The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-29
Postmaster To Open
 Air Mail Program
Radio Address to SignaIize Weeks Observance nectiCut POstmasters Named to Assist in Event

An address by Postmaster General James A. Farley from New York at 7:I5-7:30 p. m., April 2, over the entire Columbia BroadcaSting Sys- tems Network, coast to coast, will emphasize the rapid progress in the preparations in every city, town and village of the United States for par ticipation in National Air Mail Week, May Is to 21, according to an announcement received here today from Connecticut campaign head quarters in New Haven.
 State chairman Patrick J. Goode was informed by Paul R. Younts, of Charlotte, N. C., National Air Mail Week chairman, of the Postmaster Generals decision to speak on that date over nationwide radio net work in endorsement of this move ment to commemorate the twentieth anniversary of the air mail service and to promote its still further dev- elopment.
 The state headquarters also an- nounced that all commercial, in- dustrial, civic, educational and pat riotic associations of this state are being enlisted in this movement, greatest in the nations history, to popularize the air mail service.
 The following is a list of the state personnel committee chairmen: Pub licity chairman, Daggett M. Lee, New Haven; radio chairman, Leo Miller, Norwalk, Conn.,; education chair man, Joseph A. Fitzgerald, superin- tendent of schools, New Haven; civic fraternal chairman. Dr. Stanley E. Armstrong, New Haven; business professional men chairman, F. J. DawleSs, Crucible Steel Co., 13l Park street, New Haven; air mail pickup, schedules and service chairman, Robert M. Reilly, superintendent of mails, New Haven.
 In each congressional district of the state, a committee has beeen formed by the state committee to carry forward the multitude of &C., tivitieS which have been mapped out by the national and state headquar- ters. The district chairmen were announced by the state chairman, as follows:
 District No. 1, Postmaster William A. Hayes, Bristol; district No. 2, Postmaster Forest G. Thatcher, East Hampton; district No. 3. postmaster John J. Scanlon, Meriden; district No. 4, Postmaster Joseph Stewart, Shelton; district No. 5, Postmaster John J. Mahoney, Derby.
 The communication received to- day from the State Chairman said he and his associates on the State Committee at New Haven have re- ceived most encouraging assurances from all over the state in short time since they began forming the Connecticut organization, that many men and women, leaders in varied activities, clubs, associations, and schools will cooperate Wholeheart- edly to the end that the Air Mail Week observance will be a notable success and powerful stimulus for farther national development in this service and the science of avia- ton The State Committee also re- ported that the District Committees are actively at work now in the formation of local committees, through which Air Mail Week and its many thrilling and inspiring as- poets will be brought definitely to the attention of the citizenry.
 Kitty Hawk, far to the east on the sandy shore of North Carolina, will be accorded the distinction of having an official cachet for air nail week to commemorate the Wright Brothers first flight which gave that great sand dune the title of birthplace of aviation" as will Dayton, Ohio, the home of Orville Wright, the state chairman's announcement said. Each other city and town in the United States will be privileged to prepare it's own cachet for the marking of air mail during the week of May 15-21. These cachets in the future years will serve as vivid reminders of