raymond Ouimet, Renato Riccuitti, also three from the Fal- cons club in Brooklyn branch, Bar bara Kupkel Evelyn A. Clifford, Ro- setta N. Currie, Helen M. Deconinck, Evelyn R. Donahue, Elizabeth Bowie, Margaret H. Galbraith, Mildred M. Galida, Betty A. Gannutz, Margery E. Kopp, Helen R. Mileski, Anita M. Smith, Mrs. Thomas Smith, Mrs. Jo- TA