Delegate Dimond
In Alaska, Visiting
Defense Projects
JUNEAU, Sept. 9 (F) — Dele
gate Dimond arrived wiih J. J.
Ryan, Assistant Director of Civ
ilian Defense for Alaska, in the
latter’s own plane. Dimond will
either continue, Wednesday with
Ryan, or else take a steamer to
the westward, going to visit Sit
'ka, Cordova, Anchorage and Fair
banks and Valdez. He must re
turn to Washington by Septem
ber 25th.
Governor Gruening is leaving
by plane, possibly today for Fair
banks enroute to Palmer for the
annual meeting of the Rural Re
habilitation Associaiton, also on
matters preparatory to the in
duction of the National Guard in
to active service next week.
1408 In Alaska To Be Released
WASHINGTON — Disclosing
some of the details of plans to re
lease 200,000 enlisted men by
Dec. 10, the War Dept, said that
the total strength of the army
will be not be decreased because
replacements will be provided as
rapidly as releases are effected.
Selectees to be released will in
elude 1400 from the Alaska De
fense Command.
The War Dept, also announced
that 3700 officers of the regular
army and Reserve Corps will be
given temporary promotions in
the very near future. The grades
will be mostly below Lietenant
Colonel.
Pilots Are Own
WASHINGTON, D. C. — No
thing seems to be so public as an
airplane, at least to the 1.575
pilots who last year violated a
Civil Air Regulation. Everybody
tells on a misbehaving pilot, they
are their own best e<>jps. and
there seem to be no hard feel
ings as a result, according to an
annual report on violations re
leased by Brig.-Gen. Donald H.
Connolly, Civil Aeronautics Ad
ministrator.
The report, covering the year
ending June 30, involved fines
totalling $10,725, and indicates
that on a percentage basis the
number of violations have de
creased in spite of the great in
crease in flying traffic.
“Reports we receive of viola
tions frequently come from other
pilots, airport managers and from
landsmen,” General Connolly
states. “The fact that pilots will
report other fliers for infractions
of the safety rules points up the
almost fanatic devotion to safety
that most people in aviation have
today. We would hesitate to wish
for such a system in the regula
tion of automobile traffic, but we
can say that it work to the advan
tage of all in aviation.”
Proportionately, the number of
violations are decreasing, accord
ing to Glen Woodmansee, Chief
of the Enforcement Section. The
number of pilots has increased
phenomenally due to the CAA
pilot training proglam, but the
number of violations per hun
dred pilots is lower.
As usual, the exuberant, new
pilots, those holding student per
mits and private licenses, are the
greatest offenders, accounting for
1,014 violations out of the 1,575.
The urge to put an airplane in its
: paces, listed as “acrobatics” in
i report, caused the greatest num
| ber. Student pilots to the num
ber of 230 let themselves go in
this classification and private pi
lots scored with 88 violations.
That included flying below 1,500
feet, and stunting over an air
port, over a congested area, over
open air assemblies and without
a parachute.
Nine careless pilot flew over
restricted zones, some of them
over the White House in Wash
ington, where the put-put or roar
of airplane engines so disturbs
the councils of state that the
surrounding area has been p’ac
ed out of bounds. This is a parti
cularly good area not to fly in,
considering the very large num
ber of people on the ground who
watch and tell.
Pilot laziness in not discon
necting the dual controls before
taking up passengers or friends
was another violation that piled
up, according to the report. Stu
dent and private pilots were the
greatest offenders here, too, with
113 of the 128 violation in their
columns.
So eager are the young pilots
to prove their ability as pilots, es
pecially ;o their friends, that 22
of them took up passengers, en
tiiely against the rules govern
ing their particular licenses.
The report shows a surprising
facility of the CAA inspectors to
cover the country in policing the
airways. Officials of the enforce
ment section say that reports of
violations come in from all sorts
of places. Inspectors in the field
receive and investigate every
complaint, and are themselves in
flexible in enforcing safe flying
rules.
On the 1,575 violations during
the year ending June 30, the
CAA collected $10,725. Most of
this came in from pilots who re
sponded voluntarily to the noti
fication from the CAA Enforce
ment section. Where necessary,
■the section imposes the fine and
the Attorney General institutes
suit to collect if the pilot does not
voluntarily pay. Last year $1,750
was collected in this way. Penal
ties range from small fines to
withdrawal of licenses for var
ious periods, and sometimes for
good.
Only 49 violations were ascrib
ed to airline pilots and 205 to pi
lots holding commercial licenses.
Violations were charged to 204
uncertificated airmen, pilots who
neglected to obtain licenses.
On recommendation of the Ad
ministration, the Civil Aeronau
tics Board revoked 77 licenses of
airmen and suspended 33. Nine
pi.ots, after being called on the
carpet for violations, voluntarily
surrendered their licenses.
