Imperial Valley press., 1937-10-21

Business-Among business pas
Sengers during the past year there
has been a predominance of min
ing engineers, all of them "stam-
peding'' in the modern way for the
new gold fields of the Philippines.
Shipping executives, importers,
government officials, all driven by
a need of speed, have rushed half
way around the world and back.
Half the male passengers the
past year took the Clippers for bus
mess reasons.
Pleasure-The number of passen-
gers on pleasure bent which
includes those vacationing and
those drawn by the call of romance
about equals the number OF
business passengers.
The flow of pleasure travel is
almost equal in both directions,
there being almost as many persons
who live in the Orient flying here
for vacations as those tripping to
the Far East.
New Type
Recently a new type of passenger
appeared, mostly residents of the
Hawaiian Islands, who spend a
long weekend in America. Airmen
call them commuters. The former
Doris Duke and her husband, Jas.
Cromwell, are two commuters"
Emergency-There were outstand-
ing instances in which the Clippers
were used for serious emergency
travel. The ships have been used as
trans-Pacific ambulances. Perhaps
the most significant example was
that of George Sumers, Wall Street
broker, who was making a leisurely
air trip to China when he was in
jured in an automobile accident in
Manila. He was flown here with
a broken back for disqualification.
The Clippers have brought injury
and sickness cases from Guam,
Wake and Midway Islands to hos
pitals in Honolulu. And there have
been number of passengers rush
ing to dying relatives.
Adventure-,rhis might be called
simply the irresistible impulse to
go places"
1t seized two men walking along
a street here recently. Ben Smith,
New York capitalist, reputed to
have made several fortunes during
the depression, said to John P. Bick-
we'll, chairman of the board of the
Canadian Bank of Commerce.
II feel like going places"
1t was Wednesday, and the Phil
ippine Clipper took off shortly. The
two were aboard E.. bound for
Shanghai.
War-The Sino-Japanese conflict
has sWelled passenger lists. Men
going to war are in hurry. News
correspondents, photographers, di-
plomats, army and naval officers,
government men were among those
flying 70 war-torn Shanghai.
So it went while the first 7,000,-
900 passenger miles were being
flown the past year.
DislOyalty
John Dollar, son of the famous
shipping family, flew the Pacific.
Asked the reason for the seeming |
disloyalty to his own ships, he re-
piled: "I've been on a boat"
Mary Pickford and her husband,
Buddy Rogers, returned from their
Hawaiian honeymoon by air. Wayne
Coy flew from Manila to Indianap-
oils to appear as a witness at
labor trial. 1t took Mrs. Sarah E.
Showers, of Forest Hills, Mass, just
six days to reach her home from
Honolulu where she had vacationed.
Emory Bronte celebrated the 10th
of his daring flight
from California TO Hawaii, which
took place in July, 1927 On his first
trip with Ernie Smith they landed
in a Kiawe tree on the islano OF
Molokai. The landing in the Clip
per was easier and closer to Homo
lulu.
Eight of IL passengers on an Au-
gust trip were women. They were
MT travelling together, but were
going Orientward for many differ
ent reasons.
President Roosevelt this year pre-
sented to Pres. Juan Terry Trippe
of Pan American Airways the Col
lier trophy for "the establishment
of the trans-Pacific airline and the
successful execution of extended
over-water navigation and the reg
ular operation thereof"
The Clippers carried during the
first year 100000 pounds of express
and other cargo, exclusive OF air
mail