*
PA A Awaits
Official 0. K. j
On New Line
Pacific Alaska Airways awaits
approval by the Post Office De
partment and the Civil Aero
* nautics Authority before com
mencing a regular schedule be
tween. Seattle and Juneau.
Eleven experimental flights on
the route have been completed
and the proving stage of the pro
jected new service is now con
cluded.
Although the test flights were
made with a two-motored Sik
orsky Baby Clipper, this ship
will not be used for the regular
passenger service.
Larger and more powerful
planes will be required to pro
vide adequate carrying facilities
over the 700-mile jump between
Ketchikan and Seattle.
Pan American Airways, par
ent company of the Pacific Alas
ka Airways, will release for the
Seattle-Juneau hop either a Sik
REPUBLICAN ROUNDUP at Albany, N. Y.. where a
G.O.P. dinner was held, found Thomas E. Dewey (left) talking
animatedly with Philip Elting, Ulster county Republicans’ "grand
old man.” Mr. Elting was formerly collector of Port of New York.
orsky four-motored ship from
the Bermuda run or a four-mo
tored clipper from the Pacific
run.
The Bermuda Sikorsky plane
will carry 20 to 25 passengers.
The plane has a 118-foot wing
spread and 68-foot fuselage.
The Pacific Clipper is capable
of transporting 40 passengers. It
has a wing spread of 130 feet and
a fuselage length of 91 feet.
Present plans anticipate in
auguration of the passenger run
early during the coming summer.
Included in the crew for the
new run are Gene Meyring, Jer
ry Jones, S. E. Robbins. A crew
of five is required to operate the
ships.
Golden Gate Exposition
A “Siamese twin” milch cow
has been offered (and refused)
for exhibit at the 1939 California
World’s Fair.
The ignominious little water
flea, or dapbnia magna, threatens
to replace the white mouse as an
experimental animal, it will be
revealed in a science exhibit at
the 1939 California World’s Fair
Pacifica, 80-feet statue at the
1939 Golden Gate International
Exposition, is second in height in
this country only to the Statue
of Liberty.
The first transcontinental air
plane flight took 50 days. It was
made in 1911 by Calbraith Perry
Rodgers. Now United Mainlin
ers make the same flight over
night.
Write to your friends and rela
ives on the ‘Outside’, using Sour
ough Stationery. They’ll get a big
ck out of it.
WITH JEST AND CESTURES Mayor I.aGuardia tells reporters and F. C. Harrington
fright) that “only thing as bad as a partisan board to settle relief disputes is a bi-partisan board.”
._■ <*
SAFE BEHIND CLASS, a baby plays with new toy. Inventor E. W. Mills explain, ;l»at i
squeeze of bulb forces in fresh air. via the filler, and expels stale air at same time.
ALASKA'S SHIPS CAN KEEP RUNNING and give Alaska’s people
good transportation, regular mail service the year around. That's because
75% of Alaska’s steamship revenue is paid by the Canned Salmon
Industry for shipments of salmon, building materials, cannery supplies
and transportation of crews. It’s another way in which the Salmon
Industry helps to promote prosperity here.
Bm.
4
H89*£8»*X*:^.•ia(X^<>l&«Si!3tSffi9&RWf&s ^WTir^ffrfinr IWII III II ilUHimilllllllliilMlilillMIIIHIll .JStfP » X*
WITH ALL THOSE CANALS IN VENICE, that Italian city had a flood to add to
its watery content. Sudden thaws almost hid the pattern-marked pavement of this midtown square.
BER.LIN
O
GERMANY