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NEW ‘EYES’ FOR COAST GUARD „ . .
work are scheduled for the neiv $39,000 twin-enained *rrr.nI..«°,bSerVatl??. ,,,thts and harbor Patrol
shown above. Delivery of these plinn LbZandSoZv^" amphibian J-4-F, one of which U
I They have a Dying range of 1,0*00 m„e, &?£££2S&
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CLOSEUP OF A CRUISE R—Here’s a side view of the U.S. San Diego, new cruiser recently i
. launched at the Bethlehem Steel company’s Fore river yard in Quincy. Mass. I
Pacific Coast Air
ways Of U.A.L.
In 15th Year
—
It was a pretty dubious ven
ture when the Pacific Coast air-;
: way was established 15 years
ago.
The single - engined planes
which flew the mail had speed
of only 90 miles an hour. Air
fields were few and far between.
, Weather reports were meager.
There was no plane-to-ground
radio and there were no beacon
lights for night flying.
Pespite the heavy odds, the
; pioneers of the route kept the
i service going and today all
■ doubts have vanished as United
Air Lines celebrates the 15th an
: niversary of the Pacific Coast
; route. During the first three
. months of operation only 100 pas
sengcrs were carried in the open
cockpit planes then in use. But
; with the advent of faster and
better planes, the passenger busi
ness became more and more im
' portant and today some of the
; schedules operate without bene
fit of mail pay.
During the 15 years of opera
tion 780,000 passengers, 10,026,
000 pounds of air mail and 4,137,
1 000 pounds of air express have
been carried over the route, rep-1
' resetning 39,100,000 miles of fly
J ing.
The original route extended
from Los Angeles to Seattle with
1 stops 'at Bakersfield, Fresno, San
Francisco, Medford and Portland
and flying time was 14 hours.
Now flying time from Los Angel
i es to Seatle has been reduced to
. seven hours and the route has
ben extended to San Diego and
[ Vancouver, B. C., and numerous
i other cities have been added as
points of service.
Recently United Air Lines ap
. plied for permision to further
■ extend its service, making stops
. at Bellingham, Wn.; Salem, Eu
, gene and Kalamath Falls, Ore.
It was a long heartbreaking
struggle for the men of Pacific
Air Transport who promoted the
finances and pioneered the route.
They los half their pilots and
equipment the first year but they
didn’t lose their courage and de
termination. They felt that the
air mail contract must be filled
and that the future of their line
and of air mail as a commercial
enterprise depended upon their
success.
Today the huge 21-passenger
Mainliners are playing an import
ant part in the national defense
program carrying passengers,
air mail and air express to dis
tant destinations in a matter of
a few hours, saving precious
time in the nation’s accelerated
industrial activities.
AMERICA FIRST
GROUP DENOUNCED
BUFFALO, N. Y., — The Am
erica First Committee was de
nounced by the convention of
Jewish War Veterans of Ameri
ca as ‘nothing but a front flor
Adolf Hitler.”
The attack on the committee
was made by Chairman James
Sheldon of he Board of Directors
of the Non-Aryan Anti-Nazi
League.
Sheldon .said the America First
Committee must be destroyed
just as Hitler must be destroyed.
NORTHERN PACIFIC
LAND DISPUTE ENDS
WASHINGTON — Acting At
torney General Biddle announc
ed that the Northern Pacific Rail
way Company has agreed to a
federal court decree denying the
railway’s claims to nearly 3,000,
000 acres of land in seven west
ern states. The land runs from
Wisconsin to the Pacific Coast.
Justice Department officials de
scribed the long-standing • legal
controversy between the govern
ment and the railroad as one of
the most complex in American
court records. The railroad first
acquired it claims to the huge
land tracts under federal grants
made in 1864 and 1870. Over a
long period of years the contro
versy was the subject of several
congressional investigations.
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15 Years on Coast Airway
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Progress made on the Pacific Coast airway of United Air Lines during
the past 15 years is told graphically in these pictures of (top) the single
engined open cockpit 90-mile-an-hour plane which inaugurated coast
v. : e air mail service September 15. 1926, and (below) the type of twin
engined 21-passenger 200-m:le-an-hour Mainliner now flown on multipla
passenger-cargo schedules between cities of British Columbia Wash
ington, Oregon and California.
JOE LOUISES RECONCILED
Heavyweight Champion Joe V.oisis and his wi.e, Marva, were re
conciled and decided to forget the differences that led to a div
orce suit. Here they are in Chicago, after they made the announce
ment at a hearing on Mrs. Louij’ petition for temporary alimony.
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COSMIC OR COMI C—Lou Nova, the disciple of Yogi
teachings who says his muscles are controlled to such a degree
that he can throw a “shock, pull or bullet” punch with either
hand, shows off the "cosmic punch” stance he hopes will work well
against Champion Joe Louis. They meet Sept. 19 in New York, and
l_ this will be their first encounter.