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...commission had hardly been named before a howl of protest went up from Philadelphia's flag-waving Air Defense League. Snorted the League's president, Col. Samuel Price Wetherill: "The selfsame lobby which opposed the Administration's policy of cleaning house in connection with the airmail contracts has evidently succeeded in causing two members of the commission to be appointed . . . whose membership . . . promises ill for disinterested findings." The Air Defense League objected particularly to the past records of Members Warner and Hunsaker...
...already in Europe. Nevertheless he was to arrive home this week and with Members Warner, Berres & Lane, board a Department of Commerce plane Aug. 3 for a month's tour of the U. S. to visit Army & Navy bases, inspect commercial airports and aircraft factories and look over airmail, passenger & express route...
World's first aerial sleeper service was launched by Eastern Air Transport last autumn (TIME, Oct. 16) when an 18-passenger Curtiss Condor with two berths (upper & lower) was assigned to the night run between Newark and Atlanta. When airmail contracts were cancelled in February, Eastern Air discontinued the night run to Atlanta and, with it, air sleeper service. When the company began flying mail again three months later, the sleeper service was not resumed...
...which the Cleveland Plain Dealer had applied to it when it censured the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions last fortnight. "Conservative" being nearer its mood, it continued to flout the small faction of Fundamentalists in its midst. Dr. Lewis Seymour Mudge, as clerk of the Assembly, despatched an airmail letter to the Independent Board in Philadelphia demanding a certified list of its officers and members, who by Assembly vote are now subject to discipline by their presbyteries...
Last week the Army and the airmail finally parted ways when the last route (Chicago-Pembina, N. Dak.) was taken over by Hanford Tri-State Air Lines. Meanwhile in Washington Congress was putting the finishing touches to the new Air Mail Law before sending it on to the White House. The act establishes a 6? airmail postage rate, provides one-year mail contracts with rates to be fixed by the Interstate Commerce Commission (maximum 40? per airplane mile), prohibits interlocking directorates and holding companies, limits each contractor to one primary and two secondary routes, permits carriers whose contracts were canceled...